1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 Previously this was permitted.
98 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
99 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
100 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
101 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
103 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
104 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
105 support larger malloc requests.
107 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
108 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
109 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
110 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
112 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
113 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
114 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
115 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
118 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
119 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
120 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
121 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
122 data being length-specified.
124 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
125 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
126 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
127 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
129 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
130 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
131 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
132 not being properly tracked.
134 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
135 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
136 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
137 minute could be seen.
139 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
140 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
141 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
143 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
144 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
146 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
147 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
150 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
152 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
153 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
155 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
156 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
157 filesystem as sufficient validation.
163 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
164 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
166 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
167 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
170 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
173 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
175 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
177 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
178 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
180 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
181 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
182 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
183 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
184 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
185 suitably configured).
187 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
188 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
190 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
191 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
194 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
195 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
197 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
198 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
199 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
200 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
203 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
204 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
205 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
207 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
210 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
211 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
213 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
214 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
215 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
216 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
219 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
220 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
221 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
222 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
225 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
226 shared (NFS) environment.
228 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
229 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
232 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
233 on some platforms for bit 31.
235 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
236 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
237 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
238 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
239 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
240 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
241 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
242 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
244 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
246 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
247 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
249 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
250 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
253 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
254 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
257 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
258 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
259 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
262 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
263 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
264 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
266 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
267 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
268 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
269 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
270 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
272 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
275 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
276 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
277 be requested on all coneections.
279 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
280 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
282 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
284 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
285 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
286 one for these; the option was ignored.
288 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
289 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
290 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
291 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
293 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
294 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
295 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
298 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
299 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
300 error ignored was made.
302 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
304 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
305 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
306 values, to catch one form of exploit.
308 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
309 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
310 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
312 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
313 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
316 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
317 them in our smtp response.
319 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
320 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
321 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
322 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
323 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
325 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
326 link count into consideration.
328 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
329 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
331 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
332 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
333 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
336 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
338 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
340 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
342 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
343 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
344 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
345 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
347 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
349 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
350 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
353 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
354 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
355 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
357 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
358 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
359 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
361 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
362 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
363 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
364 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
365 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
366 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
367 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
368 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
370 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
371 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
372 resulted in an indefinite loop.
374 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
375 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
376 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
382 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
383 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
385 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
386 non-signal-safe functions being used.
388 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
389 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
390 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
392 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
393 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
394 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
396 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
397 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
398 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
399 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
400 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
403 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
404 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
406 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
407 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
408 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
409 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
410 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
411 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
412 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
414 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
415 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
417 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
420 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
421 Previously this would segfault.
423 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
426 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
427 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
428 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
429 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
430 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
431 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
433 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
435 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
436 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
437 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
438 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
440 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
442 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
443 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
444 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
445 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
447 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
449 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
451 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
452 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
453 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
455 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
456 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
457 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
459 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
461 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
462 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
463 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
464 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
466 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
467 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
468 promised '?' replacement.
470 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
472 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
473 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
474 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
475 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
476 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
478 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
479 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
480 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
482 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
483 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
484 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
486 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
487 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
488 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
490 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
491 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
492 hope that is portable enough.
494 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
495 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
496 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
497 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
499 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
500 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
501 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
503 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
504 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
505 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
506 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
508 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
509 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
511 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
512 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
513 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
514 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
516 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
517 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
518 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
520 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
521 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
522 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
523 the previous G, M, k.
525 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
526 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
529 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
530 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
531 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
532 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
534 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
535 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
537 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
538 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
539 off past the nul-terimation.
541 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
542 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
543 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
544 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
545 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
547 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
549 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
550 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
551 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
554 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
555 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
557 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
558 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
559 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
561 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
562 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
563 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
565 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
566 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
572 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
573 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
574 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
575 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
576 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
577 be defined in redis_servers.
579 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
580 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
582 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
583 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
584 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
585 extant use locations.
587 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
588 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
590 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
591 Previously only the last row was returned.
593 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
594 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
595 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
596 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
599 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
600 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
601 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
602 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
603 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
604 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
605 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
606 Main pool for expansions.
607 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
608 active in the testsuite.
609 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
611 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
612 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
613 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
614 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
617 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
618 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
621 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
622 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
623 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
625 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
626 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
627 ClamAV interface method is removed.
629 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
630 rows affected is given instead).
632 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
633 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
635 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
636 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
637 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
638 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
639 for all multi-message initiating connections.
641 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
642 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
643 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
645 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
646 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
647 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
648 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
651 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
652 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
653 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
656 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
658 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
659 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
661 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
662 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
663 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
665 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
666 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
667 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
670 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
671 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
673 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
674 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
675 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
677 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
678 for the build is renamed.
680 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
681 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
682 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
684 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
685 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
686 result replacing the original.
688 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
689 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
690 and the resources needed to be freed.
692 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
694 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
697 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
698 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
699 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
700 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
702 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
703 length value. Previously this would segfault.
705 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
706 newer versions of the scanner.
708 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
709 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
710 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
711 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
712 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
713 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
714 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
716 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
717 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
718 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
719 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
720 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
721 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
722 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
723 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
724 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
725 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
727 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
728 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
730 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
732 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
733 allows proper process termination in container environments.
735 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
736 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
738 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
739 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
740 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
742 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
743 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
744 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
745 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
747 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
748 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
751 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
752 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
754 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
755 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
756 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
757 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
758 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
760 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
761 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
764 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
765 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
767 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
770 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
771 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
772 "bare" representation.
774 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
775 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
776 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
777 corrupted the output.
783 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
784 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
785 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
786 pairs of long lines into single ones.
788 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
789 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
791 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
792 This permits better logging.
794 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
795 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
796 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
797 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
798 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
799 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
801 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
802 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
805 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
806 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
807 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
809 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
810 than 255 are no longer allowed.
812 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
813 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
814 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
815 client, there is no benefit for these.
816 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
817 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
818 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
821 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
822 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
824 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
825 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
826 erroneously found still-pending ones.
828 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
829 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
831 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
832 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
833 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
834 signature and again for transmission.
836 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
837 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
838 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
840 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
841 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
842 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
843 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
844 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
845 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
846 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
848 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
849 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
850 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
851 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
853 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
854 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
855 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
856 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
857 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
858 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
861 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
862 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
863 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
864 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
867 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
868 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
869 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
870 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
873 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
874 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
877 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
878 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
879 banner-time rejection.
881 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
884 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
885 is the name of a transport.
888 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
890 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
891 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
893 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
894 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
895 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
898 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
899 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
900 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
901 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
903 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
904 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
905 initial verify call returned a defer.
907 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
908 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
910 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
911 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
913 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
914 if present. Previously it was ignored.
916 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
917 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
919 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
920 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
923 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
924 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
926 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
927 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
928 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
930 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
931 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
932 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
933 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
935 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
936 and confused the parent.
938 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
939 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
941 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
944 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
945 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
946 out-of-order delivery.
948 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
949 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
950 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
953 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
954 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
957 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
958 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
959 one run was done. Bug 2189.
961 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
962 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
963 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
964 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
965 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
966 message is still "Temporary local problem".
968 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
969 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
970 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
972 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
973 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
974 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
976 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
977 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
978 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
979 though a different problem.
985 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
986 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
988 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
990 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
991 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
993 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
994 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
996 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
997 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
998 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
999 before acknowledging the chunk.
1001 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1002 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1003 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1005 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1006 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1007 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1010 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1011 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1012 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1014 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1015 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1017 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1018 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1019 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1020 body hash calculated value.
1022 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1023 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1024 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1026 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1028 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1029 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1031 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1032 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1033 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1035 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1036 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1037 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1038 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1039 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1040 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1042 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1043 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1044 past that check, despite the cost.
1046 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1047 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1048 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1050 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1051 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1052 TLS library to consume.
1054 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1056 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1058 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1059 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1060 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1061 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1062 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1063 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1064 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1066 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1068 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1070 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1071 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1072 should be warning-free.
1074 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1076 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1077 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1079 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1080 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1081 general solution here.
1083 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1084 already-broken messages in the queue.
1086 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1088 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1094 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1095 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1097 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1098 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1099 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1101 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1102 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1103 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1104 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1105 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1106 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1107 if one fails this test.
1108 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1109 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1111 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1112 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1114 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1115 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1117 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1118 in rewrites and routers.
1120 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1121 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1123 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1124 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1126 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1128 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1131 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1132 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1133 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1134 connection after a verify cache hit.
1135 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1137 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1138 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1140 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1141 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1142 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1143 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1144 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1146 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1147 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1149 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1150 Previously they were not counted.
1152 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1153 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1154 that needed the lookup.
1156 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1157 distinguished as "(=".
1159 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1160 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1162 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1164 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1165 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1167 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1168 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1170 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1171 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1174 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1175 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1176 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1177 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1179 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1181 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1182 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1183 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1185 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1186 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1187 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1190 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1191 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1192 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1195 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1196 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1197 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1199 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1200 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1203 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1205 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1206 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1208 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1209 are not in the system include path.
1211 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1212 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1213 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1214 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1216 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1217 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1218 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1220 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1222 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1223 an incoming connection.
1225 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1228 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1229 fallback to "prime256v1".
1231 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1232 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1238 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1239 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1240 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1241 client dropping the TLS connection.
1243 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1244 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1246 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1247 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1248 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1249 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1252 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1253 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1254 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1255 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1256 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1257 check on the next write.
1259 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1260 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1261 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1262 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1263 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1265 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1266 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1268 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1269 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1270 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1272 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1273 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1274 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1275 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1277 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1278 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1280 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1281 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1283 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1284 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1285 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1288 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1290 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1292 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1294 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1295 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1297 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1298 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1300 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1302 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1303 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1305 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1307 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1308 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1310 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1312 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1313 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1314 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1315 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1316 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1317 they will retry in-clear.
1318 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1319 at installation time.
1321 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1322 with the $config_file variable.
1324 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1325 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1326 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1327 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1328 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1330 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1331 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1332 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1333 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1334 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1336 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1338 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1339 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1340 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1341 list order is no longer honoured.
1343 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1344 for DKIM processing.
1346 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1347 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1349 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1350 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1351 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1352 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1354 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1355 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1357 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1358 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1360 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1361 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1363 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1365 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1366 cached by the daemon.
1368 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1369 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1371 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1372 keys are given for lookup.
1374 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1375 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1376 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1377 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1379 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1380 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1381 server-side so match that on older versions.
1383 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1384 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1385 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1387 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1388 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1390 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1391 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1392 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1393 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1394 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1395 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1396 initial truncated version.
1398 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1400 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1402 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1403 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1405 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1407 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1409 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1410 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1413 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1414 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1417 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1418 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1420 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1421 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1424 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1425 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1426 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1428 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1429 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1430 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1431 extraction. Accept either.
1437 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1440 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1442 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1445 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1446 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1447 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1448 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1450 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1451 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1452 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1454 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1455 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1456 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1459 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1462 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1463 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1464 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1465 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1466 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1468 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1469 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1470 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1472 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1474 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1475 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1477 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1478 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1480 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1483 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1484 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1486 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1487 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1488 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1490 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1491 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1492 specify a port-range.
1494 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1495 timeout value per server.
1497 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1498 now have the list separator specified.
1500 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1503 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1506 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1508 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1509 rather than the verbs used.
1511 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1512 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1514 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1516 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1517 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1519 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1520 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1522 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1523 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1525 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1527 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1529 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1530 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1531 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1532 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1534 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1536 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1537 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1539 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1540 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1542 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1544 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1546 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1548 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1549 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1551 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1552 added for tls authenticator.
1554 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1560 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1561 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1562 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1563 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1564 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1565 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1566 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1568 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1569 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1570 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1571 function when detected.
1573 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1574 cause callback expansion.
1576 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1577 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1578 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1579 instead of bool when processing it.
1581 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1582 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1584 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1586 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1588 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1590 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1591 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1593 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1594 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1595 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1596 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1597 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1598 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1600 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1601 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1604 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1605 version 3.3.6 or later.
1607 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1608 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1609 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1610 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1611 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1612 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1615 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1616 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1618 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1619 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1620 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1623 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1624 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1625 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1627 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1628 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1630 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1631 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1634 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1636 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1637 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1639 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1640 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1643 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1645 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1648 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1649 output list separator was used.
1654 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1655 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1658 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1659 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1661 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1663 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1664 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1670 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1672 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1673 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1674 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1675 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1676 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1677 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1679 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1680 utilities have not been installed.
1682 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1683 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1685 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1686 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1688 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1689 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1690 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1691 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1693 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1695 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1696 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1698 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1701 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1703 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1704 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1705 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1707 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1708 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1709 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1710 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1711 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1712 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1714 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1716 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1717 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1719 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1722 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1724 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1726 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1727 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1729 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1730 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1732 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1734 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1736 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1737 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1739 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1740 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1741 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1743 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1744 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1745 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1748 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1750 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1751 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1754 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1755 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1758 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1759 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1761 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1762 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1764 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1766 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1767 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1768 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1770 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1771 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1773 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1774 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1777 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1778 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1779 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1781 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1783 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1784 Christian Aistleitner.
1786 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1788 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1789 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1791 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1792 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1794 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1795 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1797 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1798 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1800 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1801 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1803 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1804 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1805 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1807 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1809 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1810 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1813 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1815 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1816 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1823 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1825 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1826 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1828 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1831 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1832 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1835 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1837 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1838 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1839 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1840 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1841 using channel bindings instead).
1843 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1844 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1845 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1846 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1847 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1850 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1852 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1854 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1855 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1857 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1858 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1859 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1861 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1863 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1865 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1866 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1868 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1870 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1872 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1874 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1875 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1877 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1879 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1880 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1883 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1884 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1886 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1887 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1890 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1892 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1894 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1895 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1897 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1900 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1901 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1903 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1904 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1906 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1908 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1910 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1913 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1916 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1918 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1919 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1920 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1921 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1923 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1925 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1926 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1927 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1928 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1931 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1932 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1933 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1935 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1936 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1937 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1938 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1940 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1941 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1942 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1943 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1944 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1945 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1946 delivery, as in LMTP.
1948 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1949 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1951 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1953 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1957 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1958 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1959 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1960 username as equal to the username.
1962 This change corrects that bug.
1964 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1965 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1966 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1968 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1970 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1971 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1972 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1973 NULL dereference and crash.
1975 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1977 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1978 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1979 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1981 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1983 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1984 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1985 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1986 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1987 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1988 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1989 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1990 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1991 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1992 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1993 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1995 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1996 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1998 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1999 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2002 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2003 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2004 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2005 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2006 an empty string is now equivalent.
2008 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2009 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2010 not performing validation itself.
2012 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2013 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2015 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2018 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2020 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2021 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2022 other false fix of the same issue.
2023 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2026 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2027 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2029 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2030 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2031 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2033 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2034 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2035 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2037 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2039 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2041 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2042 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2044 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2047 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2048 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2049 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2050 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2051 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2053 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2054 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2056 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2057 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2060 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2061 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2062 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2063 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2065 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2067 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2068 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2069 from multiple comments on this bug.
2071 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2073 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2074 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2077 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2078 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2080 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2081 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2087 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2089 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2095 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2096 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2097 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2099 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2101 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2104 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2106 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2108 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2110 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2111 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2113 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2114 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2116 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2117 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2119 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2120 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2121 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2123 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2125 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2126 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2128 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2130 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2132 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2133 non-compliant senders.
2134 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2136 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2137 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2138 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2140 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2141 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2142 in spool file corruption.
2144 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2145 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2146 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2149 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2150 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2151 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2153 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2154 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2156 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2158 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2160 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2162 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2163 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2164 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2166 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2167 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2168 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2169 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2171 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2172 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2174 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2175 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2176 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2177 resolver implementation change.
2179 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2180 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2182 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2184 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2186 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2187 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2189 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2190 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2192 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2193 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2195 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2196 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2197 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2198 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2199 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2201 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2203 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2204 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2205 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2207 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2209 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2210 read-only, out of scope).
2211 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2213 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2214 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2215 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2216 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2218 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2220 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2221 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2222 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2223 real issues in debug logging.
2225 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2226 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2228 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2229 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2230 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2232 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2233 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2234 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2237 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2238 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2240 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2241 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2242 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2243 needs to override this, it can.
2245 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2246 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2247 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2249 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2250 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2251 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2252 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2254 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2260 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2261 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2263 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2265 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2268 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2269 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2271 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2272 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2273 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2275 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2276 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2277 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2278 not safe for signals.
2280 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2281 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2282 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2283 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2286 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2288 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2289 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2290 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2291 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2292 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2294 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2295 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2296 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2297 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2298 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2299 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2301 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2302 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2303 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2304 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2306 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2307 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2308 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2309 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2311 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2312 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2313 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2314 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2315 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2316 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2317 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2318 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2319 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2321 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2322 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2323 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2324 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2326 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2327 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2328 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2329 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2330 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2331 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2332 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2333 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2334 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2335 details in the main documentation.
2337 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2339 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2341 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2342 repository when doing development or release builds.
2344 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2345 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2347 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2348 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2351 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2353 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2354 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2356 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2357 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2359 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2360 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2362 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2363 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2365 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2366 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2368 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2370 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2373 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2374 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2375 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2377 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2379 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2381 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2382 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2388 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2390 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2391 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2393 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2395 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2397 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2400 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2401 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2403 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2404 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2406 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2407 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2409 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2412 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2413 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2415 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2416 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2417 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2418 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2420 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2421 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2427 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2430 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2431 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2432 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2434 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2435 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2437 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2438 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2439 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2441 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2442 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2444 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2445 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2447 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2448 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2450 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2451 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2453 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2454 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2456 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2459 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2460 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2462 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2463 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2465 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2466 SQL string expansion failure details.
2467 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2469 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2470 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2472 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2473 extern declarations in function scope.
2474 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2476 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2477 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2478 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2481 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2482 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2484 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2485 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2487 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2488 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2490 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2491 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2493 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2494 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2497 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2499 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2501 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2502 Patch by Simon Arlott
2504 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2505 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2511 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2512 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2514 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2515 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2517 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2519 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2520 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2521 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2523 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2524 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2525 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2527 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2528 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2529 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2530 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2532 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2533 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2534 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2535 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2537 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2538 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2539 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2542 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2545 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2546 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2547 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2548 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2549 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2555 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2556 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2557 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2559 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2560 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2562 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2564 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2566 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2568 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2570 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2572 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2573 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2574 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2575 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2577 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2578 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2579 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2580 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2581 more caution in buffer sizes.
2583 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2585 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2587 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2589 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2591 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2593 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2595 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2597 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2598 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2599 ignore trailing whitespace.
2601 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2603 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2606 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2607 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2609 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2610 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2611 Notification from John Horne.
2613 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2616 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2617 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2620 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2623 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2624 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2625 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2627 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2628 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2629 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2632 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2633 option (effectively making it always true).
2635 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2636 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2638 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2639 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2641 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2642 run-time user, instead of root.
2644 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2645 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2647 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2648 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2651 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2652 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2653 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2655 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2657 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2663 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2664 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2667 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2668 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2671 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2672 Patch from Alain Williams
2674 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2676 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2677 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2679 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2680 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2682 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2684 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2686 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2687 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2689 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2691 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2693 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2694 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2695 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2697 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2698 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2700 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2701 Patch by Simon Arlott
2703 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2704 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2710 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2712 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2714 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2716 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2718 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2724 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2725 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2727 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2728 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2731 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2732 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2733 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2735 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2736 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2738 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2739 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2740 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2741 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2743 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2744 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2745 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2747 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2749 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2751 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2752 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2754 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2756 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2757 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2758 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2759 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2761 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2762 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2764 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2766 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2768 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2769 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2771 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2772 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2774 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2775 that they are available at delivery time.
2777 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2779 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2780 incoming_port log selectors.
2782 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2783 setting expands to an empty string.
2785 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2786 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2788 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2789 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2791 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2792 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2794 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2795 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2797 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2798 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2800 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2801 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2803 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2805 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2806 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2808 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2809 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2811 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2813 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2814 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2816 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2818 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2820 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2823 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2824 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2826 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2827 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2829 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2830 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2832 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2833 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2835 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2836 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2838 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2839 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2841 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2842 plus update to original patch.
2844 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2846 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2847 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2849 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2851 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2853 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2855 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2857 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2858 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2860 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2861 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2863 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2864 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2866 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2867 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2869 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2871 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2873 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2875 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2881 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2882 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2883 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2885 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2886 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2887 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2888 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2889 build errors in sieve.c.
2891 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2892 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2893 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2895 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2897 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2899 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2901 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2907 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2909 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2910 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2911 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2912 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2913 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2914 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2915 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2916 for iplsearch lookups.
2918 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2919 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2920 previously such lookups could never work.
2922 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2923 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2924 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2926 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2929 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2930 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2931 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2932 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2933 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2934 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2936 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2937 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2939 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2940 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2941 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2942 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2943 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2944 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2946 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2949 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2951 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2952 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2955 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2956 by clients under certain conditions.
2958 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2959 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2961 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2963 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2964 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2966 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2968 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2970 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2972 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2973 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2975 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2977 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2978 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2980 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2982 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2984 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2985 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2986 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2987 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2989 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2990 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2991 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2993 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2994 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2996 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2998 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3000 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3002 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3003 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3004 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3010 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3011 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3014 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3015 issue a MAIL command.
3017 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3019 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3021 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3022 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3023 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3024 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3025 item. This has been fixed.
3027 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3028 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3030 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3031 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3033 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3034 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3035 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3037 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3039 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3040 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3041 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3042 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3043 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3045 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3046 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3047 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3049 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3050 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3051 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3052 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3054 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3056 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3058 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3059 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3060 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3061 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3062 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3064 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3066 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3067 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3068 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3071 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3073 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3075 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3077 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3079 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3081 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3082 no_callout_flush is set.
3084 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3085 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3086 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3089 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3091 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3092 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3093 other ACL rejections are.
3095 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3096 with slight modification.
3098 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3099 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3101 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3102 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3105 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3106 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3108 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3110 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3111 expansion side effects.
3113 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3114 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3115 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3118 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3119 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3120 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3122 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3123 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3124 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3125 were accidentally chopped off.
3127 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3128 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3129 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3130 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3131 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3132 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3133 pipelining has not been advertised.
3135 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3137 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3138 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3139 This has been fixed.
3141 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3142 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3143 reported on Solaris.
3145 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3146 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3147 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3148 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3149 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3150 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3151 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3153 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3156 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3158 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3160 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3161 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3162 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3163 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3164 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3165 criteria to be more general.
3167 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3168 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3169 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3170 host_all_ignored option.
3172 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3173 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3174 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3175 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3176 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3177 is what is supposed to happen).
3179 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3180 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3181 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3182 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3183 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3186 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3187 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3188 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3189 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3190 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3191 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3194 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3196 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3197 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3199 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3200 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3202 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3204 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3206 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3207 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3208 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3209 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3210 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3211 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3212 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3213 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3214 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3215 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3216 least in a lot of common cases.
3218 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3219 advertised in response to EHLO.
3225 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3226 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3228 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3229 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3231 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3232 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3233 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3235 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3236 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3237 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3238 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3239 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3245 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3246 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3249 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3250 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3251 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3253 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3254 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3255 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3256 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3257 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3258 rather than extend the field.
3264 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3265 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3266 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3267 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3270 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3271 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3272 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3274 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3275 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3276 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3278 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3279 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3280 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3283 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3284 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3285 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3286 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3287 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3288 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3289 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3290 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3291 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3292 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3293 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3295 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3298 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3299 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3300 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3301 ignores EPIPE as well.
3303 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3304 (quoted-printable decoding).
3306 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3307 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3309 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3311 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3313 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3315 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3316 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3318 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3321 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3322 miscellaneous code fixes
3324 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3327 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3328 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3329 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3330 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3331 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3332 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3333 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3334 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3336 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3337 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3338 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3339 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3341 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3342 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3343 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3344 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3345 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3346 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3347 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3348 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3349 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3351 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3354 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3355 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3356 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3357 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3358 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3359 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3360 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3361 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3363 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3364 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3367 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3368 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3369 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3370 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3371 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3372 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3373 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3374 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3375 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3376 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3377 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3378 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3379 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3381 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3382 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3383 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3384 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3385 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3386 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3387 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3389 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3390 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3391 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3392 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3393 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3394 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3395 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3396 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3397 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3398 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3400 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3401 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3402 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3403 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3404 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3406 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3407 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3408 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3409 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3410 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3411 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3412 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3414 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3415 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3416 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3417 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3418 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3419 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3422 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3423 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3424 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3427 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3428 if any retry times were supplied.
3430 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3431 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3432 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3434 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3436 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3438 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3439 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3440 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3441 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3442 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3443 before) are ignored.
3445 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3446 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3448 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3449 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3450 committing the later change.]
3452 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3453 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3454 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3455 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3456 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3457 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3458 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3459 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3460 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3462 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3463 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3464 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3465 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3466 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3467 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3468 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3469 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3470 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3472 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3473 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3474 hammering the server.
3476 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3477 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3479 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3481 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3482 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3483 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3485 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3486 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3487 one case where this was not true.
3489 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3490 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3491 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3492 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3495 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3496 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3497 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3498 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3499 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3500 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3501 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3502 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3503 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3506 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3507 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3508 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3509 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3511 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3512 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3514 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3515 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3516 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3518 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3520 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3522 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3524 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3525 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3526 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3527 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3529 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3530 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3532 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3533 be meaningful with "accept".
3535 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3536 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3538 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3539 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3540 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3542 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3543 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3544 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3545 there is data to show.
3546 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3548 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3549 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3550 as well as the number of messages.
3552 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3553 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3554 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3556 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3557 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3558 have a flag are now skipped.
3560 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3561 Added the -emptyok flag.
3563 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3564 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3566 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3567 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3568 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3570 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3573 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3574 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3576 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3578 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3579 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3581 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3583 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3584 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3585 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3586 contravention of the specifications.
3588 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3589 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3590 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3592 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3593 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3594 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3596 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3598 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3599 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3600 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3601 some point in the past.
3603 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3604 transport during callout processing was broken.
3606 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3607 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3609 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3610 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3612 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3613 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3615 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3621 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3622 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3624 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3625 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3626 there is data to show.
3627 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3629 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3630 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3632 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3633 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3635 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3636 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3638 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3639 submissions from trusted users.
3641 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3642 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3644 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3645 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3646 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3647 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3648 there is now a framework to start from.
3650 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3651 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3652 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3654 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3656 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3658 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3660 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3661 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3662 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3664 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3667 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3668 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3669 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3671 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3672 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3673 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3676 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3677 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3678 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3679 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3680 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3682 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3683 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3685 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3687 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3688 operations in malware.c.
3690 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3693 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3694 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3695 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3698 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3699 statements to "add_header".
3701 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3702 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3704 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3705 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3708 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3712 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3713 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3714 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3717 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3718 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3720 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3721 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3723 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3724 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3725 any possible encoding problems.
3727 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3728 but not after initializing Perl.
3730 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3731 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3732 apparently, which is not desirable.
3734 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3737 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3740 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3742 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3743 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3744 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3745 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3747 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3748 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3749 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3751 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3752 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3753 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3756 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3757 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3758 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3759 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3760 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3766 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3767 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3769 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3772 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3773 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3774 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3775 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3776 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3777 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3778 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3779 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3782 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3784 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3785 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3786 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3788 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3789 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3790 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3793 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3794 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3796 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3797 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3798 option (which defaults to 0600).
3800 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3802 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3803 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3804 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3805 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3806 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3807 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3808 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3810 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3816 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3817 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3818 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3819 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3820 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3821 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3824 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3825 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3827 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3829 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3830 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3831 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3832 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3833 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3836 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3837 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3839 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3840 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3841 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3842 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3843 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3845 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3846 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3847 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3848 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3850 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3851 be the same on different OS.
3853 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3856 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3857 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3859 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3862 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3863 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3864 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3865 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3866 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3867 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3870 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3871 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3872 when Exim was called.
3874 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3875 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3877 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3878 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3879 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3880 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3882 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3883 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3884 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3885 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3888 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3889 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3890 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3892 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3893 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3894 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3896 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3899 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3900 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3901 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3902 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3903 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3904 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3905 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3906 values from the SRV records were lost.
3908 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3909 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3910 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3912 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3913 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3914 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3916 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3917 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3918 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3919 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3920 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3921 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3922 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3923 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3924 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3925 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3927 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3928 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3929 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3931 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3932 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3934 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3935 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3936 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3937 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3940 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3941 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3942 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3944 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3945 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3946 PH/23 above applies.
3948 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3949 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3950 (for which there is an explicit test).
3952 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3954 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3955 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3956 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3957 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3958 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3960 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3961 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3962 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3963 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3965 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3966 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3967 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3969 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3971 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3973 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3974 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3975 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3977 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3978 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3979 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3980 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3981 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3983 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3984 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3985 the message gets confusing).
3987 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3988 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3989 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3990 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3992 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3993 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3994 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3995 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3998 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3999 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4000 the different processes.
4002 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4004 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4006 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4007 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4009 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4010 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4012 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4013 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4014 messages matching specified criteria.
4016 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4018 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4019 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4021 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4022 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4023 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4024 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4025 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4026 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4027 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4028 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4029 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4030 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4032 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4033 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4034 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4036 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4038 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4039 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4040 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4041 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4042 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4043 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4044 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4047 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4048 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4050 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4052 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4054 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4056 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4057 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4058 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4059 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4060 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4061 size of the count of files.
4063 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4065 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4068 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4069 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4070 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4071 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4073 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4074 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4075 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4077 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4078 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4079 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4080 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4081 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4083 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4084 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4086 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4087 will now be deprecated.
4089 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4091 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4092 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4093 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4095 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4096 with very large, slow to parse queues
4098 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4100 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4102 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4103 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4104 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4107 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4108 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4109 Sieve code now uses this.
4111 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4112 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4114 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4115 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4117 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4119 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4120 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4121 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4122 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4123 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4125 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4126 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4127 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4128 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4130 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4132 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4134 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4135 is preferred over IPv4.
4137 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4138 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4139 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4140 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4141 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4142 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4143 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4145 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4146 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4147 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4149 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4151 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4152 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4153 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4154 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4155 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4156 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4157 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4158 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4159 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4160 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4161 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4163 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4164 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4165 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4171 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4173 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4174 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4176 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4177 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4178 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4180 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4182 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4185 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4188 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4189 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4190 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4193 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4194 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4196 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4197 inside the third argument.
4199 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4200 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4203 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4204 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4206 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4207 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4209 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4211 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4212 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4215 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4217 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4218 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4219 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4220 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4221 identical. For example:
4223 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4225 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4226 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4227 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4229 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4230 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4231 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4232 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4234 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4235 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4236 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4239 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4241 o fixes some comments
4242 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4243 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4244 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4245 and documents the missing references header update
4249 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4250 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4253 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4254 Electronic Mail") by including:
4256 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4258 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4259 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4260 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4261 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4262 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4264 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4266 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4268 The auto-replied keyword:
4270 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4271 message by an automatic process,
4273 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4275 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4276 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4278 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4279 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4282 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4283 to the default Received: header definition.
4285 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4287 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4288 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4289 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4291 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4292 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4293 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4295 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4296 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4297 and treats the condition as false.
4299 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4301 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4302 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4303 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4304 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4305 not changing the active code.
4307 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4308 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4310 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4311 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4313 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4316 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4317 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4318 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4319 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4320 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4321 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4322 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4323 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4324 the text comparison.
4326 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4327 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4328 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4329 The same fix has been applied.
4335 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4336 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4339 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4340 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4342 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4344 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4345 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4346 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4347 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4348 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4350 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4351 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4352 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4353 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4356 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4364 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4365 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4367 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4369 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4371 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4372 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4373 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4375 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4376 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4377 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4379 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4380 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4383 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4384 ${stat: expansion item.
4386 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4387 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4389 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4390 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4393 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4395 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4398 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4399 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4401 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4403 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4404 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4405 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4406 the end of the subprocess.
4408 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4409 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4410 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4411 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4412 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4414 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4416 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4418 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4419 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4421 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4423 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4425 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4426 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4429 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4431 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4432 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4433 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4435 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4436 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4438 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4439 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4441 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4442 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4444 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4445 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4447 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4448 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4449 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4450 contributed by a Radius user.
4452 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4453 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4455 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4456 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4458 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4461 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4462 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4465 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4466 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4467 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4468 header lines when this was not necessary.
4470 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4472 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4473 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4474 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4477 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4480 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4481 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4482 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4483 return code was incorrect.
4485 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4487 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4489 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4491 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4493 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4494 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4495 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4496 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4497 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4500 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4502 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4503 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4504 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4505 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4506 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4507 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4508 which is clearly wrong.
4510 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4512 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4513 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4514 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4517 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4518 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4520 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4522 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4523 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4525 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4526 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4528 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4529 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4531 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4532 recipients, not senders.
4534 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4535 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4537 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4539 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4541 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4542 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4543 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4544 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4546 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4548 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4549 clock is set back in time.
4551 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4552 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4554 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4555 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4557 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4558 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4561 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4562 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4565 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4568 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4570 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4571 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4572 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4574 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4575 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4576 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4577 helo verification defer as a failure.
4579 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4580 actual error message.
4586 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4588 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4589 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4590 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4591 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4593 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4595 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4596 can still be requested.
4598 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4599 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4600 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4601 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4603 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4604 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4605 circumstances, but probably never did.
4607 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4608 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4609 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4612 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4614 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4615 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4617 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4619 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4621 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4622 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4623 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4624 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4625 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4626 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4628 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4629 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4630 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4631 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4632 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4633 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4635 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4636 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4638 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4639 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4641 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4642 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4644 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4646 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4648 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4650 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4652 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4654 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4656 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4658 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4659 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4660 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4662 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4663 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4664 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4665 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4667 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4668 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4669 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4671 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4672 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4673 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4674 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4676 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4677 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4680 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4681 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4682 should work with maildirs and everything.
4684 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4685 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4687 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4690 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4691 function for BDB 4.3.
4693 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4695 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4696 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4699 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4700 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4701 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4702 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4703 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4704 formatting function string_vformat().
4706 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4707 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4708 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4709 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4710 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4711 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4712 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4713 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4715 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4716 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4719 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4720 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4722 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4723 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4724 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4725 test. It is now used for both.
4727 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4728 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4729 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4730 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4731 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4732 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4734 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4735 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4736 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4739 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4740 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4741 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4743 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4744 experimental DomainKeys support:
4746 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4747 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4748 the control was given.
4750 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4752 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4754 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4756 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4757 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4758 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4761 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4762 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4763 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4764 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4765 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4766 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4769 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4770 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4771 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4772 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4773 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4774 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4776 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4777 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4778 do -d+all out of habit.
4780 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4781 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4784 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4785 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4786 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4787 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4788 record types that Exim uses.
4790 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4791 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4792 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4793 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4794 non-existent file that was broken.
4796 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4797 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4799 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4800 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4801 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4803 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4805 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4806 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4807 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4808 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4809 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4812 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4813 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4814 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4815 at a slight CPU cost.
4817 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4818 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4820 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4823 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4825 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4826 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4832 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4833 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4835 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4837 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4839 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4840 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4842 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4843 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4844 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4845 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4846 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4847 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4850 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4851 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4852 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4853 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4856 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4857 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4858 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4859 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4860 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4861 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4862 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4865 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4866 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4868 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4869 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4870 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4871 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4872 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4873 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4875 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4876 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4877 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4878 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4880 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4883 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4884 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4886 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4887 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4888 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4889 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4892 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4894 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4895 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4897 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4898 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4899 to what was transported.)
4901 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4903 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4904 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4905 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4906 spamd_address settings.
4908 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4909 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4910 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4911 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4912 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4914 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4916 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4917 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4918 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4919 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4920 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4922 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4923 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4925 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4926 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4927 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4928 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4929 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4930 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4931 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4934 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4935 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4936 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4937 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4938 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4939 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4940 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4943 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4945 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4946 driver and ACL definitions.
4948 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4949 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4951 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4952 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4953 understands it better than I do:
4955 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4956 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4958 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4959 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4960 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4961 => three warnings about OTP not working
4962 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4964 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4965 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4966 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4967 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4969 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4970 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4972 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4973 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4974 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4976 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4977 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4980 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4981 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4984 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4985 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4986 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4988 warn !verify = sender
4989 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4991 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4992 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4994 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4996 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4997 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4999 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5000 nomenclature these days.)
5002 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5003 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5005 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5006 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5007 . First host does not offer TLS;
5008 . First host accepts first address;
5009 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5010 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5011 . Second host accepts second address.
5012 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5013 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5016 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5017 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5018 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5019 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5020 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5022 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5023 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5025 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5026 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5028 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5029 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5030 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5032 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5033 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5036 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5038 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5039 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5040 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5041 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5042 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5043 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5044 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5046 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5047 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5048 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5049 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5050 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5052 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5053 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5056 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5057 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5058 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5059 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5060 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5061 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5063 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5065 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5066 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5067 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5068 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5069 printable escape sequences.
5071 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5072 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5075 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5076 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5079 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5080 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5081 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5082 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5083 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5085 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5086 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5087 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5089 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5091 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5092 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5095 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5096 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5097 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5098 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5099 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5100 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5101 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5102 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5103 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5106 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5107 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5108 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5109 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5113 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5114 ----------------------------------------
5116 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5117 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5118 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5119 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5120 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5121 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5124 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5125 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5126 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5127 historical information.
5133 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5135 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5136 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5138 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5139 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5142 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5143 filter fails to execute.
5145 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5146 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5147 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5148 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5149 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5151 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5153 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5154 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5155 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5156 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5158 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5159 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5160 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5161 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5162 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5164 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5166 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5168 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5169 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5170 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5171 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5173 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5174 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5175 sender verification.
5177 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5178 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5180 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5182 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5185 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5186 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5188 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5189 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5191 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5192 information about exactly what failed.
5194 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5196 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5197 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5198 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5200 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5201 It is now set to "smtps".
5203 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5204 ignore_target_hosts.
5206 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5207 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5208 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5209 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5212 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5213 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5214 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5216 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5217 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5218 wake it up if nothing else does.
5220 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5221 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5222 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5225 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5226 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5228 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5230 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5231 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5232 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5233 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5234 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5235 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5236 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5237 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5239 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5240 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5241 than one IP address.
5243 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5244 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5245 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5246 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5248 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5249 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5250 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5251 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5252 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5255 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5256 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5257 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5258 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5260 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5261 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5264 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5265 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5266 $sender_host_address.
5268 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5269 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5270 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5271 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5272 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5275 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5277 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5278 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5280 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5281 just the host names, not the priorities.
5283 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5284 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5285 controlled by a keyword.
5287 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5288 multiple records are returned.
5290 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5291 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5294 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5296 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5297 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5299 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5300 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5301 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5303 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5305 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5307 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5309 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5310 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5311 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5312 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5313 because the tests only now provoked it.
5315 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5316 (this can affect the format of dates).
5318 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5319 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5320 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5321 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5323 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5325 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5326 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5327 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5328 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5330 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5331 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5332 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5334 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5337 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5338 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5339 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5340 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5341 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5342 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5345 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5346 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5347 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5350 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5351 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5352 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5354 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5355 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5356 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5357 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5358 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5359 so I produce this patch..."
5361 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5362 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5365 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5366 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5367 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5368 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5371 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5373 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5374 long debug lines gets shown.
5376 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5377 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5379 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5381 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5382 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5383 of $primary_hostname.
5385 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5386 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5387 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5388 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5389 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5390 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5391 by change 4.50/55 above.
5393 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5394 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5395 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5396 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5397 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5398 running as the user.
5401 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5402 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5403 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5406 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5407 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5409 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5410 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5411 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5412 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5413 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5415 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5416 This has been fixed.
5418 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5419 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5420 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5421 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5424 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5426 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5427 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5428 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5429 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5431 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5432 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5434 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5435 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5436 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5438 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5439 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5440 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5443 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5444 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5445 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5447 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5448 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5449 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5450 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5452 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5453 during host lookups.
5455 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5456 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5458 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5460 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5461 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5462 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5463 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5464 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5467 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5468 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5470 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5471 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5472 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5474 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5476 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5477 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5478 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5479 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5480 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5481 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5484 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5485 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5486 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5487 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5488 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5490 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5493 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5495 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5496 "vacation" handling.
5498 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5499 OS variants using glibc.
5501 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5504 ----------------------------------------------------
5505 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5506 ----------------------------------------------------
5512 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5513 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5516 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5517 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5520 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5521 filter fails to execute.
5523 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5524 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5525 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5526 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5527 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5529 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5530 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5531 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5532 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5534 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5535 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5536 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5537 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5538 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5540 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5542 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5543 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5544 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5545 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5547 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5548 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5549 sender verification.
5551 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5552 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5554 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5555 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5557 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5558 ignore_target_hosts.
5560 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5561 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5562 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5563 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5566 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5567 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5568 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5570 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5571 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5572 wake it up if nothing else does.
5574 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5575 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5576 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5579 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5580 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5582 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5584 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5585 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5588 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5589 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5592 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5593 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5594 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5595 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5596 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5599 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5600 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5603 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5604 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5605 $sender_host_address.
5607 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5609 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5610 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5611 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5613 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5616 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5617 (this can affect the format of dates).
5619 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5620 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5621 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5622 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5624 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5625 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5626 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5628 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5629 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5630 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5631 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5633 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5634 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5635 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5637 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5640 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5641 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5642 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5643 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5644 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5645 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5648 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5649 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5650 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5651 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5654 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5655 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5656 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5657 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5658 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5659 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5660 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5662 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5663 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5664 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5665 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5666 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5667 running as the user.
5670 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5671 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5672 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5675 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5676 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5677 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5678 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5679 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5681 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5682 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5683 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5684 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5687 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5688 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5689 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5690 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5691 because the tests only now provoked it.
5697 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5698 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5699 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5700 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5701 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5702 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5703 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5705 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5706 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5709 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5711 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5713 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5714 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5717 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5718 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5719 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5720 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5721 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5723 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5724 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5726 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5728 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5730 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5733 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5734 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5736 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5737 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5738 affecting debugging statements).
5740 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5742 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5743 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5744 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5745 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5746 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5747 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5748 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5749 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5750 after the received time, and all would be well.
5752 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5753 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5754 condition in an expansion string.
5756 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5758 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5759 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5760 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5761 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5762 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5763 job under whatever limits there are.
5765 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5767 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5770 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5771 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5772 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5773 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5776 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5777 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5778 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5779 binary data in such strings.
5781 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5783 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5784 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5785 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5786 failure, which is pointless.
5788 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5790 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5792 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5793 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5794 Sender: header lines.
5796 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5797 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5798 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5800 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5801 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5802 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5803 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5804 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5807 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5808 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5809 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5810 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5811 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5813 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5814 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5815 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5818 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5819 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5821 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5822 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5824 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5826 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5828 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5830 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5833 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5835 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5837 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5838 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5839 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5840 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5842 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5843 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5849 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5850 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5851 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5853 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5854 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5855 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5856 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5857 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5858 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5860 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5861 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5862 verification failure".
5864 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5865 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5866 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5867 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5869 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5870 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5871 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5872 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5873 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5874 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5875 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5876 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5877 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5878 treated as a timeout.
5880 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5881 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5882 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5883 not set for Exim filters).
5885 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5886 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5887 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5889 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5891 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5892 try to make them clearer.
5894 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5895 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5897 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5899 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5901 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5902 only the Cygwin environment.
5904 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5905 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5906 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5907 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5908 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5910 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5911 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5912 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5913 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5914 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5915 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5916 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5918 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5919 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5921 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5923 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5924 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5925 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5927 To: susanne@some.where
5929 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5930 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5931 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5932 of addresses in From: header lines).
5934 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5935 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5936 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5938 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5939 treated as non-personal.
5941 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5942 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5944 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5946 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5948 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5949 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5950 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5952 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5953 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5955 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5956 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5957 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5958 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5959 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5960 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5962 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5963 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5964 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5965 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5966 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5967 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5968 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5969 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5971 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5973 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5974 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5976 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5977 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5978 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5980 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5981 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5983 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5984 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5985 rather than long int.
5987 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5989 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5995 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5996 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5997 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5998 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5999 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6000 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6006 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6007 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6009 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6010 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6011 socklen_t is defined.
6013 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6016 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6019 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6020 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6021 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6022 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6023 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6025 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6026 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6027 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6028 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6030 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6031 of flapping under certain conditions.
6033 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6034 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6035 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6037 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6039 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6041 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6042 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6043 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6044 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6046 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6047 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6048 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6049 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6050 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6051 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6052 preserved with the message after it was received.
6054 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6055 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6056 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6057 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6058 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6059 test suite worked just fine.
6061 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6062 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6063 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6065 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6066 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6069 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6070 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6071 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6072 does not fully solve it.
6074 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6075 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6076 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6077 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6078 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6080 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6081 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6082 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6084 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6085 string, for example:
6087 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6089 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6090 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6091 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6092 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6093 the routers could not see them.
6095 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6096 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6098 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6099 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6102 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6103 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6104 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6105 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6106 that needed quoting.
6108 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6109 was not being matched caselessly.
6111 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6114 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6115 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6116 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6117 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6118 when use_sender is false.
6120 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6122 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6124 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6126 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6127 the configuration file.
6129 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6130 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6132 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6134 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6135 bytes in the message body.
6137 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6138 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6141 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6143 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6145 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6146 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6147 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6148 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6155 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6156 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6158 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6159 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6160 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6161 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6162 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6164 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6165 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6167 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6168 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6169 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6171 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6172 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6173 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6175 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6178 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6179 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6180 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6181 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6182 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6183 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6184 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6190 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6191 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6192 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6193 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6194 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6195 default (and expected) setting.
6197 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6198 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6199 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6200 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6202 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6203 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6205 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6208 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6209 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6210 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6211 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6212 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6213 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6215 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6216 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6217 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6219 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6220 part (NOT match_host).
6222 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6224 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6225 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6226 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6227 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6228 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6229 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6230 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6231 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6232 the same named file.
6234 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6235 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6238 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6239 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6240 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6241 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6244 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6245 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6246 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6248 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6250 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6252 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6254 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6255 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6257 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6258 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6259 before starting the TLS session.
6261 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6263 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6264 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6266 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6267 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6268 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6269 colon in the middle).
6275 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6276 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6277 multiple configurations are in use.
6279 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6280 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6281 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6282 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6283 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6284 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6286 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6287 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6289 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6290 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6291 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6293 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6294 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6297 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6298 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6300 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6302 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6303 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6305 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6313 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6314 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6315 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6316 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6317 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6319 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6322 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6323 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6324 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6325 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6326 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6327 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6329 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6330 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6331 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6332 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6333 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6334 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6335 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6338 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6339 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6340 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6341 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6342 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6344 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6346 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6347 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6348 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6350 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6352 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6353 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6354 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6357 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6358 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6360 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6361 Three changes have been made:
6363 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6364 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6365 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6366 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6367 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6369 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6372 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6373 the modified behaviour.
6379 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6382 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6383 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6385 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6386 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6387 try to track down a specific problem.
6389 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6390 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6391 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6393 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6396 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6397 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6398 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6399 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6400 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6401 some earlier ones do not.
6403 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6405 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6406 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6407 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6408 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6409 address literals are enabled, of course).
6411 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6413 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6414 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6415 by a command such as
6419 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6421 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6423 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6424 remained set. It is now erased.
6426 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6427 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6429 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6430 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6431 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6432 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6433 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6434 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6435 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6436 appropriate error code.
6438 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6439 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6440 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6441 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6442 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6443 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6445 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6446 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6447 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6449 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6450 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6451 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6452 terminate the header.
6454 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6455 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6456 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6458 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6459 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6460 (4.30/29). In particular:
6462 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6465 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6466 to write a maildirsize file.
6468 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6469 the transport, the new value overrides.
6471 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6474 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6475 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6476 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6479 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6480 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6481 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6484 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6485 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6486 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6488 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6489 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6492 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6493 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6494 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6496 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6498 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6500 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6502 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6503 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6506 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6507 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6508 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6509 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6510 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6511 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6512 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6515 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6516 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6517 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6518 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6519 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6522 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6523 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6524 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6525 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6526 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6527 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6528 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6529 cached value only when the same options are set.
6531 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6533 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6534 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6535 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6536 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6537 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6539 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6540 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6541 it is clearly obsolete.
6543 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6546 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6547 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6548 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6551 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6552 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6553 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6554 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6555 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6557 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6558 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6559 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6560 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6562 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6564 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6566 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6567 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6570 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6571 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6572 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6573 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6574 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6575 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6578 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6579 with the -f command-line option.
6581 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6582 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6583 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6584 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6585 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6586 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6588 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6589 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6592 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6593 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6594 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6595 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6596 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6597 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6598 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6599 buffer is too small.
6601 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6602 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6604 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6605 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6606 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6607 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6608 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6609 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6610 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6611 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6612 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6614 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6615 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6616 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6618 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6619 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6622 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6623 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6624 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6625 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6626 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6628 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6629 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6630 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6631 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6634 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6636 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6638 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6639 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6641 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6642 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6643 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6645 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6646 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6647 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6648 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6649 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6651 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6652 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6653 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6654 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6655 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6656 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6657 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6659 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6660 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6661 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6662 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6663 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6664 the test of how many are available.
6666 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6667 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6668 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6669 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6670 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6671 new message is started.
6673 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6674 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6676 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6677 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6679 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6680 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6681 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6684 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6685 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6686 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6687 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6688 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6689 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6690 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6692 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6693 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6694 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6695 interpreted as octal.
6697 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6700 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6701 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6702 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6703 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6704 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6705 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6707 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6708 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6709 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6710 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6712 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6713 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6714 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6715 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6717 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6718 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6721 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6722 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6724 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6726 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6727 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6728 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6729 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6731 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6732 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6733 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6734 supplied", which is not helpful.
6736 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6737 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6738 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6740 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6741 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6742 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6743 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6744 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6745 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6746 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6747 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6749 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6750 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6751 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6752 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6753 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6755 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6756 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6757 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6758 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6759 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6760 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6762 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6763 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6764 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6766 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6768 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6769 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6770 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6773 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6775 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6776 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6777 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6778 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6779 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6780 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6781 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6782 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6784 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6785 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6786 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6787 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6788 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6790 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6793 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6794 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6795 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6796 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6797 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6798 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6799 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6800 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6801 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6807 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6808 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6809 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6811 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6814 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6815 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6816 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6818 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6819 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6820 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6821 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6822 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6823 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6825 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6826 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6827 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6828 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6829 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6830 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6831 the Exim test suite.
6833 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6834 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6835 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6836 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6838 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6839 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6840 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6841 specify it in this variable.
6843 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6844 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6845 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6846 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6848 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6849 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6850 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6851 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6853 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6854 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6855 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6856 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6857 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6859 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6861 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6864 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6865 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6866 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6867 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6868 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6870 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6871 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6873 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6874 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6875 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6876 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6877 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6879 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6880 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6882 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6883 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6884 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6886 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6887 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6889 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6890 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6892 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6893 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6894 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6896 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6897 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6899 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6900 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6901 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6902 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6904 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6906 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6907 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6908 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6909 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6911 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6913 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6914 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6916 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6918 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6919 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6920 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6921 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6922 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6923 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6925 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6927 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6928 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6931 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6933 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6934 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6936 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6937 550 Sender verify failed
6939 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6940 the final line of the response.
6942 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6943 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6944 all other user lookups.
6946 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6949 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6950 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6951 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6952 result into an int without checking.
6954 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6955 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6956 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6958 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6959 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6960 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6961 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6963 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6966 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6967 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6969 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6970 to the empty sender.
6972 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6973 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6974 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6975 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6976 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6977 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6978 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6981 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6982 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6983 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6984 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6987 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6988 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6990 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6993 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6994 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6996 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6998 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6999 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7002 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7003 as soon as it is encountered.
7005 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7007 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7010 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7011 recognizes a tab character.
7013 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7014 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7015 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7016 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7018 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7020 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7023 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7025 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7027 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7028 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7031 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7032 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7033 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7034 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7035 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7037 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7038 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7040 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7041 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7042 list (.included file names were always shown).
7044 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7045 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7046 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7049 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7050 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7052 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7054 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7056 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7058 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7059 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7060 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7061 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7062 failures to open the logs.
7064 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7065 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7066 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7067 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7068 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7069 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7070 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7076 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7077 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7078 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7081 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7082 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7083 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7085 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7086 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7087 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7089 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7090 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7091 causing some misleading effects.
7093 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7094 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7095 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7097 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7098 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7099 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7100 queue-runner function directly.
7106 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7109 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7110 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7111 was always written to the default place.
7113 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7114 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7115 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7117 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7119 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7121 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7122 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7123 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7125 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7126 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7129 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7130 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7131 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7133 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7134 command line option is disabled.
7136 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7137 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7139 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7141 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7143 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7144 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7146 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7148 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7149 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7150 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7151 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7152 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7153 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7155 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7156 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7159 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7160 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7162 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7163 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7165 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7166 received was valid base64.
7168 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7169 name of the variable that was being set.
7171 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7173 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7174 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7175 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7176 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7177 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7178 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7180 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7182 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7183 nor realm was specified.
7185 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7186 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7187 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7188 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7190 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7191 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7192 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7194 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7195 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7196 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7198 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7199 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7200 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7201 some systems use these upper case variants.
7203 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7204 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7205 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7206 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7208 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7210 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7211 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7213 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7214 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7217 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7219 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7220 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7221 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7222 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7224 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7227 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7228 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7229 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7231 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7232 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7234 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7235 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7236 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7237 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7239 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7240 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7241 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7243 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7245 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7246 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7247 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7248 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7251 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7252 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7253 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7255 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7257 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7258 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7260 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7261 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7263 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7264 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7265 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7266 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7267 when emails are that large.
7274 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7275 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7277 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7278 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7279 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7281 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7282 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7283 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7285 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7286 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7287 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7288 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7289 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7291 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7292 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7293 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7294 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7295 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7298 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7299 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7300 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7301 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7302 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7303 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7304 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7305 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7306 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7307 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7308 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7309 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7310 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7311 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7313 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7314 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7317 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7318 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7319 error should be diagnosed.
7321 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7322 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7323 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7324 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7325 appeared instead of "NULL".
7327 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7328 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7329 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7330 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7331 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7332 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7335 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7336 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7337 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7343 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7344 or receiver verification errors.
7346 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7349 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7350 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7351 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7352 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7354 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7355 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7356 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7357 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7358 shouldn't happen again.
7360 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7361 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7362 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7364 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7365 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7367 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7369 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7370 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7372 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7373 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7376 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7377 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7378 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7380 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7381 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7382 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7383 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7385 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7386 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7387 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7388 to define what should happen).
7390 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7391 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7392 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7394 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7396 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7398 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7399 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7401 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7402 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7403 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7404 structure in all cases.
7406 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7407 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7408 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7409 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7411 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7412 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7415 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7416 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7418 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7419 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7421 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7422 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7423 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7425 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7426 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7427 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7429 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7430 the book and for uniformity.
7432 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7434 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7435 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7436 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7437 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7438 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7439 non-existent command as the problem.
7441 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7442 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7443 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7445 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7447 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7448 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7449 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7451 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7452 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7453 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7454 timestamps using strftime().
7456 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7457 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7459 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7460 transport-time rewrites.
7462 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7463 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7464 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7465 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7467 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7468 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7470 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7471 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7472 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7473 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7476 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7477 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7478 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7479 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7480 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7481 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7482 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7484 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7485 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7486 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7487 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7488 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7490 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7491 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7492 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7493 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7494 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7495 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7496 remaining text gets split now.
7498 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7499 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7500 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7501 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7503 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7504 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7505 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7506 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7509 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7510 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7511 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7512 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7513 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7514 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7515 passed through if needed.
7517 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7518 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7519 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7520 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7521 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7522 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7524 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7525 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7526 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7527 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7528 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7530 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7531 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7532 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7533 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7534 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7536 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7537 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7540 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7541 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7542 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7543 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7544 mayhem of various kinds.
7546 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7547 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7548 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7549 the right test for positive values.
7551 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7552 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7553 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7554 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7555 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7556 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7557 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7558 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7559 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7560 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7563 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7566 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7567 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7570 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7571 the existing equality matching.
7573 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7574 dealing with inode numbers.
7576 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7577 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7578 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7580 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7581 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7582 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7583 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7586 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7587 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7588 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7589 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7590 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7591 relay addresses has also been removed.
7593 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7595 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7596 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7597 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7599 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7600 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7601 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7602 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7603 processing applies to CR:
7605 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7606 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7608 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7609 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7610 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7611 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7613 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7614 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7615 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7617 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7618 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7619 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7620 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7621 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7622 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7625 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7628 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7629 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7630 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7631 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7634 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7636 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7638 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7640 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7641 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7642 not considered personal.
7644 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7646 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7648 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7650 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7651 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7652 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7653 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7654 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7655 header lines, and spool format errors.
7657 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7658 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7659 for more flexibility.
7661 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7662 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7663 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7665 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7668 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7669 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7670 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7671 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7672 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7673 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7674 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7675 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7676 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7678 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7679 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7680 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7681 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7682 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7683 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7684 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7686 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7687 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7688 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7690 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7691 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7692 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7693 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7694 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7695 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7696 instead of killing the process with assert().
7698 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7699 than Unicode encoding.
7701 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7702 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7703 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7704 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7706 77. Added process_log_path.
7708 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7709 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7711 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7712 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7714 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7715 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7716 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7718 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7719 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7720 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7721 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7722 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7725 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7726 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7729 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7730 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7731 they will be used during message reception.
7737 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.