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.
31 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
32 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
34 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
35 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
38 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
41 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
43 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
45 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
46 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
48 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
49 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
50 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
51 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
52 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
55 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
56 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
58 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
59 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
62 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
63 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
65 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
66 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
67 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
68 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
71 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
72 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
73 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
75 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
78 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
79 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
81 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
82 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
83 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
84 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
87 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
88 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
89 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
90 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
93 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
94 shared (NFS) environment.
96 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
97 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
100 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
101 on some platforms for bit 31.
103 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
104 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
105 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
106 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
107 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
108 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
109 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
110 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
112 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
114 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
115 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
117 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
118 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
121 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
122 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
125 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
126 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
127 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
130 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
131 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
132 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
134 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
135 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
136 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
137 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
138 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
140 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
143 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
144 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
145 be requested on all coneections.
147 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
148 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
150 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
152 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
153 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
154 one for these; the option was ignored.
156 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
157 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
158 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
159 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
161 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
162 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
163 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
166 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
167 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
168 error ignored was made.
170 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
172 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
173 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
174 values, to catch one form of exploit.
176 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
177 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
178 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
180 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
181 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
184 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
185 them in our smtp response.
187 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
188 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
189 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
190 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
191 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
193 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
194 link count into consideration.
196 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
197 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
199 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
200 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
201 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
204 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
206 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
208 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
210 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
211 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
212 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
213 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
215 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
217 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
218 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
221 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
222 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
223 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
225 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
226 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
227 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
229 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
230 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
231 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
232 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
233 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
234 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
235 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
236 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
238 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
239 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
240 resulted in an indefinite loop.
242 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
243 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
244 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
250 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
251 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
253 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
254 non-signal-safe functions being used.
256 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
257 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
258 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
260 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
261 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
262 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
264 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
265 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
266 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
267 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
268 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
271 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
272 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
274 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
275 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
276 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
277 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
278 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
279 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
280 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
282 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
283 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
285 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
288 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
289 Previously this would segfault.
291 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
294 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
295 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
296 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
297 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
298 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
299 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
301 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
303 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
304 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
305 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
306 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
308 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
310 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
311 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
312 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
313 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
315 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
317 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
319 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
320 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
321 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
323 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
324 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
325 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
327 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
329 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
330 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
331 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
332 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
334 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
335 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
336 promised '?' replacement.
338 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
340 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
341 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
342 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
343 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
344 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
346 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
347 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
348 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
350 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
351 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
352 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
354 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
355 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
356 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
358 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
359 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
360 hope that is portable enough.
362 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
363 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
364 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
365 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
367 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
368 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
369 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
371 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
372 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
373 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
374 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
376 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
377 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
379 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
380 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
381 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
382 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
384 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
385 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
386 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
388 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
389 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
390 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
391 the previous G, M, k.
393 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
394 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
397 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
398 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
399 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
400 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
402 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
403 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
405 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
406 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
407 off past the nul-terimation.
409 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
410 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
411 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
412 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
413 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
415 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
417 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
418 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
419 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
422 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
423 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
425 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
426 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
427 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
429 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
430 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
431 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
433 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
434 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
440 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
441 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
442 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
443 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
444 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
445 be defined in redis_servers.
447 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
448 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
450 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
451 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
452 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
453 extant use locations.
455 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
456 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
458 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
459 Previously only the last row was returned.
461 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
462 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
463 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
464 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
467 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
468 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
469 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
470 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
471 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
472 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
473 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
474 Main pool for expansions.
475 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
476 active in the testsuite.
477 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
479 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
480 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
481 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
482 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
485 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
486 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
489 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
490 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
491 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
493 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
494 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
495 ClamAV interface method is removed.
497 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
498 rows affected is given instead).
500 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
501 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
503 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
504 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
505 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
506 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
507 for all multi-message initiating connections.
509 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
510 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
511 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
513 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
514 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
515 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
516 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
519 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
520 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
521 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
524 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
526 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
527 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
529 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
530 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
531 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
533 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
534 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
535 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
538 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
539 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
541 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
542 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
543 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
545 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
546 for the build is renamed.
548 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
549 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
550 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
552 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
553 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
554 result replacing the original.
556 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
557 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
558 and the resources needed to be freed.
560 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
562 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
565 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
566 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
567 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
568 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
570 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
571 length value. Previously this would segfault.
573 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
574 newer versions of the scanner.
576 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
577 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
578 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
579 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
580 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
581 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
582 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
584 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
585 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
586 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
587 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
588 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
589 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
590 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
591 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
592 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
593 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
595 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
596 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
598 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
600 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
601 allows proper process termination in container environments.
603 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
604 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
606 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
607 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
608 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
610 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
611 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
612 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
613 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
615 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
616 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
619 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
620 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
622 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
623 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
624 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
625 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
626 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
628 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
629 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
632 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
633 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
635 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
638 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
639 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
640 "bare" representation.
642 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
643 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
644 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
645 corrupted the output.
651 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
652 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
653 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
654 pairs of long lines into single ones.
656 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
657 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
659 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
660 This permits better logging.
662 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
663 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
664 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
665 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
666 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
667 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
669 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
670 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
673 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
674 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
675 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
677 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
678 than 255 are no longer allowed.
680 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
681 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
682 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
683 client, there is no benefit for these.
684 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
685 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
686 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
689 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
690 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
692 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
693 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
694 erroneously found still-pending ones.
696 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
697 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
699 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
700 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
701 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
702 signature and again for transmission.
704 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
705 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
706 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
708 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
709 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
710 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
711 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
712 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
713 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
714 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
716 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
717 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
718 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
719 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
721 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
722 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
723 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
724 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
725 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
726 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
729 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
730 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
731 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
732 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
735 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
736 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
737 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
738 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
741 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
742 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
745 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
746 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
747 banner-time rejection.
749 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
752 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
753 is the name of a transport.
756 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
758 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
759 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
761 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
762 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
763 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
766 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
767 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
768 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
769 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
771 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
772 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
773 initial verify call returned a defer.
775 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
776 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
778 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
779 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
781 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
782 if present. Previously it was ignored.
784 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
785 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
787 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
788 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
791 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
792 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
794 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
795 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
796 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
798 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
799 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
800 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
801 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
803 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
804 and confused the parent.
806 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
807 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
809 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
812 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
813 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
814 out-of-order delivery.
816 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
817 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
818 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
821 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
822 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
825 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
826 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
827 one run was done. Bug 2189.
829 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
830 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
831 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
832 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
833 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
834 message is still "Temporary local problem".
836 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
837 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
838 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
840 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
841 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
842 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
844 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
845 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
846 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
847 though a different problem.
853 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
854 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
856 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
858 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
859 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
861 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
862 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
864 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
865 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
866 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
867 before acknowledging the chunk.
869 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
870 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
871 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
873 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
874 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
875 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
878 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
879 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
880 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
882 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
883 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
885 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
886 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
887 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
888 body hash calculated value.
890 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
891 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
892 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
894 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
896 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
897 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
899 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
900 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
901 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
903 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
904 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
905 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
906 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
907 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
908 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
910 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
911 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
912 past that check, despite the cost.
914 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
915 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
916 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
918 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
919 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
920 TLS library to consume.
922 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
924 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
926 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
927 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
928 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
929 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
930 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
931 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
932 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
934 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
936 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
938 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
939 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
940 should be warning-free.
942 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
944 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
945 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
947 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
948 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
949 general solution here.
951 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
952 already-broken messages in the queue.
954 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
956 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
962 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
963 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
965 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
966 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
967 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
969 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
970 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
971 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
972 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
973 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
974 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
975 if one fails this test.
976 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
977 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
979 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
980 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
982 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
983 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
985 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
986 in rewrites and routers.
988 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
989 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
991 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
992 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
994 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
996 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
999 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1000 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1001 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1002 connection after a verify cache hit.
1003 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1005 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1006 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1008 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1009 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1010 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1011 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1012 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1014 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1015 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1017 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1018 Previously they were not counted.
1020 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1021 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1022 that needed the lookup.
1024 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1025 distinguished as "(=".
1027 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1028 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1030 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1032 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1033 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1035 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1036 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1038 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1039 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1042 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1043 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1044 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1045 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1047 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1049 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1050 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1051 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1053 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1054 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1055 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1058 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1059 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1060 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1063 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1064 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1065 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1067 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1068 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1071 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1073 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1074 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1076 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1077 are not in the system include path.
1079 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1080 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1081 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1082 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1084 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1085 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1086 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1088 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1090 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1091 an incoming connection.
1093 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1096 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1097 fallback to "prime256v1".
1099 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1100 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1106 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1107 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1108 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1109 client dropping the TLS connection.
1111 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1112 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1114 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1115 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1116 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1117 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1120 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1121 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1122 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1123 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1124 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1125 check on the next write.
1127 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1128 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1129 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1130 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1131 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1133 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1134 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1136 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1137 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1138 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1140 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1141 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1142 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1143 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1145 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1146 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1148 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1149 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1151 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1152 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1153 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1156 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1158 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1160 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1162 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1163 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1165 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1166 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1168 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1170 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1171 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1173 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1175 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1176 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1178 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1180 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1181 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1182 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1183 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1184 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1185 they will retry in-clear.
1186 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1187 at installation time.
1189 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1190 with the $config_file variable.
1192 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1193 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1194 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1195 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1196 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1198 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1199 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1200 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1201 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1202 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1204 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1206 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1207 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1208 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1209 list order is no longer honoured.
1211 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1212 for DKIM processing.
1214 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1215 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1217 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1218 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1219 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1220 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1222 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1223 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1225 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1226 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1228 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1229 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1231 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1233 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1234 cached by the daemon.
1236 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1237 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1239 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1240 keys are given for lookup.
1242 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1243 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1244 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1245 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1247 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1248 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1249 server-side so match that on older versions.
1251 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1252 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1253 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1255 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1256 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1258 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1259 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1260 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1261 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1262 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1263 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1264 initial truncated version.
1266 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1268 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1270 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1271 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1273 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1275 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1277 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1278 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1281 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1282 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1285 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1286 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1288 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1289 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1292 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1293 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1294 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1296 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1297 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1298 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1299 extraction. Accept either.
1305 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1308 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1310 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1313 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1314 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1315 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1316 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1318 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1319 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1320 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1322 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1323 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1324 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1327 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1330 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1331 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1332 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1333 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1334 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1336 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1337 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1338 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1340 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1342 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1343 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1345 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1346 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1348 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1351 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1352 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1354 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1355 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1356 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1358 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1359 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1360 specify a port-range.
1362 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1363 timeout value per server.
1365 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1366 now have the list separator specified.
1368 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1371 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1374 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1376 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1377 rather than the verbs used.
1379 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1380 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1382 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1384 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1385 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1387 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1388 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1390 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1391 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1393 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1395 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1397 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1398 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1399 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1400 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1402 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1404 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1405 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1407 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1408 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1410 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1412 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1414 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1416 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1417 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1419 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1420 added for tls authenticator.
1422 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1428 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1429 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1430 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1431 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1432 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1433 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1434 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1436 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1437 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1438 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1439 function when detected.
1441 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1442 cause callback expansion.
1444 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1445 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1446 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1447 instead of bool when processing it.
1449 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1450 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1452 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1454 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1456 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1458 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1459 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1461 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1462 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1463 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1464 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1465 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1466 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1468 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1469 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1472 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1473 version 3.3.6 or later.
1475 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1476 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1477 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1478 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1479 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1480 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1483 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1484 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1486 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1487 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1488 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1491 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1492 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1493 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1495 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1496 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1498 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1499 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1502 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1504 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1505 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1507 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1508 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1511 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1513 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1516 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1517 output list separator was used.
1522 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1523 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1526 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1527 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1529 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1531 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1532 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1538 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1540 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1541 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1542 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1543 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1544 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1545 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1547 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1548 utilities have not been installed.
1550 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1551 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1553 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1554 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1556 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1557 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1558 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1559 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1561 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1563 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1564 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1566 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1569 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1571 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1572 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1573 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1575 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1576 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1577 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1578 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1579 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1580 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1582 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1584 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1585 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1587 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1590 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1592 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1594 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1595 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1597 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1598 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1600 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1602 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1604 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1605 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1607 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1608 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1609 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1611 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1612 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1613 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1616 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1618 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1619 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1622 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1623 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1626 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1627 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1629 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1630 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1632 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1634 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1635 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1636 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1638 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1639 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1641 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1642 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1645 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1646 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1647 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1649 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1651 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1652 Christian Aistleitner.
1654 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1656 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1657 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1659 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1660 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1662 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1663 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1665 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1666 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1668 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1669 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1671 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1672 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1673 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1675 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1677 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1678 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1681 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1683 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1684 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1691 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1693 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1694 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1696 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1699 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1700 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1703 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1705 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1706 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1707 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1708 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1709 using channel bindings instead).
1711 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1712 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1713 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1714 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1715 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1718 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1720 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1722 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1723 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1725 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1726 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1727 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1729 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1731 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1733 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1734 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1736 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1738 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1740 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1742 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1743 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1745 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1747 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1748 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1751 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1752 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1754 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1755 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1758 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1760 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1762 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1763 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1765 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1768 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1769 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1771 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1772 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1774 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1776 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1778 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1781 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1784 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1786 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1787 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1788 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1789 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1791 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1793 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1794 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1795 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1796 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1799 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1800 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1801 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1803 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1804 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1805 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1806 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1808 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1809 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1810 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1811 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1812 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1813 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1814 delivery, as in LMTP.
1816 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1817 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1819 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1821 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1825 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1826 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1827 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1828 username as equal to the username.
1830 This change corrects that bug.
1832 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1833 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1834 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1836 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1838 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1839 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1840 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1841 NULL dereference and crash.
1843 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1845 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1846 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1847 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1849 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1851 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1852 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1853 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1854 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1855 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1856 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1857 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1858 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1859 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1860 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1861 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1863 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1864 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1866 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1867 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1870 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1871 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1872 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1873 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1874 an empty string is now equivalent.
1876 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1877 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1878 not performing validation itself.
1880 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1881 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1883 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1886 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1888 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1889 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1890 other false fix of the same issue.
1891 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1894 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1895 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1897 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1898 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1899 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1901 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1902 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1903 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1905 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1907 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1909 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1910 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1912 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1915 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1916 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1917 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1918 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1919 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1921 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1922 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1924 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1925 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1928 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1929 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1930 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1931 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1933 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1935 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1936 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1937 from multiple comments on this bug.
1939 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1941 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1942 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1945 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1946 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1948 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1949 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1955 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1957 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1963 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1964 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1965 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1967 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1969 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1972 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1974 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1976 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1978 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1979 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1981 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1982 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1984 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1985 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1987 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1988 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1989 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1991 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1993 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1994 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1996 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1998 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2000 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2001 non-compliant senders.
2002 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2004 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2005 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2006 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2008 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2009 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2010 in spool file corruption.
2012 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2013 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2014 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2017 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2018 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2019 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2021 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2022 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2024 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2026 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2028 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2030 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2031 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2032 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2034 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2035 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2036 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2037 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2039 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2040 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2042 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2043 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2044 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2045 resolver implementation change.
2047 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2048 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2050 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2052 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2054 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2055 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2057 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2058 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2060 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2061 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2063 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2064 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2065 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2066 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2067 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2069 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2071 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2072 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2073 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2075 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2077 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2078 read-only, out of scope).
2079 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2081 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2082 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2083 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2084 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2086 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2088 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2089 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2090 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2091 real issues in debug logging.
2093 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2094 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2096 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2097 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2098 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2100 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2101 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2102 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2105 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2106 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2108 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2109 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2110 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2111 needs to override this, it can.
2113 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2114 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2115 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2117 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2118 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2119 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2120 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2122 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2128 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2129 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2131 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2133 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2136 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2137 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2139 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2140 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2141 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2143 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2144 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2145 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2146 not safe for signals.
2148 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2149 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2150 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2151 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2154 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2156 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2157 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2158 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2159 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2160 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2162 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2163 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2164 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2165 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2166 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2167 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2169 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2170 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2171 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2172 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2174 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2175 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2176 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2177 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2179 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2180 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2181 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2182 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2183 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2184 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2185 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2186 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2187 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2189 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2190 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2191 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2192 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2194 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2195 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2196 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2197 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2198 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2199 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2200 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2201 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2202 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2203 details in the main documentation.
2205 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2207 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2209 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2210 repository when doing development or release builds.
2212 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2213 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2215 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2216 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2219 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2221 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2222 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2224 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2225 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2227 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2228 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2230 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2231 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2233 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2234 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2236 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2238 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2241 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2242 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2243 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2245 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2247 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2249 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2250 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2256 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2258 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2259 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2261 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2263 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2265 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2268 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2269 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2271 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2272 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2274 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2275 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2277 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2280 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2281 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2283 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2284 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2285 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2286 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2288 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2289 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2295 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2298 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2299 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2300 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2302 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2303 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2305 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2306 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2307 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2309 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2310 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2312 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2313 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2315 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2316 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2318 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2319 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2321 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2322 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2324 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2327 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2328 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2330 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2331 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2333 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2334 SQL string expansion failure details.
2335 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2337 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2338 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2340 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2341 extern declarations in function scope.
2342 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2344 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2345 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2346 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2349 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2350 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2352 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2353 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2355 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2356 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2358 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2359 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2361 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2362 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2365 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2367 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2369 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2370 Patch by Simon Arlott
2372 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2373 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2379 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2380 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2382 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2383 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2385 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2387 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2388 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2389 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2391 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2392 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2393 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2395 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2396 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2397 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2398 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2400 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2401 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2402 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2403 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2405 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2406 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2407 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2410 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2413 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2414 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2415 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2416 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2417 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2423 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2424 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2425 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2427 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2428 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2430 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2432 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2434 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2436 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2438 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2440 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2441 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2442 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2443 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2445 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2446 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2447 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2448 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2449 more caution in buffer sizes.
2451 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2453 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2455 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2457 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2459 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2461 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2463 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2465 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2466 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2467 ignore trailing whitespace.
2469 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2471 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2474 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2475 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2477 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2478 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2479 Notification from John Horne.
2481 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2484 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2485 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2488 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2491 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2492 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2493 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2495 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2496 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2497 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2500 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2501 option (effectively making it always true).
2503 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2504 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2506 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2507 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2509 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2510 run-time user, instead of root.
2512 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2513 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2515 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2516 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2519 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2520 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2521 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2523 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2525 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2531 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2532 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2535 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2536 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2539 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2540 Patch from Alain Williams
2542 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2544 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2545 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2547 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2548 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2550 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2552 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2554 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2555 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2557 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2559 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2561 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2562 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2563 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2565 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2566 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2568 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2569 Patch by Simon Arlott
2571 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2572 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2578 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2580 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2582 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2584 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2586 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2592 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2593 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2595 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2596 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2599 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2600 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2601 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2603 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2604 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2606 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2607 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2608 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2609 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2611 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2612 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2613 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2615 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2617 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2619 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2620 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2622 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2624 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2625 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2626 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2627 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2629 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2630 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2632 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2634 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2636 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2637 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2639 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2640 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2642 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2643 that they are available at delivery time.
2645 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2647 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2648 incoming_port log selectors.
2650 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2651 setting expands to an empty string.
2653 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2654 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2656 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2657 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2659 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2660 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2662 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2663 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2665 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2666 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2668 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2669 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2671 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2673 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2674 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2676 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2677 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2679 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2681 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2682 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2684 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2686 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2688 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2691 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2692 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2694 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2695 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2697 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2698 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2700 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2701 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2703 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2704 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2706 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2707 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2709 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2710 plus update to original patch.
2712 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2714 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2715 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2717 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2719 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2721 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2723 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2725 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2726 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2728 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2729 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2731 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2732 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2734 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2735 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2737 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2739 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2741 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2743 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2749 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2750 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2751 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2753 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2754 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2755 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2756 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2757 build errors in sieve.c.
2759 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2760 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2761 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2763 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2765 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2767 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2769 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2775 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2777 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2778 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2779 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2780 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2781 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2782 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2783 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2784 for iplsearch lookups.
2786 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2787 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2788 previously such lookups could never work.
2790 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2791 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2792 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2794 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2797 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2798 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2799 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2800 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2801 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2802 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2804 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2805 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2807 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2808 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2809 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2810 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2811 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2812 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2814 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2817 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2819 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2820 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2823 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2824 by clients under certain conditions.
2826 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2827 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2829 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2831 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2832 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2834 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2836 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2838 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2840 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2841 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2843 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2845 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2846 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2848 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2850 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2852 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2853 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2854 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2855 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2857 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2858 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2859 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2861 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2862 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2864 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2866 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2868 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2870 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2871 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2872 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2878 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2879 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2882 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2883 issue a MAIL command.
2885 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2887 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2889 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2890 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2891 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2892 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2893 item. This has been fixed.
2895 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2896 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2898 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2899 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2901 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2902 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2903 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2905 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2907 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2908 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2909 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2910 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2911 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2913 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2914 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2915 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2917 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2918 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2919 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2920 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2922 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2924 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2926 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2927 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2928 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2929 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2930 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2932 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2934 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2935 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2936 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2939 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2941 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2943 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2945 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2947 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2949 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2950 no_callout_flush is set.
2952 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2953 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2954 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2957 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2959 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2960 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2961 other ACL rejections are.
2963 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2964 with slight modification.
2966 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2967 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2969 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2970 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2973 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2974 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2976 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2978 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2979 expansion side effects.
2981 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2982 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2983 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2986 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2987 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2988 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2990 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2991 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2992 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2993 were accidentally chopped off.
2995 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2996 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2997 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2998 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2999 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3000 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3001 pipelining has not been advertised.
3003 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3005 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3006 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3007 This has been fixed.
3009 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3010 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3011 reported on Solaris.
3013 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3014 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3015 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3016 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3017 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3018 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3019 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3021 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3024 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3026 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3028 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3029 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3030 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3031 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3032 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3033 criteria to be more general.
3035 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3036 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3037 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3038 host_all_ignored option.
3040 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3041 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3042 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3043 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3044 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3045 is what is supposed to happen).
3047 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3048 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3049 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3050 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3051 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3054 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3055 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3056 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3057 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3058 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3059 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3062 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3064 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3065 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3067 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3068 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3070 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3072 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3074 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3075 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3076 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3077 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3078 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3079 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3080 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3081 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3082 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3083 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3084 least in a lot of common cases.
3086 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3087 advertised in response to EHLO.
3093 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3094 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3096 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3097 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3099 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3100 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3101 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3103 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3104 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3105 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3106 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3107 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3113 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3114 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3117 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3118 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3119 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3121 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3122 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3123 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3124 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3125 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3126 rather than extend the field.
3132 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3133 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3134 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3135 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3138 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3139 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3140 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3142 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3143 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3144 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3146 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3147 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3148 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3151 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3152 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3153 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3154 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3155 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3156 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3157 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3158 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3159 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3160 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3161 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3163 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3166 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3167 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3168 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3169 ignores EPIPE as well.
3171 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3172 (quoted-printable decoding).
3174 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3175 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3177 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3179 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3181 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3183 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3184 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3186 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3189 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3190 miscellaneous code fixes
3192 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3195 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3196 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3197 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3198 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3199 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3200 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3201 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3202 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3204 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3205 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3206 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3207 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3209 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3210 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3211 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3212 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3213 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3214 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3215 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3216 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3217 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3219 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3222 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3223 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3224 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3225 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3226 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3227 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3228 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3229 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3231 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3232 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3235 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3236 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3237 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3238 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3239 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3240 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3241 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3242 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3243 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3244 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3245 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3246 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3247 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3249 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3250 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3251 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3252 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3253 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3254 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3255 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3257 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3258 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3259 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3260 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3261 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3262 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3263 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3264 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3265 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3266 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3268 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3269 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3270 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3271 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3272 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3274 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3275 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3276 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3277 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3278 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3279 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3280 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3282 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3283 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3284 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3285 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3286 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3287 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3290 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3291 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3292 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3295 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3296 if any retry times were supplied.
3298 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3299 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3300 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3302 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3304 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3306 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3307 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3308 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3309 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3310 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3311 before) are ignored.
3313 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3314 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3316 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3317 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3318 committing the later change.]
3320 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3321 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3322 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3323 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3324 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3325 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3326 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3327 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3328 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3330 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3331 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3332 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3333 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3334 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3335 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3336 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3337 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3338 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3340 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3341 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3342 hammering the server.
3344 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3345 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3347 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3349 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3350 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3351 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3353 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3354 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3355 one case where this was not true.
3357 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3358 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3359 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3360 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3363 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3364 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3365 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3366 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3367 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3368 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3369 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3370 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3371 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3374 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3375 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3376 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3377 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3379 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3380 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3382 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3383 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3384 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3386 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3388 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3390 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3392 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3393 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3394 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3395 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3397 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3398 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3400 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3401 be meaningful with "accept".
3403 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3404 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3406 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3407 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3408 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3410 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3411 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3412 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3413 there is data to show.
3414 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3416 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3417 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3418 as well as the number of messages.
3420 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3421 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3422 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3424 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3425 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3426 have a flag are now skipped.
3428 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3429 Added the -emptyok flag.
3431 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3432 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3434 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3435 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3436 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3438 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3441 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3442 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3444 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3446 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3447 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3449 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3451 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3452 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3453 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3454 contravention of the specifications.
3456 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3457 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3458 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3460 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3461 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3462 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3464 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3466 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3467 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3468 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3469 some point in the past.
3471 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3472 transport during callout processing was broken.
3474 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3475 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3477 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3478 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3480 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3481 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3483 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3489 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3490 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3492 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3493 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3494 there is data to show.
3495 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3497 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3498 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3500 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3501 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3503 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3504 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3506 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3507 submissions from trusted users.
3509 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3510 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3512 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3513 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3514 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3515 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3516 there is now a framework to start from.
3518 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3519 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3520 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3522 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3524 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3526 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3528 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3529 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3530 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3532 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3535 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3536 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3537 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3539 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3540 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3541 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3544 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3545 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3546 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3547 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3548 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3550 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3551 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3553 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3555 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3556 operations in malware.c.
3558 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3561 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3562 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3563 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3566 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3567 statements to "add_header".
3569 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3570 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3572 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3573 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3576 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3580 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3581 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3582 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3585 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3586 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3588 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3589 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3591 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3592 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3593 any possible encoding problems.
3595 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3596 but not after initializing Perl.
3598 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3599 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3600 apparently, which is not desirable.
3602 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3605 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3608 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3610 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3611 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3612 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3613 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3615 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3616 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3617 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3619 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3620 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3621 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3624 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3625 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3626 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3627 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3628 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3634 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3635 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3637 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3640 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3641 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3642 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3643 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3644 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3645 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3646 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3647 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3650 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3652 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3653 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3654 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3656 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3657 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3658 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3661 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3662 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3664 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3665 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3666 option (which defaults to 0600).
3668 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3670 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3671 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3672 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3673 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3674 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3675 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3676 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3678 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3684 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3685 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3686 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3687 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3688 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3689 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3692 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3693 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3695 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3697 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3698 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3699 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3700 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3701 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3704 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3705 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3707 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3708 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3709 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3710 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3711 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3713 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3714 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3715 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3716 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3718 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3719 be the same on different OS.
3721 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3724 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3725 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3727 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3730 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3731 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3732 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3733 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3734 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3735 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3738 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3739 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3740 when Exim was called.
3742 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3743 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3745 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3746 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3747 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3748 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3750 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3751 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3752 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3753 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3756 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3757 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3758 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3760 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3761 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3762 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3764 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3767 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3768 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3769 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3770 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3771 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3772 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3773 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3774 values from the SRV records were lost.
3776 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3777 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3778 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3780 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3781 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3782 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3784 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3785 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3786 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3787 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3788 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3789 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3790 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3791 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3792 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3793 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3795 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3796 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3797 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3799 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3800 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3802 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3803 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3804 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3805 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3808 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3809 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3810 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3812 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3813 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3814 PH/23 above applies.
3816 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3817 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3818 (for which there is an explicit test).
3820 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3822 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3823 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3824 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3825 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3826 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3828 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3829 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3830 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3831 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3833 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3834 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3835 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3837 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3839 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3841 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3842 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3843 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3845 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3846 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3847 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3848 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3849 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3851 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3852 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3853 the message gets confusing).
3855 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3856 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3857 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3858 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3860 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3861 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3862 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3863 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3866 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3867 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3868 the different processes.
3870 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3872 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3874 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3875 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3877 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3878 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3880 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3881 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3882 messages matching specified criteria.
3884 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3886 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3887 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3889 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3890 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3891 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3892 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3893 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3894 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3895 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3896 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3897 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3898 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3900 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3901 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3902 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3904 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3906 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3907 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3908 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3909 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3910 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3911 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3912 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3915 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3916 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3918 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3920 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3922 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3924 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3925 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3926 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3927 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3928 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3929 size of the count of files.
3931 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3933 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3936 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3937 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3938 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3939 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3941 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3942 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3943 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3945 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3946 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3947 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3948 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3949 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3951 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3952 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3954 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3955 will now be deprecated.
3957 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3959 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3960 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3961 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3963 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3964 with very large, slow to parse queues
3966 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3968 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3970 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3971 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3972 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3975 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3976 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3977 Sieve code now uses this.
3979 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3980 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3982 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3983 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3985 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3987 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3988 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3989 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3990 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3991 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3993 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3994 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3995 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3996 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3998 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4000 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4002 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4003 is preferred over IPv4.
4005 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4006 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4007 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4008 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4009 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4010 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4011 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4013 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4014 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4015 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4017 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4019 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4020 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4021 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4022 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4023 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4024 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4025 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4026 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4027 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4028 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4029 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4031 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4032 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4033 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4039 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4041 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4042 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4044 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4045 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4046 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4048 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4050 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4053 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4056 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4057 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4058 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4061 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4062 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4064 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4065 inside the third argument.
4067 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4068 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4071 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4072 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4074 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4075 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4077 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4079 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4080 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4083 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4085 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4086 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4087 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4088 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4089 identical. For example:
4091 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4093 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4094 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4095 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4097 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4098 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4099 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4100 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4102 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4103 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4104 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4107 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4109 o fixes some comments
4110 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4111 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4112 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4113 and documents the missing references header update
4117 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4118 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4121 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4122 Electronic Mail") by including:
4124 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4126 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4127 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4128 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4129 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4130 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4132 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4134 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4136 The auto-replied keyword:
4138 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4139 message by an automatic process,
4141 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4143 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4144 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4146 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4147 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4150 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4151 to the default Received: header definition.
4153 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4155 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4156 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4157 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4159 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4160 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4161 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4163 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4164 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4165 and treats the condition as false.
4167 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4169 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4170 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4171 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4172 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4173 not changing the active code.
4175 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4176 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4178 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4179 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4181 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4184 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4185 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4186 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4187 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4188 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4189 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4190 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4191 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4192 the text comparison.
4194 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4195 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4196 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4197 The same fix has been applied.
4203 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4204 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4207 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4208 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4210 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4212 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4213 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4214 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4215 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4216 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4218 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4219 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4220 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4221 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4224 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4232 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4233 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4235 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4237 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4239 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4240 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4241 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4243 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4244 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4245 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4247 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4248 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4251 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4252 ${stat: expansion item.
4254 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4255 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4257 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4258 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4261 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4263 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4266 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4267 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4269 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4271 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4272 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4273 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4274 the end of the subprocess.
4276 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4277 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4278 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4279 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4280 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4282 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4284 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4286 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4287 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4289 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4291 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4293 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4294 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4297 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4299 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4300 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4301 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4303 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4304 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4306 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4307 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4309 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4310 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4312 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4313 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4315 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4316 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4317 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4318 contributed by a Radius user.
4320 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4321 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4323 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4324 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4326 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4329 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4330 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4333 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4334 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4335 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4336 header lines when this was not necessary.
4338 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4340 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4341 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4342 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4345 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4348 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4349 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4350 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4351 return code was incorrect.
4353 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4355 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4357 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4359 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4361 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4362 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4363 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4364 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4365 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4368 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4370 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4371 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4372 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4373 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4374 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4375 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4376 which is clearly wrong.
4378 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4380 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4381 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4382 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4385 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4386 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4388 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4390 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4391 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4393 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4394 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4396 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4397 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4399 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4400 recipients, not senders.
4402 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4403 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4405 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4407 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4409 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4410 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4411 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4412 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4414 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4416 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4417 clock is set back in time.
4419 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4420 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4422 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4423 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4425 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4426 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4429 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4430 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4433 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4436 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4438 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4439 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4440 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4442 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4443 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4444 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4445 helo verification defer as a failure.
4447 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4448 actual error message.
4454 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4456 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4457 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4458 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4459 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4461 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4463 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4464 can still be requested.
4466 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4467 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4468 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4469 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4471 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4472 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4473 circumstances, but probably never did.
4475 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4476 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4477 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4480 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4482 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4483 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4485 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4487 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4489 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4490 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4491 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4492 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4493 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4494 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4496 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4497 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4498 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4499 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4500 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4501 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4503 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4504 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4506 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4507 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4509 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4510 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4512 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4514 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4516 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4518 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4520 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4522 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4524 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4526 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4527 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4528 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4530 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4531 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4532 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4533 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4535 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4536 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4537 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4539 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4540 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4541 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4542 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4544 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4545 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4548 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4549 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4550 should work with maildirs and everything.
4552 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4553 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4555 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4558 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4559 function for BDB 4.3.
4561 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4563 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4564 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4567 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4568 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4569 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4570 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4571 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4572 formatting function string_vformat().
4574 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4575 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4576 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4577 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4578 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4579 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4580 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4581 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4583 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4584 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4587 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4588 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4590 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4591 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4592 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4593 test. It is now used for both.
4595 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4596 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4597 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4598 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4599 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4600 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4602 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4603 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4604 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4607 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4608 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4609 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4611 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4612 experimental DomainKeys support:
4614 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4615 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4616 the control was given.
4618 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4620 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4622 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4624 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4625 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4626 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4629 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4630 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4631 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4632 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4633 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4634 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4637 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4638 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4639 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4640 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4641 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4642 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4644 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4645 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4646 do -d+all out of habit.
4648 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4649 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4652 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4653 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4654 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4655 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4656 record types that Exim uses.
4658 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4659 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4660 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4661 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4662 non-existent file that was broken.
4664 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4665 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4667 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4668 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4669 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4671 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4673 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4674 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4675 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4676 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4677 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4680 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4681 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4682 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4683 at a slight CPU cost.
4685 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4686 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4688 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4691 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4693 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4694 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4700 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4701 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4703 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4705 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4707 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4708 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4710 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4711 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4712 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4713 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4714 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4715 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4718 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4719 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4720 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4721 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4724 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4725 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4726 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4727 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4728 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4729 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4730 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4733 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4734 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4736 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4737 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4738 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4739 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4740 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4741 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4743 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4744 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4745 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4746 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4748 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4751 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4752 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4754 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4755 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4756 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4757 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4760 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4762 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4763 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4765 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4766 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4767 to what was transported.)
4769 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4771 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4772 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4773 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4774 spamd_address settings.
4776 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4777 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4778 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4779 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4780 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4782 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4784 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4785 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4786 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4787 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4788 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4790 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4791 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4793 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4794 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4795 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4796 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4797 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4798 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4799 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4802 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4803 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4804 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4805 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4806 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4807 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4808 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4811 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4813 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4814 driver and ACL definitions.
4816 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4817 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4819 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4820 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4821 understands it better than I do:
4823 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4824 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4826 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4827 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4828 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4829 => three warnings about OTP not working
4830 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4832 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4833 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4834 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4835 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4837 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4838 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4840 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4841 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4842 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4844 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4845 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4848 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4849 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4852 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4853 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4854 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4856 warn !verify = sender
4857 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4859 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4860 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4862 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4864 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4865 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4867 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4868 nomenclature these days.)
4870 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4871 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4873 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4874 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4875 . First host does not offer TLS;
4876 . First host accepts first address;
4877 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4878 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4879 . Second host accepts second address.
4880 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4881 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4884 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4885 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4886 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4887 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4888 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4890 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4891 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4893 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4894 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4896 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4897 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4898 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4900 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4901 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4904 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4906 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4907 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4908 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4909 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4910 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4911 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4912 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4914 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4915 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4916 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4917 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4918 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4920 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4921 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4924 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4925 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4926 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4927 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4928 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4929 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4931 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4933 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4934 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4935 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4936 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4937 printable escape sequences.
4939 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4940 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4943 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4944 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4947 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4948 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4949 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4950 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4951 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4953 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4954 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4955 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4957 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4959 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4960 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4963 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4964 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4965 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4966 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4967 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4968 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4969 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4970 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4971 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4974 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4975 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4976 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4977 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4981 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4982 ----------------------------------------
4984 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4985 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4986 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4987 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4988 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4989 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4992 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4993 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4994 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4995 historical information.
5001 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5003 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5004 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5006 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5007 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5010 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5011 filter fails to execute.
5013 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5014 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5015 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5016 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5017 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5019 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5021 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5022 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5023 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5024 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5026 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5027 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5028 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5029 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5030 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5032 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5034 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5036 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5037 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5038 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5039 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5041 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5042 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5043 sender verification.
5045 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5046 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5048 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5050 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5053 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5054 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5056 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5057 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5059 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5060 information about exactly what failed.
5062 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5064 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5065 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5066 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5068 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5069 It is now set to "smtps".
5071 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5072 ignore_target_hosts.
5074 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5075 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5076 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5077 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5080 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5081 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5082 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5084 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5085 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5086 wake it up if nothing else does.
5088 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5089 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5090 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5093 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5094 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5096 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5098 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5099 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5100 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5101 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5102 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5103 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5104 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5105 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5107 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5108 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5109 than one IP address.
5111 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5112 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5113 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5114 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5116 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5117 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5118 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5119 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5120 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5123 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5124 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5125 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5126 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5128 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5129 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5132 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5133 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5134 $sender_host_address.
5136 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5137 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5138 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5139 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5140 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5143 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5145 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5146 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5148 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5149 just the host names, not the priorities.
5151 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5152 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5153 controlled by a keyword.
5155 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5156 multiple records are returned.
5158 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5159 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5162 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5164 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5165 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5167 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5168 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5169 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5171 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5173 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5175 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5177 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5178 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5179 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5180 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5181 because the tests only now provoked it.
5183 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5184 (this can affect the format of dates).
5186 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5187 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5188 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5189 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5191 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5193 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5194 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5195 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5196 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5198 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5199 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5200 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5202 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5205 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5206 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5207 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5208 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5209 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5210 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5213 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5214 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5215 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5218 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5219 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5220 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5222 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5223 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5224 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5225 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5226 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5227 so I produce this patch..."
5229 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5230 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5233 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5234 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5235 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5236 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5239 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5241 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5242 long debug lines gets shown.
5244 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5245 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5247 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5249 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5250 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5251 of $primary_hostname.
5253 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5254 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5255 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5256 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5257 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5258 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5259 by change 4.50/55 above.
5261 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5262 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5263 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5264 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5265 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5266 running as the user.
5269 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5270 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5271 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5274 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5275 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5277 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5278 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5279 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5280 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5281 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5283 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5284 This has been fixed.
5286 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5287 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5288 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5289 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5292 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5294 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5295 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5296 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5297 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5299 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5300 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5302 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5303 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5304 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5306 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5307 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5308 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5311 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5312 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5313 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5315 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5316 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5317 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5318 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5320 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5321 during host lookups.
5323 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5324 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5326 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5328 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5329 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5330 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5331 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5332 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5335 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5336 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5338 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5339 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5340 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5342 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5344 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5345 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5346 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5347 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5348 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5349 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5352 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5353 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5354 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5355 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5356 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5358 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5361 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5363 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5364 "vacation" handling.
5366 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5367 OS variants using glibc.
5369 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5372 ----------------------------------------------------
5373 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5374 ----------------------------------------------------
5380 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5381 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5384 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5385 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5388 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5389 filter fails to execute.
5391 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5392 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5393 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5394 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5395 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5397 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5398 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5399 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5400 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5402 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5403 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5404 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5405 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5406 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5408 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5410 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5411 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5412 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5413 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5415 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5416 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5417 sender verification.
5419 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5420 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5422 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5423 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5425 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5426 ignore_target_hosts.
5428 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5429 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5430 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5431 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5434 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5435 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5436 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5438 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5439 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5440 wake it up if nothing else does.
5442 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5443 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5444 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5447 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5448 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5450 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5452 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5453 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5456 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5457 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5460 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5461 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5462 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5463 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5464 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5467 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5468 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5471 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5472 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5473 $sender_host_address.
5475 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5477 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5478 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5479 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5481 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5484 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5485 (this can affect the format of dates).
5487 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5488 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5489 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5490 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5492 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5493 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5494 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5496 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5497 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5498 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5499 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5501 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5502 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5503 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5505 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5508 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5509 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5510 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5511 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5512 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5513 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5516 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5517 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5518 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5519 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5522 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5523 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5524 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5525 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5526 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5527 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5528 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5530 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5531 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5532 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5533 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5534 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5535 running as the user.
5538 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5539 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5540 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5543 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5544 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5545 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5546 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5547 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5549 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5550 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5551 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5552 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5555 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5556 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5557 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5558 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5559 because the tests only now provoked it.
5565 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5566 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5567 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5568 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5569 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5570 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5571 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5573 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5574 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5577 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5579 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5581 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5582 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5585 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5586 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5587 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5588 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5589 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5591 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5592 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5594 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5596 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5598 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5601 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5602 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5604 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5605 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5606 affecting debugging statements).
5608 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5610 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5611 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5612 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5613 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5614 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5615 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5616 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5617 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5618 after the received time, and all would be well.
5620 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5621 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5622 condition in an expansion string.
5624 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5626 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5627 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5628 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5629 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5630 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5631 job under whatever limits there are.
5633 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5635 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5638 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5639 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5640 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5641 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5644 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5645 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5646 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5647 binary data in such strings.
5649 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5651 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5652 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5653 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5654 failure, which is pointless.
5656 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5658 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5660 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5661 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5662 Sender: header lines.
5664 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5665 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5666 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5668 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5669 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5670 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5671 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5672 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5675 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5676 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5677 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5678 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5679 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5681 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5682 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5683 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5686 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5687 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5689 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5690 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5692 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5694 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5696 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5698 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5701 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5703 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5705 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5706 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5707 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5708 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5710 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5711 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5717 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5718 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5719 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5721 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5722 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5723 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5724 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5725 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5726 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5728 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5729 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5730 verification failure".
5732 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5733 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5734 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5735 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5737 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5738 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5739 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5740 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5741 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5742 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5743 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5744 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5745 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5746 treated as a timeout.
5748 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5749 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5750 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5751 not set for Exim filters).
5753 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5754 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5755 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5757 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5759 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5760 try to make them clearer.
5762 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5763 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5765 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5767 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5769 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5770 only the Cygwin environment.
5772 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5773 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5774 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5775 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5776 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5778 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5779 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5780 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5781 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5782 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5783 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5784 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5786 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5787 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5789 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5791 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5792 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5793 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5795 To: susanne@some.where
5797 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5798 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5799 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5800 of addresses in From: header lines).
5802 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5803 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5804 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5806 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5807 treated as non-personal.
5809 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5810 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5812 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5814 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5816 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5817 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5818 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5820 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5821 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5823 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5824 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5825 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5826 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5827 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5828 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5830 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5831 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5832 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5833 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5834 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5835 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5836 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5837 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5839 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5841 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5842 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5844 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5845 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5846 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5848 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5849 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5851 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5852 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5853 rather than long int.
5855 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5857 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5863 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5864 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5865 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5866 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5867 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5868 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5874 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5875 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5877 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5878 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5879 socklen_t is defined.
5881 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5884 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5887 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5888 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5889 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5890 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5891 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5893 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5894 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5895 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5896 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5898 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5899 of flapping under certain conditions.
5901 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5902 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5903 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5905 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5907 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5909 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5910 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5911 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5912 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5914 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5915 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5916 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5917 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5918 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5919 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5920 preserved with the message after it was received.
5922 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5923 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5924 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5925 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5926 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5927 test suite worked just fine.
5929 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5930 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5931 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5933 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5934 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5937 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5938 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5939 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5940 does not fully solve it.
5942 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5943 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5944 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5945 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5946 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5948 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5949 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5950 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5952 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5953 string, for example:
5955 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5957 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5958 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5959 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5960 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5961 the routers could not see them.
5963 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5964 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5966 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5967 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5970 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5971 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5972 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5973 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5974 that needed quoting.
5976 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5977 was not being matched caselessly.
5979 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5982 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5983 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5984 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5985 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5986 when use_sender is false.
5988 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5990 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5992 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5994 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5995 the configuration file.
5997 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5998 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6000 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6002 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6003 bytes in the message body.
6005 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6006 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6009 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6011 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6013 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6014 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6015 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6016 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6023 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6024 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6026 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6027 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6028 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6029 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6030 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6032 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6033 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6035 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6036 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6037 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6039 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6040 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6041 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6043 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6046 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6047 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6048 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6049 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6050 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6051 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6052 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6058 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6059 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6060 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6061 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6062 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6063 default (and expected) setting.
6065 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6066 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6067 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6068 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6070 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6071 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6073 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6076 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6077 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6078 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6079 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6080 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6081 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6083 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6084 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6085 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6087 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6088 part (NOT match_host).
6090 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6092 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6093 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6094 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6095 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6096 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6097 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6098 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6099 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6100 the same named file.
6102 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6103 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6106 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6107 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6108 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6109 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6112 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6113 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6114 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6116 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6118 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6120 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6122 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6123 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6125 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6126 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6127 before starting the TLS session.
6129 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6131 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6132 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6134 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6135 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6136 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6137 colon in the middle).
6143 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6144 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6145 multiple configurations are in use.
6147 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6148 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6149 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6150 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6151 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6152 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6154 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6155 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6157 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6158 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6159 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6161 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6162 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6165 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6166 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6168 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6170 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6171 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6173 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6181 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6182 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6183 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6184 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6185 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6187 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6190 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6191 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6192 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6193 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6194 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6195 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6197 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6198 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6199 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6200 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6201 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6202 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6203 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6206 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6207 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6208 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6209 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6210 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6212 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6214 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6215 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6216 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6218 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6220 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6221 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6222 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6225 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6226 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6228 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6229 Three changes have been made:
6231 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6232 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6233 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6234 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6235 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6237 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6240 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6241 the modified behaviour.
6247 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6250 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6251 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6253 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6254 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6255 try to track down a specific problem.
6257 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6258 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6259 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6261 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6264 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6265 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6266 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6267 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6268 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6269 some earlier ones do not.
6271 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6273 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6274 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6275 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6276 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6277 address literals are enabled, of course).
6279 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6281 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6282 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6283 by a command such as
6287 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6289 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6291 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6292 remained set. It is now erased.
6294 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6295 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6297 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6298 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6299 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6300 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6301 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6302 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6303 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6304 appropriate error code.
6306 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6307 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6308 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6309 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6310 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6311 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6313 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6314 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6315 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6317 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6318 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6319 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6320 terminate the header.
6322 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6323 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6324 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6326 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6327 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6328 (4.30/29). In particular:
6330 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6333 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6334 to write a maildirsize file.
6336 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6337 the transport, the new value overrides.
6339 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6342 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6343 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6344 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6347 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6348 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6349 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6352 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6353 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6354 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6356 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6357 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6360 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6361 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6362 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6364 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6366 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6368 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6370 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6371 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6374 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6375 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6376 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6377 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6378 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6379 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6380 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6383 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6384 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6385 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6386 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6387 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6390 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6391 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6392 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6393 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6394 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6395 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6396 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6397 cached value only when the same options are set.
6399 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6401 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6402 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6403 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6404 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6405 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6407 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6408 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6409 it is clearly obsolete.
6411 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6414 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6415 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6416 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6419 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6420 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6421 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6422 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6423 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6425 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6426 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6427 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6428 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6430 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6432 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6434 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6435 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6438 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6439 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6440 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6441 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6442 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6443 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6446 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6447 with the -f command-line option.
6449 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6450 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6451 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6452 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6453 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6454 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6456 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6457 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6460 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6461 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6462 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6463 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6464 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6465 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6466 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6467 buffer is too small.
6469 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6470 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6472 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6473 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6474 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6475 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6476 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6477 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6478 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6479 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6480 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6482 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6483 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6484 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6486 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6487 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6490 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6491 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6492 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6493 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6494 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6496 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6497 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6498 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6499 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6502 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6504 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6506 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6507 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6509 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6510 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6511 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6513 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6514 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6515 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6516 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6517 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6519 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6520 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6521 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6522 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6523 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6524 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6525 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6527 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6528 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6529 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6530 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6531 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6532 the test of how many are available.
6534 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6535 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6536 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6537 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6538 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6539 new message is started.
6541 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6542 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6544 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6545 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6547 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6548 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6549 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6552 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6553 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6554 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6555 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6556 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6557 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6558 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6560 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6561 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6562 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6563 interpreted as octal.
6565 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6568 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6569 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6570 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6571 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6572 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6573 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6575 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6576 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6577 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6578 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6580 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6581 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6582 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6583 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6585 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6586 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6589 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6590 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6592 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6594 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6595 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6596 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6597 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6599 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6600 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6601 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6602 supplied", which is not helpful.
6604 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6605 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6606 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6608 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6609 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6610 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6611 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6612 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6613 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6614 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6615 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6617 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6618 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6619 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6620 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6621 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6623 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6624 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6625 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6626 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6627 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6628 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6630 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6631 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6632 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6634 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6636 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6637 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6638 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6641 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6643 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6644 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6645 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6646 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6647 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6648 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6649 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6650 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6652 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6653 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6654 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6655 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6656 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6658 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6661 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6662 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6663 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6664 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6665 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6666 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6667 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6668 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6669 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6675 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6676 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6677 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6679 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6682 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6683 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6684 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6686 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6687 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6688 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6689 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6690 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6691 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6693 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6694 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6695 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6696 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6697 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6698 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6699 the Exim test suite.
6701 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6702 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6703 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6704 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6706 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6707 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6708 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6709 specify it in this variable.
6711 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6712 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6713 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6714 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6716 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6717 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6718 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6719 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6721 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6722 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6723 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6724 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6725 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6727 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6729 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6732 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6733 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6734 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6735 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6736 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6738 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6739 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6741 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6742 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6743 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6744 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6745 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6747 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6748 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6750 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6751 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6752 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6754 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6755 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6757 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6758 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6760 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6761 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6762 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6764 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6765 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6767 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6768 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6769 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6770 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6772 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6774 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6775 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6776 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6777 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6779 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6781 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6782 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6784 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6786 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6787 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6788 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6789 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6790 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6791 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6793 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6795 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6796 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6799 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6801 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6802 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6804 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6805 550 Sender verify failed
6807 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6808 the final line of the response.
6810 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6811 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6812 all other user lookups.
6814 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6817 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6818 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6819 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6820 result into an int without checking.
6822 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6823 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6824 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6826 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6827 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6828 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6829 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6831 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6834 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6835 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6837 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6838 to the empty sender.
6840 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6841 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6842 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6843 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6844 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6845 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6846 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6849 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6850 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6851 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6852 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6855 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6856 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6858 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6861 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6862 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6864 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6866 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6867 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6870 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6871 as soon as it is encountered.
6873 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6875 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6878 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6879 recognizes a tab character.
6881 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6882 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6883 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6884 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6886 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6888 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6891 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6893 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6895 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6896 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6899 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6900 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6901 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6902 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6903 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6905 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6906 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6908 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6909 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6910 list (.included file names were always shown).
6912 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6913 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6914 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6917 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6918 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6920 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6922 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6924 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6926 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6927 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6928 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6929 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6930 failures to open the logs.
6932 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6933 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6934 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6935 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6936 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6937 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6938 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6944 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6945 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6946 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6949 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6950 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6951 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6953 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6954 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6955 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6957 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6958 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6959 causing some misleading effects.
6961 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6962 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6963 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6965 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6966 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6967 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6968 queue-runner function directly.
6974 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6977 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6978 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6979 was always written to the default place.
6981 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6982 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6983 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6985 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6987 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6989 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6990 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6991 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6993 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6994 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6997 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6998 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6999 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7001 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7002 command line option is disabled.
7004 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7005 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7007 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7009 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7011 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7012 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7014 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7016 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7017 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7018 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7019 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7020 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7021 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7023 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7024 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7027 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7028 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7030 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7031 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7033 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7034 received was valid base64.
7036 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7037 name of the variable that was being set.
7039 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7041 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7042 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7043 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7044 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7045 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7046 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7048 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7050 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7051 nor realm was specified.
7053 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7054 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7055 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7056 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7058 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7059 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7060 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7062 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7063 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7064 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7066 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7067 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7068 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7069 some systems use these upper case variants.
7071 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7072 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7073 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7074 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7076 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7078 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7079 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7081 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7082 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7085 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7087 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7088 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7089 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7090 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7092 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7095 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7096 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7097 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7099 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7100 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7102 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7103 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7104 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7105 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7107 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7108 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7109 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7111 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7113 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7114 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7115 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7116 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7119 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7120 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7121 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7123 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7125 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7126 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7128 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7129 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7131 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7132 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7133 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7134 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7135 when emails are that large.
7142 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7143 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7145 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7146 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7147 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7149 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7150 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7151 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7153 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7154 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7155 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7156 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7157 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7159 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7160 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7161 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7162 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7163 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7166 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7167 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7168 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7169 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7170 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7171 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7172 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7173 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7174 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7175 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7176 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7177 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7178 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7179 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7181 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7182 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7185 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7186 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7187 error should be diagnosed.
7189 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7190 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7191 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7192 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7193 appeared instead of "NULL".
7195 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7196 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7197 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7198 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7199 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7200 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7203 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7204 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7205 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7211 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7212 or receiver verification errors.
7214 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7217 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7218 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7219 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7220 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7222 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7223 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7224 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7225 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7226 shouldn't happen again.
7228 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7229 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7230 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7232 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7233 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7235 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7237 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7238 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7240 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7241 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7244 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7245 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7246 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7248 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7249 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7250 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7251 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7253 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7254 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7255 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7256 to define what should happen).
7258 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7259 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7260 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7262 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7264 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7266 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7267 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7269 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7270 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7271 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7272 structure in all cases.
7274 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7275 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7276 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7277 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7279 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7280 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7283 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7284 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7286 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7287 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7289 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7290 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7291 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7293 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7294 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7295 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7297 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7298 the book and for uniformity.
7300 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7302 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7303 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7304 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7305 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7306 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7307 non-existent command as the problem.
7309 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7310 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7311 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7313 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7315 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7316 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7317 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7319 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7320 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7321 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7322 timestamps using strftime().
7324 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7325 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7327 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7328 transport-time rewrites.
7330 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7331 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7332 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7333 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7335 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7336 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7338 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7339 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7340 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7341 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7344 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7345 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7346 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7347 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7348 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7349 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7350 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7352 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7353 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7354 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7355 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7356 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7358 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7359 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7360 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7361 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7362 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7363 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7364 remaining text gets split now.
7366 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7367 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7368 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7369 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7371 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7372 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7373 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7374 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7377 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7378 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7379 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7380 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7381 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7382 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7383 passed through if needed.
7385 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7386 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7387 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7388 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7389 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7390 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7392 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7393 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7394 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7395 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7396 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7398 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7399 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7400 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7401 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7402 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7404 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7405 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7408 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7409 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7410 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7411 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7412 mayhem of various kinds.
7414 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7415 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7416 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7417 the right test for positive values.
7419 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7420 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7421 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7422 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7423 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7424 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7425 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7426 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7427 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7428 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7431 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7434 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7435 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7438 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7439 the existing equality matching.
7441 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7442 dealing with inode numbers.
7444 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7445 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7446 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7448 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7449 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7450 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7451 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7454 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7455 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7456 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7457 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7458 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7459 relay addresses has also been removed.
7461 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7463 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7464 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7465 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7467 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7468 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7469 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7470 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7471 processing applies to CR:
7473 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7474 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7476 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7477 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7478 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7479 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7481 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7482 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7483 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7485 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7486 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7487 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7488 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7489 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7490 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7493 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7496 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7497 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7498 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7499 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7502 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7504 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7506 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7508 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7509 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7510 not considered personal.
7512 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7514 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7516 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7518 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7519 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7520 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7521 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7522 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7523 header lines, and spool format errors.
7525 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7526 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7527 for more flexibility.
7529 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7530 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7531 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7533 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7536 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7537 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7538 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7539 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7540 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7541 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7542 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7543 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7544 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7546 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7547 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7548 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7549 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7550 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7551 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7552 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7554 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7555 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7556 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7558 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7559 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7560 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7561 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7562 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7563 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7564 instead of killing the process with assert().
7566 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7567 than Unicode encoding.
7569 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7570 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7571 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7572 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7574 77. Added process_log_path.
7576 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7577 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7579 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7580 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7582 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7583 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7584 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7586 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7587 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7588 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7589 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7590 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7593 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7594 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7597 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7598 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7599 they will be used during message reception.
7605 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.