1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
14 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
17 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
21 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
25 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
32 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
35 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
43 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
46 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
49 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
52 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
55 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
62 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
64 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
69 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
71 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
76 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
78 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
80 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
84 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
88 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
90 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
95 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
99 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
101 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
107 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
111 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
115 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
119 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
123 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
128 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
132 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
137 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
140 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
141 far too smal for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
149 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
150 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
151 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
152 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
153 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
154 be defined in redis_servers.
156 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
157 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
159 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
160 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
161 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
162 extant use locations.
164 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
165 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
167 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
168 Previously only the last row was returned.
170 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
171 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
172 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
173 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
176 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
177 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
178 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
179 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
180 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
181 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
182 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
183 Main pool for expansions.
184 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
185 active in the testsuite.
186 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
188 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
189 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
190 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
191 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
194 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
195 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
198 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
199 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
200 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
202 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
203 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
204 ClamAV interface method is removed.
206 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
207 rows affected is given instead).
209 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
210 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
212 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
213 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
214 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
215 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
216 for all multi-message initiating connections.
218 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
219 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
220 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
222 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
223 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
224 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
225 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
228 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
229 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
230 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
233 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
235 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
236 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
238 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
239 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
240 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
242 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
243 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
244 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
247 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
248 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
250 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
251 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
252 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
254 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
255 for the build is renamed.
257 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
258 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
259 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
261 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
262 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
263 result replacing the original.
265 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
266 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
267 and the resources needed to be freed.
269 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
271 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
274 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
275 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
276 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
277 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
279 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
280 length value. Previously this would segfault.
282 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
283 newer versions of the scanner.
285 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
286 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
287 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
288 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
289 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
290 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
291 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
293 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
294 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
295 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
296 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
297 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
298 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
299 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
300 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
301 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
302 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
304 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
305 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
307 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
309 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
310 allows proper process termination in container environments.
312 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
313 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
315 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
316 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
317 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
319 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
320 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
321 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
322 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
324 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
325 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
328 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
329 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
331 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
332 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
333 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
334 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
335 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
337 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
338 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
341 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
342 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
344 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
347 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
348 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
349 "bare" representation.
351 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
352 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
353 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
354 corrupted the output.
360 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
361 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
362 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
363 pairs of long lines into single ones.
365 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
366 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
368 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
369 This permits better logging.
371 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
372 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
373 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
374 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
375 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
376 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
378 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
379 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
382 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
383 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
384 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
386 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
387 than 255 are no longer allowed.
389 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
390 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
391 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
392 client, there is no benefit for these.
393 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
394 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
395 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
398 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
399 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
401 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
402 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
403 erroneously found still-pending ones.
405 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
406 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
408 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
409 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
410 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
411 signature and again for transmission.
413 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
414 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
415 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
417 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
418 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
419 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
420 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
421 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
422 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
423 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
425 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
426 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
427 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
428 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
430 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
431 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
432 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
433 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
434 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
435 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
438 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
439 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
440 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
441 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
444 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
445 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
446 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
447 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
450 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
451 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
454 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
455 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
456 banner-time rejection.
458 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
461 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
462 is the name of a transport.
465 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
467 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
468 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
470 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
471 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
472 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
475 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
476 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
477 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
478 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
480 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
481 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
482 initial verify call returned a defer.
484 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
485 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
487 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
488 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
490 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
491 if present. Previously it was ignored.
493 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
494 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
496 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
497 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
500 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
501 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
503 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
504 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
505 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
507 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
508 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
509 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
510 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
512 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
513 and confused the parent.
515 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
516 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
518 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
521 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
522 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
523 out-of-order delivery.
525 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
526 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
527 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
530 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
531 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
534 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
535 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
536 one run was done. Bug 2189.
538 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
539 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
540 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
541 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
542 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
543 message is still "Temporary local problem".
545 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
546 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
547 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
549 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
550 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
551 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
553 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
554 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
555 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
556 though a different problem.
562 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
563 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
565 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
567 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
568 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
570 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
571 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
573 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
574 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
575 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
576 before acknowledging the chunk.
578 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
579 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
580 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
582 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
583 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
584 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
587 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
588 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
589 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
591 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
592 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
594 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
595 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
596 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
597 body hash calculated value.
599 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
600 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
601 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
603 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
605 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
606 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
608 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
609 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
610 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
612 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
613 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
614 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
615 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
616 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
617 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
619 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
620 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
621 past that check, despite the cost.
623 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
624 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
625 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
627 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
628 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
629 TLS library to consume.
631 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
633 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
635 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
636 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
637 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
638 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
639 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
640 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
641 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
643 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
645 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
647 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
648 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
649 should be warning-free.
651 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
653 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
654 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
656 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
657 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
658 general solution here.
660 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
661 already-broken messages in the queue.
663 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
665 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
671 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
672 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
674 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
675 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
676 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
678 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
679 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
680 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
681 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
682 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
683 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
684 if one fails this test.
685 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
686 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
688 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
689 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
691 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
692 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
694 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
695 in rewrites and routers.
697 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
698 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
700 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
701 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
703 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
705 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
708 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
709 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
710 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
711 connection after a verify cache hit.
712 Do not update it with the verify result either.
714 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
715 when routing results in more than one destination address.
717 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
718 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
719 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
720 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
721 when the cutthrough connection is made).
723 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
724 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
726 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
727 Previously they were not counted.
729 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
730 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
731 that needed the lookup.
733 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
734 distinguished as "(=".
736 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
737 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
739 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
741 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
742 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
744 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
745 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
747 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
748 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
751 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
752 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
753 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
754 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
756 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
758 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
759 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
760 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
762 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
763 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
764 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
767 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
768 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
769 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
772 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
773 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
774 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
776 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
777 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
780 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
782 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
783 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
785 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
786 are not in the system include path.
788 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
789 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
790 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
791 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
793 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
794 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
795 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
797 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
799 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
800 an incoming connection.
802 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
805 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
806 fallback to "prime256v1".
808 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
809 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
815 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
816 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
817 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
818 client dropping the TLS connection.
820 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
821 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
823 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
824 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
825 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
826 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
829 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
830 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
831 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
832 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
833 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
834 check on the next write.
836 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
837 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
838 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
839 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
840 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
842 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
843 mime_regex ACL conditions.
845 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
846 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
847 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
849 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
850 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
851 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
852 an authenticate fail is not an error.
854 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
855 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
857 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
858 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
860 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
861 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
862 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
865 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
867 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
869 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
871 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
872 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
874 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
875 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
877 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
879 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
880 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
882 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
884 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
885 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
887 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
889 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
890 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
891 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
892 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
893 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
894 they will retry in-clear.
895 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
896 at installation time.
898 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
899 with the $config_file variable.
901 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
902 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
903 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
904 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
905 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
907 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
908 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
909 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
910 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
911 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
913 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
915 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
916 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
917 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
918 list order is no longer honoured.
920 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
923 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
924 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
926 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
927 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
928 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
929 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
931 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
932 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
934 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
935 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
937 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
938 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
940 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
942 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
943 cached by the daemon.
945 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
946 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
948 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
949 keys are given for lookup.
951 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
952 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
953 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
954 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
956 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
957 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
958 server-side so match that on older versions.
960 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
961 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
962 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
964 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
965 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
967 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
968 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
969 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
970 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
971 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
972 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
973 initial truncated version.
975 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
977 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
979 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
980 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
982 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
984 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
986 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
987 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
990 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
991 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
994 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
995 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
997 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
998 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1001 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1002 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1003 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1005 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1006 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1007 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1008 extraction. Accept either.
1014 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1017 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1019 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1022 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1023 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1024 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1025 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1027 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1028 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1029 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1031 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1032 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1033 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1036 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1039 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1040 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1041 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1042 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1043 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1045 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1046 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1047 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1049 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1051 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1052 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1054 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1055 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1057 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1060 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1061 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1063 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1064 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1065 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1067 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1068 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1069 specify a port-range.
1071 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1072 timeout value per server.
1074 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1075 now have the list separator specified.
1077 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1080 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1083 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1085 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1086 rather than the verbs used.
1088 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1089 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1091 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1093 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1094 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1096 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1097 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1099 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1100 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1102 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1104 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1106 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1107 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1108 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1109 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1111 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1113 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1114 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1116 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1117 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1119 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1121 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1123 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1125 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1126 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1128 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1129 added for tls authenticator.
1131 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1137 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1138 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1139 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1140 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1141 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1142 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1143 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1145 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1146 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1147 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1148 function when detected.
1150 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1151 cause callback expansion.
1153 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1154 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1155 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1156 instead of bool when processing it.
1158 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1159 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1161 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1163 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1165 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1167 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1168 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1170 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1171 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1172 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1173 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1174 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1175 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1177 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1178 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1181 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1182 version 3.3.6 or later.
1184 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1185 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1186 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1187 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1188 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1189 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1192 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1193 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1195 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1196 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1197 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1200 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1201 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1202 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1204 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1205 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1207 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1208 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1211 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1213 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1214 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1216 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1217 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1220 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1222 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1225 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1226 output list separator was used.
1231 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1232 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1235 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1236 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1238 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1240 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1241 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1247 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1249 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1250 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1251 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1252 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1253 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1254 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1256 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1257 utilities have not been installed.
1259 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1260 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1262 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1263 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1265 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1266 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1267 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1268 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1270 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1272 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1273 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1275 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1278 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1280 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1281 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1282 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1284 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1285 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1286 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1287 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1288 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1289 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1291 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1293 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1294 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1296 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1299 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1301 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1303 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1304 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1306 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1307 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1309 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1311 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1313 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1314 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1316 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1317 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1318 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1320 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1321 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1322 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1325 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1327 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1328 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1331 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1332 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1335 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1336 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1338 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1339 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1341 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1343 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1344 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1345 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1347 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1348 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1350 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1351 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1354 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1355 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1356 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1358 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1360 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1361 Christian Aistleitner.
1363 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1365 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1366 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1368 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1369 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1371 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1372 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1374 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1375 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1377 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1378 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1380 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1381 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1382 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1384 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1386 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1387 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1390 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1392 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1393 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1400 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1402 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1403 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1405 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1408 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1409 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1412 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1414 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1415 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1416 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1417 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1418 using channel bindings instead).
1420 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1421 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1422 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1423 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1424 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1427 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1429 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1431 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1432 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1434 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1435 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1436 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1438 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1440 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1442 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1443 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1445 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1447 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1449 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1451 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1452 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1454 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1456 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1457 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1460 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1461 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1463 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1464 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1467 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1469 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1471 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1472 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1474 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1477 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1478 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1480 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1481 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1483 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1485 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1487 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1490 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1493 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1495 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1496 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1497 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1498 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1500 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1502 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1503 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1504 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1505 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1508 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1509 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1510 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1512 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1513 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1514 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1515 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1517 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1518 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1519 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1520 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1521 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1522 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1523 delivery, as in LMTP.
1525 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1526 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1528 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1530 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1534 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1535 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1536 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1537 username as equal to the username.
1539 This change corrects that bug.
1541 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1542 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1543 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1545 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1547 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1548 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1549 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1550 NULL dereference and crash.
1552 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1554 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1555 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1556 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1558 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1560 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1561 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1562 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1563 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1564 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1565 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1566 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1567 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1568 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1569 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1570 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1572 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1573 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1575 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1576 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1579 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1580 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1581 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1582 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1583 an empty string is now equivalent.
1585 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1586 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1587 not performing validation itself.
1589 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1590 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1592 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1595 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1597 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1598 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1599 other false fix of the same issue.
1600 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1603 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1604 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1606 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1607 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1608 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1610 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1611 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1612 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1614 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1616 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1618 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1619 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1621 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1624 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1625 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1626 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1627 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1628 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1630 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1631 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1633 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1634 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1637 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1638 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1639 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1640 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1642 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1644 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1645 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1646 from multiple comments on this bug.
1648 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1650 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1651 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1654 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1655 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1657 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1658 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1664 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1666 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1672 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1673 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1674 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1676 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1678 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1681 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1683 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1685 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1687 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1688 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1690 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1691 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1693 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1694 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1696 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1697 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1698 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1700 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1702 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1703 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1705 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1707 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1709 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1710 non-compliant senders.
1711 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1713 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1714 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1715 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1717 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1718 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1719 in spool file corruption.
1721 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1722 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1723 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1726 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1727 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1728 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1730 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1731 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1733 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1735 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1737 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1739 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1740 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1741 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1743 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1744 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1745 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1746 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1748 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1749 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1751 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1752 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1753 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1754 resolver implementation change.
1756 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1757 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1759 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1761 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1763 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1764 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1766 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1767 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1769 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1770 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1772 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1773 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1774 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1775 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1776 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1778 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1780 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1781 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1782 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1784 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1786 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1787 read-only, out of scope).
1788 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1790 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1791 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1792 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1793 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1795 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1797 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1798 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1799 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1800 real issues in debug logging.
1802 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1803 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1805 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1806 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1807 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1809 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1810 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1811 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1814 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1815 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1817 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1818 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1819 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1820 needs to override this, it can.
1822 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1823 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1824 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1826 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1827 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1828 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1829 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1831 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1837 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1838 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1840 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1842 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1845 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1846 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1848 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1849 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1850 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1852 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1853 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1854 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1855 not safe for signals.
1857 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1858 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1859 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1860 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1863 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1865 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1866 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1867 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1868 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1869 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1871 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1872 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1873 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1874 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1875 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1876 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1878 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1879 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1880 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1881 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1883 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1884 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1885 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1886 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1888 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1889 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1890 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1891 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1892 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1893 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1894 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1895 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1896 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1898 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1899 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1900 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1901 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1903 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1904 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1905 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1906 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1907 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1908 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1909 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1910 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1911 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1912 details in the main documentation.
1914 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1916 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1918 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1919 repository when doing development or release builds.
1921 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1922 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1924 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1925 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1928 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1930 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1931 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1933 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1934 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1936 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1937 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1939 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1940 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1942 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1943 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1945 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1947 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1950 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1951 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1952 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1954 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1956 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1958 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1959 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1965 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1967 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1968 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1970 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1972 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1974 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1977 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1978 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1980 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1981 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1983 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1984 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1986 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1989 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1990 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1992 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1993 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1994 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1995 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1997 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1998 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2004 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2007 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2008 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2009 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2011 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2012 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2014 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2015 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2016 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2018 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2019 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2021 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2022 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2024 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2025 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2027 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2028 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2030 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2031 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2033 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2036 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2037 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2039 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2040 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2042 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2043 SQL string expansion failure details.
2044 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2046 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2047 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2049 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2050 extern declarations in function scope.
2051 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2053 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2054 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2055 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2058 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2059 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2061 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2062 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2064 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2065 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2067 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2068 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2070 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2071 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2074 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2076 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2078 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2079 Patch by Simon Arlott
2081 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2082 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2088 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2089 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2091 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2092 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2094 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2096 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2097 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2098 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2100 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2101 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2102 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2104 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2105 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2106 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2107 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2109 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2110 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2111 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2112 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2114 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2115 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2116 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2119 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2122 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2123 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2124 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2125 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2126 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2132 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2133 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2134 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2136 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2137 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2139 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2141 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2143 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2145 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2147 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2149 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2150 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2151 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2152 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2154 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2155 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2156 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2157 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2158 more caution in buffer sizes.
2160 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2162 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2164 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2166 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2168 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2170 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2172 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2174 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2175 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2176 ignore trailing whitespace.
2178 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2180 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2183 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2184 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2186 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2187 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2188 Notification from John Horne.
2190 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2193 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2194 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2197 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2200 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2201 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2202 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2204 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2205 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2206 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2209 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2210 option (effectively making it always true).
2212 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2213 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2215 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2216 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2218 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2219 run-time user, instead of root.
2221 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2222 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2224 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2225 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2228 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2229 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2230 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2232 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2234 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2240 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2241 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2244 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2245 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2248 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2249 Patch from Alain Williams
2251 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2253 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2254 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2256 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2257 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2259 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2261 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2263 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2264 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2266 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2268 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2270 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2271 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2272 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2274 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2275 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2277 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2278 Patch by Simon Arlott
2280 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2281 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2287 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2289 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2291 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2293 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2295 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2301 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2302 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2304 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2305 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2308 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2309 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2310 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2312 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2313 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2315 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2316 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2317 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2318 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2320 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2321 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2322 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2324 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2326 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2328 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2329 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2331 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2333 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2334 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2335 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2336 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2338 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2339 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2341 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2343 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2345 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2346 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2348 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2349 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2351 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2352 that they are available at delivery time.
2354 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2356 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2357 incoming_port log selectors.
2359 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2360 setting expands to an empty string.
2362 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2363 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2365 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2366 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2368 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2369 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2371 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2372 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2374 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2375 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2377 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2378 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2380 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2382 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2383 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2385 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2386 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2388 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2390 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2391 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2393 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2395 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2397 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2400 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2401 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2403 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2404 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2406 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2407 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2409 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2410 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2412 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2413 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2415 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2416 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2418 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2419 plus update to original patch.
2421 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2423 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2424 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2426 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2428 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2430 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2432 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2434 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2435 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2437 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2438 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2440 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2441 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2443 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2444 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2446 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2448 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2450 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2452 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2458 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2459 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2460 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2462 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2463 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2464 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2465 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2466 build errors in sieve.c.
2468 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2469 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2470 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2472 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2474 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2476 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2478 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2484 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2486 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2487 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2488 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2489 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2490 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2491 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2492 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2493 for iplsearch lookups.
2495 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2496 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2497 previously such lookups could never work.
2499 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2500 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2501 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2503 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2506 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2507 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2508 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2509 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2510 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2511 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2513 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2514 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2516 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2517 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2518 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2519 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2520 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2521 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2523 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2526 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2528 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2529 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2532 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2533 by clients under certain conditions.
2535 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2536 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2538 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2540 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2541 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2543 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2545 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2547 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2549 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2550 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2552 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2554 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2555 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2557 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2559 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2561 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2562 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2563 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2564 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2566 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2567 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2568 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2570 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2571 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2573 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2575 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2577 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2579 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2580 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2581 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2587 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2588 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2591 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2592 issue a MAIL command.
2594 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2596 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2598 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2599 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2600 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2601 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2602 item. This has been fixed.
2604 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2605 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2607 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2608 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2610 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2611 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2612 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2614 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2616 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2617 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2618 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2619 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2620 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2622 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2623 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2624 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2626 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2627 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2628 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2629 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2631 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2633 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2635 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2636 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2637 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2638 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2639 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2641 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2643 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2644 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2645 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2648 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2650 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2652 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2654 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2656 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2658 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2659 no_callout_flush is set.
2661 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2662 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2663 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2666 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2668 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2669 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2670 other ACL rejections are.
2672 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2673 with slight modification.
2675 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2676 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2678 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2679 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2682 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2683 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2685 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2687 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2688 expansion side effects.
2690 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2691 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2692 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2695 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2696 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2697 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2699 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2700 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2701 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2702 were accidentally chopped off.
2704 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2705 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2706 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2707 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2708 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2709 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2710 pipelining has not been advertised.
2712 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2714 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2715 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2716 This has been fixed.
2718 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2719 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2720 reported on Solaris.
2722 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2723 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2724 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2725 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2726 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2727 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2728 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2730 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2733 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2735 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2737 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2738 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2739 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2740 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2741 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2742 criteria to be more general.
2744 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2745 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2746 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2747 host_all_ignored option.
2749 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2750 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2751 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2752 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2753 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2754 is what is supposed to happen).
2756 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2757 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2758 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2759 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2760 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2763 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2764 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2765 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2766 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2767 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2768 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2771 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2773 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2774 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2776 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2777 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2779 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2781 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2783 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2784 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2785 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2786 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2787 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2788 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2789 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2790 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2791 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2792 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2793 least in a lot of common cases.
2795 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2796 advertised in response to EHLO.
2802 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2803 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2805 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2806 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2808 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2809 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2810 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2812 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2813 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2814 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2815 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2816 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2822 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2823 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2826 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2827 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2828 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2830 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2831 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2832 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2833 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2834 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2835 rather than extend the field.
2841 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2842 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2843 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2844 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2847 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2848 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2849 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2851 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2852 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2853 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2855 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2856 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2857 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2860 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2861 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2862 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2863 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2864 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2865 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2866 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2867 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2868 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2869 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2870 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2872 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2875 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2876 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2877 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2878 ignores EPIPE as well.
2880 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2881 (quoted-printable decoding).
2883 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2884 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2886 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2888 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2890 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2892 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2893 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2895 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2898 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2899 miscellaneous code fixes
2901 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2904 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2905 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2906 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2907 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2908 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2909 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2910 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2911 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2913 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2914 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2915 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2916 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2918 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2919 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2920 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2921 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2922 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2923 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2924 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2925 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2926 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2928 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2931 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2932 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2933 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2934 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2935 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2936 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2937 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2938 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2940 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2941 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2944 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2945 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2946 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2947 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2948 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2949 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2950 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2951 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2952 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2953 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2954 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2955 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2956 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2958 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2959 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2960 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2961 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2962 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2963 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2964 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2966 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2967 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2968 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2969 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2970 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2971 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2972 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2973 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2974 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2975 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2977 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2978 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2979 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2980 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2981 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2983 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2984 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2985 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2986 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2987 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2988 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2989 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2991 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2992 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2993 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2994 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2995 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2996 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2999 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3000 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3001 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3004 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3005 if any retry times were supplied.
3007 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3008 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3009 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3011 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3013 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3015 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3016 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3017 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3018 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3019 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3020 before) are ignored.
3022 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3023 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3025 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3026 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3027 committing the later change.]
3029 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3030 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3031 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3032 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3033 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3034 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3035 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3036 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3037 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3039 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3040 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3041 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3042 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3043 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3044 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3045 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3046 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3047 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3049 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3050 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3051 hammering the server.
3053 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3054 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3056 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3058 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3059 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3060 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3062 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3063 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3064 one case where this was not true.
3066 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3067 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3068 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3069 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3072 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3073 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3074 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3075 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3076 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3077 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3078 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3079 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3080 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3083 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3084 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3085 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3086 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3088 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3089 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3091 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3092 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3093 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3095 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3097 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3099 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3101 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3102 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3103 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3104 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3106 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3107 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3109 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3110 be meaningful with "accept".
3112 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3113 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3115 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3116 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3117 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3119 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3120 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3121 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3122 there is data to show.
3123 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3125 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3126 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3127 as well as the number of messages.
3129 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3130 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3131 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3133 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3134 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3135 have a flag are now skipped.
3137 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3138 Added the -emptyok flag.
3140 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3141 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3143 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3144 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3145 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3147 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3150 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3151 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3153 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3155 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3156 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3158 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3160 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3161 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3162 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3163 contravention of the specifications.
3165 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3166 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3167 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3169 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3170 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3171 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3173 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3175 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3176 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3177 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3178 some point in the past.
3180 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3181 transport during callout processing was broken.
3183 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3184 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3186 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3187 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3189 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3190 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3192 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3198 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3199 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3201 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3202 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3203 there is data to show.
3204 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3206 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3207 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3209 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3210 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3212 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3213 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3215 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3216 submissions from trusted users.
3218 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3219 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3221 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3222 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3223 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3224 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3225 there is now a framework to start from.
3227 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3228 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3229 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3231 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3233 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3235 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3237 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3238 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3239 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3241 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3244 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3245 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3246 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3248 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3249 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3250 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3253 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3254 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3255 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3256 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3257 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3259 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3260 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3262 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3264 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3265 operations in malware.c.
3267 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3270 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3271 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3272 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3275 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3276 statements to "add_header".
3278 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3279 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3281 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3282 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3285 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3289 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3290 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3291 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3294 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3295 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3297 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3298 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3300 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3301 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3302 any possible encoding problems.
3304 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3305 but not after initializing Perl.
3307 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3308 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3309 apparently, which is not desirable.
3311 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3314 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3317 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3319 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3320 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3321 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3322 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3324 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3325 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3326 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3328 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3329 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3330 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3333 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3334 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3335 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3336 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3337 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3343 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3344 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3346 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3349 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3350 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3351 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3352 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3353 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3354 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3355 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3356 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3359 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3361 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3362 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3363 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3365 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3366 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3367 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3370 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3371 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3373 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3374 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3375 option (which defaults to 0600).
3377 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3379 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3380 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3381 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3382 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3383 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3384 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3385 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3387 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3393 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3394 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3395 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3396 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3397 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3398 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3401 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3402 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3404 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3406 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3407 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3408 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3409 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3410 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3413 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3414 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3416 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3417 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3418 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3419 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3420 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3422 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3423 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3424 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3425 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3427 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3428 be the same on different OS.
3430 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3433 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3434 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3436 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3439 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3440 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3441 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3442 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3443 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3444 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3447 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3448 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3449 when Exim was called.
3451 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3452 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3454 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3455 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3456 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3457 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3459 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3460 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3461 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3462 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3465 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3466 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3467 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3469 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3470 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3471 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3473 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3476 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3477 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3478 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3479 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3480 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3481 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3482 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3483 values from the SRV records were lost.
3485 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3486 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3487 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3489 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3490 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3491 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3493 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3494 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3495 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3496 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3497 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3498 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3499 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3500 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3501 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3502 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3504 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3505 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3506 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3508 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3509 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3511 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3512 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3513 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3514 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3517 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3518 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3519 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3521 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3522 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3523 PH/23 above applies.
3525 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3526 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3527 (for which there is an explicit test).
3529 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3531 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3532 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3533 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3534 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3535 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3537 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3538 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3539 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3540 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3542 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3543 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3544 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3546 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3548 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3550 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3551 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3552 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3554 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3555 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3556 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3557 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3558 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3560 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3561 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3562 the message gets confusing).
3564 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3565 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3566 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3567 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3569 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3570 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3571 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3572 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3575 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3576 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3577 the different processes.
3579 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3581 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3583 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3584 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3586 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3587 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3589 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3590 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3591 messages matching specified criteria.
3593 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3595 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3596 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3598 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3599 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3600 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3601 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3602 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3603 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3604 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3605 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3606 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3607 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3609 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3610 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3611 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3613 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3615 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3616 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3617 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3618 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3619 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3620 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3621 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3624 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3625 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3627 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3629 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3631 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3633 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3634 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3635 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3636 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3637 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3638 size of the count of files.
3640 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3642 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3645 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3646 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3647 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3648 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3650 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3651 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3652 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3654 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3655 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3656 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3657 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3658 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3660 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3661 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3663 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3664 will now be deprecated.
3666 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3668 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3669 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3670 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3672 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3673 with very large, slow to parse queues
3675 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3677 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3679 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3680 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3681 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3684 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3685 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3686 Sieve code now uses this.
3688 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3689 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3691 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3692 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3694 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3696 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3697 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3698 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3699 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3700 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3702 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3703 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3704 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3705 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3707 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3709 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3711 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3712 is preferred over IPv4.
3714 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3715 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3716 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3717 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3718 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3719 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3720 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3722 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3723 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3724 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3726 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3728 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3729 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3730 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3731 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3732 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3733 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3734 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3735 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3736 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3737 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3738 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3740 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3741 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3742 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3748 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3750 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3751 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3753 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3754 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3755 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3757 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3759 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3762 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3765 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3766 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3767 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3770 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3771 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3773 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3774 inside the third argument.
3776 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3777 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3780 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3781 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3783 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3784 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3786 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3788 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3789 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3792 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3794 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3795 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3796 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3797 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3798 identical. For example:
3800 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3802 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3803 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3804 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3806 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3807 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3808 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3809 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3811 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3812 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3813 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3816 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3818 o fixes some comments
3819 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3820 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3821 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3822 and documents the missing references header update
3826 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3827 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3830 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3831 Electronic Mail") by including:
3833 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3835 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3836 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3837 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3838 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3839 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3841 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3843 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3845 The auto-replied keyword:
3847 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3848 message by an automatic process,
3850 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3852 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3853 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3855 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3856 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3859 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3860 to the default Received: header definition.
3862 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3864 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3865 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3866 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3868 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3869 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3870 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3872 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3873 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3874 and treats the condition as false.
3876 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3878 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3879 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3880 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3881 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3882 not changing the active code.
3884 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3885 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3887 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3888 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3890 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3893 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3894 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3895 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3896 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3897 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3898 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3899 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3900 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3901 the text comparison.
3903 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3904 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3905 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3906 The same fix has been applied.
3912 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3913 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3916 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3917 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3919 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3921 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3922 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3923 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3924 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3925 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3927 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3928 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3929 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3930 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3933 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3941 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3942 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3944 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3946 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3948 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3949 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3950 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3952 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3953 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3954 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3956 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3957 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3960 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3961 ${stat: expansion item.
3963 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3964 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3966 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3967 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3970 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3972 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3975 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3976 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3978 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3980 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3981 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3982 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3983 the end of the subprocess.
3985 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3986 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3987 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3988 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3989 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3991 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3993 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3995 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3996 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3998 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4000 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4002 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4003 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4006 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4008 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4009 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4010 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4012 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4013 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4015 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4016 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4018 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4019 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4021 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4022 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4024 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4025 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4026 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4027 contributed by a Radius user.
4029 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4030 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4032 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4033 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4035 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4038 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4039 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4042 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4043 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4044 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4045 header lines when this was not necessary.
4047 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4049 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4050 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4051 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4054 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4057 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4058 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4059 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4060 return code was incorrect.
4062 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4064 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4066 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4068 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4070 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4071 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4072 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4073 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4074 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4077 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4079 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4080 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4081 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4082 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4083 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4084 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4085 which is clearly wrong.
4087 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4089 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4090 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4091 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4094 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4095 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4097 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4099 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4100 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4102 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4103 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4105 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4106 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4108 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4109 recipients, not senders.
4111 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4112 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4114 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4116 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4118 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4119 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4120 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4121 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4123 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4125 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4126 clock is set back in time.
4128 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4129 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4131 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4132 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4134 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4135 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4138 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4139 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4142 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4145 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4147 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4148 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4149 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4151 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4152 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4153 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4154 helo verification defer as a failure.
4156 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4157 actual error message.
4163 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4165 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4166 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4167 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4168 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4170 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4172 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4173 can still be requested.
4175 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4176 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4177 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4178 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4180 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4181 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4182 circumstances, but probably never did.
4184 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4185 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4186 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4189 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4191 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4192 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4194 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4196 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4198 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4199 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4200 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4201 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4202 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4203 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4205 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4206 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4207 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4208 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4209 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4210 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4212 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4213 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4215 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4216 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4218 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4219 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4221 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4223 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4225 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4227 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4229 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4231 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4233 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4235 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4236 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4237 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4239 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4240 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4241 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4242 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4244 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4245 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4246 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4248 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4249 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4250 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4251 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4253 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4254 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4257 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4258 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4259 should work with maildirs and everything.
4261 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4262 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4264 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4267 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4268 function for BDB 4.3.
4270 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4272 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4273 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4276 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4277 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4278 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4279 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4280 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4281 formatting function string_vformat().
4283 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4284 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4285 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4286 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4287 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4288 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4289 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4290 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4292 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4293 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4296 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4297 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4299 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4300 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4301 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4302 test. It is now used for both.
4304 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4305 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4306 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4307 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4308 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4309 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4311 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4312 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4313 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4316 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4317 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4318 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4320 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4321 experimental DomainKeys support:
4323 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4324 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4325 the control was given.
4327 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4329 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4331 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4333 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4334 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4335 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4338 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4339 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4340 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4341 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4342 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4343 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4346 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4347 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4348 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4349 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4350 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4351 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4353 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4354 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4355 do -d+all out of habit.
4357 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4358 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4361 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4362 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4363 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4364 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4365 record types that Exim uses.
4367 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4368 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4369 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4370 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4371 non-existent file that was broken.
4373 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4374 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4376 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4377 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4378 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4380 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4382 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4383 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4384 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4385 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4386 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4389 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4390 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4391 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4392 at a slight CPU cost.
4394 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4395 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4397 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4400 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4402 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4403 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4409 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4410 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4412 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4414 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4416 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4417 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4419 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4420 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4421 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4422 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4423 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4424 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4427 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4428 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4429 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4430 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4433 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4434 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4435 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4436 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4437 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4438 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4439 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4442 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4443 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4445 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4446 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4447 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4448 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4449 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4450 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4452 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4453 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4454 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4455 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4457 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4460 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4461 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4463 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4464 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4465 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4466 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4469 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4471 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4472 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4474 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4475 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4476 to what was transported.)
4478 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4480 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4481 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4482 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4483 spamd_address settings.
4485 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4486 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4487 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4488 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4489 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4491 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4493 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4494 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4495 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4496 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4497 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4499 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4500 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4502 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4503 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4504 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4505 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4506 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4507 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4508 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4511 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4512 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4513 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4514 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4515 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4516 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4517 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4520 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4522 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4523 driver and ACL definitions.
4525 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4526 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4528 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4529 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4530 understands it better than I do:
4532 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4533 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4535 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4536 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4537 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4538 => three warnings about OTP not working
4539 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4541 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4542 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4543 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4544 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4546 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4547 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4549 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4550 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4551 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4553 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4554 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4557 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4558 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4561 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4562 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4563 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4565 warn !verify = sender
4566 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4568 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4569 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4571 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4573 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4574 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4576 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4577 nomenclature these days.)
4579 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4580 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4582 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4583 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4584 . First host does not offer TLS;
4585 . First host accepts first address;
4586 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4587 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4588 . Second host accepts second address.
4589 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4590 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4593 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4594 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4595 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4596 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4597 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4599 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4600 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4602 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4603 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4605 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4606 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4607 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4609 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4610 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4613 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4615 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4616 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4617 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4618 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4619 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4620 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4621 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4623 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4624 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4625 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4626 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4627 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4629 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4630 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4633 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4634 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4635 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4636 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4637 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4638 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4640 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4642 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4643 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4644 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4645 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4646 printable escape sequences.
4648 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4649 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4652 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4653 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4656 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4657 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4658 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4659 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4660 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4662 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4663 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4664 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4666 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4668 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4669 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4672 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4673 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4674 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4675 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4676 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4677 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4678 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4679 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4680 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4683 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4684 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4685 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4686 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4690 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4691 ----------------------------------------
4693 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4694 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4695 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4696 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4697 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4698 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4701 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4702 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4703 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4704 historical information.
4710 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4712 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4713 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4715 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4716 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4719 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4720 filter fails to execute.
4722 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4723 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4724 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4725 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4726 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4728 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4730 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4731 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4732 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4733 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4735 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4736 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4737 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4738 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4739 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4741 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4743 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4745 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4746 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4747 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4748 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4750 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4751 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4752 sender verification.
4754 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4755 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4757 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4759 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4762 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4763 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4765 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4766 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4768 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4769 information about exactly what failed.
4771 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4773 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4774 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4775 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4777 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4778 It is now set to "smtps".
4780 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4781 ignore_target_hosts.
4783 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4784 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4785 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4786 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4789 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4790 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4791 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4793 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4794 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4795 wake it up if nothing else does.
4797 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4798 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4799 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4802 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4803 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4805 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4807 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4808 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4809 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4810 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4811 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4812 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4813 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4814 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4816 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4817 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4818 than one IP address.
4820 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4821 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4822 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4823 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4825 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4826 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4827 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4828 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4829 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4832 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4833 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4834 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4835 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4837 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4838 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4841 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4842 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4843 $sender_host_address.
4845 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4846 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4847 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4848 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4849 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4852 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4854 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4855 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4857 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4858 just the host names, not the priorities.
4860 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4861 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4862 controlled by a keyword.
4864 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4865 multiple records are returned.
4867 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4868 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4871 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4873 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4874 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4876 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4877 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4878 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4880 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4882 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4884 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4886 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4887 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4888 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4889 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4890 because the tests only now provoked it.
4892 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4893 (this can affect the format of dates).
4895 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4896 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4897 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4898 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4900 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4902 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4903 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4904 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4905 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4907 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4908 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4909 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4911 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4914 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4915 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4916 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4917 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4918 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4919 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4922 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4923 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4924 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4927 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4928 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4929 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4931 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4932 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4933 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4934 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4935 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4936 so I produce this patch..."
4938 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4939 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4942 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4943 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4944 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4945 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4948 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4950 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4951 long debug lines gets shown.
4953 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4954 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4956 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4958 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4959 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4960 of $primary_hostname.
4962 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4963 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4964 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4965 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4966 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4967 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4968 by change 4.50/55 above.
4970 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4971 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4972 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4973 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4974 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4975 running as the user.
4978 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4979 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4980 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4983 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4984 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4986 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4987 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4988 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4989 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4990 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4992 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4993 This has been fixed.
4995 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4996 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4997 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4998 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5001 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5003 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5004 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5005 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5006 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5008 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5009 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5011 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5012 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5013 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5015 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5016 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5017 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5020 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5021 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5022 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5024 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5025 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5026 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5027 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5029 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5030 during host lookups.
5032 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5033 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5035 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5037 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5038 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5039 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5040 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5041 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5044 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5045 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5047 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5048 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5049 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5051 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5053 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5054 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5055 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5056 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5057 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5058 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5061 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5062 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5063 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5064 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5065 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5067 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5070 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5072 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5073 "vacation" handling.
5075 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5076 OS variants using glibc.
5078 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5081 ----------------------------------------------------
5082 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5083 ----------------------------------------------------
5089 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5090 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5093 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5094 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5097 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5098 filter fails to execute.
5100 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5101 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5102 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5103 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5104 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5106 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5107 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5108 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5109 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5111 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5112 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5113 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5114 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5115 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5117 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5119 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5120 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5121 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5122 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5124 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5125 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5126 sender verification.
5128 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5129 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5131 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5132 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5134 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5135 ignore_target_hosts.
5137 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5138 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5139 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5140 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5143 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5144 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5145 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5147 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5148 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5149 wake it up if nothing else does.
5151 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5152 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5153 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5156 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5157 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5159 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5161 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5162 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5165 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5166 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5169 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5170 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5171 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5172 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5173 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5176 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5177 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5180 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5181 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5182 $sender_host_address.
5184 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5186 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5187 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5188 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5190 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5193 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5194 (this can affect the format of dates).
5196 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5197 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5198 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5199 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5201 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5202 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5203 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5205 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5206 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5207 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5208 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5210 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5211 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5212 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5214 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5217 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5218 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5219 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5220 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5221 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5222 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5225 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5226 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5227 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5228 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5231 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5232 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5233 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5234 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5235 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5236 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5237 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5239 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5240 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5241 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5242 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5243 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5244 running as the user.
5247 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5248 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5249 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5252 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5253 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5254 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5255 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5256 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5258 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5259 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5260 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5261 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5264 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5265 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5266 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5267 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5268 because the tests only now provoked it.
5274 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5275 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5276 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5277 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5278 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5279 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5280 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5282 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5283 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5286 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5288 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5290 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5291 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5294 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5295 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5296 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5297 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5298 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5300 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5301 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5303 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5305 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5307 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5310 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5311 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5313 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5314 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5315 affecting debugging statements).
5317 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5319 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5320 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5321 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5322 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5323 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5324 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5325 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5326 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5327 after the received time, and all would be well.
5329 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5330 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5331 condition in an expansion string.
5333 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5335 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5336 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5337 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5338 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5339 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5340 job under whatever limits there are.
5342 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5344 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5347 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5348 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5349 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5350 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5353 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5354 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5355 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5356 binary data in such strings.
5358 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5360 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5361 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5362 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5363 failure, which is pointless.
5365 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5367 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5369 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5370 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5371 Sender: header lines.
5373 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5374 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5375 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5377 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5378 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5379 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5380 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5381 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5384 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5385 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5386 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5387 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5388 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5390 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5391 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5392 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5395 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5396 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5398 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5399 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5401 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5403 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5405 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5407 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5410 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5412 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5414 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5415 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5416 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5417 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5419 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5420 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5426 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5427 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5428 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5430 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5431 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5432 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5433 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5434 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5435 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5437 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5438 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5439 verification failure".
5441 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5442 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5443 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5444 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5446 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5447 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5448 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5449 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5450 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5451 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5452 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5453 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5454 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5455 treated as a timeout.
5457 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5458 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5459 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5460 not set for Exim filters).
5462 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5463 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5464 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5466 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5468 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5469 try to make them clearer.
5471 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5472 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5474 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5476 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5478 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5479 only the Cygwin environment.
5481 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5482 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5483 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5484 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5485 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5487 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5488 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5489 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5490 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5491 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5492 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5493 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5495 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5496 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5498 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5500 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5501 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5502 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5504 To: susanne@some.where
5506 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5507 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5508 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5509 of addresses in From: header lines).
5511 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5512 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5513 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5515 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5516 treated as non-personal.
5518 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5519 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5521 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5523 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5525 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5526 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5527 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5529 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5530 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5532 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5533 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5534 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5535 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5536 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5537 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5539 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5540 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5541 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5542 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5543 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5544 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5545 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5546 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5548 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5550 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5551 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5553 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5554 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5555 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5557 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5558 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5560 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5561 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5562 rather than long int.
5564 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5566 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5572 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5573 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5574 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5575 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5576 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5577 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5583 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5584 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5586 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5587 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5588 socklen_t is defined.
5590 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5593 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5596 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5597 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5598 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5599 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5600 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5602 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5603 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5604 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5605 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5607 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5608 of flapping under certain conditions.
5610 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5611 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5612 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5614 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5616 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5618 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5619 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5620 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5621 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5623 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5624 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5625 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5626 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5627 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5628 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5629 preserved with the message after it was received.
5631 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5632 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5633 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5634 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5635 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5636 test suite worked just fine.
5638 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5639 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5640 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5642 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5643 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5646 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5647 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5648 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5649 does not fully solve it.
5651 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5652 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5653 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5654 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5655 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5657 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5658 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5659 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5661 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5662 string, for example:
5664 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5666 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5667 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5668 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5669 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5670 the routers could not see them.
5672 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5673 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5675 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5676 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5679 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5680 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5681 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5682 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5683 that needed quoting.
5685 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5686 was not being matched caselessly.
5688 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5691 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5692 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5693 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5694 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5695 when use_sender is false.
5697 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5699 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5701 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5703 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5704 the configuration file.
5706 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5707 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5709 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5711 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5712 bytes in the message body.
5714 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5715 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5718 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5720 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5722 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5723 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5724 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5725 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5732 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5733 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5735 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5736 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5737 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5738 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5739 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5741 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5742 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5744 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5745 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5746 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5748 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5749 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5750 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5752 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5755 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5756 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5757 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5758 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5759 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5760 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5761 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5767 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5768 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5769 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5770 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5771 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5772 default (and expected) setting.
5774 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5775 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5776 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5777 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5779 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5780 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5782 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5785 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5786 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5787 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5788 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5789 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5790 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5792 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5793 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5794 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5796 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5797 part (NOT match_host).
5799 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5801 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5802 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5803 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5804 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5805 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5806 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5807 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5808 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5809 the same named file.
5811 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5812 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5815 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5816 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5817 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5818 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5821 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5822 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5823 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5825 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5827 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5829 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5831 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5832 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5834 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5835 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5836 before starting the TLS session.
5838 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5840 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5841 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5843 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5844 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5845 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5846 colon in the middle).
5852 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5853 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5854 multiple configurations are in use.
5856 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5857 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5858 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5859 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5860 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5861 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5863 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5864 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5866 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5867 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5868 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5870 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5871 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5874 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5875 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5877 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5879 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5880 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5882 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5890 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5891 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5892 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5893 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5894 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5896 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5899 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5900 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5901 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5902 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5903 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5904 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5906 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5907 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5908 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5909 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5910 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5911 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5912 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5915 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5916 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5917 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5918 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5919 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5921 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5923 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5924 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5925 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5927 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5929 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5930 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5931 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5934 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5935 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5937 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5938 Three changes have been made:
5940 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5941 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5942 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5943 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5944 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5946 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5949 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5950 the modified behaviour.
5956 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5959 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5960 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5962 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5963 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5964 try to track down a specific problem.
5966 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5967 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5968 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5970 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5973 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5974 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5975 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5976 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5977 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5978 some earlier ones do not.
5980 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5982 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5983 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5984 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5985 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5986 address literals are enabled, of course).
5988 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5990 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5991 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5992 by a command such as
5996 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5998 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6000 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6001 remained set. It is now erased.
6003 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6004 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6006 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6007 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6008 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6009 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6010 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6011 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6012 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6013 appropriate error code.
6015 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6016 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6017 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6018 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6019 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6020 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6022 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6023 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6024 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6026 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6027 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6028 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6029 terminate the header.
6031 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6032 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6033 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6035 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6036 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6037 (4.30/29). In particular:
6039 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6042 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6043 to write a maildirsize file.
6045 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6046 the transport, the new value overrides.
6048 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6051 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6052 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6053 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6056 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6057 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6058 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6061 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6062 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6063 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6065 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6066 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6069 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6070 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6071 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6073 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6075 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6077 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6079 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6080 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6083 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6084 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6085 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6086 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6087 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6088 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6089 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6092 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6093 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6094 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6095 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6096 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6099 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6100 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6101 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6102 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6103 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6104 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6105 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6106 cached value only when the same options are set.
6108 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6110 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6111 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6112 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6113 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6114 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6116 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6117 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6118 it is clearly obsolete.
6120 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6123 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6124 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6125 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6128 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6129 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6130 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6131 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6132 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6134 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6135 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6136 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6137 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6139 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6141 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6143 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6144 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6147 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6148 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6149 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6150 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6151 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6152 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6155 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6156 with the -f command-line option.
6158 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6159 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6160 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6161 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6162 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6163 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6165 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6166 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6169 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6170 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6171 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6172 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6173 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6174 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6175 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6176 buffer is too small.
6178 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6179 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6181 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6182 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6183 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6184 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6185 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6186 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6187 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6188 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6189 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6191 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6192 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6193 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6195 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6196 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6199 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6200 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6201 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6202 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6203 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6205 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6206 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6207 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6208 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6211 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6213 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6215 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6216 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6218 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6219 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6220 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6222 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6223 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6224 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6225 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6226 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6228 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6229 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6230 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6231 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6232 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6233 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6234 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6236 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6237 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6238 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6239 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6240 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6241 the test of how many are available.
6243 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6244 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6245 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6246 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6247 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6248 new message is started.
6250 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6251 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6253 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6254 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6256 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6257 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6258 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6261 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6262 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6263 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6264 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6265 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6266 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6267 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6269 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6270 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6271 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6272 interpreted as octal.
6274 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6277 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6278 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6279 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6280 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6281 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6282 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6284 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6285 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6286 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6287 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6289 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6290 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6291 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6292 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6294 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6295 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6298 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6299 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6301 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6303 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6304 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6305 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6306 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6308 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6309 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6310 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6311 supplied", which is not helpful.
6313 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6314 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6315 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6317 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6318 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6319 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6320 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6321 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6322 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6323 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6324 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6326 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6327 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6328 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6329 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6330 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6332 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6333 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6334 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6335 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6336 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6337 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6339 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6340 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6341 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6343 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6345 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6346 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6347 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6350 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6352 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6353 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6354 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6355 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6356 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6357 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6358 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6359 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6361 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6362 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6363 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6364 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6365 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6367 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6370 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6371 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6372 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6373 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6374 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6375 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6376 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6377 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6378 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6384 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6385 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6386 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6388 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6391 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6392 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6393 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6395 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6396 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6397 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6398 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6399 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6400 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6402 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6403 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6404 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6405 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6406 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6407 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6408 the Exim test suite.
6410 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6411 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6412 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6413 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6415 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6416 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6417 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6418 specify it in this variable.
6420 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6421 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6422 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6423 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6425 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6426 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6427 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6428 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6430 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6431 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6432 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6433 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6434 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6436 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6438 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6441 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6442 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6443 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6444 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6445 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6447 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6448 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6450 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6451 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6452 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6453 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6454 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6456 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6457 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6459 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6460 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6461 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6463 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6464 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6466 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6467 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6469 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6470 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6471 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6473 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6474 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6476 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6477 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6478 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6479 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6481 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6483 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6484 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6485 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6486 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6488 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6490 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6491 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6493 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6495 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6496 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6497 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6498 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6499 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6500 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6502 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6504 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6505 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6508 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6510 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6511 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6513 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6514 550 Sender verify failed
6516 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6517 the final line of the response.
6519 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6520 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6521 all other user lookups.
6523 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6526 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6527 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6528 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6529 result into an int without checking.
6531 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6532 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6533 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6535 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6536 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6537 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6538 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6540 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6543 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6544 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6546 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6547 to the empty sender.
6549 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6550 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6551 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6552 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6553 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6554 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6555 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6558 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6559 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6560 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6561 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6564 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6565 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6567 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6570 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6571 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6573 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6575 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6576 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6579 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6580 as soon as it is encountered.
6582 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6584 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6587 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6588 recognizes a tab character.
6590 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6591 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6592 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6593 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6595 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6597 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6600 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6602 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6604 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6605 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6608 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6609 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6610 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6611 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6612 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6614 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6615 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6617 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6618 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6619 list (.included file names were always shown).
6621 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6622 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6623 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6626 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6627 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6629 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6631 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6633 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6635 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6636 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6637 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6638 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6639 failures to open the logs.
6641 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6642 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6643 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6644 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6645 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6646 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6647 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6653 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6654 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6655 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6658 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6659 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6660 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6662 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6663 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6664 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6666 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6667 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6668 causing some misleading effects.
6670 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6671 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6672 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6674 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6675 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6676 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6677 queue-runner function directly.
6683 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6686 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6687 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6688 was always written to the default place.
6690 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6691 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6692 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6694 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6696 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6698 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6699 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6700 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6702 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6703 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6706 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6707 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6708 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6710 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6711 command line option is disabled.
6713 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6714 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6716 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6718 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6720 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6721 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6723 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6725 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6726 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6727 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6728 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6729 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6730 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6732 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6733 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6736 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6737 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6739 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6740 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6742 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6743 received was valid base64.
6745 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6746 name of the variable that was being set.
6748 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6750 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6751 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6752 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6753 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6754 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6755 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6757 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6759 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6760 nor realm was specified.
6762 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6763 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6764 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6765 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6767 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6768 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6769 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6771 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6772 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6773 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6775 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6776 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6777 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6778 some systems use these upper case variants.
6780 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6781 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6782 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6783 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6785 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6787 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6788 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6790 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6791 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6794 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6796 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6797 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6798 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6799 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6801 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6804 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6805 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6806 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6808 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6809 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6811 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6812 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6813 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6814 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6816 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6817 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6818 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6820 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6822 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6823 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6824 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6825 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6828 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6829 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6830 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6832 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6834 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6835 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6837 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6838 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6840 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6841 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6842 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6843 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6844 when emails are that large.
6851 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6852 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6854 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6855 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6856 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6858 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6859 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6860 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6862 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6863 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6864 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6865 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6866 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6868 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6869 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6870 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6871 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6872 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6875 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6876 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6877 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6878 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6879 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6880 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6881 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6882 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6883 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6884 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6885 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6886 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6887 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6888 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6890 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6891 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6894 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6895 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6896 error should be diagnosed.
6898 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6899 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6900 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6901 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6902 appeared instead of "NULL".
6904 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6905 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6906 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6907 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6908 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6909 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6912 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6913 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6914 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6920 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6921 or receiver verification errors.
6923 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6926 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6927 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6928 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6929 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6931 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6932 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6933 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6934 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6935 shouldn't happen again.
6937 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6938 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6939 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6941 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6942 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6944 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6946 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6947 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6949 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6950 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6953 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6954 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6955 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6957 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6958 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6959 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6960 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6962 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6963 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6964 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6965 to define what should happen).
6967 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6968 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6969 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6971 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6973 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6975 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6976 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6978 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6979 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6980 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6981 structure in all cases.
6983 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6984 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6985 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6986 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6988 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6989 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6992 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6993 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6995 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6996 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6998 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6999 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7000 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7002 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7003 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7004 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7006 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7007 the book and for uniformity.
7009 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7011 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7012 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7013 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7014 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7015 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7016 non-existent command as the problem.
7018 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7019 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7020 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7022 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7024 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7025 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7026 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7028 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7029 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7030 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7031 timestamps using strftime().
7033 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7034 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7036 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7037 transport-time rewrites.
7039 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7040 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7041 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7042 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7044 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7045 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7047 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7048 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7049 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7050 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7053 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7054 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7055 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7056 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7057 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7058 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7059 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7061 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7062 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7063 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7064 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7065 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7067 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7068 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7069 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7070 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7071 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7072 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7073 remaining text gets split now.
7075 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7076 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7077 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7078 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7080 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7081 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7082 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7083 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7086 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7087 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7088 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7089 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7090 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7091 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7092 passed through if needed.
7094 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7095 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7096 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7097 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7098 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7099 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7101 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7102 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7103 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7104 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7105 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7107 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7108 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7109 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7110 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7111 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7113 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7114 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7117 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7118 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7119 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7120 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7121 mayhem of various kinds.
7123 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7124 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7125 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7126 the right test for positive values.
7128 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7129 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7130 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7131 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7132 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7133 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7134 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7135 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7136 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7137 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7140 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7143 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7144 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7147 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7148 the existing equality matching.
7150 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7151 dealing with inode numbers.
7153 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7154 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7155 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7157 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7158 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7159 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7160 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7163 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7164 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7165 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7166 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7167 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7168 relay addresses has also been removed.
7170 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7172 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7173 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7174 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7176 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7177 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7178 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7179 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7180 processing applies to CR:
7182 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7183 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7185 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7186 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7187 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7188 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7190 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7191 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7192 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7194 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7195 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7196 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7197 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7198 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7199 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7202 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7205 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7206 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7207 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7208 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7211 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7213 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7215 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7217 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7218 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7219 not considered personal.
7221 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7223 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7225 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7227 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7228 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7229 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7230 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7231 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7232 header lines, and spool format errors.
7234 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7235 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7236 for more flexibility.
7238 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7239 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7240 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7242 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7245 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7246 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7247 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7248 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7249 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7250 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7251 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7252 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7253 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7255 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7256 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7257 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7258 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7259 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7260 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7261 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7263 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7264 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7265 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7267 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7268 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7269 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7270 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7271 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7272 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7273 instead of killing the process with assert().
7275 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7276 than Unicode encoding.
7278 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7279 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7280 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7281 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7283 77. Added process_log_path.
7285 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7286 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7288 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7289 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7291 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7292 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7293 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7295 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7296 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7297 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7298 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7299 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7302 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7303 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7306 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7307 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7308 they will be used during message reception.
7314 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.