1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the "name"
73 argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such; this
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
93 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
94 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
95 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
97 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
99 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
100 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
103 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
104 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
105 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
107 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
109 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
111 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
112 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
113 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
115 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
116 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
117 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
119 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
120 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
122 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
123 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
126 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
127 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
128 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
129 should both provide the file and set the option.
130 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
132 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
133 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
135 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
136 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
137 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
138 Authentication-Results: header.
140 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
141 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
142 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
143 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
145 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
146 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
147 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
148 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
149 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
150 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
151 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
153 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
154 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
155 copies while it is still usable.
157 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
158 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
159 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
161 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
162 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
164 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
165 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
166 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
167 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
169 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
170 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
171 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
174 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
175 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
176 - the pipe transport command
177 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
178 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
180 - paths used by single-key lookups
181 Previously this was permitted.
183 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
184 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
185 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
186 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
188 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
189 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
190 support larger malloc requests.
192 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
193 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
194 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
195 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
197 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
198 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
199 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
200 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
203 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
204 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
205 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
206 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
207 data being length-specified.
209 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
210 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
211 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
212 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
214 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
215 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
216 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
217 not being properly tracked.
219 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
220 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
221 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
222 minute could be seen.
224 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
225 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
226 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
228 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
229 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
231 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
232 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
235 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
237 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
238 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
240 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
241 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
242 filesystem as sufficient validation.
244 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
245 argument is supplied.
247 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
248 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
249 access under Exim's current working directory.
251 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
252 Previously no event was raised.
254 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
255 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
256 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
259 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
260 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
261 the size of the signature hash.
263 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
264 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
266 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
267 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
268 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
269 dropped between messages.
271 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
272 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
273 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
274 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
276 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
277 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
278 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
279 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
280 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
281 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
282 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
283 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
284 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
286 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
287 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
288 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
290 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
291 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
298 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
299 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
301 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
302 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
305 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
308 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
310 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
312 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
313 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
315 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
316 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
317 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
318 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
319 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
320 suitably configured).
322 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
323 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
325 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
326 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
329 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
330 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
332 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
333 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
334 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
335 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
338 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
339 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
340 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
342 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
345 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
346 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
348 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
349 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
350 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
351 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
354 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
355 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
356 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
357 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
360 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
361 shared (NFS) environment.
363 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
364 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
367 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
368 on some platforms for bit 31.
370 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
371 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
372 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
373 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
374 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
375 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
376 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
377 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
379 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
381 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
382 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
384 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
385 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
388 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
389 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
392 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
393 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
394 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
397 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
398 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
399 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
401 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
402 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
403 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
404 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
405 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
407 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
410 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
411 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
412 be requested on all coneections.
414 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
415 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
417 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
419 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
420 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
421 one for these; the option was ignored.
423 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
424 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
425 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
426 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
428 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
429 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
430 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
433 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
434 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
435 error ignored was made.
437 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
439 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
440 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
441 values, to catch one form of exploit.
443 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
444 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
445 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
447 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
448 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
451 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
452 them in our smtp response.
454 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
455 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
456 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
457 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
458 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
460 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
461 link count into consideration.
463 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
464 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
466 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
467 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
468 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
471 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
473 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
475 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
477 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
478 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
479 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
480 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
482 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
484 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
485 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
488 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
489 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
490 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
492 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
493 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
494 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
496 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
497 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
498 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
499 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
500 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
501 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
502 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
503 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
505 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
506 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
507 resulted in an indefinite loop.
509 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
510 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
511 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
517 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
518 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
520 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
521 non-signal-safe functions being used.
523 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
524 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
525 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
527 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
528 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
529 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
531 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
532 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
533 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
534 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
535 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
538 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
539 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
541 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
542 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
543 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
544 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
545 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
546 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
547 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
549 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
550 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
552 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
555 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
556 Previously this would segfault.
558 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
561 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
562 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
563 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
564 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
565 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
566 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
568 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
570 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
571 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
572 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
573 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
575 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
577 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
578 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
579 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
580 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
582 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
584 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
586 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
587 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
588 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
590 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
591 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
592 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
594 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
596 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
597 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
598 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
599 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
601 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
602 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
603 promised '?' replacement.
605 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
607 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
608 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
609 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
610 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
611 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
613 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
614 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
615 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
617 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
618 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
619 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
621 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
622 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
623 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
625 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
626 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
627 hope that is portable enough.
629 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
630 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
631 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
632 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
634 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
635 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
636 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
638 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
639 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
640 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
641 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
643 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
644 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
646 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
647 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
648 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
649 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
651 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
652 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
653 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
655 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
656 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
657 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
658 the previous G, M, k.
660 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
661 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
664 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
665 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
666 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
667 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
669 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
670 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
672 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
673 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
674 off past the nul-terimation.
676 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
677 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
678 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
679 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
680 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
682 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
684 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
685 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
686 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
689 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
690 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
692 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
693 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
694 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
696 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
697 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
698 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
700 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
701 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
707 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
708 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
709 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
710 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
711 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
712 be defined in redis_servers.
714 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
715 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
717 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
718 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
719 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
720 extant use locations.
722 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
723 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
725 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
726 Previously only the last row was returned.
728 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
729 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
730 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
731 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
734 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
735 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
736 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
737 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
738 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
739 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
740 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
741 Main pool for expansions.
742 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
743 active in the testsuite.
744 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
746 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
747 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
748 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
749 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
752 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
753 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
756 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
757 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
758 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
760 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
761 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
762 ClamAV interface method is removed.
764 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
765 rows affected is given instead).
767 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
768 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
770 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
771 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
772 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
773 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
774 for all multi-message initiating connections.
776 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
777 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
778 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
780 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
781 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
782 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
783 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
786 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
787 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
788 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
791 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
793 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
794 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
796 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
797 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
798 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
800 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
801 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
802 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
805 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
806 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
808 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
809 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
810 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
812 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
813 for the build is renamed.
815 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
816 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
817 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
819 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
820 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
821 result replacing the original.
823 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
824 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
825 and the resources needed to be freed.
827 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
829 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
832 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
833 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
834 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
835 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
837 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
838 length value. Previously this would segfault.
840 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
841 newer versions of the scanner.
843 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
844 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
845 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
846 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
847 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
848 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
849 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
851 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
852 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
853 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
854 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
855 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
856 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
857 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
858 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
859 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
860 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
862 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
863 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
865 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
867 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
868 allows proper process termination in container environments.
870 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
871 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
873 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
874 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
875 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
877 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
878 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
879 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
880 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
882 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
883 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
886 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
887 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
889 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
890 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
891 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
892 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
893 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
895 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
896 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
899 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
900 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
902 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
905 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
906 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
907 "bare" representation.
909 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
910 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
911 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
912 corrupted the output.
918 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
919 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
920 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
921 pairs of long lines into single ones.
923 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
924 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
926 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
927 This permits better logging.
929 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
930 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
931 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
932 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
933 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
934 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
936 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
937 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
940 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
941 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
942 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
944 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
945 than 255 are no longer allowed.
947 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
948 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
949 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
950 client, there is no benefit for these.
951 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
952 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
953 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
956 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
957 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
959 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
960 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
961 erroneously found still-pending ones.
963 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
964 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
966 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
967 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
968 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
969 signature and again for transmission.
971 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
972 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
973 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
975 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
976 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
977 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
978 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
979 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
980 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
981 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
983 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
984 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
985 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
986 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
988 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
989 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
990 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
991 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
992 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
993 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
996 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
997 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
998 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
999 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1002 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1003 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1004 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1005 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1008 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1009 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1012 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1013 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1014 banner-time rejection.
1016 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1019 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1020 is the name of a transport.
1023 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1025 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1026 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1028 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1029 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1030 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1033 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1034 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1035 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1036 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1038 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1039 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1040 initial verify call returned a defer.
1042 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1043 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1045 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1046 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1048 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1049 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1051 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1052 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1054 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1055 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1058 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1059 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1061 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1062 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1063 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1065 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1066 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1067 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1068 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1070 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1071 and confused the parent.
1073 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1074 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1076 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1079 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1080 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1081 out-of-order delivery.
1083 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1084 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1085 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1088 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1089 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1092 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1093 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1094 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1096 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1097 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1098 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1099 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1100 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1101 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1103 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1104 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1105 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1107 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1108 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1109 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1111 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1112 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1113 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1114 though a different problem.
1120 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1121 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1123 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1125 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1126 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1128 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1129 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1131 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1132 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1133 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1134 before acknowledging the chunk.
1136 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1137 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1138 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1140 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1141 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1142 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1145 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1146 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1147 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1149 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1150 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1152 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1153 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1154 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1155 body hash calculated value.
1157 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1158 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1159 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1161 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1163 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1164 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1166 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1167 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1168 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1170 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1171 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1172 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1173 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1174 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1175 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1177 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1178 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1179 past that check, despite the cost.
1181 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1182 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1183 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1185 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1186 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1187 TLS library to consume.
1189 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1191 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1193 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1194 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1195 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1196 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1197 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1198 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1199 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1201 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1203 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1205 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1206 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1207 should be warning-free.
1209 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1211 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1212 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1214 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1215 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1216 general solution here.
1218 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1219 already-broken messages in the queue.
1221 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1223 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1229 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1230 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1232 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1233 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1234 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1236 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1237 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1238 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1239 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1240 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1241 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1242 if one fails this test.
1243 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1244 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1246 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1247 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1249 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1250 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1252 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1253 in rewrites and routers.
1255 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1256 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1258 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1259 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1261 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1263 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1266 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1267 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1268 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1269 connection after a verify cache hit.
1270 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1272 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1273 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1275 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1276 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1277 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1278 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1279 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1281 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1282 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1284 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1285 Previously they were not counted.
1287 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1288 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1289 that needed the lookup.
1291 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1292 distinguished as "(=".
1294 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1295 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1297 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1299 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1300 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1302 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1303 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1305 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1306 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1309 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1310 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1311 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1312 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1314 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1316 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1317 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1318 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1320 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1321 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1322 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1325 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1326 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1327 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1330 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1331 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1332 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1334 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1335 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1338 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1340 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1341 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1343 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1344 are not in the system include path.
1346 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1347 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1348 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1349 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1351 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1352 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1353 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1355 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1357 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1358 an incoming connection.
1360 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1363 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1364 fallback to "prime256v1".
1366 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1367 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1373 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1374 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1375 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1376 client dropping the TLS connection.
1378 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1379 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1381 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1382 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1383 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1384 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1387 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1388 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1389 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1390 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1391 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1392 check on the next write.
1394 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1395 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1396 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1397 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1398 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1400 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1401 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1403 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1404 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1405 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1407 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1408 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1409 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1410 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1412 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1413 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1415 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1416 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1418 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1419 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1420 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1423 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1425 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1427 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1429 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1430 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1432 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1433 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1435 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1437 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1438 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1440 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1442 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1443 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1445 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1447 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1448 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1449 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1450 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1451 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1452 they will retry in-clear.
1453 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1454 at installation time.
1456 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1457 with the $config_file variable.
1459 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1460 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1461 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1462 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1463 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1465 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1466 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1467 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1468 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1469 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1471 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1473 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1474 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1475 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1476 list order is no longer honoured.
1478 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1479 for DKIM processing.
1481 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1482 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1484 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1485 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1486 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1487 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1489 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1490 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1492 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1493 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1495 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1496 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1498 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1500 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1501 cached by the daemon.
1503 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1504 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1506 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1507 keys are given for lookup.
1509 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1510 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1511 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1512 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1514 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1515 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1516 server-side so match that on older versions.
1518 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1519 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1520 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1522 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1523 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1525 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1526 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1527 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1528 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1529 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1530 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1531 initial truncated version.
1533 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1535 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1537 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1538 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1540 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1542 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1544 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1545 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1548 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1549 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1552 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1553 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1555 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1556 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1559 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1560 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1561 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1563 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1564 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1565 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1566 extraction. Accept either.
1572 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1575 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1577 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1580 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1581 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1582 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1583 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1585 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1586 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1587 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1589 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1590 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1591 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1594 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1597 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1598 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1599 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1600 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1601 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1603 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1604 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1605 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1607 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1609 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1610 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1612 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1613 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1615 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1618 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1619 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1621 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1622 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1623 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1625 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1626 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1627 specify a port-range.
1629 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1630 timeout value per server.
1632 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1633 now have the list separator specified.
1635 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1638 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1641 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1643 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1644 rather than the verbs used.
1646 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1647 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1649 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1651 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1652 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1654 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1655 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1657 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1658 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1660 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1662 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1664 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1665 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1666 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1667 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1669 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1671 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1672 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1674 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1675 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1677 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1679 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1681 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1683 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1684 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1686 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1687 added for tls authenticator.
1689 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1695 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1696 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1697 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1698 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1699 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1700 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1701 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1703 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1704 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1705 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1706 function when detected.
1708 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1709 cause callback expansion.
1711 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1712 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1713 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1714 instead of bool when processing it.
1716 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1717 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1719 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1721 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1723 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1725 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1726 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1728 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1729 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1730 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1731 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1732 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1733 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1735 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1736 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1739 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1740 version 3.3.6 or later.
1742 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1743 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1744 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1745 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1746 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1747 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1750 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1751 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1753 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1754 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1755 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1758 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1759 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1760 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1762 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1763 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1765 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1766 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1769 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1771 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1772 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1774 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1775 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1778 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1780 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1783 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1784 output list separator was used.
1789 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1790 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1793 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1794 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1796 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1798 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1799 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1805 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1807 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1808 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1809 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1810 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1811 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1812 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1814 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1815 utilities have not been installed.
1817 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1818 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1820 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1821 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1823 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1824 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1825 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1826 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1828 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1830 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1831 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1833 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1836 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1838 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1839 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1840 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1842 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1843 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1844 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1845 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1846 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1847 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1849 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1851 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1852 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1854 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1857 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1859 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1861 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1862 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1864 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1865 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1867 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1869 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1871 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1872 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1874 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1875 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1876 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1878 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1879 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1880 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1883 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1885 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1886 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1889 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1890 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1893 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1894 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1896 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1897 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1899 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1901 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1902 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1903 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1905 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1906 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1908 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1909 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1912 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1913 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1914 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1916 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1918 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1919 Christian Aistleitner.
1921 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1923 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1924 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1926 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1927 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1929 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1930 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1932 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1933 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1935 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1936 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1938 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1939 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1940 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1942 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1944 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1945 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1948 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1950 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1951 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1958 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1960 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1961 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1963 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1966 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1967 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1970 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1972 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1973 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1974 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1975 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1976 using channel bindings instead).
1978 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1979 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1980 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1981 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1982 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1985 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1987 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1989 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1990 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1992 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1993 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1994 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1996 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1998 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2000 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2001 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2003 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2005 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2007 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2009 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2010 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2012 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2014 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2015 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2018 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2019 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2021 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2022 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2025 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2027 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2029 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2030 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2032 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2035 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2036 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2038 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2039 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2041 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2043 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2045 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2048 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2051 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2053 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2054 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2055 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2056 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2058 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2060 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2061 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2062 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2063 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2066 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2067 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2068 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2070 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2071 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2072 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2073 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2075 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2076 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2077 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2078 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2079 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2080 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2081 delivery, as in LMTP.
2083 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2084 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2086 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2088 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2092 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2093 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2094 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2095 username as equal to the username.
2097 This change corrects that bug.
2099 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2100 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2101 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2103 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2105 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2106 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2107 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2108 NULL dereference and crash.
2110 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2112 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2113 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2114 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2116 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2118 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2119 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2120 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2121 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2122 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2123 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2124 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2125 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2126 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2127 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2128 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2130 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2131 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2133 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2134 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2137 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2138 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2139 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2140 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2141 an empty string is now equivalent.
2143 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2144 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2145 not performing validation itself.
2147 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2148 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2150 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2153 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2155 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2156 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2157 other false fix of the same issue.
2158 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2161 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2162 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2164 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2165 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2166 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2168 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2169 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2170 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2172 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2174 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2176 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2177 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2179 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2182 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2183 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2184 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2185 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2186 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2188 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2189 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2191 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2192 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2195 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2196 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2197 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2198 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2200 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2202 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2203 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2204 from multiple comments on this bug.
2206 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2208 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2209 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2212 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2213 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2215 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2216 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2222 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2224 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2230 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2231 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2232 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2234 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2236 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2239 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2241 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2243 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2245 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2246 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2248 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2249 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2251 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2252 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2254 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2255 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2256 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2258 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2260 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2261 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2263 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2265 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2267 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2268 non-compliant senders.
2269 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2271 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2272 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2273 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2275 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2276 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2277 in spool file corruption.
2279 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2280 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2281 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2284 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2285 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2286 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2288 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2289 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2291 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2293 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2295 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2297 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2298 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2299 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2301 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2302 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2303 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2304 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2306 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2307 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2309 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2310 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2311 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2312 resolver implementation change.
2314 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2315 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2317 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2319 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2321 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2322 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2324 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2325 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2327 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2328 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2330 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2331 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2332 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2333 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2334 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2336 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2338 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2339 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2340 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2342 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2344 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2345 read-only, out of scope).
2346 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2348 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2349 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2350 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2351 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2353 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2355 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2356 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2357 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2358 real issues in debug logging.
2360 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2361 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2363 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2364 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2365 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2367 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2368 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2369 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2372 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2373 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2375 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2376 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2377 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2378 needs to override this, it can.
2380 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2381 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2382 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2384 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2385 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2386 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2387 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2389 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2395 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2396 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2398 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2400 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2403 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2404 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2406 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2407 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2408 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2410 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2411 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2412 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2413 not safe for signals.
2415 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2416 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2417 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2418 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2421 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2423 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2424 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2425 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2426 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2427 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2429 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2430 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2431 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2432 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2433 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2434 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2436 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2437 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2438 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2439 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2441 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2442 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2443 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2444 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2446 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2447 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2448 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2449 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2450 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2451 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2452 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2453 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2454 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2456 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2457 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2458 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2459 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2461 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2462 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2463 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2464 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2465 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2466 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2467 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2468 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2469 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2470 details in the main documentation.
2472 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2474 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2476 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2477 repository when doing development or release builds.
2479 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2480 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2482 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2483 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2486 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2488 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2489 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2491 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2492 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2494 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2495 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2497 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2498 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2500 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2501 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2503 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2505 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2508 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2509 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2510 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2512 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2514 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2516 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2517 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2523 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2525 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2526 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2528 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2530 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2532 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2535 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2536 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2538 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2539 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2541 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2542 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2544 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2547 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2548 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2550 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2551 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2552 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2553 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2555 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2556 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2562 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2565 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2566 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2567 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2569 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2570 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2572 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2573 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2574 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2576 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2577 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2579 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2580 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2582 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2583 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2585 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2586 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2588 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2589 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2591 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2594 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2595 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2597 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2598 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2600 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2601 SQL string expansion failure details.
2602 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2604 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2605 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2607 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2608 extern declarations in function scope.
2609 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2611 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2612 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2613 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2616 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2617 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2619 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2620 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2622 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2623 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2625 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2626 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2628 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2629 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2632 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2634 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2636 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2637 Patch by Simon Arlott
2639 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2640 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2646 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2647 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2649 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2650 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2652 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2654 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2655 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2656 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2658 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2659 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2660 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2662 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2663 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2664 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2665 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2667 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2668 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2669 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2670 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2672 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2673 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2674 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2677 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2680 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2681 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2682 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2683 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2684 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2690 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2691 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2692 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2694 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2695 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2697 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2699 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2701 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2703 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2705 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2707 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2708 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2709 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2710 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2712 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2713 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2714 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2715 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2716 more caution in buffer sizes.
2718 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2720 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2722 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2724 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2726 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2728 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2730 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2732 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2733 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2734 ignore trailing whitespace.
2736 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2738 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2741 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2742 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2744 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2745 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2746 Notification from John Horne.
2748 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2751 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2752 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2755 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2758 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2759 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2760 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2762 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2763 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2764 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2767 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2768 option (effectively making it always true).
2770 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2771 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2773 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2774 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2776 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2777 run-time user, instead of root.
2779 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2780 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2782 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2783 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2786 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2787 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2788 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2790 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2792 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2798 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2799 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2802 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2803 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2806 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2807 Patch from Alain Williams
2809 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2811 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2812 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2814 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2815 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2817 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2819 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2821 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2822 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2824 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2826 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2828 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2829 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2830 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2832 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2833 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2835 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2836 Patch by Simon Arlott
2838 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2839 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2845 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2847 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2849 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2851 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2853 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2859 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2860 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2862 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2863 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2866 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2867 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2868 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2870 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2871 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2873 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2874 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2875 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2876 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2878 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2879 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2880 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2882 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2884 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2886 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2887 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2889 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2891 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2892 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2893 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2894 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2896 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2897 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2899 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2901 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2903 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2904 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2906 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2907 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2909 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2910 that they are available at delivery time.
2912 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2914 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2915 incoming_port log selectors.
2917 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2918 setting expands to an empty string.
2920 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2921 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2923 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2924 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2926 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2927 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2929 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2930 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2932 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2933 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2935 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2936 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2938 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2940 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2941 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2943 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2944 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2946 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2948 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2949 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2951 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2953 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2955 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2958 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2959 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2961 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2962 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2964 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2965 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2967 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2968 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2970 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2971 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2973 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2974 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2976 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2977 plus update to original patch.
2979 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2981 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2982 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2984 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2986 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2988 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2990 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2992 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2993 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2995 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2996 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2998 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2999 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3001 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3002 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3004 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3006 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3008 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3010 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3016 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3017 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3018 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3020 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3021 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3022 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3023 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3024 build errors in sieve.c.
3026 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3027 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3028 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3030 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3032 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3034 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3036 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3042 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3044 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3045 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3046 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3047 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3048 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3049 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3050 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3051 for iplsearch lookups.
3053 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3054 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3055 previously such lookups could never work.
3057 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3058 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3059 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3061 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3064 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3065 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3066 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3067 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3068 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3069 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3071 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3072 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3074 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3075 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3076 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3077 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3078 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3079 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3081 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3084 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3086 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3087 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3090 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3091 by clients under certain conditions.
3093 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3094 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3096 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3098 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3099 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3101 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3103 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3105 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3107 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3108 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3110 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3112 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3113 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3115 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3117 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3119 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3120 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3121 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3122 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3124 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3125 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3126 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3128 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3129 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3131 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3133 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3135 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3137 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3138 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3139 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3145 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3146 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3149 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3150 issue a MAIL command.
3152 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3154 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3156 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3157 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3158 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3159 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3160 item. This has been fixed.
3162 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3163 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3165 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3166 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3168 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3169 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3170 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3172 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3174 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3175 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3176 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3177 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3178 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3180 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3181 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3182 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3184 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3185 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3186 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3187 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3189 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3191 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3193 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3194 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3195 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3196 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3197 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3199 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3201 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3202 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3203 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3206 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3208 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3210 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3212 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3214 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3216 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3217 no_callout_flush is set.
3219 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3220 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3221 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3224 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3226 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3227 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3228 other ACL rejections are.
3230 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3231 with slight modification.
3233 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3234 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3236 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3237 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3240 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3241 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3243 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3245 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3246 expansion side effects.
3248 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3249 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3250 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3253 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3254 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3255 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3257 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3258 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3259 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3260 were accidentally chopped off.
3262 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3263 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3264 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3265 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3266 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3267 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3268 pipelining has not been advertised.
3270 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3272 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3273 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3274 This has been fixed.
3276 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3277 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3278 reported on Solaris.
3280 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3281 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3282 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3283 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3284 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3285 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3286 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3288 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3291 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3293 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3295 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3296 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3297 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3298 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3299 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3300 criteria to be more general.
3302 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3303 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3304 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3305 host_all_ignored option.
3307 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3308 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3309 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3310 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3311 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3312 is what is supposed to happen).
3314 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3315 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3316 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3317 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3318 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3321 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3322 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3323 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3324 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3325 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3326 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3329 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3331 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3332 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3334 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3335 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3337 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3339 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3341 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3342 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3343 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3344 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3345 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3346 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3347 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3348 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3349 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3350 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3351 least in a lot of common cases.
3353 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3354 advertised in response to EHLO.
3360 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3361 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3363 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3364 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3366 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3367 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3368 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3370 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3371 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3372 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3373 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3374 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3380 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3381 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3384 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3385 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3386 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3388 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3389 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3390 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3391 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3392 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3393 rather than extend the field.
3399 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3400 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3401 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3402 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3405 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3406 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3407 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3409 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3410 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3411 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3413 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3414 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3415 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3418 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3419 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3420 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3421 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3422 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3423 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3424 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3425 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3426 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3427 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3428 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3430 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3433 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3434 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3435 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3436 ignores EPIPE as well.
3438 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3439 (quoted-printable decoding).
3441 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3442 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3444 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3446 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3448 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3450 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3451 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3453 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3456 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3457 miscellaneous code fixes
3459 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3462 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3463 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3464 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3465 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3466 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3467 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3468 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3469 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3471 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3472 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3473 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3474 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3476 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3477 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3478 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3479 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3480 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3481 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3482 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3483 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3484 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3486 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3489 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3490 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3491 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3492 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3493 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3494 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3495 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3496 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3498 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3499 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3502 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3503 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3504 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3505 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3506 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3507 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3508 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3509 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3510 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3511 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3512 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3513 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3514 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3516 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3517 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3518 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3519 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3520 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3521 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3522 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3524 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3525 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3526 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3527 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3528 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3529 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3530 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3531 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3532 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3533 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3535 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3536 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3537 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3538 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3539 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3541 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3542 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3543 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3544 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3545 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3546 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3547 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3549 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3550 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3551 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3552 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3553 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3554 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3557 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3558 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3559 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3562 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3563 if any retry times were supplied.
3565 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3566 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3567 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3569 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3571 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3573 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3574 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3575 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3576 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3577 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3578 before) are ignored.
3580 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3581 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3583 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3584 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3585 committing the later change.]
3587 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3588 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3589 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3590 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3591 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3592 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3593 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3594 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3595 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3597 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3598 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3599 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3600 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3601 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3602 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3603 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3604 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3605 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3607 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3608 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3609 hammering the server.
3611 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3612 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3614 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3616 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3617 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3618 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3620 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3621 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3622 one case where this was not true.
3624 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3625 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3626 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3627 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3630 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3631 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3632 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3633 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3634 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3635 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3636 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3637 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3638 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3641 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3642 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3643 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3644 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3646 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3647 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3649 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3650 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3651 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3653 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3655 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3657 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3659 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3660 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3661 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3662 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3664 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3665 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3667 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3668 be meaningful with "accept".
3670 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3671 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3673 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3674 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3675 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3677 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3678 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3679 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3680 there is data to show.
3681 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3683 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3684 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3685 as well as the number of messages.
3687 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3688 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3689 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3691 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3692 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3693 have a flag are now skipped.
3695 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3696 Added the -emptyok flag.
3698 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3699 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3701 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3702 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3703 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3705 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3708 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3709 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3711 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3713 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3714 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3716 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3718 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3719 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3720 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3721 contravention of the specifications.
3723 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3724 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3725 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3727 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3728 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3729 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3731 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3733 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3734 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3735 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3736 some point in the past.
3738 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3739 transport during callout processing was broken.
3741 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3742 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3744 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3745 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3747 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3748 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3750 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3756 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3757 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3759 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3760 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3761 there is data to show.
3762 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3764 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3765 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3767 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3768 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3770 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3771 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3773 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3774 submissions from trusted users.
3776 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3777 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3779 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3780 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3781 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3782 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3783 there is now a framework to start from.
3785 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3786 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3787 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3789 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3791 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3793 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3795 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3796 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3797 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3799 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3802 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3803 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3804 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3806 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3807 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3808 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3811 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3812 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3813 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3814 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3815 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3817 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3818 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3820 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3822 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3823 operations in malware.c.
3825 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3828 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3829 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3830 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3833 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3834 statements to "add_header".
3836 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3837 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3839 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3840 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3843 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3847 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3848 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3849 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3852 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3853 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3855 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3856 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3858 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3859 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3860 any possible encoding problems.
3862 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3863 but not after initializing Perl.
3865 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3866 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3867 apparently, which is not desirable.
3869 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3872 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3875 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3877 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3878 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3879 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3880 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3882 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3883 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3884 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3886 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3887 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3888 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3891 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3892 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3893 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3894 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3895 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3901 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3902 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3904 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3907 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3908 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3909 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3910 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3911 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3912 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3913 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3914 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3917 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3919 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3920 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3921 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3923 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3924 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3925 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3928 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3929 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3931 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3932 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3933 option (which defaults to 0600).
3935 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3937 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3938 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3939 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3940 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3941 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3942 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3943 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3945 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3951 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3952 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3953 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3954 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3955 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3956 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3959 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3960 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3962 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3964 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3965 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3966 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3967 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3968 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3971 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3972 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3974 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3975 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3976 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3977 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3978 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3980 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3981 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3982 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3983 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3985 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3986 be the same on different OS.
3988 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3991 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3992 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3994 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3997 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3998 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3999 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4000 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4001 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4002 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4005 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4006 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4007 when Exim was called.
4009 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4010 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4012 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4013 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4014 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4015 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4017 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4018 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4019 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4020 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4023 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4024 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4025 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4027 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4028 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4029 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4031 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4034 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4035 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4036 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4037 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4038 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4039 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4040 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4041 values from the SRV records were lost.
4043 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4044 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4045 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4047 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4048 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4049 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4051 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4052 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4053 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4054 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4055 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4056 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4057 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4058 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4059 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4060 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4062 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4063 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4064 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4066 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4067 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4069 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4070 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4071 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4072 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4075 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4076 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4077 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4079 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4080 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4081 PH/23 above applies.
4083 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4084 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4085 (for which there is an explicit test).
4087 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4089 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4090 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4091 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4092 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4093 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4095 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4096 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4097 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4098 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4100 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4101 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4102 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4104 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4106 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4108 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4109 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4110 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4112 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4113 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4114 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4115 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4116 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4118 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4119 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4120 the message gets confusing).
4122 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4123 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4124 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4125 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4127 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4128 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4129 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4130 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4133 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4134 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4135 the different processes.
4137 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4139 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4141 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4142 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4144 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4145 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4147 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4148 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4149 messages matching specified criteria.
4151 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4153 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4154 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4156 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4157 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4158 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4159 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4160 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4161 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4162 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4163 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4164 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4165 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4167 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4168 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4169 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4171 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4173 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4174 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4175 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4176 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4177 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4178 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4179 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4182 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4183 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4185 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4187 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4189 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4191 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4192 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4193 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4194 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4195 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4196 size of the count of files.
4198 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4200 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4203 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4204 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4205 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4206 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4208 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4209 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4210 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4212 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4213 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4214 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4215 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4216 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4218 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4219 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4221 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4222 will now be deprecated.
4224 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4226 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4227 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4228 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4230 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4231 with very large, slow to parse queues
4233 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4235 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4237 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4238 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4239 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4242 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4243 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4244 Sieve code now uses this.
4246 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4247 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4249 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4250 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4252 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4254 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4255 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4256 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4257 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4258 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4260 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4261 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4262 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4263 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4265 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4267 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4269 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4270 is preferred over IPv4.
4272 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4273 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4274 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4275 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4276 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4277 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4278 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4280 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4281 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4282 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4284 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4286 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4287 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4288 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4289 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4290 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4291 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4292 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4293 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4294 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4295 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4296 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4298 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4299 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4300 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4306 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4308 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4309 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4311 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4312 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4313 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4315 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4317 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4320 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4323 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4324 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4325 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4328 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4329 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4331 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4332 inside the third argument.
4334 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4335 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4338 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4339 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4341 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4342 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4344 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4346 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4347 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4350 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4352 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4353 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4354 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4355 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4356 identical. For example:
4358 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4360 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4361 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4362 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4364 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4365 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4366 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4367 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4369 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4370 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4371 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4374 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4376 o fixes some comments
4377 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4378 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4379 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4380 and documents the missing references header update
4384 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4385 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4388 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4389 Electronic Mail") by including:
4391 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4393 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4394 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4395 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4396 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4397 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4399 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4401 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4403 The auto-replied keyword:
4405 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4406 message by an automatic process,
4408 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4410 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4411 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4413 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4414 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4417 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4418 to the default Received: header definition.
4420 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4422 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4423 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4424 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4426 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4427 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4428 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4430 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4431 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4432 and treats the condition as false.
4434 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4436 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4437 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4438 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4439 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4440 not changing the active code.
4442 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4443 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4445 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4446 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4448 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4451 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4452 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4453 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4454 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4455 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4456 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4457 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4458 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4459 the text comparison.
4461 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4462 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4463 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4464 The same fix has been applied.
4470 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4471 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4474 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4475 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4477 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4479 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4480 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4481 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4482 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4483 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4485 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4486 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4487 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4488 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4491 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4499 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4500 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4502 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4504 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4506 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4507 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4508 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4510 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4511 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4512 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4514 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4515 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4518 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4519 ${stat: expansion item.
4521 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4522 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4524 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4525 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4528 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4530 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4533 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4534 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4536 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4538 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4539 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4540 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4541 the end of the subprocess.
4543 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4544 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4545 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4546 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4547 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4549 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4551 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4553 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4554 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4556 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4558 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4560 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4561 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4564 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4566 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4567 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4568 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4570 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4571 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4573 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4574 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4576 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4577 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4579 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4580 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4582 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4583 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4584 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4585 contributed by a Radius user.
4587 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4588 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4590 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4591 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4593 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4596 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4597 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4600 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4601 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4602 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4603 header lines when this was not necessary.
4605 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4607 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4608 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4609 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4612 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4615 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4616 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4617 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4618 return code was incorrect.
4620 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4622 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4624 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4626 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4628 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4629 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4630 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4631 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4632 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4635 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4637 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4638 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4639 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4640 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4641 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4642 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4643 which is clearly wrong.
4645 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4647 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4648 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4649 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4652 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4653 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4655 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4657 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4658 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4660 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4661 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4663 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4664 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4666 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4667 recipients, not senders.
4669 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4670 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4672 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4674 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4676 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4677 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4678 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4679 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4681 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4683 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4684 clock is set back in time.
4686 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4687 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4689 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4690 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4692 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4693 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4696 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4697 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4700 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4703 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4705 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4706 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4707 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4709 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4710 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4711 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4712 helo verification defer as a failure.
4714 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4715 actual error message.
4721 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4723 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4724 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4725 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4726 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4728 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4730 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4731 can still be requested.
4733 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4734 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4735 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4736 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4738 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4739 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4740 circumstances, but probably never did.
4742 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4743 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4744 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4747 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4749 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4750 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4752 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4754 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4756 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4757 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4758 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4759 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4760 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4761 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4763 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4764 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4765 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4766 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4767 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4768 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4770 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4771 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4773 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4774 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4776 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4777 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4779 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4781 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4783 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4785 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4787 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4789 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4791 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4793 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4794 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4795 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4797 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4798 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4799 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4800 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4802 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4803 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4804 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4806 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4807 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4808 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4809 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4811 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4812 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4815 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4816 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4817 should work with maildirs and everything.
4819 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4820 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4822 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4825 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4826 function for BDB 4.3.
4828 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4830 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4831 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4834 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4835 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4836 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4837 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4838 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4839 formatting function string_vformat().
4841 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4842 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4843 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4844 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4845 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4846 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4847 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4848 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4850 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4851 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4854 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4855 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4857 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4858 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4859 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4860 test. It is now used for both.
4862 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4863 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4864 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4865 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4866 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4867 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4869 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4870 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4871 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4874 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4875 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4876 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4878 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4879 experimental DomainKeys support:
4881 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4882 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4883 the control was given.
4885 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4887 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4889 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4891 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4892 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4893 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4896 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4897 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4898 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4899 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4900 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4901 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4904 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4905 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4906 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4907 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4908 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4909 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4911 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4912 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4913 do -d+all out of habit.
4915 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4916 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4919 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4920 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4921 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4922 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4923 record types that Exim uses.
4925 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4926 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4927 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4928 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4929 non-existent file that was broken.
4931 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4932 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4934 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4935 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4936 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4938 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4940 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4941 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4942 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4943 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4944 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4947 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4948 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4949 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4950 at a slight CPU cost.
4952 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4953 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4955 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4958 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4960 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4961 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4967 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4968 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4970 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4972 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4974 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4975 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4977 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4978 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4979 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4980 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4981 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4982 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4985 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4986 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4987 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4988 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4991 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4992 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4993 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4994 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4995 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4996 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4997 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5000 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5001 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5003 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5004 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5005 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5006 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5007 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5008 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5010 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5011 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5012 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5013 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5015 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5018 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5019 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5021 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5022 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5023 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5024 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5027 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5029 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5030 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5032 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5033 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5034 to what was transported.)
5036 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5038 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5039 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5040 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5041 spamd_address settings.
5043 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5044 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5045 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5046 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5047 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5049 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5051 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5052 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5053 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5054 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5055 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5057 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5058 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5060 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5061 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5062 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5063 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5064 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5065 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5066 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5069 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5070 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5071 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5072 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5073 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5074 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5075 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5078 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5080 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5081 driver and ACL definitions.
5083 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5084 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5086 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5087 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5088 understands it better than I do:
5090 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5091 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5093 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5094 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5095 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5096 => three warnings about OTP not working
5097 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5099 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5100 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5101 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5102 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5104 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5105 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5107 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5108 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5109 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5111 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5112 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5115 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5116 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5119 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5120 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5121 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5123 warn !verify = sender
5124 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5126 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5127 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5129 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5131 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5132 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5134 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5135 nomenclature these days.)
5137 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5138 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5140 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5141 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5142 . First host does not offer TLS;
5143 . First host accepts first address;
5144 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5145 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5146 . Second host accepts second address.
5147 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5148 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5151 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5152 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5153 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5154 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5155 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5157 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5158 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5160 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5161 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5163 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5164 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5165 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5167 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5168 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5171 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5173 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5174 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5175 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5176 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5177 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5178 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5179 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5181 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5182 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5183 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5184 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5185 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5187 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5188 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5191 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5192 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5193 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5194 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5195 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5196 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5198 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5200 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5201 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5202 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5203 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5204 printable escape sequences.
5206 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5207 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5210 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5211 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5214 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5215 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5216 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5217 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5218 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5220 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5221 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5222 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5224 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5226 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5227 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5230 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5231 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5232 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5233 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5234 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5235 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5236 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5237 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5238 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5241 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5242 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5243 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5244 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5248 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5249 ----------------------------------------
5251 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5252 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5253 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5254 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5255 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5256 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5259 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5260 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5261 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5262 historical information.
5268 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5270 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5271 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5273 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5274 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5277 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5278 filter fails to execute.
5280 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5281 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5282 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5283 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5284 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5286 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5288 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5289 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5290 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5291 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5293 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5294 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5295 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5296 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5297 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5299 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5301 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5303 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5304 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5305 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5306 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5308 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5309 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5310 sender verification.
5312 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5313 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5315 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5317 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5320 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5321 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5323 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5324 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5326 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5327 information about exactly what failed.
5329 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5331 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5332 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5333 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5335 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5336 It is now set to "smtps".
5338 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5339 ignore_target_hosts.
5341 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5342 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5343 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5344 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5347 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5348 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5349 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5351 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5352 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5353 wake it up if nothing else does.
5355 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5356 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5357 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5360 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5361 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5363 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5365 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5366 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5367 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5368 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5369 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5370 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5371 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5372 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5374 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5375 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5376 than one IP address.
5378 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5379 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5380 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5381 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5383 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5384 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5385 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5386 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5387 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5390 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5391 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5392 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5393 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5395 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5396 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5399 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5400 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5401 $sender_host_address.
5403 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5404 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5405 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5406 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5407 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5410 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5412 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5413 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5415 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5416 just the host names, not the priorities.
5418 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5419 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5420 controlled by a keyword.
5422 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5423 multiple records are returned.
5425 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5426 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5429 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5431 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5432 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5434 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5435 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5436 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5438 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5440 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5442 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5444 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5445 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5446 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5447 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5448 because the tests only now provoked it.
5450 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5451 (this can affect the format of dates).
5453 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5454 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5455 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5456 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5458 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5460 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5461 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5462 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5463 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5465 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5466 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5467 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5469 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5472 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5473 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5474 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5475 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5476 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5477 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5480 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5481 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5482 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5485 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5486 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5487 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5489 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5490 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5491 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5492 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5493 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5494 so I produce this patch..."
5496 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5497 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5500 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5501 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5502 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5503 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5506 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5508 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5509 long debug lines gets shown.
5511 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5512 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5514 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5516 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5517 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5518 of $primary_hostname.
5520 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5521 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5522 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5523 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5524 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5525 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5526 by change 4.50/55 above.
5528 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5529 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5530 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5531 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5532 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5533 running as the user.
5536 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5537 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5538 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5541 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5542 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5544 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5545 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5546 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5547 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5548 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5550 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5551 This has been fixed.
5553 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5554 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5555 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5556 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5559 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5561 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5562 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5563 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5564 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5566 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5567 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5569 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5570 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5571 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5573 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5574 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5575 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5578 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5579 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5580 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5582 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5583 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5584 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5585 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5587 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5588 during host lookups.
5590 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5591 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5593 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5595 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5596 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5597 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5598 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5599 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5602 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5603 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5605 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5606 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5607 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5609 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5611 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5612 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5613 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5614 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5615 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5616 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5619 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5620 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5621 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5622 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5623 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5625 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5628 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5630 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5631 "vacation" handling.
5633 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5634 OS variants using glibc.
5636 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5639 ----------------------------------------------------
5640 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5641 ----------------------------------------------------
5647 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5648 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5651 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5652 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5655 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5656 filter fails to execute.
5658 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5659 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5660 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5661 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5662 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5664 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5669 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5675 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5677 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5678 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5679 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5680 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5682 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5683 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5684 sender verification.
5686 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5687 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5689 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5690 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5692 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5693 ignore_target_hosts.
5695 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5696 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5697 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5698 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5701 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5702 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5703 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5705 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5706 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5707 wake it up if nothing else does.
5709 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5710 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5711 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5714 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5715 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5717 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5719 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5720 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5723 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5724 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5727 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5728 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5729 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5730 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5731 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5734 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5735 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5738 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5739 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5740 $sender_host_address.
5742 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5744 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5745 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5746 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5748 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5751 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5752 (this can affect the format of dates).
5754 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5755 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5756 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5757 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5759 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5760 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5761 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5763 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5764 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5765 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5766 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5768 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5769 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5770 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5772 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5775 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5776 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5777 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5778 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5779 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5780 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5783 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5784 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5785 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5786 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5789 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5790 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5791 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5792 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5793 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5794 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5795 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5797 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5798 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5799 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5800 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5801 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5802 running as the user.
5805 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5806 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5807 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5810 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5811 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5812 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5813 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5814 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5816 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5817 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5818 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5819 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5822 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5823 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5824 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5825 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5826 because the tests only now provoked it.
5832 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5833 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5834 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5835 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5836 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5837 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5838 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5840 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5841 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5844 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5846 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5848 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5849 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5852 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5853 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5854 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5855 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5856 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5858 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5859 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5861 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5863 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5865 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5868 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5869 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5871 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5872 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5873 affecting debugging statements).
5875 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5877 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5878 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5879 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5880 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5881 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5882 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5883 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5884 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5885 after the received time, and all would be well.
5887 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5888 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5889 condition in an expansion string.
5891 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5893 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5894 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5895 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5896 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5897 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5898 job under whatever limits there are.
5900 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5902 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5905 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5906 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5907 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5908 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5911 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5912 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5913 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5914 binary data in such strings.
5916 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5918 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5919 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5920 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5921 failure, which is pointless.
5923 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5925 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5927 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5928 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5929 Sender: header lines.
5931 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5932 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5933 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5935 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5936 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5937 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5938 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5939 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5942 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5943 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5944 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5945 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5946 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5948 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5949 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5950 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5953 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5954 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5956 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5957 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5959 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5961 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5963 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5965 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5968 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5970 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5972 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5973 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5974 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5975 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5977 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5978 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5984 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5985 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5986 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5988 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5989 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5990 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5991 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5992 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5993 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5995 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5996 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5997 verification failure".
5999 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6000 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6001 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6002 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6004 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6005 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6006 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6007 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6008 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6009 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6010 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6011 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6012 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6013 treated as a timeout.
6015 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6016 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6017 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6018 not set for Exim filters).
6020 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6021 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6022 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6024 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6026 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6027 try to make them clearer.
6029 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6030 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6032 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6034 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6036 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6037 only the Cygwin environment.
6039 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6040 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6041 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6042 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6043 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6045 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6046 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6047 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6048 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6049 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6050 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6051 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6053 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6054 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6056 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6058 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6059 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6060 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6062 To: susanne@some.where
6064 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6065 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6066 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6067 of addresses in From: header lines).
6069 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6070 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6071 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6073 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6074 treated as non-personal.
6076 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6077 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6079 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6081 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6083 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6084 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6085 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6087 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6088 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6090 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6091 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6092 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6093 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6094 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6095 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6097 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6098 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6099 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6100 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6101 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6102 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6103 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6104 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6106 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6108 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6109 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6111 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6112 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6113 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6115 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6116 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6118 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6119 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6120 rather than long int.
6122 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6124 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6130 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6131 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6132 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6133 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6134 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6135 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6141 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6142 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6144 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6145 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6146 socklen_t is defined.
6148 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6151 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6154 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6155 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6156 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6157 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6158 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6160 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6161 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6162 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6163 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6165 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6166 of flapping under certain conditions.
6168 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6169 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6170 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6172 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6174 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6176 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6177 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6178 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6179 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6181 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6182 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6183 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6184 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6185 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6186 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6187 preserved with the message after it was received.
6189 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6190 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6191 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6192 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6193 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6194 test suite worked just fine.
6196 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6197 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6198 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6200 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6201 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6204 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6205 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6206 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6207 does not fully solve it.
6209 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6210 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6211 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6212 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6213 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6215 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6216 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6217 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6219 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6220 string, for example:
6222 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6224 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6225 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6226 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6227 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6228 the routers could not see them.
6230 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6231 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6233 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6234 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6237 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6238 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6239 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6240 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6241 that needed quoting.
6243 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6244 was not being matched caselessly.
6246 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6249 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6250 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6251 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6252 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6253 when use_sender is false.
6255 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6257 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6259 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6261 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6262 the configuration file.
6264 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6265 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6267 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6269 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6270 bytes in the message body.
6272 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6273 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6276 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6278 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6280 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6281 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6282 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6283 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6290 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6291 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6293 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6294 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6295 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6296 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6297 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6299 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6300 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6302 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6303 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6304 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6306 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6307 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6308 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6310 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6313 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6314 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6315 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6316 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6317 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6318 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6319 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6325 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6326 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6327 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6328 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6329 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6330 default (and expected) setting.
6332 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6333 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6334 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6335 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6337 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6338 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6340 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6343 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6344 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6345 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6346 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6347 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6348 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6350 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6351 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6352 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6354 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6355 part (NOT match_host).
6357 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6359 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6360 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6361 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6362 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6363 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6364 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6365 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6366 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6367 the same named file.
6369 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6370 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6373 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6374 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6375 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6376 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6379 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6380 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6381 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6383 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6385 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6387 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6389 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6390 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6392 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6393 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6394 before starting the TLS session.
6396 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6398 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6399 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6401 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6402 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6403 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6404 colon in the middle).
6410 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6411 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6412 multiple configurations are in use.
6414 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6415 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6416 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6417 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6418 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6419 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6421 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6422 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6424 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6425 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6426 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6428 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6429 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6432 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6433 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6435 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6437 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6438 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6440 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6448 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6449 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6450 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6451 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6452 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6454 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6457 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6458 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6459 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6460 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6461 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6462 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6464 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6465 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6466 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6467 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6468 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6469 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6470 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6473 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6474 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6475 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6476 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6477 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6479 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6481 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6482 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6483 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6485 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6487 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6488 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6489 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6492 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6493 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6495 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6496 Three changes have been made:
6498 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6499 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6500 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6501 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6502 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6504 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6507 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6508 the modified behaviour.
6514 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6517 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6518 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6520 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6521 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6522 try to track down a specific problem.
6524 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6525 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6526 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6528 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6531 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6532 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6533 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6534 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6535 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6536 some earlier ones do not.
6538 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6540 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6541 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6542 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6543 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6544 address literals are enabled, of course).
6546 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6548 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6549 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6550 by a command such as
6554 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6556 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6558 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6559 remained set. It is now erased.
6561 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6562 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6564 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6565 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6566 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6567 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6568 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6569 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6570 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6571 appropriate error code.
6573 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6574 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6575 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6576 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6577 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6578 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6580 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6581 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6582 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6584 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6585 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6586 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6587 terminate the header.
6589 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6590 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6591 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6593 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6594 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6595 (4.30/29). In particular:
6597 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6600 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6601 to write a maildirsize file.
6603 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6604 the transport, the new value overrides.
6606 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6609 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6610 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6611 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6614 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6615 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6616 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6619 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6620 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6621 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6623 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6624 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6627 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6628 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6629 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6631 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6633 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6635 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6637 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6638 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6641 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6642 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6643 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6644 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6645 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6646 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6647 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6650 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6651 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6652 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6653 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6654 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6657 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6658 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6659 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6660 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6661 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6662 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6663 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6664 cached value only when the same options are set.
6666 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6668 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6669 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6670 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6671 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6672 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6674 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6675 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6676 it is clearly obsolete.
6678 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6681 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6682 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6683 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6686 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6687 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6688 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6689 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6690 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6692 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6693 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6694 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6695 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6697 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6699 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6701 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6702 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6705 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6706 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6707 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6708 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6709 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6710 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6713 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6714 with the -f command-line option.
6716 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6717 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6718 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6719 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6720 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6721 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6723 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6724 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6727 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6728 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6729 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6730 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6731 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6732 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6733 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6734 buffer is too small.
6736 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6737 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6739 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6740 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6741 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6742 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6743 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6744 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6745 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6746 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6747 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6749 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6750 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6751 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6753 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6754 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6757 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6758 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6759 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6760 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6761 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6763 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6764 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6765 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6766 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6769 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6771 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6773 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6774 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6776 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6777 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6778 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6780 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6781 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6782 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6783 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6784 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6786 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6787 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6788 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6789 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6790 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6791 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6792 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6794 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6795 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6796 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6797 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6798 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6799 the test of how many are available.
6801 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6802 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6803 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6804 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6805 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6806 new message is started.
6808 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6809 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6811 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6812 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6814 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6815 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6816 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6819 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6820 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6821 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6822 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6823 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6824 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6825 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6827 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6828 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6829 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6830 interpreted as octal.
6832 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6835 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6836 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6837 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6838 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6839 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6840 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6842 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6843 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6844 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6845 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6847 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6848 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6849 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6850 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6852 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6853 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6856 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6857 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6859 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6861 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6862 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6863 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6864 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6866 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6867 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6868 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6869 supplied", which is not helpful.
6871 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6872 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6873 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6875 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6876 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6877 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6878 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6879 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6880 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6881 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6882 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6884 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6885 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6886 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6887 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6888 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6890 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6891 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6892 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6893 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6894 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6895 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6897 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6898 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6899 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6901 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6903 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6904 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6905 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6908 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6910 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6911 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6912 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6913 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6914 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6915 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6916 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6917 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6919 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6920 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6921 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6922 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6923 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6925 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6928 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6929 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6930 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6931 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6932 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6933 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6934 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6935 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6936 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6942 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6943 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6944 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6946 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6949 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6950 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6951 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6953 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6954 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6955 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6956 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6957 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6958 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6960 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6961 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6962 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6963 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6964 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6965 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6966 the Exim test suite.
6968 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6969 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6970 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6971 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6973 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6974 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6975 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6976 specify it in this variable.
6978 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6979 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6980 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6981 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6983 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6984 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6985 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6986 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6988 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6989 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6990 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6991 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6992 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6994 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6996 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6999 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7000 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7001 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7002 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7003 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7005 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7006 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7008 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7009 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7010 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7011 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7012 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7014 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7015 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7017 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7018 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7019 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7021 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7022 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7024 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7025 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7027 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7028 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7029 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7031 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7032 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7034 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7035 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7036 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7037 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7039 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7041 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7042 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7043 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7044 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7046 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7048 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7049 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7051 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7053 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7054 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7055 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7056 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7057 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7058 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7060 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7062 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7063 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7066 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7068 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7069 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7071 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7072 550 Sender verify failed
7074 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7075 the final line of the response.
7077 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7078 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7079 all other user lookups.
7081 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7084 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7085 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7086 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7087 result into an int without checking.
7089 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7090 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7091 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7093 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7094 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7095 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7096 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7098 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7101 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7102 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7104 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7105 to the empty sender.
7107 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7108 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7109 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7110 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7111 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7112 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7113 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7116 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7117 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7118 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7119 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7122 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7123 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7125 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7128 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7129 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7131 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7133 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7134 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7137 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7138 as soon as it is encountered.
7140 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7142 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7145 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7146 recognizes a tab character.
7148 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7149 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7150 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7151 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7153 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7155 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7158 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7160 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7162 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7163 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7166 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7167 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7168 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7169 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7170 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7172 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7173 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7175 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7176 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7177 list (.included file names were always shown).
7179 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7180 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7181 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7184 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7185 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7187 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7189 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7191 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7193 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7194 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7195 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7196 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7197 failures to open the logs.
7199 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7200 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7201 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7202 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7203 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7204 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7205 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7211 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7212 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7213 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7216 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7217 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7218 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7220 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7221 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7222 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7224 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7225 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7226 causing some misleading effects.
7228 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7229 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7230 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7232 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7233 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7234 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7235 queue-runner function directly.
7241 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7244 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7245 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7246 was always written to the default place.
7248 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7249 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7250 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7252 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7254 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7256 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7257 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7258 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7260 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7261 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7264 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7265 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7266 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7268 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7269 command line option is disabled.
7271 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7272 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7274 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7276 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7278 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7279 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7281 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7283 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7284 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7285 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7286 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7287 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7288 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7290 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7291 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7294 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7295 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7297 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7298 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7300 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7301 received was valid base64.
7303 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7304 name of the variable that was being set.
7306 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7308 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7309 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7310 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7311 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7312 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7313 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7315 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7317 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7318 nor realm was specified.
7320 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7321 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7322 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7323 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7325 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7326 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7327 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7329 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7330 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7331 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7333 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7334 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7335 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7336 some systems use these upper case variants.
7338 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7339 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7340 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7341 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7343 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7345 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7346 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7348 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7349 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7352 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7354 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7355 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7356 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7357 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7359 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7362 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7363 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7364 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7366 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7367 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7369 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7370 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7371 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7372 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7374 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7375 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7376 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7378 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7380 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7381 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7382 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7383 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7386 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7387 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7388 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7390 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7392 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7393 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7395 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7396 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7398 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7399 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7400 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7401 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7402 when emails are that large.
7409 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7410 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7412 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7413 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7414 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7416 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7417 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7418 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7420 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7421 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7422 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7423 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7424 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7426 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7427 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7428 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7429 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7430 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7433 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7434 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7435 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7436 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7437 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7438 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7439 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7440 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7441 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7442 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7443 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7444 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7445 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7446 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7448 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7449 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7452 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7453 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7454 error should be diagnosed.
7456 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7457 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7458 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7459 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7460 appeared instead of "NULL".
7462 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7463 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7464 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7465 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7466 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7467 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7470 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7471 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7472 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7478 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7479 or receiver verification errors.
7481 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7484 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7485 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7486 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7487 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7489 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7490 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7491 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7492 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7493 shouldn't happen again.
7495 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7496 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7497 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7499 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7500 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7502 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7504 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7505 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7507 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7508 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7511 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7512 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7513 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7515 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7516 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7517 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7518 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7520 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7521 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7522 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7523 to define what should happen).
7525 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7526 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7527 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7529 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7531 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7533 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7534 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7536 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7537 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7538 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7539 structure in all cases.
7541 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7542 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7543 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7544 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7546 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7547 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7550 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7551 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7553 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7554 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7556 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7557 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7558 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7560 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7561 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7562 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7564 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7565 the book and for uniformity.
7567 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7569 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7570 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7571 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7572 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7573 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7574 non-existent command as the problem.
7576 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7577 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7578 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7580 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7582 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7583 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7584 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7586 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7587 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7588 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7589 timestamps using strftime().
7591 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7592 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7594 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7595 transport-time rewrites.
7597 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7598 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7599 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7600 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7602 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7603 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7605 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7606 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7607 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7608 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7611 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7612 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7613 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7614 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7615 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7616 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7617 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7619 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7620 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7621 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7622 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7623 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7625 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7626 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7627 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7628 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7629 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7630 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7631 remaining text gets split now.
7633 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7634 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7635 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7636 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7638 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7639 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7640 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7641 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7644 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7645 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7646 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7647 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7648 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7649 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7650 passed through if needed.
7652 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7653 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7654 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7655 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7656 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7657 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7659 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7660 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7661 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7662 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7663 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7665 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7666 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7667 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7668 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7669 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7671 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7672 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7675 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7676 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7677 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7678 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7679 mayhem of various kinds.
7681 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7682 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7683 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7684 the right test for positive values.
7686 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7687 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7688 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7689 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7690 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7691 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7692 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7693 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7694 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7695 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7698 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7701 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7702 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7705 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7706 the existing equality matching.
7708 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7709 dealing with inode numbers.
7711 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7712 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7713 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7715 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7716 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7717 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7718 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7721 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7722 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7723 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7724 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7725 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7726 relay addresses has also been removed.
7728 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7730 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7731 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7732 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7734 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7735 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7736 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7737 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7738 processing applies to CR:
7740 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7741 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7743 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7744 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7745 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7746 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7748 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7749 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7750 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7752 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7753 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7754 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7755 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7756 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7757 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7760 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7763 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7764 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7765 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7766 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7769 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7771 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7773 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7775 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7776 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7777 not considered personal.
7779 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7781 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7783 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7785 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7786 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7787 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7788 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7789 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7790 header lines, and spool format errors.
7792 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7793 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7794 for more flexibility.
7796 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7797 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7798 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7800 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7803 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7804 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7805 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7806 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7807 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7808 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7809 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7810 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7811 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7813 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7814 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7815 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7816 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7817 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7818 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7819 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7821 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7822 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7823 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7825 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7826 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7827 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7828 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7829 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7830 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7831 instead of killing the process with assert().
7833 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7834 than Unicode encoding.
7836 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7837 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7838 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7839 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7841 77. Added process_log_path.
7843 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7844 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7846 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7847 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7849 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7850 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7851 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7853 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7854 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7855 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7856 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7857 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7860 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7861 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7864 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7865 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7866 they will be used during message reception.
7872 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.