1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
16 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
19 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
22 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
27 cipher, Certificate or OCSP information. A "continued-TLS" marker is
28 added instead of the cipher information: "X=*".
30 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
31 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
34 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
35 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
36 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
42 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
43 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
45 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
47 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
48 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
50 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
51 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
53 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
54 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
55 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
56 before acknowledging the chunk.
58 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
59 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
60 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
62 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
63 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
64 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
67 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
68 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
69 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
71 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
72 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
74 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
75 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
76 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
77 body hash calculated value.
79 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
80 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
81 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
83 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
85 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
86 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
88 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
89 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
90 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
92 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
93 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
94 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
95 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
96 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
97 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
99 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
100 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
101 past that check, despite the cost.
103 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
104 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
105 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
107 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
108 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
109 TLS library to consume.
111 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
113 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
115 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
116 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
117 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
118 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
119 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
120 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
121 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
123 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
125 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
127 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
128 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
129 should be warning-free.
131 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
133 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
134 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
136 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
137 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
138 general solution here.
140 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
141 already-broken messages in the queue.
143 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
145 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
151 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
152 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
154 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
155 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
156 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
158 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
159 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
160 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
161 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
162 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
163 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
164 if one fails this test.
165 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
166 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
168 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
169 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
171 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
172 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
174 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
175 in rewrites and routers.
177 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
178 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
180 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
181 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
183 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
185 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
188 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
189 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
190 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
191 connection after a verify cache hit.
192 Do not update it with the verify result either.
194 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
195 when routing results in more than one destination address.
197 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
198 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
199 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
200 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
201 when the cutthrough connection is made).
203 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
204 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
206 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
207 Previously they were not counted.
209 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
210 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
211 that needed the lookup.
213 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
214 distinguished as "(=".
216 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
217 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
219 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
221 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
222 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
224 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
225 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
227 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
228 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
231 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
232 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
233 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
234 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
236 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
238 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
239 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
240 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
242 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
243 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
244 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
247 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
248 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
249 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
252 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
253 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
254 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
256 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
257 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
260 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
262 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
263 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
265 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
266 are not in the system include path.
268 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
269 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
270 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
271 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
273 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
274 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
275 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
277 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
279 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
280 an incoming connection.
282 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
285 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
286 fallback to "prime256v1".
288 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
289 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
295 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
296 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
297 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
298 client dropping the TLS connection.
300 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
301 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
303 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
304 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
305 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
306 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
309 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
310 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
311 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
312 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
313 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
314 check on the next write.
316 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
317 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
318 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
319 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
320 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
322 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
323 mime_regex ACL conditions.
325 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
326 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
327 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
329 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
330 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
331 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
332 an authenticate fail is not an error.
334 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
335 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
337 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
338 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
340 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
341 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
342 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
345 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
347 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
349 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
351 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
352 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
354 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
355 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
357 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
359 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
360 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
362 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
364 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
365 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
367 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
369 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
370 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
371 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
372 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
373 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
374 they will retry in-clear.
375 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
376 at installation time.
378 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
379 with the $config_file variable.
381 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
382 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
383 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
384 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
385 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
387 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
388 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
389 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
390 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
391 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
393 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
395 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
396 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
397 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
398 list order is no longer honoured.
400 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
403 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
404 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
406 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
407 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
408 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
409 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
411 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
412 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
414 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
415 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
417 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
418 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
420 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
422 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
423 cached by the daemon.
425 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
426 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
428 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
429 keys are given for lookup.
431 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
432 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
433 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
434 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
436 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
437 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
438 server-side so match that on older versions.
440 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
441 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
442 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
444 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
445 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
447 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
448 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
449 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
450 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
451 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
452 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
453 initial truncated version.
455 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
457 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
459 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
460 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
462 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
464 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
466 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
467 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
470 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
471 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
474 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
475 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
477 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
478 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
481 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
482 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
483 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
485 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
486 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
487 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
488 extraction. Accept either.
494 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
497 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
499 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
502 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
503 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
504 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
505 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
507 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
508 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
509 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
511 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
512 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
513 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
516 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
519 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
520 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
521 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
522 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
523 have a dsn_lasthop option.
525 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
526 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
527 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
529 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
531 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
532 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
534 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
535 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
537 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
540 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
541 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
543 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
544 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
545 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
547 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
548 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
549 specify a port-range.
551 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
552 timeout value per server.
554 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
555 now have the list separator specified.
557 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
560 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
563 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
565 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
566 rather than the verbs used.
568 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
569 from 255 to 1024 chars.
571 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
573 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
574 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
576 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
577 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
579 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
580 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
582 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
584 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
586 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
587 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
588 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
589 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
591 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
593 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
594 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
596 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
597 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
599 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
601 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
603 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
605 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
606 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
608 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
609 added for tls authenticator.
611 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
617 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
618 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
619 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
620 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
621 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
622 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
623 the script parsing/test process like normal.
625 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
626 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
627 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
628 function when detected.
630 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
631 cause callback expansion.
633 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
634 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
635 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
636 instead of bool when processing it.
638 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
639 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
641 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
643 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
645 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
647 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
648 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
650 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
651 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
652 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
653 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
654 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
655 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
657 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
658 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
661 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
662 version 3.3.6 or later.
664 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
665 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
666 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
667 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
668 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
669 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
672 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
673 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
675 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
676 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
677 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
680 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
681 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
682 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
684 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
685 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
687 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
688 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
691 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
693 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
694 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
696 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
697 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
700 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
702 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
705 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
706 output list separator was used.
711 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
712 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
715 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
716 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
718 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
720 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
721 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
727 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
729 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
730 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
731 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
732 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
733 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
734 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
736 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
737 utilities have not been installed.
739 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
740 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
742 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
743 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
745 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
746 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
747 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
748 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
750 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
752 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
753 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
755 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
758 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
760 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
761 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
762 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
764 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
765 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
766 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
767 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
768 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
769 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
771 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
773 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
774 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
776 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
779 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
781 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
783 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
784 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
786 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
787 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
789 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
791 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
793 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
794 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
796 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
797 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
798 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
800 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
801 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
802 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
805 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
807 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
808 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
811 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
812 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
815 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
816 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
818 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
819 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
821 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
823 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
824 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
825 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
827 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
828 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
830 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
831 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
834 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
835 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
836 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
838 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
840 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
841 Christian Aistleitner.
843 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
845 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
846 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
848 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
849 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
851 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
852 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
854 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
855 support and error reporting did not work properly.
857 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
858 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
860 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
861 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
862 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
864 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
866 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
867 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
870 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
872 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
873 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
880 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
882 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
883 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
885 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
888 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
889 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
892 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
894 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
895 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
896 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
897 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
898 using channel bindings instead).
900 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
901 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
902 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
903 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
904 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
907 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
909 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
911 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
912 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
914 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
915 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
916 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
918 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
920 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
922 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
923 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
925 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
927 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
929 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
931 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
932 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
934 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
936 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
937 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
940 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
941 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
943 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
944 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
947 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
949 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
951 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
952 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
954 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
957 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
958 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
960 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
961 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
963 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
965 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
967 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
970 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
973 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
975 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
976 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
977 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
978 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
980 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
982 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
983 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
984 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
985 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
988 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
989 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
990 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
992 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
993 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
994 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
995 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
997 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
998 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
999 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1000 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1001 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1002 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1003 delivery, as in LMTP.
1005 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1006 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1008 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1010 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1014 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1015 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1016 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1017 username as equal to the username.
1019 This change corrects that bug.
1021 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1022 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1023 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1025 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1027 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1028 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1029 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1030 NULL dereference and crash.
1032 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1034 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1035 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1036 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1038 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1040 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1041 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1042 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1043 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1044 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1045 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1046 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1047 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1048 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1049 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1050 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1052 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1053 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1055 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1056 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1059 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1060 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1061 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1062 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1063 an empty string is now equivalent.
1065 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1066 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1067 not performing validation itself.
1069 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1070 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1072 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1075 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1077 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1078 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1079 other false fix of the same issue.
1080 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1083 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1084 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1086 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1087 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1088 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1090 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1091 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1092 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1094 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1096 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1098 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1099 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1101 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1104 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1105 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1106 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1107 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1108 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1110 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1111 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1113 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1114 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1117 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1118 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1119 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1120 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1122 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1124 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1125 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1126 from multiple comments on this bug.
1128 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1130 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1131 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1134 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1135 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1137 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1138 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1144 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1146 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1152 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1153 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1154 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1156 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1158 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1161 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1163 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1165 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1167 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1168 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1170 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1171 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1173 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1174 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1176 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1177 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1178 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1180 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1182 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1183 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1185 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1187 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1189 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1190 non-compliant senders.
1191 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1193 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1194 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1195 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1197 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1198 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1199 in spool file corruption.
1201 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1202 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1203 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1206 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1207 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1208 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1210 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1211 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1213 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1215 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1217 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1219 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1220 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1221 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1223 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1224 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1225 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1226 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1228 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1229 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1231 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1232 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1233 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1234 resolver implementation change.
1236 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1237 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1239 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1241 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1243 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1244 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1246 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1247 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1249 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1250 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1252 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1253 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1254 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1255 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1256 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1258 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1260 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1261 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1262 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1264 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1266 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1267 read-only, out of scope).
1268 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1270 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1271 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1272 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1273 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1275 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1277 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1278 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1279 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1280 real issues in debug logging.
1282 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1283 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1285 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1286 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1287 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1289 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1290 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1291 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1294 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1295 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1297 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1298 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1299 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1300 needs to override this, it can.
1302 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1303 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1304 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1306 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1307 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1308 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1309 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1311 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1317 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1318 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1320 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1322 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1325 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1326 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1328 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1329 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1330 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1332 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1333 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1334 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1335 not safe for signals.
1337 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1338 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1339 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1340 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1343 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1345 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1346 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1347 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1348 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1349 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1351 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1352 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1353 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1354 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1355 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1356 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1358 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1359 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1360 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1361 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1363 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1364 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1365 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1366 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1368 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1369 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1370 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1371 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1372 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1373 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1374 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1375 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1376 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1378 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1379 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1380 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1381 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1383 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1384 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1385 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1386 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1387 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1388 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1389 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1390 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1391 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1392 details in the main documentation.
1394 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1396 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1398 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1399 repository when doing development or release builds.
1401 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1402 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1404 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1405 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1408 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1410 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1411 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1413 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1414 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1416 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1417 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1419 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1420 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1422 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1423 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1425 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1427 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1430 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1431 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1432 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1434 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1436 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1438 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1439 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1445 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1447 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1448 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1450 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1452 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1454 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1457 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1458 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1460 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1461 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1463 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1464 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1466 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1469 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1470 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1472 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1473 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1474 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1475 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1477 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1478 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1484 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1487 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1488 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1489 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1491 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1492 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1494 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1495 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1496 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1498 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1499 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1501 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1502 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1504 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1505 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1507 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1508 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1510 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1511 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1513 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1516 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1517 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1519 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1520 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1522 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1523 SQL string expansion failure details.
1524 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1526 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1527 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1529 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1530 extern declarations in function scope.
1531 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1533 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1534 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1535 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1538 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1539 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1541 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1542 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1544 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1545 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1547 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1548 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1550 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1551 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1554 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1556 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1558 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1559 Patch by Simon Arlott
1561 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1562 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1568 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1569 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1571 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1572 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1574 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1576 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1577 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1578 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1580 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1581 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1582 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1584 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1585 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1586 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1587 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1589 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1590 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1591 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1592 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1594 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1595 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1596 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1599 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1602 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1603 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1604 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1605 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1606 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1612 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1613 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1614 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1616 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1617 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1619 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1621 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1623 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1625 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1627 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1629 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1630 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1631 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1632 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1634 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1635 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1636 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1637 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1638 more caution in buffer sizes.
1640 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1642 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1644 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1646 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1648 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1650 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1652 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1654 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1655 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1656 ignore trailing whitespace.
1658 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1660 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1663 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1664 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1666 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1667 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1668 Notification from John Horne.
1670 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1673 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1674 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1677 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1680 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1681 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1682 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1684 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1685 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1686 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1689 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1690 option (effectively making it always true).
1692 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1693 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1695 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1696 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1698 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1699 run-time user, instead of root.
1701 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1702 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1704 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1705 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1708 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1709 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1710 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1712 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1714 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1720 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1721 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1724 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1725 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1728 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1729 Patch from Alain Williams
1731 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1733 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1734 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1736 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1737 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1739 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1741 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1743 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1744 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1746 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1748 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1750 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1751 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1752 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1754 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1755 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1757 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1758 Patch by Simon Arlott
1760 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1761 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1767 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1769 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1771 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1773 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1775 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1781 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1782 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1784 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1785 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1788 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1789 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1790 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1792 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1793 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1795 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1796 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1797 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1798 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1800 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1801 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1802 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1804 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1806 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1808 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1809 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1811 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1813 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1814 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1815 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1816 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1818 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1819 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1821 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1823 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1825 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1826 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1828 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1829 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1831 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1832 that they are available at delivery time.
1834 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1836 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1837 incoming_port log selectors.
1839 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1840 setting expands to an empty string.
1842 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1843 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1845 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1846 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1848 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1849 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1851 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1852 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1854 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1855 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1857 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1858 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1860 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1862 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1863 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1865 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1866 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1868 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1870 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1871 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1873 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1875 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1877 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1880 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1881 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1883 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1884 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1886 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1887 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1889 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1890 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1892 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1893 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1895 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1896 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1898 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1899 plus update to original patch.
1901 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1903 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1904 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1906 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1908 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1910 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1912 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1914 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1915 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1917 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1918 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1920 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1921 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1923 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1924 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1926 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1928 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1930 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1932 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1938 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1939 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1940 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1942 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1943 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1944 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1945 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1946 build errors in sieve.c.
1948 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1949 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1950 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1952 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1954 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1956 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1958 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1964 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1966 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1967 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1968 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1969 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1970 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1971 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1972 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1973 for iplsearch lookups.
1975 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1976 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1977 previously such lookups could never work.
1979 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
1980 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1981 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1983 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1986 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1987 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1988 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1989 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1990 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1991 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1993 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1994 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1996 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1997 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1998 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1999 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2000 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2001 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2003 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2006 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2008 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2009 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2012 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2013 by clients under certain conditions.
2015 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2016 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2018 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2020 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2021 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2023 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2025 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2027 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2029 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2030 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2032 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2034 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2035 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2037 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2039 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2041 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2042 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2043 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2044 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2046 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2047 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2048 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2050 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2051 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2053 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2055 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2057 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2059 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2060 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2061 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2067 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2068 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2071 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2072 issue a MAIL command.
2074 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2076 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2078 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2079 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2080 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2081 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2082 item. This has been fixed.
2084 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2085 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2087 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2088 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2090 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2091 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2092 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2094 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2096 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2097 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2098 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2099 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2100 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2102 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2103 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2104 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2106 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2107 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2108 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2109 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2111 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2113 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2115 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2116 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2117 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2118 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2119 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2121 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2123 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2124 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2125 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2128 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2130 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2132 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2134 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2136 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2138 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2139 no_callout_flush is set.
2141 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2142 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2143 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2146 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2148 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2149 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2150 other ACL rejections are.
2152 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2153 with slight modification.
2155 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2156 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2158 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2159 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2162 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2163 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2165 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2167 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2168 expansion side effects.
2170 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2171 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2172 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2175 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2176 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2177 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2179 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2180 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2181 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2182 were accidentally chopped off.
2184 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2185 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2186 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2187 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2188 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2189 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2190 pipelining has not been advertised.
2192 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2194 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2195 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2196 This has been fixed.
2198 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2199 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2200 reported on Solaris.
2202 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2203 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2204 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2205 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2206 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2207 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2208 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2210 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2213 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2215 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2217 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2218 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2219 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2220 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2221 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2222 criteria to be more general.
2224 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2225 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2226 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2227 host_all_ignored option.
2229 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2230 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2231 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2232 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2233 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2234 is what is supposed to happen).
2236 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2237 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2238 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2239 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2240 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2243 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2244 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2245 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2246 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2247 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2248 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2251 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2253 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2254 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2256 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2257 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2259 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2261 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2263 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2264 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2265 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2266 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2267 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2268 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2269 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2270 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2271 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2272 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2273 least in a lot of common cases.
2275 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2276 advertised in response to EHLO.
2282 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2283 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2285 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2286 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2288 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2289 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2290 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2292 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2293 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2294 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2295 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2296 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2302 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2303 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2306 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2307 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2308 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2310 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2311 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2312 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2313 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2314 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2315 rather than extend the field.
2321 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2322 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2323 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2324 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2327 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2328 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2329 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2331 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2332 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2333 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2335 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2336 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2337 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2340 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2341 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2342 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2343 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2344 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2345 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2346 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2347 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2348 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2349 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2350 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2352 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2355 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2356 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2357 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2358 ignores EPIPE as well.
2360 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2361 (quoted-printable decoding).
2363 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2364 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2366 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2368 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2370 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2372 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2373 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2375 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2378 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2379 miscellaneous code fixes
2381 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2384 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2385 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2386 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2387 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2388 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2389 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2390 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2391 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2393 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2394 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2395 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2396 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2398 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2399 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2400 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2401 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2402 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2403 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2404 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2405 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2406 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2408 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2411 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2412 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2413 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2414 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2415 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2416 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2417 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2418 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2420 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2421 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2424 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2425 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2426 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2427 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2428 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2429 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2430 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2431 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2432 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2433 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2434 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2435 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2436 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2438 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2439 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2440 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2441 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2442 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2443 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2444 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2446 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2447 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2448 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2449 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2450 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2451 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2452 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2453 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2454 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2455 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2457 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2458 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2459 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2460 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2461 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2463 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2464 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2465 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2466 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2467 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2468 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2469 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2471 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2472 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2473 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2474 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2475 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2476 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2479 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2480 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2481 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2484 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2485 if any retry times were supplied.
2487 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2488 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2489 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2491 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2493 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2495 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2496 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2497 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2498 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2499 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2500 before) are ignored.
2502 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2503 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2505 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2506 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2507 committing the later change.]
2509 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2510 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2511 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2512 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2513 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2514 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2515 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2516 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2517 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2519 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2520 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2521 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2522 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2523 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2524 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2525 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2526 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2527 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2529 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2530 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2531 hammering the server.
2533 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2534 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2536 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2538 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2539 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2540 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2542 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2543 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2544 one case where this was not true.
2546 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2547 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2548 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2549 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2552 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2553 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2554 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2555 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2556 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2557 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2558 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2559 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2560 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2563 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2564 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2565 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2566 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2568 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2569 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2571 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2572 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2573 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2575 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2577 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2579 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2581 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2582 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2583 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2584 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2586 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2587 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2589 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2590 be meaningful with "accept".
2592 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2593 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2595 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2596 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2597 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2599 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2600 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2601 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2602 there is data to show.
2603 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2605 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2606 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2607 as well as the number of messages.
2609 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2610 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2611 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2613 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2614 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2615 have a flag are now skipped.
2617 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2618 Added the -emptyok flag.
2620 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2621 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2623 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2624 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2625 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2627 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2630 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2631 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2633 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2635 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2636 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2638 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2640 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2641 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2642 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2643 contravention of the specifications.
2645 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2646 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2647 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2649 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2650 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2651 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2653 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2655 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2656 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2657 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2658 some point in the past.
2660 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2661 transport during callout processing was broken.
2663 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2664 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2666 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2667 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2669 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2670 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2672 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2678 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2679 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2681 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2682 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2683 there is data to show.
2684 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2686 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2687 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2689 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2690 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2692 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2693 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2695 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2696 submissions from trusted users.
2698 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2699 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2701 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2702 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2703 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2704 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2705 there is now a framework to start from.
2707 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2708 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2709 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2711 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2713 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2715 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2717 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2718 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2719 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2721 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2724 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2725 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2726 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2728 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2729 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2730 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2733 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2734 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2735 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2736 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2737 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2739 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2740 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2742 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2744 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2745 operations in malware.c.
2747 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2750 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2751 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2752 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2755 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2756 statements to "add_header".
2758 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2759 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2761 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2762 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2765 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2769 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2770 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2771 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2774 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2775 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2777 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2778 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2780 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2781 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2782 any possible encoding problems.
2784 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2785 but not after initializing Perl.
2787 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2788 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2789 apparently, which is not desirable.
2791 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2794 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2797 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2799 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2800 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2801 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2802 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2804 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2805 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2806 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2808 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2809 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2810 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2813 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2814 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2815 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2816 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2817 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2823 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2824 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2826 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2829 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2830 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2831 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2832 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2833 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2834 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2835 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2836 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2839 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2841 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2842 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2843 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2845 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2846 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2847 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2850 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2851 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2853 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2854 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2855 option (which defaults to 0600).
2857 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2859 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2860 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2861 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2862 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2863 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2864 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2865 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2867 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2873 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2874 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2875 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2876 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2877 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2878 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2881 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2882 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2884 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2886 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2887 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2888 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2889 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2890 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2893 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2894 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2896 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2897 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2898 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2899 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2900 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2902 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2903 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2904 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2905 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2907 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2908 be the same on different OS.
2910 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2913 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2914 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2916 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2919 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2920 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2921 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2922 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2923 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2924 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2927 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2928 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2929 when Exim was called.
2931 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2932 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2934 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2935 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2936 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2937 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2939 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2940 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2941 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2942 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2945 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2946 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2947 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2949 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2950 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2951 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2953 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2956 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2957 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2958 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2959 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2960 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2961 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2962 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2963 values from the SRV records were lost.
2965 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2966 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2967 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2969 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2970 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2971 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2973 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2974 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2975 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2976 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2977 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2978 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2979 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2980 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2981 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2982 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2984 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2985 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2986 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2988 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2989 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2991 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2992 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2993 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2994 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2997 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2998 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2999 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3001 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3002 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3003 PH/23 above applies.
3005 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3006 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3007 (for which there is an explicit test).
3009 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3011 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3012 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3013 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3014 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3015 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3017 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3018 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3019 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3020 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3022 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3023 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3024 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3026 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3028 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3030 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3031 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3032 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3034 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3035 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3036 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3037 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3038 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3040 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3041 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3042 the message gets confusing).
3044 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3045 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3046 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3047 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3049 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3050 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3051 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3052 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3055 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3056 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3057 the different processes.
3059 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3061 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3063 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3064 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3066 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3067 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3069 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3070 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3071 messages matching specified criteria.
3073 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3075 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3076 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3078 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3079 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3080 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3081 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3082 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3083 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3084 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3085 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3086 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3087 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3089 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3090 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3091 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3093 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3095 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3096 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3097 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3098 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3099 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3100 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3101 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3104 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3105 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3107 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3109 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3111 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3113 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3114 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3115 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3116 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3117 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3118 size of the count of files.
3120 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3122 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3125 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3126 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3127 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3128 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3130 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3131 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3132 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3134 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3135 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3136 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3137 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3138 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3140 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3141 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3143 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3144 will now be deprecated.
3146 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3148 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3149 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3150 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3152 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3153 with very large, slow to parse queues
3155 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3157 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3159 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3160 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3161 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3164 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3165 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3166 Sieve code now uses this.
3168 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3169 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3171 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3172 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3174 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3176 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3177 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3178 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3179 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3180 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3182 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3183 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3184 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3185 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3187 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3189 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3191 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3192 is preferred over IPv4.
3194 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3195 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3196 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3197 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3198 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3199 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3200 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3202 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3203 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3204 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3206 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3208 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3209 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3210 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3211 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3212 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3213 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3214 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3215 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3216 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3217 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3218 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3220 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3221 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3222 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3228 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3230 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3231 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3233 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3234 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3235 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3237 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3239 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3242 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3245 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3246 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3247 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3250 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3251 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3253 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3254 inside the third argument.
3256 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3257 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3260 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3261 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3263 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3264 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3266 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3268 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3269 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3272 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3274 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3275 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3276 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3277 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3278 identical. For example:
3280 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3282 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3283 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3284 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3286 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3287 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3288 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3289 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3291 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3292 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3293 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3296 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3298 o fixes some comments
3299 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3300 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3301 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3302 and documents the missing references header update
3306 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3307 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3310 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3311 Electronic Mail") by including:
3313 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3315 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3316 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3317 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3318 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3319 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3321 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3323 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3325 The auto-replied keyword:
3327 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3328 message by an automatic process,
3330 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3332 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3333 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3335 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3336 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3339 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3340 to the default Received: header definition.
3342 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3344 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3345 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3346 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3348 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3349 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3350 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3352 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3353 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3354 and treats the condition as false.
3356 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3358 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3359 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3360 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3361 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3362 not changing the active code.
3364 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3365 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3367 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3368 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3370 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3373 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3374 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3375 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3376 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3377 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3378 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3379 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3380 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3381 the text comparison.
3383 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3384 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3385 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3386 The same fix has been applied.
3392 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3393 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3396 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3397 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3399 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3401 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3402 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3403 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3404 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3405 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3407 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3408 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3409 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3410 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3413 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3421 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3422 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3424 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3426 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3428 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3429 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3430 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3432 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3433 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3434 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3436 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3437 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3440 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3441 ${stat: expansion item.
3443 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3444 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3446 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3447 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3450 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3452 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3455 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3456 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3458 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3460 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3461 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3462 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3463 the end of the subprocess.
3465 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3466 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3467 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3468 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3469 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3471 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3473 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3475 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3476 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3478 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3480 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3482 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3483 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3486 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3488 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3489 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3490 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3492 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3493 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3495 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3496 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3498 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3499 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3501 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3502 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3504 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3505 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3506 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3507 contributed by a Radius user.
3509 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3510 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3512 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3513 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3515 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3518 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3519 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3522 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3523 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3524 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3525 header lines when this was not necessary.
3527 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3529 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3530 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3531 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3534 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3537 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3538 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3539 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3540 return code was incorrect.
3542 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3544 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3546 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3548 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3550 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3551 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3552 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3553 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3554 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3557 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3559 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3560 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3561 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3562 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3563 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3564 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3565 which is clearly wrong.
3567 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3569 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3570 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3571 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3574 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3575 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3577 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3579 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3580 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3582 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3583 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3585 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3586 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3588 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3589 recipients, not senders.
3591 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3592 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3594 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3596 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3598 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3599 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3600 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3601 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3603 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3605 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3606 clock is set back in time.
3608 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3609 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3611 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3612 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3614 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3615 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3618 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3619 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3622 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3625 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3627 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3628 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3629 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3631 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3632 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3633 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3634 helo verification defer as a failure.
3636 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3637 actual error message.
3643 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3645 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3646 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3647 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3648 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3650 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3652 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3653 can still be requested.
3655 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3656 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3657 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3658 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3660 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3661 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3662 circumstances, but probably never did.
3664 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3665 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3666 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3669 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3671 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3672 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3674 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3676 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3678 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3679 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3680 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3681 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3682 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3683 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3685 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3686 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3687 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3688 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3689 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3690 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3692 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3693 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3695 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3696 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3698 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3699 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3701 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3703 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3705 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3707 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3709 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3711 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3713 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3715 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3716 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3717 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3719 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3720 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3721 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3722 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3724 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3725 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3726 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3728 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3729 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3730 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3731 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3733 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3734 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3737 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3738 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3739 should work with maildirs and everything.
3741 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3742 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3744 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3747 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3748 function for BDB 4.3.
3750 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3752 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3753 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3756 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3757 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3758 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3759 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3760 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3761 formatting function string_vformat().
3763 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3764 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3765 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3766 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3767 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3768 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3769 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3770 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3772 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3773 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3776 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3777 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3779 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3780 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3781 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3782 test. It is now used for both.
3784 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3785 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3786 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3787 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3788 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3789 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3791 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3792 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3793 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3796 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3797 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3798 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3800 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3801 experimental DomainKeys support:
3803 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3804 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3805 the control was given.
3807 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3809 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3811 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3813 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3814 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3815 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3818 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3819 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3820 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3821 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3822 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3823 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3826 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3827 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3828 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3829 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3830 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3831 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3833 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3834 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3835 do -d+all out of habit.
3837 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3838 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3841 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3842 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3843 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3844 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3845 record types that Exim uses.
3847 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3848 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3849 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3850 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3851 non-existent file that was broken.
3853 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3854 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3856 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3857 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3858 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3860 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3862 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3863 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3864 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3865 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3866 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3869 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3870 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3871 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3872 at a slight CPU cost.
3874 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3875 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3877 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3880 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3882 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3883 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3889 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3890 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3892 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3894 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3896 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3897 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3899 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3900 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3901 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3902 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3903 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3904 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3907 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3908 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3909 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3910 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3913 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3914 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3915 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3916 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3917 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3918 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3919 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3922 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3923 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3925 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3926 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3927 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3928 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3929 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3930 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3932 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3933 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3934 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3935 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3937 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3940 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3941 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3943 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3944 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3945 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3946 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3949 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3951 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3952 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3954 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3955 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3956 to what was transported.)
3958 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3960 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3961 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3962 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3963 spamd_address settings.
3965 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3966 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3967 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3968 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3969 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3971 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3973 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3974 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3975 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3976 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3977 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3979 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3980 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3982 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3983 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3984 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3985 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3986 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3987 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3988 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3991 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3992 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3993 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3994 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3995 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3996 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3997 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4000 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4002 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4003 driver and ACL definitions.
4005 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4006 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4008 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4009 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4010 understands it better than I do:
4012 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4013 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4015 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4016 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4017 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4018 => three warnings about OTP not working
4019 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4021 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4022 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4023 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4024 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4026 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4027 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4029 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4030 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4031 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4033 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4034 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4037 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4038 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4041 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4042 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4043 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4045 warn !verify = sender
4046 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4048 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4049 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4051 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4053 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4054 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4056 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4057 nomenclature these days.)
4059 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4060 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4062 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4063 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4064 . First host does not offer TLS;
4065 . First host accepts first address;
4066 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4067 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4068 . Second host accepts second address.
4069 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4070 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4073 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4074 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4075 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4076 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4077 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4079 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4080 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4082 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4083 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4085 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4086 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4087 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4089 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4090 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4093 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4095 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4096 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4097 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4098 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4099 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4100 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4101 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4103 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4104 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4105 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4106 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4107 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4109 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4110 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4113 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4114 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4115 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4116 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4117 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4118 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4120 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4122 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4123 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4124 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4125 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4126 printable escape sequences.
4128 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4129 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4132 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4133 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4136 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4137 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4138 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4139 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4140 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4142 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4143 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4144 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4146 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4148 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4149 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4152 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4153 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4154 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4155 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4156 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4157 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4158 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4159 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4160 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4163 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4164 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4165 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4166 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4170 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4171 ----------------------------------------
4173 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4174 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4175 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4176 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4177 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4178 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4181 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4182 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4183 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4184 historical information.
4190 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4192 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4193 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4195 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4196 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4199 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4200 filter fails to execute.
4202 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4203 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4204 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4205 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4206 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4208 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4210 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4211 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4212 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4213 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4215 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4216 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4217 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4218 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4219 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4221 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4223 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4225 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4226 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4227 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4228 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4230 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4231 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4232 sender verification.
4234 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4235 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4237 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4239 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4242 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4243 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4245 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4246 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4248 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4249 information about exactly what failed.
4251 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4253 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4254 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4255 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4257 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4258 It is now set to "smtps".
4260 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4261 ignore_target_hosts.
4263 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4264 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4265 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4266 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4269 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4270 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4271 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4273 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4274 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4275 wake it up if nothing else does.
4277 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4278 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4279 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4282 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4283 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4285 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4287 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4288 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4289 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4290 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4291 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4292 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4293 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4294 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4296 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4297 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4298 than one IP address.
4300 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4301 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4302 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4303 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4305 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4306 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4307 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4308 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4309 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4312 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4313 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4314 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4315 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4317 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4318 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4321 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4322 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4323 $sender_host_address.
4325 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4326 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4327 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4328 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4329 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4332 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4334 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4335 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4337 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4338 just the host names, not the priorities.
4340 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4341 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4342 controlled by a keyword.
4344 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4345 multiple records are returned.
4347 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4348 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4351 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4353 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4354 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4356 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4357 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4358 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4360 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4362 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4364 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4366 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4367 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4368 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4369 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4370 because the tests only now provoked it.
4372 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4373 (this can affect the format of dates).
4375 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4376 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4377 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4378 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4380 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4382 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4383 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4384 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4385 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4387 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4388 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4389 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4391 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4394 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4395 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4396 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4397 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4398 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4399 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4402 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4403 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4404 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4407 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4408 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4409 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4411 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4412 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4413 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4414 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4415 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4416 so I produce this patch..."
4418 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4419 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4422 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4423 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4424 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4425 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4428 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4430 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4431 long debug lines gets shown.
4433 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4434 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4436 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4438 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4439 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4440 of $primary_hostname.
4442 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4443 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4444 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4445 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4446 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4447 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4448 by change 4.50/55 above.
4450 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4451 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4452 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4453 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4454 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4455 running as the user.
4458 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4459 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4460 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4463 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4464 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4466 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4467 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4468 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4469 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4470 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4472 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4473 This has been fixed.
4475 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4476 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4477 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4478 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4481 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4483 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4484 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4485 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4486 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4488 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4489 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4491 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4492 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4493 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4495 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4496 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4497 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4500 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4501 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4502 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4504 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4505 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4506 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4507 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4509 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4510 during host lookups.
4512 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4513 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4515 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4517 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4518 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4519 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4520 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4521 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4524 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4525 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4527 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4528 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4529 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4531 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4533 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4534 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4535 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4536 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4537 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4538 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4541 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4542 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4543 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4544 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4545 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4547 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4550 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4552 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4553 "vacation" handling.
4555 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4556 OS variants using glibc.
4558 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4561 ----------------------------------------------------
4562 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4563 ----------------------------------------------------
4569 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4570 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4573 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4574 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4577 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4578 filter fails to execute.
4580 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4581 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4582 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4583 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4584 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4586 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4587 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4588 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4589 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4591 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4592 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4593 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4594 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4595 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4597 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4599 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4600 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4601 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4602 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4604 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4605 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4606 sender verification.
4608 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4609 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4611 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4612 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4614 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4615 ignore_target_hosts.
4617 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4618 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4619 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4620 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4623 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4624 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4625 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4627 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4628 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4629 wake it up if nothing else does.
4631 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4632 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4633 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4636 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4637 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4639 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4641 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4642 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4645 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4646 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4649 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4650 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4651 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4652 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4653 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4656 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4657 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4660 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4661 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4662 $sender_host_address.
4664 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4666 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4667 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4668 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4670 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4673 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4674 (this can affect the format of dates).
4676 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4677 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4678 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4679 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4681 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4682 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4683 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4685 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4686 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4687 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4688 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4690 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4691 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4692 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4694 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4697 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4698 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4699 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4700 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4701 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4702 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4705 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4706 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4707 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4708 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4711 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4712 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4713 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4714 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4715 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4716 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4717 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4719 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4720 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4721 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4722 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4723 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4724 running as the user.
4727 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4728 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4729 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4732 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4733 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4734 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4735 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4736 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4738 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4739 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4740 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4741 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4744 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4745 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4746 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4747 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4748 because the tests only now provoked it.
4754 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4755 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4756 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4757 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4758 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4759 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4760 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4762 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4763 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4766 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4768 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4770 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4771 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4774 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4775 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4776 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4777 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4778 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4780 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4781 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4783 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4785 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4787 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4790 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4791 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4793 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4794 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4795 affecting debugging statements).
4797 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4799 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4800 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4801 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4802 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4803 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4804 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4805 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4806 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4807 after the received time, and all would be well.
4809 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4810 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4811 condition in an expansion string.
4813 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4815 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4816 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4817 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4818 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4819 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4820 job under whatever limits there are.
4822 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4824 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4827 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4828 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4829 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4830 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4833 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4834 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4835 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4836 binary data in such strings.
4838 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4840 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4841 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4842 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4843 failure, which is pointless.
4845 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4847 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4849 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4850 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4851 Sender: header lines.
4853 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4854 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4855 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4857 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4858 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4859 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4860 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4861 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4864 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4865 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4866 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4867 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4868 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4870 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4871 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4872 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4875 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4876 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4878 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4879 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4881 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4883 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4885 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4887 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4890 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4892 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4894 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4895 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4896 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4897 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4899 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4900 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4906 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4907 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4908 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4910 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4911 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4912 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4913 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4914 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4915 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4917 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4918 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4919 verification failure".
4921 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4922 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4923 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4924 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4926 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4927 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4928 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4929 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4930 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4931 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4932 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4933 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4934 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4935 treated as a timeout.
4937 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4938 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4939 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4940 not set for Exim filters).
4942 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4943 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4944 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4946 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4948 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4949 try to make them clearer.
4951 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4952 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4954 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4956 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4958 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4959 only the Cygwin environment.
4961 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4962 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4963 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4964 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4965 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4967 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4968 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4969 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4970 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4971 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4972 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4973 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4975 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4976 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4978 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4980 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4981 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4982 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4984 To: susanne@some.where
4986 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4987 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4988 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4989 of addresses in From: header lines).
4991 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4992 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4993 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4995 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4996 treated as non-personal.
4998 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4999 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5001 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5003 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5005 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5006 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5007 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5009 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5010 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5012 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5013 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5014 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5015 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5016 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5017 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5019 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5020 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5021 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5022 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5023 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5024 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5025 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5026 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5028 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5030 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5031 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5033 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5034 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5035 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5037 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5038 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5040 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5041 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5042 rather than long int.
5044 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5046 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5052 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5053 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5054 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5055 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5056 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5057 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5063 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5064 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5066 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5067 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5068 socklen_t is defined.
5070 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5073 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5076 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5077 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5078 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5079 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5080 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5082 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5083 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5084 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5085 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5087 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5088 of flapping under certain conditions.
5090 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5091 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5092 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5094 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5096 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5098 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5099 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5100 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5101 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5103 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5104 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5105 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5106 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5107 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5108 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5109 preserved with the message after it was received.
5111 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5112 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5113 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5114 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5115 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5116 test suite worked just fine.
5118 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5119 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5120 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5122 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5123 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5126 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5127 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5128 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5129 does not fully solve it.
5131 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5132 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5133 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5134 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5135 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5137 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5138 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5139 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5141 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5142 string, for example:
5144 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5146 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5147 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5148 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5149 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5150 the routers could not see them.
5152 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5153 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5155 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5156 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5159 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5160 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5161 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5162 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5163 that needed quoting.
5165 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5166 was not being matched caselessly.
5168 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5171 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5172 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5173 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5174 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5175 when use_sender is false.
5177 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5179 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5181 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5183 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5184 the configuration file.
5186 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5187 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5189 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5191 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5192 bytes in the message body.
5194 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5195 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5198 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5200 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5202 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5203 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5204 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5205 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5212 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5213 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5215 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5216 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5217 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5218 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5219 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5221 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5222 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5224 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5225 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5226 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5228 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5229 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5230 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5232 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5235 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5236 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5237 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5238 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5239 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5240 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5241 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5247 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5248 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5249 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5250 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5251 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5252 default (and expected) setting.
5254 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5255 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5256 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5257 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5259 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5260 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5262 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5265 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5266 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5267 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5268 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5269 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5270 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5272 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5273 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5274 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5276 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5277 part (NOT match_host).
5279 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5281 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5282 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5283 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5284 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5285 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5286 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5287 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5288 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5289 the same named file.
5291 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5292 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5295 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5296 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5297 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5298 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5301 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5302 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5303 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5305 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5307 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5309 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5311 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5312 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5314 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5315 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5316 before starting the TLS session.
5318 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5320 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5321 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5323 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5324 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5325 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5326 colon in the middle).
5332 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5333 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5334 multiple configurations are in use.
5336 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5337 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5338 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5339 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5340 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5341 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5343 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5344 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5346 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5347 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5348 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5350 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5351 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5354 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5355 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5357 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5359 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5360 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5362 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5370 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5371 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5372 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5373 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5374 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5376 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5379 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5380 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5381 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5382 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5383 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5384 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5386 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5387 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5388 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5389 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5390 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5391 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5392 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5395 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5396 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5397 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5398 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5399 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5401 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5403 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5404 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5405 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5407 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5409 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5410 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5411 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5414 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5415 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5417 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5418 Three changes have been made:
5420 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5421 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5422 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5423 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5424 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5426 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5429 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5430 the modified behaviour.
5436 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5439 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5440 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5442 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5443 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5444 try to track down a specific problem.
5446 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5447 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5448 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5450 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5453 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5454 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5455 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5456 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5457 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5458 some earlier ones do not.
5460 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5462 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5463 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5464 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5465 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5466 address literals are enabled, of course).
5468 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5470 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5471 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5472 by a command such as
5476 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5478 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5480 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5481 remained set. It is now erased.
5483 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5484 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5486 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5487 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5488 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5489 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5490 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5491 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5492 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5493 appropriate error code.
5495 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5496 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5497 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5498 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5499 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5500 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5502 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5503 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5504 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5506 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5507 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5508 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5509 terminate the header.
5511 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5512 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5513 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5515 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5516 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5517 (4.30/29). In particular:
5519 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5522 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5523 to write a maildirsize file.
5525 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5526 the transport, the new value overrides.
5528 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5531 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5532 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5533 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5536 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5537 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5538 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5541 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5542 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5543 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5545 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5546 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5549 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5550 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5551 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5553 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5555 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5557 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5559 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5560 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5563 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5564 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5565 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5566 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5567 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5568 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5569 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5572 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5573 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5574 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5575 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5576 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5579 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5580 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5581 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5582 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5583 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5584 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5585 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5586 cached value only when the same options are set.
5588 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5590 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5591 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5592 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5593 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5594 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5596 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5597 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5598 it is clearly obsolete.
5600 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5603 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5604 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5605 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5608 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5609 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5610 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5611 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5612 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5614 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5615 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5616 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5617 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5619 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5621 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5623 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5624 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5627 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5628 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5629 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5630 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5631 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5632 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5635 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5636 with the -f command-line option.
5638 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5639 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5640 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5641 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5642 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5643 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5645 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5646 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5649 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5650 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5651 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5652 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5653 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5654 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5655 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5656 buffer is too small.
5658 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5659 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5661 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5662 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5663 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5664 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5665 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5666 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5667 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5668 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5669 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5671 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5672 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5673 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5675 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5676 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5679 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5680 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5681 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5682 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5683 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5685 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5686 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5687 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5688 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5691 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5693 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5695 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5696 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5698 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5699 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5700 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5702 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5703 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5704 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5705 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5706 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5708 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5709 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5710 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5711 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5712 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5713 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5714 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5716 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5717 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5718 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5719 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5720 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5721 the test of how many are available.
5723 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5724 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5725 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5726 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5727 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5728 new message is started.
5730 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5731 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5733 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5734 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5736 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5737 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5738 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5741 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5742 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5743 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5744 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5745 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5746 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5747 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5749 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5750 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5751 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5752 interpreted as octal.
5754 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5757 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5758 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5759 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5760 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5761 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5762 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5764 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5765 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5766 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5767 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5769 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5770 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5771 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5772 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5774 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5775 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5778 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5779 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5781 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5783 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5784 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5785 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5786 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5788 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5789 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5790 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5791 supplied", which is not helpful.
5793 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5794 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5795 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5797 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5798 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5799 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5800 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5801 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5802 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5803 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5804 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5806 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5807 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5808 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5809 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5810 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5812 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5813 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5814 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5815 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5816 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5817 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5819 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5820 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5821 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5823 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5825 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5826 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5827 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5830 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5832 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5833 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5834 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5835 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5836 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5837 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5838 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5839 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5841 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5842 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5843 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5844 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5845 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5847 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5850 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5851 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5852 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5853 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5854 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5855 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5856 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5857 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5858 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5864 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5865 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5866 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5868 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5871 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5872 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5873 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5875 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5876 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5877 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5878 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5879 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5880 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5882 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5883 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5884 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5885 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5886 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5887 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5888 the Exim test suite.
5890 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5891 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5892 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5893 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5895 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5896 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5897 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5898 specify it in this variable.
5900 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5901 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5902 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5903 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5905 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5906 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5907 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5908 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5910 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5911 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5912 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5913 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5914 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5916 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5918 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5921 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5922 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5923 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5924 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5925 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5927 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5928 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5930 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5931 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5932 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5933 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5934 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5936 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5937 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5939 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5940 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5941 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5943 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5944 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5946 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5947 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5949 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5950 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5951 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5953 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5954 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5956 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5957 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5958 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5959 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5961 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5963 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5964 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5965 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5966 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5968 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5970 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5971 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5973 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5975 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5976 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5977 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5978 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5979 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5980 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5982 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5984 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5985 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5988 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5990 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5991 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5993 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5994 550 Sender verify failed
5996 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5997 the final line of the response.
5999 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6000 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6001 all other user lookups.
6003 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6006 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6007 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6008 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6009 result into an int without checking.
6011 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6012 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6013 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6015 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6016 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6017 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6018 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6020 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6023 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6024 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6026 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6027 to the empty sender.
6029 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6030 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6031 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6032 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6033 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6034 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6035 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6038 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6039 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6040 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6041 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6044 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6045 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6047 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6050 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6051 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6053 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6055 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6056 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6059 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6060 as soon as it is encountered.
6062 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6064 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6067 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6068 recognizes a tab character.
6070 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6071 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6072 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6073 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6075 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6077 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6080 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6082 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6084 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6085 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6088 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6089 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6090 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6091 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6092 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6094 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6095 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6097 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6098 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6099 list (.included file names were always shown).
6101 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6102 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6103 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6106 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6107 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6109 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6111 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6113 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6115 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6116 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6117 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6118 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6119 failures to open the logs.
6121 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6122 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6123 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6124 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6125 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6126 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6127 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6133 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6134 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6135 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6138 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6139 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6140 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6142 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6143 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6144 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6146 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6147 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6148 causing some misleading effects.
6150 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6151 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6152 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6154 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6155 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6156 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6157 queue-runner function directly.
6163 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6166 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6167 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6168 was always written to the default place.
6170 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6171 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6172 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6174 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6176 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6178 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6179 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6180 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6182 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6183 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6186 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6187 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6188 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6190 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6191 command line option is disabled.
6193 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6194 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6196 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6198 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6200 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6201 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6203 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6205 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6206 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6207 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6208 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6209 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6210 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6212 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6213 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6216 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6217 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6219 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6220 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6222 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6223 received was valid base64.
6225 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6226 name of the variable that was being set.
6228 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6230 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6231 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6232 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6233 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6234 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6235 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6237 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6239 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6240 nor realm was specified.
6242 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6243 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6244 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6245 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6247 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6248 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6249 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6251 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6252 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6253 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6255 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6256 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6257 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6258 some systems use these upper case variants.
6260 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6261 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6262 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6263 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6265 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6267 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6268 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6270 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6271 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6274 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6276 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6277 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6278 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6279 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6281 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6284 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6285 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6286 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6288 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6289 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6291 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6292 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6293 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6294 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6296 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6297 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6298 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6300 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6302 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6303 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6304 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6305 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6308 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6309 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6310 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6312 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6314 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6315 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6317 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6318 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6320 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6321 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6322 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6323 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6324 when emails are that large.
6331 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6332 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6334 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6335 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6336 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6338 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6339 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6340 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6342 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6343 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6344 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6345 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6346 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6348 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6349 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6350 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6351 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6352 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6355 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6356 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6357 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6358 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6359 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6360 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6361 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6362 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6363 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6364 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6365 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6366 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6367 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6368 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6370 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6371 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6374 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6375 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6376 error should be diagnosed.
6378 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6379 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6380 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6381 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6382 appeared instead of "NULL".
6384 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6385 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6386 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6387 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6388 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6389 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6392 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6393 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6394 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6400 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6401 or receiver verification errors.
6403 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6406 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6407 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6408 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6409 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6411 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6412 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6413 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6414 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6415 shouldn't happen again.
6417 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6418 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6419 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6421 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6422 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6424 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6426 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6427 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6429 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6430 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6433 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6434 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6435 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6437 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6438 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6439 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6440 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6442 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6443 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6444 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6445 to define what should happen).
6447 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6448 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6449 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6451 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6453 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6455 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6456 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6458 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6459 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6460 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6461 structure in all cases.
6463 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6464 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6465 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6466 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6468 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6469 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6472 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6473 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6475 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6476 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6478 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6479 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6480 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6482 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6483 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6484 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6486 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6487 the book and for uniformity.
6489 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6491 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6492 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6493 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6494 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6495 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6496 non-existent command as the problem.
6498 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6499 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6500 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6502 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6504 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6505 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6506 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6508 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6509 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6510 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6511 timestamps using strftime().
6513 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6514 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6516 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6517 transport-time rewrites.
6519 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6520 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6521 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6522 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6524 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6525 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6527 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6528 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6529 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6530 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6533 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6534 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6535 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6536 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6537 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6538 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6539 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6541 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6542 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6543 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6544 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6545 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6547 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6548 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6549 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6550 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6551 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6552 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6553 remaining text gets split now.
6555 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6556 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6557 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6558 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6560 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6561 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6562 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6563 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6566 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6567 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6568 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6569 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6570 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6571 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6572 passed through if needed.
6574 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6575 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6576 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6577 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6578 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6579 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6581 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6582 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6583 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6584 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6585 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6587 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6588 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6589 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6590 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6591 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6593 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6594 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6597 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6598 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6599 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6600 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6601 mayhem of various kinds.
6603 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6604 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6605 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6606 the right test for positive values.
6608 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6609 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6610 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6611 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6612 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6613 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6614 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6615 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6616 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6617 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6620 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6623 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6624 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6627 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6628 the existing equality matching.
6630 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6631 dealing with inode numbers.
6633 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6634 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6635 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6637 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6638 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6639 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6640 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6643 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6644 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6645 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6646 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6647 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6648 relay addresses has also been removed.
6650 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6652 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6653 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6654 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6656 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6657 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6658 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6659 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6660 processing applies to CR:
6662 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6663 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6665 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6666 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6667 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6668 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6670 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6671 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6672 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6674 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6675 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6676 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6677 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6678 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6679 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6682 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6685 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6686 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6687 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6688 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6691 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6693 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6695 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6697 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6698 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6699 not considered personal.
6701 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6703 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6705 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6707 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6708 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6709 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6710 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6711 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6712 header lines, and spool format errors.
6714 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6715 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6716 for more flexibility.
6718 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6719 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6720 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6722 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6725 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6726 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6727 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6728 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6729 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6730 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6731 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6732 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6733 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6735 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6736 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6737 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6738 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6739 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6740 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6741 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6743 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6744 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6745 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6747 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6748 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6749 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6750 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6751 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6752 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6753 instead of killing the process with assert().
6755 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6756 than Unicode encoding.
6758 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6759 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6760 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6761 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6763 77. Added process_log_path.
6765 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6766 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6768 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6769 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6771 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6772 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6773 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6775 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6776 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6777 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6778 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6779 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6782 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6783 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6786 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6787 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6788 they will be used during message reception.
6794 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.