1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 Previously this was permitted.
98 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
99 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
100 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
101 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
107 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
108 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
110 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
111 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
114 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
117 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
119 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
121 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
122 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
124 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
125 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
126 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
127 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
128 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
129 suitably configured).
131 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
132 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
134 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
135 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
138 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
139 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
141 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
142 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
143 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
144 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
147 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
148 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
149 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
151 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
154 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
155 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
157 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
158 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
159 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
160 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
163 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
164 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
165 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
166 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
169 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
170 shared (NFS) environment.
172 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
173 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
176 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
177 on some platforms for bit 31.
179 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
180 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
181 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
182 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
183 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
184 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
185 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
186 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
188 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
190 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
191 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
193 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
194 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
197 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
198 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
201 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
202 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
203 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
206 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
207 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
208 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
210 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
211 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
212 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
213 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
214 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
216 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
219 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
220 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
221 be requested on all coneections.
223 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
224 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
226 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
228 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
229 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
230 one for these; the option was ignored.
232 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
233 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
234 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
235 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
237 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
238 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
239 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
242 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
243 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
244 error ignored was made.
246 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
248 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
249 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
250 values, to catch one form of exploit.
252 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
253 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
254 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
256 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
257 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
260 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
261 them in our smtp response.
263 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
264 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
265 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
266 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
267 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
269 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
270 link count into consideration.
272 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
273 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
275 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
276 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
277 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
280 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
282 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
284 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
286 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
287 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
288 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
289 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
291 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
293 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
294 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
297 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
298 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
299 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
301 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
302 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
303 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
305 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
306 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
307 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
308 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
309 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
310 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
311 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
312 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
314 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
315 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
316 resulted in an indefinite loop.
318 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
319 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
320 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
326 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
327 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
329 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
330 non-signal-safe functions being used.
332 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
333 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
334 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
336 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
337 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
338 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
340 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
341 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
342 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
343 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
344 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
347 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
348 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
350 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
351 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
352 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
353 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
354 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
355 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
356 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
358 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
359 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
361 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
364 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
365 Previously this would segfault.
367 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
370 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
371 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
372 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
373 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
374 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
375 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
377 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
379 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
380 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
381 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
382 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
384 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
386 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
387 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
388 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
389 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
391 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
393 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
395 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
396 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
397 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
399 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
400 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
401 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
403 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
405 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
406 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
407 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
408 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
410 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
411 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
412 promised '?' replacement.
414 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
416 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
417 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
418 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
419 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
420 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
422 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
423 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
424 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
426 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
427 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
428 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
430 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
431 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
432 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
434 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
435 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
436 hope that is portable enough.
438 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
439 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
440 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
441 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
443 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
444 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
445 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
447 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
448 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
449 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
450 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
452 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
453 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
455 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
456 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
457 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
458 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
460 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
461 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
462 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
464 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
465 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
466 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
467 the previous G, M, k.
469 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
470 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
473 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
474 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
475 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
476 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
478 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
479 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
481 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
482 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
483 off past the nul-terimation.
485 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
486 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
487 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
488 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
489 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
491 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
493 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
494 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
495 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
498 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
499 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
501 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
502 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
503 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
505 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
506 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
507 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
509 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
510 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
516 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
517 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
518 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
519 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
520 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
521 be defined in redis_servers.
523 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
524 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
526 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
527 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
528 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
529 extant use locations.
531 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
532 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
534 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
535 Previously only the last row was returned.
537 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
538 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
539 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
540 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
543 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
544 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
545 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
546 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
547 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
548 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
549 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
550 Main pool for expansions.
551 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
552 active in the testsuite.
553 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
555 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
556 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
557 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
558 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
561 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
562 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
565 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
566 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
567 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
569 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
570 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
571 ClamAV interface method is removed.
573 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
574 rows affected is given instead).
576 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
577 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
579 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
580 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
581 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
582 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
583 for all multi-message initiating connections.
585 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
586 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
587 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
589 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
590 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
591 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
592 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
595 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
596 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
597 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
600 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
602 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
603 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
605 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
606 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
607 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
609 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
610 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
611 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
614 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
615 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
617 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
618 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
619 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
621 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
622 for the build is renamed.
624 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
625 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
626 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
628 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
629 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
630 result replacing the original.
632 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
633 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
634 and the resources needed to be freed.
636 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
638 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
641 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
642 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
643 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
644 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
646 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
647 length value. Previously this would segfault.
649 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
650 newer versions of the scanner.
652 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
653 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
654 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
655 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
656 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
657 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
658 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
660 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
661 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
662 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
663 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
664 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
665 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
666 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
667 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
668 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
669 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
671 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
672 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
674 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
676 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
677 allows proper process termination in container environments.
679 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
680 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
682 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
683 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
684 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
686 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
687 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
688 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
689 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
691 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
692 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
695 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
696 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
698 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
699 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
700 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
701 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
702 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
704 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
705 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
708 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
709 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
711 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
714 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
715 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
716 "bare" representation.
718 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
719 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
720 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
721 corrupted the output.
727 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
728 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
729 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
730 pairs of long lines into single ones.
732 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
733 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
735 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
736 This permits better logging.
738 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
739 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
740 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
741 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
742 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
743 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
745 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
746 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
749 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
750 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
751 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
753 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
754 than 255 are no longer allowed.
756 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
757 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
758 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
759 client, there is no benefit for these.
760 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
761 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
762 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
765 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
766 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
768 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
769 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
770 erroneously found still-pending ones.
772 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
773 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
775 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
776 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
777 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
778 signature and again for transmission.
780 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
781 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
782 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
784 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
785 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
786 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
787 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
788 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
789 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
790 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
792 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
793 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
794 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
795 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
797 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
798 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
799 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
800 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
801 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
802 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
805 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
806 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
807 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
808 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
811 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
812 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
813 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
814 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
817 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
818 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
821 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
822 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
823 banner-time rejection.
825 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
828 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
829 is the name of a transport.
832 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
834 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
835 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
837 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
838 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
839 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
842 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
843 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
844 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
845 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
847 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
848 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
849 initial verify call returned a defer.
851 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
852 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
854 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
855 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
857 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
858 if present. Previously it was ignored.
860 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
861 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
863 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
864 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
867 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
868 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
870 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
871 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
872 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
874 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
875 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
876 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
877 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
879 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
880 and confused the parent.
882 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
883 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
885 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
888 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
889 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
890 out-of-order delivery.
892 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
893 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
894 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
897 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
898 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
901 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
902 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
903 one run was done. Bug 2189.
905 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
906 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
907 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
908 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
909 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
910 message is still "Temporary local problem".
912 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
913 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
914 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
916 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
917 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
918 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
920 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
921 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
922 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
923 though a different problem.
929 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
930 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
932 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
934 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
935 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
937 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
938 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
940 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
941 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
942 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
943 before acknowledging the chunk.
945 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
946 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
947 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
949 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
950 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
951 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
954 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
955 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
956 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
958 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
959 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
961 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
962 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
963 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
964 body hash calculated value.
966 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
967 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
968 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
970 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
972 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
973 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
975 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
976 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
977 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
979 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
980 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
981 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
982 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
983 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
984 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
986 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
987 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
988 past that check, despite the cost.
990 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
991 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
992 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
994 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
995 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
996 TLS library to consume.
998 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1000 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1002 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1003 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1004 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1005 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1006 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1007 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1008 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1010 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1012 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1014 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1015 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1016 should be warning-free.
1018 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1020 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1021 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1023 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1024 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1025 general solution here.
1027 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1028 already-broken messages in the queue.
1030 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1032 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1038 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1039 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1041 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1042 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1043 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1045 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1046 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1047 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1048 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1049 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1050 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1051 if one fails this test.
1052 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1053 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1055 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1056 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1058 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1059 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1061 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1062 in rewrites and routers.
1064 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1065 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1067 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1068 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1070 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1072 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1075 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1076 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1077 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1078 connection after a verify cache hit.
1079 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1081 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1082 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1084 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1085 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1086 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1087 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1088 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1090 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1091 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1093 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1094 Previously they were not counted.
1096 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1097 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1098 that needed the lookup.
1100 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1101 distinguished as "(=".
1103 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1104 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1106 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1108 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1109 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1111 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1112 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1114 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1115 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1118 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1119 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1120 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1121 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1123 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1125 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1126 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1127 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1129 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1130 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1131 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1134 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1135 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1136 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1139 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1140 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1141 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1143 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1144 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1147 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1149 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1150 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1152 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1153 are not in the system include path.
1155 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1156 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1157 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1158 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1160 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1161 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1162 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1164 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1166 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1167 an incoming connection.
1169 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1172 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1173 fallback to "prime256v1".
1175 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1176 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1182 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1183 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1184 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1185 client dropping the TLS connection.
1187 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1188 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1190 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1191 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1192 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1193 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1196 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1197 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1198 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1199 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1200 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1201 check on the next write.
1203 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1204 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1205 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1206 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1207 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1209 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1210 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1212 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1213 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1214 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1216 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1217 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1218 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1219 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1221 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1222 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1224 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1225 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1227 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1228 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1229 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1232 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1234 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1236 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1238 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1239 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1241 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1242 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1244 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1246 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1247 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1249 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1251 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1252 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1254 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1256 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1257 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1258 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1259 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1260 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1261 they will retry in-clear.
1262 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1263 at installation time.
1265 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1266 with the $config_file variable.
1268 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1269 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1270 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1271 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1272 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1274 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1275 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1276 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1277 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1278 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1280 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1282 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1283 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1284 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1285 list order is no longer honoured.
1287 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1288 for DKIM processing.
1290 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1291 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1293 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1294 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1295 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1296 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1298 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1299 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1301 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1302 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1304 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1305 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1307 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1309 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1310 cached by the daemon.
1312 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1313 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1315 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1316 keys are given for lookup.
1318 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1319 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1320 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1321 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1323 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1324 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1325 server-side so match that on older versions.
1327 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1328 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1329 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1331 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1332 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1334 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1335 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1336 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1337 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1338 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1339 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1340 initial truncated version.
1342 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1344 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1346 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1347 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1349 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1351 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1353 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1354 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1357 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1358 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1361 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1362 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1364 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1365 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1368 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1369 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1370 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1372 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1373 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1374 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1375 extraction. Accept either.
1381 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1384 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1386 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1389 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1390 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1391 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1392 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1394 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1395 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1396 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1398 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1399 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1400 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1403 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1406 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1407 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1408 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1409 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1410 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1412 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1413 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1414 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1416 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1418 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1419 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1421 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1422 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1424 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1427 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1428 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1430 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1431 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1432 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1434 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1435 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1436 specify a port-range.
1438 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1439 timeout value per server.
1441 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1442 now have the list separator specified.
1444 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1447 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1450 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1452 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1453 rather than the verbs used.
1455 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1456 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1458 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1460 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1461 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1463 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1464 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1466 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1467 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1469 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1471 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1473 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1474 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1475 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1476 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1478 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1480 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1481 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1483 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1484 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1486 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1488 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1490 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1492 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1493 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1495 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1496 added for tls authenticator.
1498 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1504 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1505 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1506 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1507 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1508 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1509 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1510 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1512 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1513 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1514 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1515 function when detected.
1517 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1518 cause callback expansion.
1520 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1521 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1522 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1523 instead of bool when processing it.
1525 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1526 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1528 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1530 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1532 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1534 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1535 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1537 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1538 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1539 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1540 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1541 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1542 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1544 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1545 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1548 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1549 version 3.3.6 or later.
1551 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1552 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1553 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1554 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1555 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1556 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1559 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1560 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1562 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1563 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1564 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1567 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1568 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1569 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1571 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1572 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1574 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1575 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1578 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1580 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1581 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1583 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1584 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1587 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1589 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1592 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1593 output list separator was used.
1598 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1599 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1602 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1603 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1605 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1607 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1608 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1614 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1616 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1617 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1618 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1619 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1620 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1621 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1623 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1624 utilities have not been installed.
1626 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1627 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1629 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1630 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1632 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1633 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1634 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1635 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1637 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1639 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1640 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1642 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1645 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1647 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1648 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1649 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1651 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1652 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1653 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1654 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1655 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1656 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1658 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1660 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1661 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1663 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1666 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1668 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1670 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1671 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1673 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1674 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1676 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1678 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1680 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1681 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1683 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1684 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1685 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1687 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1688 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1689 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1692 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1694 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1695 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1698 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1699 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1702 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1703 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1705 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1706 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1708 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1710 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1711 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1712 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1714 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1715 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1717 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1718 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1721 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1722 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1723 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1725 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1727 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1728 Christian Aistleitner.
1730 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1732 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1733 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1735 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1736 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1738 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1739 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1741 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1742 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1744 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1745 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1747 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1748 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1749 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1751 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1753 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1754 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1757 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1759 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1760 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1767 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1769 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1770 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1772 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1775 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1776 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1779 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1781 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1782 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1783 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1784 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1785 using channel bindings instead).
1787 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1788 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1789 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1790 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1791 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1794 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1796 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1798 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1799 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1801 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1802 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1803 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1805 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1807 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1809 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1810 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1812 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1814 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1816 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1818 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1819 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1821 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1823 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1824 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1827 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1828 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1830 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1831 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1834 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1836 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1838 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1839 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1841 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1844 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1845 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1847 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1848 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1850 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1852 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1854 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1857 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1860 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1862 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1863 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1864 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1865 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1867 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1869 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1870 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1871 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1872 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1875 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1876 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1877 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1879 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1880 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1881 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1882 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1884 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1885 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1886 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1887 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1888 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1889 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1890 delivery, as in LMTP.
1892 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1893 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1895 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1897 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1901 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1902 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1903 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1904 username as equal to the username.
1906 This change corrects that bug.
1908 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1909 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1910 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1912 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1914 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1915 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1916 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1917 NULL dereference and crash.
1919 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1921 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1922 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1923 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1925 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1927 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1928 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1929 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1930 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1931 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1932 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1933 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1934 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1935 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1936 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1937 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1939 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1940 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1942 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1943 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1946 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1947 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1948 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1949 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1950 an empty string is now equivalent.
1952 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1953 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1954 not performing validation itself.
1956 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1957 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1959 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1962 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1964 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1965 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1966 other false fix of the same issue.
1967 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1970 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1971 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1973 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1974 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1975 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1977 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1978 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1979 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1981 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1983 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1985 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1986 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1988 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1991 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1992 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1993 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1994 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1995 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1997 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1998 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2000 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2001 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2004 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2005 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2006 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2007 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2009 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2011 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2012 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2013 from multiple comments on this bug.
2015 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2017 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2018 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2021 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2022 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2024 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2025 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2031 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2033 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2039 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2040 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2041 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2043 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2045 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2048 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2050 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2052 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2054 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2055 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2057 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2058 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2060 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2061 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2063 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2064 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2065 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2067 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2069 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2070 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2072 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2074 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2076 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2077 non-compliant senders.
2078 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2080 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2081 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2082 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2084 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2085 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2086 in spool file corruption.
2088 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2089 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2090 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2093 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2094 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2095 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2097 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2098 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2100 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2102 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2104 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2106 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2107 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2108 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2110 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2111 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2112 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2113 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2115 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2116 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2118 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2119 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2120 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2121 resolver implementation change.
2123 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2124 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2126 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2128 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2130 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2131 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2133 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2134 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2136 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2137 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2139 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2140 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2141 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2142 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2143 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2145 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2147 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2148 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2149 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2151 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2153 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2154 read-only, out of scope).
2155 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2157 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2158 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2159 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2160 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2162 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2164 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2165 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2166 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2167 real issues in debug logging.
2169 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2170 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2172 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2173 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2174 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2176 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2177 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2178 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2181 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2182 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2184 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2185 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2186 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2187 needs to override this, it can.
2189 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2190 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2191 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2193 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2194 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2195 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2196 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2198 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2204 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2205 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2207 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2209 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2212 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2213 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2215 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2216 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2217 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2219 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2220 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2221 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2222 not safe for signals.
2224 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2225 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2226 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2227 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2230 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2232 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2233 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2234 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2235 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2236 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2238 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2239 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2240 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2241 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2242 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2243 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2245 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2246 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2247 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2248 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2250 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2251 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2252 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2253 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2255 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2256 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2257 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2258 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2259 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2260 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2261 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2262 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2263 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2265 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2266 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2267 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2268 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2270 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2271 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2272 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2273 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2274 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2275 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2276 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2277 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2278 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2279 details in the main documentation.
2281 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2283 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2285 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2286 repository when doing development or release builds.
2288 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2289 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2291 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2292 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2295 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2297 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2298 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2300 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2301 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2303 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2304 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2306 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2307 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2309 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2310 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2312 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2314 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2317 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2318 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2319 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2321 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2323 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2325 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2326 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2332 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2334 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2335 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2337 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2339 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2341 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2344 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2345 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2347 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2348 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2350 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2351 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2353 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2356 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2357 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2359 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2360 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2361 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2362 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2364 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2365 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2371 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2374 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2375 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2376 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2378 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2379 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2381 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2382 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2383 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2385 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2386 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2388 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2389 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2391 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2392 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2394 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2395 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2397 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2398 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2400 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2403 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2404 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2406 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2407 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2409 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2410 SQL string expansion failure details.
2411 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2413 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2414 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2416 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2417 extern declarations in function scope.
2418 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2420 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2421 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2422 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2425 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2426 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2428 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2429 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2431 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2432 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2434 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2435 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2437 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2438 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2441 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2443 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2445 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2446 Patch by Simon Arlott
2448 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2449 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2455 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2456 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2458 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2459 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2461 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2463 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2464 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2465 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2467 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2468 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2469 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2471 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2472 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2473 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2474 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2476 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2477 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2478 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2479 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2481 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2482 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2483 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2486 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2489 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2490 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2491 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2492 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2493 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2499 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2500 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2501 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2503 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2504 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2506 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2508 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2510 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2512 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2514 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2516 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2517 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2518 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2519 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2521 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2522 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2523 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2524 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2525 more caution in buffer sizes.
2527 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2529 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2531 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2533 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2535 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2537 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2539 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2541 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2542 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2543 ignore trailing whitespace.
2545 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2547 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2550 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2551 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2553 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2554 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2555 Notification from John Horne.
2557 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2560 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2561 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2564 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2567 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2568 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2569 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2571 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2572 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2573 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2576 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2577 option (effectively making it always true).
2579 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2580 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2582 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2583 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2585 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2586 run-time user, instead of root.
2588 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2589 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2591 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2592 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2595 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2596 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2597 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2599 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2601 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2607 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2608 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2611 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2612 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2615 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2616 Patch from Alain Williams
2618 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2620 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2621 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2623 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2624 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2626 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2628 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2630 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2631 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2633 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2635 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2637 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2638 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2639 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2641 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2642 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2644 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2645 Patch by Simon Arlott
2647 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2648 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2654 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2656 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2658 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2660 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2662 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2668 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2669 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2671 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2672 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2675 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2676 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2677 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2679 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2680 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2682 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2683 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2684 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2685 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2687 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2688 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2689 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2691 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2693 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2695 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2696 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2698 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2700 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2701 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2702 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2703 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2705 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2706 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2708 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2710 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2712 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2713 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2715 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2716 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2718 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2719 that they are available at delivery time.
2721 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2723 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2724 incoming_port log selectors.
2726 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2727 setting expands to an empty string.
2729 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2730 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2732 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2733 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2735 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2736 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2738 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2739 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2741 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2742 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2744 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2745 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2747 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2749 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2750 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2752 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2753 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2755 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2757 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2758 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2760 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2762 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2764 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2767 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2768 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2770 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2771 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2773 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2774 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2776 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2777 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2779 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2780 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2782 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2783 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2785 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2786 plus update to original patch.
2788 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2790 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2791 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2793 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2795 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2797 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2799 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2801 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2802 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2804 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2805 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2807 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2808 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2810 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2811 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2813 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2815 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2817 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2819 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2825 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2826 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2827 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2829 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2830 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2831 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2832 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2833 build errors in sieve.c.
2835 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2836 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2837 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2839 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2841 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2843 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2845 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2851 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2853 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2854 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2855 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2856 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2857 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2858 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2859 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2860 for iplsearch lookups.
2862 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2863 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2864 previously such lookups could never work.
2866 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2867 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2868 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2870 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2873 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2874 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2875 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2876 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2877 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2878 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2880 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2881 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2883 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2884 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2885 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2886 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2887 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2888 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2890 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2893 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2895 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2896 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2899 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2900 by clients under certain conditions.
2902 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2903 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2905 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2907 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2908 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2910 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2912 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2914 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2916 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2917 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2919 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2921 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2922 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2924 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2926 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2928 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2929 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2930 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2931 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2933 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2934 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2935 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2937 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2938 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2940 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2942 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2944 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2946 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2947 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2948 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2954 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2955 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2958 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2959 issue a MAIL command.
2961 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2963 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2965 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2966 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2967 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2968 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2969 item. This has been fixed.
2971 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2972 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2974 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2975 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2977 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2978 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2979 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2981 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2983 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2984 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2985 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2986 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2987 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2989 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2990 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2991 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2993 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2994 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2995 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2996 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2998 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3000 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3002 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3003 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3004 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3005 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3006 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3008 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3010 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3011 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3012 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3015 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3017 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3019 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3021 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3023 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3025 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3026 no_callout_flush is set.
3028 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3029 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3030 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3033 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3035 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3036 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3037 other ACL rejections are.
3039 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3040 with slight modification.
3042 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3043 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3045 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3046 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3049 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3050 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3052 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3054 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3055 expansion side effects.
3057 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3058 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3059 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3062 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3063 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3064 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3066 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3067 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3068 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3069 were accidentally chopped off.
3071 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3072 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3073 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3074 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3075 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3076 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3077 pipelining has not been advertised.
3079 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3081 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3082 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3083 This has been fixed.
3085 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3086 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3087 reported on Solaris.
3089 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3090 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3091 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3092 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3093 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3094 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3095 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3097 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3100 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3102 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3104 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3105 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3106 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3107 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3108 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3109 criteria to be more general.
3111 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3112 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3113 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3114 host_all_ignored option.
3116 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3117 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3118 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3119 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3120 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3121 is what is supposed to happen).
3123 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3124 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3125 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3126 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3127 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3130 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3131 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3132 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3133 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3134 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3135 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3138 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3140 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3141 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3143 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3144 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3146 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3148 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3150 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3151 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3152 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3153 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3154 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3155 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3156 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3157 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3158 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3159 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3160 least in a lot of common cases.
3162 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3163 advertised in response to EHLO.
3169 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3170 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3172 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3173 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3175 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3176 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3177 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3179 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3180 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3181 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3182 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3183 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3189 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3190 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3193 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3194 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3195 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3197 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3198 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3199 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3200 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3201 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3202 rather than extend the field.
3208 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3209 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3210 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3211 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3214 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3215 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3216 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3218 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3219 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3220 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3222 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3223 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3224 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3227 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3228 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3229 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3230 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3231 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3232 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3233 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3234 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3235 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3236 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3237 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3239 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3242 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3243 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3244 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3245 ignores EPIPE as well.
3247 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3248 (quoted-printable decoding).
3250 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3251 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3253 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3255 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3257 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3259 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3260 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3262 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3265 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3266 miscellaneous code fixes
3268 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3271 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3272 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3273 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3274 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3275 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3276 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3277 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3278 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3280 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3281 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3282 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3283 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3285 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3286 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3287 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3288 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3289 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3290 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3291 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3292 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3293 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3295 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3298 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3299 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3300 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3301 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3302 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3303 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3304 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3305 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3307 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3308 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3311 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3312 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3313 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3314 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3315 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3316 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3317 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3318 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3319 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3320 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3321 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3322 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3323 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3325 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3326 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3327 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3328 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3329 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3330 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3331 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3333 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3334 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3335 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3336 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3337 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3338 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3339 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3340 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3341 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3342 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3344 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3345 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3346 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3347 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3348 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3350 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3351 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3352 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3353 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3354 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3355 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3356 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3358 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3359 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3360 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3361 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3362 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3363 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3366 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3367 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3368 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3371 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3372 if any retry times were supplied.
3374 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3375 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3376 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3378 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3380 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3382 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3383 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3384 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3385 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3386 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3387 before) are ignored.
3389 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3390 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3392 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3393 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3394 committing the later change.]
3396 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3397 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3398 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3399 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3400 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3401 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3402 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3403 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3404 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3406 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3407 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3408 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3409 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3410 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3411 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3412 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3413 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3414 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3416 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3417 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3418 hammering the server.
3420 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3421 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3423 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3425 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3426 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3427 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3429 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3430 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3431 one case where this was not true.
3433 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3434 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3435 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3436 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3439 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3440 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3441 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3442 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3443 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3444 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3445 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3446 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3447 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3450 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3451 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3452 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3453 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3455 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3456 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3458 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3459 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3460 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3462 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3464 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3466 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3468 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3469 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3470 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3471 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3473 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3474 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3476 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3477 be meaningful with "accept".
3479 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3480 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3482 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3483 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3484 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3486 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3487 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3488 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3489 there is data to show.
3490 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3492 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3493 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3494 as well as the number of messages.
3496 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3497 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3498 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3500 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3501 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3502 have a flag are now skipped.
3504 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3505 Added the -emptyok flag.
3507 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3508 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3510 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3511 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3512 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3514 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3517 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3518 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3520 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3522 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3523 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3525 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3527 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3528 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3529 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3530 contravention of the specifications.
3532 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3533 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3534 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3536 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3537 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3538 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3540 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3542 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3543 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3544 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3545 some point in the past.
3547 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3548 transport during callout processing was broken.
3550 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3551 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3553 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3554 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3556 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3557 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3559 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3565 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3566 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3568 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3569 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3570 there is data to show.
3571 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3573 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3574 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3576 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3577 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3579 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3580 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3582 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3583 submissions from trusted users.
3585 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3586 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3588 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3589 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3590 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3591 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3592 there is now a framework to start from.
3594 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3595 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3596 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3598 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3600 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3602 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3604 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3605 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3606 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3608 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3611 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3612 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3613 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3615 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3616 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3617 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3620 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3621 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3622 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3623 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3624 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3626 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3627 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3629 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3631 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3632 operations in malware.c.
3634 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3637 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3638 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3639 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3642 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3643 statements to "add_header".
3645 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3646 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3648 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3649 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3652 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3656 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3657 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3658 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3661 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3662 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3664 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3665 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3667 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3668 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3669 any possible encoding problems.
3671 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3672 but not after initializing Perl.
3674 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3675 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3676 apparently, which is not desirable.
3678 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3681 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3684 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3686 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3687 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3688 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3689 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3691 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3692 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3693 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3695 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3696 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3697 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3700 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3701 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3702 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3703 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3704 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3710 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3711 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3713 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3716 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3717 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3718 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3719 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3720 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3721 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3722 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3723 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3726 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3728 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3729 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3730 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3732 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3733 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3734 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3737 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3738 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3740 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3741 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3742 option (which defaults to 0600).
3744 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3746 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3747 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3748 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3749 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3750 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3751 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3752 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3754 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3760 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3761 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3762 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3763 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3764 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3765 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3768 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3769 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3771 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3773 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3774 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3775 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3776 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3777 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3780 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3781 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3783 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3784 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3785 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3786 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3787 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3789 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3790 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3791 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3792 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3794 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3795 be the same on different OS.
3797 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3800 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3801 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3803 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3806 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3807 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3808 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3809 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3810 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3811 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3814 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3815 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3816 when Exim was called.
3818 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3819 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3821 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3822 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3823 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3824 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3826 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3827 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3828 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3829 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3832 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3833 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3834 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3836 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3837 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3838 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3840 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3843 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3844 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3845 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3846 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3847 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3848 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3849 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3850 values from the SRV records were lost.
3852 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3853 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3854 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3856 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3857 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3858 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3860 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3861 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3862 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3863 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3864 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3865 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3866 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3867 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3868 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3869 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3871 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3872 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3873 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3875 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3876 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3878 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3879 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3880 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3881 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3884 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3885 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3886 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3888 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3889 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3890 PH/23 above applies.
3892 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3893 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3894 (for which there is an explicit test).
3896 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3898 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3899 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3900 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3901 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3902 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3904 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3905 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3906 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3907 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3909 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3910 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3911 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3913 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3915 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3917 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3918 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3919 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3921 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3922 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3923 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3924 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3925 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3927 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3928 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3929 the message gets confusing).
3931 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3932 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3933 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3934 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3936 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3937 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3938 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3939 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3942 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3943 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3944 the different processes.
3946 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3948 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3950 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3951 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3953 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3954 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3956 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3957 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3958 messages matching specified criteria.
3960 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3962 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3963 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3965 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3966 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3967 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3968 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3969 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3970 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3971 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3972 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3973 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3974 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3976 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3977 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3978 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3980 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3982 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3983 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3984 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3985 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3986 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3987 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3988 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3991 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3992 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3994 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3996 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3998 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4000 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4001 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4002 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4003 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4004 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4005 size of the count of files.
4007 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4009 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4012 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4013 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4014 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4015 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4017 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4018 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4019 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4021 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4022 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4023 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4024 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4025 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4027 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4028 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4030 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4031 will now be deprecated.
4033 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4035 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4036 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4037 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4039 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4040 with very large, slow to parse queues
4042 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4044 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4046 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4047 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4048 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4051 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4052 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4053 Sieve code now uses this.
4055 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4056 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4058 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4059 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4061 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4063 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4064 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4065 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4066 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4067 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4069 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4070 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4071 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4072 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4074 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4076 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4078 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4079 is preferred over IPv4.
4081 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4082 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4083 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4084 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4085 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4086 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4087 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4089 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4090 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4091 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4093 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4095 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4096 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4097 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4098 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4099 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4100 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4101 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4102 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4103 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4104 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4105 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4107 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4108 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4109 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4115 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4117 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4118 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4120 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4121 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4122 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4124 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4126 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4129 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4132 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4133 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4134 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4137 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4138 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4140 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4141 inside the third argument.
4143 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4144 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4147 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4148 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4150 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4151 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4153 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4155 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4156 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4159 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4161 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4162 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4163 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4164 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4165 identical. For example:
4167 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4169 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4170 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4171 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4173 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4174 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4175 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4176 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4178 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4179 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4180 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4183 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4185 o fixes some comments
4186 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4187 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4188 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4189 and documents the missing references header update
4193 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4194 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4197 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4198 Electronic Mail") by including:
4200 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4202 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4203 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4204 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4205 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4206 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4208 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4210 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4212 The auto-replied keyword:
4214 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4215 message by an automatic process,
4217 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4219 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4220 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4222 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4223 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4226 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4227 to the default Received: header definition.
4229 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4231 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4232 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4233 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4235 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4236 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4237 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4239 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4240 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4241 and treats the condition as false.
4243 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4245 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4246 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4247 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4248 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4249 not changing the active code.
4251 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4252 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4254 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4255 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4257 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4260 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4261 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4262 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4263 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4264 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4265 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4266 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4267 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4268 the text comparison.
4270 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4271 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4272 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4273 The same fix has been applied.
4279 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4280 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4283 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4284 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4286 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4288 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4289 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4290 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4291 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4292 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4294 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4295 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4296 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4297 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4300 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4308 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4309 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4311 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4313 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4315 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4316 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4317 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4319 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4320 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4321 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4323 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4324 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4327 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4328 ${stat: expansion item.
4330 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4331 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4333 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4334 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4337 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4339 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4342 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4343 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4345 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4347 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4348 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4349 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4350 the end of the subprocess.
4352 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4353 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4354 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4355 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4356 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4358 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4360 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4362 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4363 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4365 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4367 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4369 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4370 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4373 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4375 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4376 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4377 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4379 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4380 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4382 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4383 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4385 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4386 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4388 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4389 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4391 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4392 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4393 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4394 contributed by a Radius user.
4396 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4397 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4399 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4400 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4402 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4405 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4406 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4409 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4410 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4411 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4412 header lines when this was not necessary.
4414 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4416 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4417 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4418 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4421 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4424 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4425 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4426 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4427 return code was incorrect.
4429 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4431 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4433 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4435 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4437 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4438 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4439 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4440 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4441 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4444 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4446 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4447 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4448 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4449 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4450 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4451 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4452 which is clearly wrong.
4454 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4456 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4457 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4458 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4461 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4462 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4464 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4466 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4467 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4469 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4470 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4472 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4473 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4475 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4476 recipients, not senders.
4478 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4479 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4481 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4483 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4485 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4486 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4487 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4488 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4490 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4492 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4493 clock is set back in time.
4495 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4496 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4498 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4499 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4501 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4502 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4505 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4506 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4509 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4512 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4514 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4515 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4516 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4518 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4519 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4520 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4521 helo verification defer as a failure.
4523 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4524 actual error message.
4530 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4532 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4533 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4534 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4535 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4537 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4539 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4540 can still be requested.
4542 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4543 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4544 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4545 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4547 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4548 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4549 circumstances, but probably never did.
4551 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4552 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4553 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4556 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4558 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4559 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4561 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4563 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4565 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4566 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4567 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4568 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4569 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4570 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4572 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4573 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4574 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4575 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4576 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4577 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4579 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4580 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4582 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4583 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4585 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4586 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4588 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4590 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4592 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4594 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4596 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4598 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4600 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4602 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4603 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4604 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4606 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4607 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4608 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4609 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4611 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4612 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4613 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4615 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4616 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4617 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4618 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4620 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4621 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4624 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4625 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4626 should work with maildirs and everything.
4628 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4629 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4631 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4634 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4635 function for BDB 4.3.
4637 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4639 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4640 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4643 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4644 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4645 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4646 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4647 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4648 formatting function string_vformat().
4650 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4651 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4652 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4653 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4654 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4655 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4656 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4657 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4659 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4660 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4663 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4664 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4666 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4667 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4668 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4669 test. It is now used for both.
4671 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4672 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4673 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4674 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4675 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4676 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4678 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4679 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4680 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4683 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4684 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4685 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4687 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4688 experimental DomainKeys support:
4690 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4691 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4692 the control was given.
4694 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4696 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4698 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4700 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4701 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4702 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4705 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4706 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4707 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4708 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4709 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4710 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4713 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4714 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4715 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4716 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4717 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4718 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4720 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4721 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4722 do -d+all out of habit.
4724 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4725 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4728 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4729 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4730 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4731 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4732 record types that Exim uses.
4734 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4735 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4736 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4737 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4738 non-existent file that was broken.
4740 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4741 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4743 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4744 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4745 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4747 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4749 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4750 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4751 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4752 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4753 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4756 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4757 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4758 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4759 at a slight CPU cost.
4761 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4762 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4764 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4767 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4769 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4770 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4776 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4777 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4779 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4781 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4783 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4784 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4786 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4787 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4788 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4789 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4790 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4791 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4794 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4795 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4796 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4797 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4800 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4801 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4802 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4803 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4804 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4805 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4806 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4809 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4810 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4812 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4813 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4814 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4815 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4816 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4817 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4819 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4820 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4821 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4822 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4824 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4827 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4828 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4830 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4831 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4832 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4833 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4836 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4838 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4839 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4841 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4842 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4843 to what was transported.)
4845 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4847 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4848 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4849 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4850 spamd_address settings.
4852 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4853 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4854 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4855 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4856 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4858 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4860 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4861 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4862 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4863 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4864 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4866 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4867 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4869 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4870 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4871 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4872 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4873 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4874 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4875 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4878 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4879 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4880 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4881 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4882 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4883 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4884 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4887 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4889 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4890 driver and ACL definitions.
4892 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4893 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4895 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4896 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4897 understands it better than I do:
4899 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4900 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4902 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4903 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4904 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4905 => three warnings about OTP not working
4906 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4908 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4909 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4910 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4911 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4913 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4914 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4916 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4917 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4918 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4920 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4921 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4924 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4925 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4928 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4929 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4930 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4932 warn !verify = sender
4933 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4935 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4936 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4938 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4940 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4941 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4943 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4944 nomenclature these days.)
4946 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4947 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4949 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4950 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4951 . First host does not offer TLS;
4952 . First host accepts first address;
4953 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4954 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4955 . Second host accepts second address.
4956 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4957 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4960 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4961 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4962 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4963 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4964 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4966 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4967 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4969 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4970 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4972 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4973 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4974 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4976 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4977 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4980 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4982 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4983 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4984 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4985 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4986 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4987 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4988 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4990 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4991 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4992 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4993 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4994 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4996 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4997 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5000 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5001 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5002 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5003 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5004 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5005 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5007 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5009 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5010 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5011 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5012 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5013 printable escape sequences.
5015 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5016 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5019 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5020 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5023 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5024 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5025 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5026 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5027 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5029 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5030 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5031 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5033 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5035 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5036 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5039 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5040 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5041 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5042 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5043 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5044 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5045 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5046 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5047 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5050 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5051 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5052 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5053 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5057 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5058 ----------------------------------------
5060 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5061 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5062 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5063 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5064 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5065 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5068 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5069 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5070 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5071 historical information.
5077 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5079 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5080 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5082 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5083 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5086 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5087 filter fails to execute.
5089 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5090 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5091 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5092 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5093 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5095 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5097 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5098 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5099 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5100 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5102 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5103 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5104 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5105 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5106 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5108 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5110 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5112 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5113 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5114 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5115 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5117 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5118 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5119 sender verification.
5121 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5122 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5124 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5126 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5129 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5130 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5132 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5133 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5135 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5136 information about exactly what failed.
5138 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5140 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5141 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5142 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5144 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5145 It is now set to "smtps".
5147 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5148 ignore_target_hosts.
5150 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5151 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5152 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5153 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5156 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5157 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5158 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5160 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5161 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5162 wake it up if nothing else does.
5164 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5165 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5166 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5169 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5170 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5172 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5174 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5175 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5176 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5177 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5178 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5179 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5180 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5181 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5183 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5184 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5185 than one IP address.
5187 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5188 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5189 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5190 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5192 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5193 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5194 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5195 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5196 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5199 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5200 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5201 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5202 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5204 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5205 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5208 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5209 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5210 $sender_host_address.
5212 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5213 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5214 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5215 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5216 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5219 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5221 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5222 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5224 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5225 just the host names, not the priorities.
5227 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5228 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5229 controlled by a keyword.
5231 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5232 multiple records are returned.
5234 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5235 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5238 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5240 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5241 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5243 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5244 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5245 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5247 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5249 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5251 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5253 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5254 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5255 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5256 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5257 because the tests only now provoked it.
5259 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5260 (this can affect the format of dates).
5262 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5263 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5264 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5265 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5267 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5269 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5270 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5271 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5272 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5274 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5275 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5276 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5278 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5281 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5282 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5283 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5284 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5285 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5286 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5289 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5290 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5291 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5294 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5295 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5296 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5298 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5299 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5300 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5301 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5302 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5303 so I produce this patch..."
5305 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5306 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5309 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5310 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5311 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5312 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5315 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5317 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5318 long debug lines gets shown.
5320 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5321 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5323 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5325 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5326 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5327 of $primary_hostname.
5329 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5330 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5331 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5332 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5333 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5334 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5335 by change 4.50/55 above.
5337 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5338 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5339 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5340 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5341 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5342 running as the user.
5345 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5346 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5347 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5350 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5351 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5353 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5354 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5355 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5356 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5357 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5359 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5360 This has been fixed.
5362 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5363 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5364 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5365 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5368 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5370 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5371 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5372 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5373 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5375 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5376 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5378 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5379 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5380 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5382 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5383 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5384 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5387 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5388 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5389 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5391 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5392 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5393 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5394 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5396 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5397 during host lookups.
5399 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5400 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5402 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5404 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5405 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5406 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5407 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5408 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5411 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5412 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5414 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5415 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5416 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5418 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5420 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5421 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5422 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5423 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5424 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5425 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5428 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5429 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5430 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5431 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5432 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5434 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5437 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5439 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5440 "vacation" handling.
5442 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5443 OS variants using glibc.
5445 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5448 ----------------------------------------------------
5449 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5450 ----------------------------------------------------
5456 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5457 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5460 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5461 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5464 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5465 filter fails to execute.
5467 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5468 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5469 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5470 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5471 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5473 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5474 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5475 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5476 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5478 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5479 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5480 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5481 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5482 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5484 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5486 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5487 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5488 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5489 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5491 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5492 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5493 sender verification.
5495 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5496 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5498 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5499 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5501 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5502 ignore_target_hosts.
5504 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5505 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5506 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5507 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5510 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5511 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5512 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5514 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5515 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5516 wake it up if nothing else does.
5518 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5519 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5520 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5523 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5524 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5526 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5528 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5529 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5532 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5533 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5536 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5537 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5538 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5539 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5540 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5543 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5544 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5547 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5548 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5549 $sender_host_address.
5551 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5553 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5554 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5555 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5557 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5560 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5561 (this can affect the format of dates).
5563 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5564 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5565 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5566 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5568 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5569 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5570 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5572 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5573 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5574 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5575 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5577 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5578 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5579 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5581 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5584 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5585 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5586 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5587 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5588 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5589 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5592 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5593 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5594 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5595 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5598 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5599 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5600 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5601 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5602 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5603 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5604 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5606 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5607 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5608 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5609 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5610 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5611 running as the user.
5614 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5615 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5616 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5619 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5620 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5621 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5622 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5623 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5625 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5626 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5627 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5628 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5631 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5632 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5633 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5634 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5635 because the tests only now provoked it.
5641 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5642 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5643 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5644 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5645 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5646 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5647 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5649 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5650 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5653 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5655 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5657 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5658 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5661 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5662 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5663 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5664 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5665 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5667 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5668 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5670 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5672 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5674 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5677 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5678 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5680 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5681 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5682 affecting debugging statements).
5684 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5686 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5687 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5688 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5689 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5690 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5691 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5692 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5693 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5694 after the received time, and all would be well.
5696 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5697 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5698 condition in an expansion string.
5700 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5702 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5703 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5704 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5705 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5706 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5707 job under whatever limits there are.
5709 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5711 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5714 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5715 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5716 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5717 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5720 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5721 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5722 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5723 binary data in such strings.
5725 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5727 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5728 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5729 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5730 failure, which is pointless.
5732 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5734 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5736 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5737 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5738 Sender: header lines.
5740 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5741 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5742 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5744 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5745 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5746 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5747 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5748 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5751 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5752 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5753 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5754 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5755 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5757 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5758 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5759 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5762 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5763 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5765 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5766 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5768 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5770 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5772 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5774 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5777 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5779 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5781 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5782 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5783 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5784 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5786 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5787 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5793 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5794 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5795 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5797 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5798 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5799 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5800 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5801 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5802 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5804 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5805 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5806 verification failure".
5808 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5809 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5810 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5811 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5813 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5814 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5815 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5816 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5817 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5818 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5819 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5820 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5821 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5822 treated as a timeout.
5824 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5825 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5826 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5827 not set for Exim filters).
5829 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5830 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5831 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5833 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5835 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5836 try to make them clearer.
5838 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5839 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5841 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5843 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5845 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5846 only the Cygwin environment.
5848 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5849 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5850 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5851 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5852 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5854 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5855 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5856 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5857 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5858 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5859 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5860 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5862 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5863 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5865 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5867 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5868 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5869 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5871 To: susanne@some.where
5873 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5874 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5875 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5876 of addresses in From: header lines).
5878 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5879 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5880 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5882 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5883 treated as non-personal.
5885 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5886 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5888 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5890 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5892 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5893 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5894 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5896 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5897 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5899 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5900 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5901 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5902 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5903 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5904 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5906 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5907 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5908 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5909 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5910 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5911 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5912 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5913 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5915 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5917 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5918 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5920 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5921 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5922 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5924 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5925 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5927 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5928 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5929 rather than long int.
5931 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5933 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5939 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5940 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5941 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5942 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5943 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5944 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5950 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5951 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5953 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5954 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5955 socklen_t is defined.
5957 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5960 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5963 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5964 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5965 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5966 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5967 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5969 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5970 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5971 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5972 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5974 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5975 of flapping under certain conditions.
5977 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5978 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5979 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5981 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5983 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5985 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5986 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5987 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5988 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5990 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5991 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5992 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5993 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5994 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5995 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5996 preserved with the message after it was received.
5998 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5999 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6000 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6001 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6002 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6003 test suite worked just fine.
6005 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6006 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6007 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6009 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6010 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6013 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6014 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6015 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6016 does not fully solve it.
6018 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6019 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6020 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6021 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6022 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6024 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6025 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6026 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6028 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6029 string, for example:
6031 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6033 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6034 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6035 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6036 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6037 the routers could not see them.
6039 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6040 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6042 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6043 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6046 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6047 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6048 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6049 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6050 that needed quoting.
6052 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6053 was not being matched caselessly.
6055 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6058 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6059 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6060 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6061 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6062 when use_sender is false.
6064 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6066 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6068 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6070 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6071 the configuration file.
6073 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6074 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6076 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6078 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6079 bytes in the message body.
6081 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6082 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6085 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6087 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6089 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6090 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6091 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6092 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6099 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6100 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6102 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6103 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6104 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6105 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6106 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6108 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6109 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6111 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6112 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6113 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6115 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6116 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6117 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6119 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6122 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6123 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6124 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6125 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6126 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6127 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6128 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6134 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6135 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6136 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6137 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6138 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6139 default (and expected) setting.
6141 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6142 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6143 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6144 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6146 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6147 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6149 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6152 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6153 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6154 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6155 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6156 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6157 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6159 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6160 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6161 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6163 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6164 part (NOT match_host).
6166 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6168 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6169 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6170 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6171 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6172 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6173 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6174 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6175 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6176 the same named file.
6178 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6179 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6182 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6183 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6184 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6185 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6188 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6189 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6190 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6192 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6194 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6196 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6198 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6199 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6201 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6202 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6203 before starting the TLS session.
6205 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6207 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6208 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6210 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6211 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6212 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6213 colon in the middle).
6219 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6220 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6221 multiple configurations are in use.
6223 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6224 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6225 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6226 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6227 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6228 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6230 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6231 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6233 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6234 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6235 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6237 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6238 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6241 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6242 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6244 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6246 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6247 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6249 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6257 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6258 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6259 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6260 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6261 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6263 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6266 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6267 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6268 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6269 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6270 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6271 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6273 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6274 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6275 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6276 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6277 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6278 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6279 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6282 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6283 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6284 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6285 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6286 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6288 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6290 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6291 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6292 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6294 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6296 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6297 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6298 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6301 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6302 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6304 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6305 Three changes have been made:
6307 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6308 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6309 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6310 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6311 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6313 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6316 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6317 the modified behaviour.
6323 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6326 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6327 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6329 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6330 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6331 try to track down a specific problem.
6333 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6334 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6335 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6337 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6340 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6341 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6342 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6343 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6344 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6345 some earlier ones do not.
6347 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6349 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6350 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6351 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6352 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6353 address literals are enabled, of course).
6355 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6357 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6358 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6359 by a command such as
6363 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6365 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6367 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6368 remained set. It is now erased.
6370 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6371 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6373 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6374 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6375 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6376 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6377 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6378 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6379 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6380 appropriate error code.
6382 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6383 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6384 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6385 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6386 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6387 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6389 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6390 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6391 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6393 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6394 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6395 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6396 terminate the header.
6398 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6399 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6400 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6402 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6403 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6404 (4.30/29). In particular:
6406 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6409 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6410 to write a maildirsize file.
6412 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6413 the transport, the new value overrides.
6415 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6418 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6419 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6420 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6423 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6424 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6425 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6428 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6429 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6430 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6432 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6433 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6436 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6437 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6438 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6440 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6442 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6444 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6446 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6447 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6450 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6451 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6452 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6453 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6454 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6455 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6456 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6459 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6460 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6461 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6462 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6463 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6466 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6467 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6468 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6469 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6470 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6471 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6472 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6473 cached value only when the same options are set.
6475 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6477 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6478 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6479 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6480 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6481 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6483 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6484 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6485 it is clearly obsolete.
6487 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6490 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6491 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6492 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6495 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6496 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6497 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6498 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6499 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6501 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6502 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6503 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6504 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6506 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6508 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6510 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6511 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6514 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6515 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6516 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6517 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6518 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6519 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6522 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6523 with the -f command-line option.
6525 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6526 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6527 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6528 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6529 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6530 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6532 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6533 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6536 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6537 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6538 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6539 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6540 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6541 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6542 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6543 buffer is too small.
6545 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6546 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6548 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6549 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6550 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6551 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6552 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6553 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6554 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6555 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6556 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6558 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6559 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6560 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6562 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6563 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6566 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6567 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6568 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6569 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6570 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6572 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6573 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6574 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6575 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6578 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6580 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6582 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6583 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6585 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6586 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6587 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6589 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6590 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6591 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6592 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6593 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6595 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6596 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6597 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6598 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6599 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6600 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6601 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6603 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6604 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6605 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6606 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6607 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6608 the test of how many are available.
6610 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6611 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6612 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6613 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6614 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6615 new message is started.
6617 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6618 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6620 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6621 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6623 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6624 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6625 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6628 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6629 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6630 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6631 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6632 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6633 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6634 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6636 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6637 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6638 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6639 interpreted as octal.
6641 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6644 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6645 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6646 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6647 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6648 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6649 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6651 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6652 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6653 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6654 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6656 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6657 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6658 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6659 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6661 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6662 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6665 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6666 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6668 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6670 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6671 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6672 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6673 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6675 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6676 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6677 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6678 supplied", which is not helpful.
6680 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6681 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6682 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6684 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6685 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6686 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6687 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6688 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6689 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6690 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6691 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6693 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6694 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6695 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6696 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6697 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6699 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6700 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6701 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6702 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6703 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6704 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6706 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6707 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6708 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6710 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6712 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6713 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6714 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6717 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6719 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6720 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6721 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6722 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6723 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6724 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6725 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6726 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6728 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6729 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6730 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6731 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6732 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6734 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6737 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6738 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6739 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6740 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6741 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6742 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6743 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6744 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6745 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6751 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6752 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6753 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6755 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6758 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6759 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6760 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6762 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6763 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6764 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6765 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6766 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6767 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6769 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6770 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6771 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6772 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6773 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6774 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6775 the Exim test suite.
6777 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6778 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6779 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6780 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6782 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6783 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6784 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6785 specify it in this variable.
6787 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6788 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6789 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6790 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6792 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6793 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6794 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6795 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6797 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6798 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6799 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6800 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6801 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6803 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6805 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6808 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6809 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6810 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6811 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6812 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6814 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6815 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6817 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6818 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6819 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6820 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6821 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6823 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6824 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6826 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6827 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6828 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6830 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6831 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6833 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6834 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6836 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6837 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6838 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6840 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6841 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6843 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6844 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6845 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6846 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6848 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6850 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6851 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6852 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6853 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6855 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6857 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6858 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6860 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6862 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6863 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6864 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6865 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6866 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6867 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6869 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6871 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6872 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6875 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6877 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6878 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6880 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6881 550 Sender verify failed
6883 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6884 the final line of the response.
6886 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6887 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6888 all other user lookups.
6890 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6893 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6894 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6895 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6896 result into an int without checking.
6898 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6899 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6900 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6902 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6903 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6904 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6905 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6907 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6910 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6911 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6913 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6914 to the empty sender.
6916 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6917 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6918 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6919 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6920 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6921 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6922 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6925 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6926 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6927 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6928 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6931 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6932 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6934 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6937 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6938 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6940 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6942 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6943 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6946 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6947 as soon as it is encountered.
6949 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6951 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6954 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6955 recognizes a tab character.
6957 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6958 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6959 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6960 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6962 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6964 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6967 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6969 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6971 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6972 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6975 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6976 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6977 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6978 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6979 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6981 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6982 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6984 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6985 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6986 list (.included file names were always shown).
6988 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6989 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6990 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6993 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6994 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6996 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6998 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7000 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7002 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7003 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7004 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7005 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7006 failures to open the logs.
7008 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7009 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7010 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7011 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7012 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7013 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7014 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7020 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7021 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7022 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7025 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7026 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7027 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7029 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7030 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7031 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7033 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7034 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7035 causing some misleading effects.
7037 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7038 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7039 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7041 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7042 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7043 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7044 queue-runner function directly.
7050 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7053 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7054 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7055 was always written to the default place.
7057 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7058 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7059 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7061 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7063 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7065 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7066 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7067 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7069 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7070 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7073 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7074 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7075 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7077 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7078 command line option is disabled.
7080 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7081 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7083 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7085 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7087 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7088 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7090 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7092 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7093 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7094 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7095 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7096 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7097 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7099 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7100 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7103 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7104 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7106 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7107 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7109 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7110 received was valid base64.
7112 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7113 name of the variable that was being set.
7115 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7117 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7118 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7119 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7120 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7121 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7122 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7124 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7126 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7127 nor realm was specified.
7129 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7130 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7131 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7132 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7134 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7135 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7136 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7138 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7139 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7140 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7142 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7143 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7144 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7145 some systems use these upper case variants.
7147 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7148 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7149 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7150 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7152 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7154 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7155 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7157 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7158 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7161 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7163 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7164 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7165 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7166 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7168 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7171 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7172 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7173 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7175 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7176 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7178 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7179 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7180 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7181 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7183 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7184 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7185 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7187 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7189 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7190 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7191 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7192 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7195 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7196 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7197 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7199 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7201 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7202 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7204 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7205 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7207 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7208 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7209 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7210 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7211 when emails are that large.
7218 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7219 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7221 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7222 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7223 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7225 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7226 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7227 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7229 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7230 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7231 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7232 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7233 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7235 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7236 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7237 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7238 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7239 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7242 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7243 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7244 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7245 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7246 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7247 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7248 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7249 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7250 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7251 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7252 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7253 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7254 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7255 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7257 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7258 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7261 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7262 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7263 error should be diagnosed.
7265 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7266 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7267 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7268 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7269 appeared instead of "NULL".
7271 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7272 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7273 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7274 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7275 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7276 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7279 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7280 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7281 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7287 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7288 or receiver verification errors.
7290 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7293 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7294 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7295 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7296 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7298 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7299 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7300 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7301 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7302 shouldn't happen again.
7304 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7305 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7306 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7308 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7309 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7311 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7313 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7314 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7316 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7317 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7320 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7321 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7322 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7324 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7325 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7326 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7327 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7329 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7330 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7331 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7332 to define what should happen).
7334 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7335 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7336 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7338 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7340 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7342 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7343 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7345 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7346 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7347 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7348 structure in all cases.
7350 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7351 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7352 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7353 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7355 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7356 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7359 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7360 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7362 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7363 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7365 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7366 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7367 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7369 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7370 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7371 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7373 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7374 the book and for uniformity.
7376 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7378 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7379 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7380 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7381 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7382 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7383 non-existent command as the problem.
7385 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7386 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7387 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7389 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7391 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7392 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7393 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7395 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7396 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7397 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7398 timestamps using strftime().
7400 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7401 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7403 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7404 transport-time rewrites.
7406 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7407 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7408 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7409 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7411 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7412 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7414 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7415 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7416 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7417 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7420 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7421 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7422 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7423 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7424 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7425 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7426 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7428 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7429 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7430 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7431 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7432 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7434 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7435 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7436 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7437 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7438 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7439 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7440 remaining text gets split now.
7442 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7443 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7444 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7445 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7447 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7448 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7449 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7450 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7453 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7454 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7455 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7456 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7457 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7458 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7459 passed through if needed.
7461 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7462 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7463 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7464 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7465 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7466 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7468 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7469 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7470 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7471 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7472 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7474 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7475 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7476 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7477 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7478 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7480 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7481 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7484 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7485 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7486 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7487 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7488 mayhem of various kinds.
7490 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7491 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7492 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7493 the right test for positive values.
7495 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7496 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7497 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7498 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7499 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7500 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7501 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7502 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7503 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7504 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7507 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7510 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7511 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7514 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7515 the existing equality matching.
7517 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7518 dealing with inode numbers.
7520 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7521 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7522 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7524 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7525 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7526 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7527 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7530 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7531 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7532 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7533 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7534 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7535 relay addresses has also been removed.
7537 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7539 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7540 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7541 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7543 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7544 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7545 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7546 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7547 processing applies to CR:
7549 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7550 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7552 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7553 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7554 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7555 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7557 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7558 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7559 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7561 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7562 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7563 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7564 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7565 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7566 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7569 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7572 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7573 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7574 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7575 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7578 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7580 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7582 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7584 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7585 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7586 not considered personal.
7588 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7590 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7592 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7594 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7595 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7596 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7597 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7598 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7599 header lines, and spool format errors.
7601 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7602 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7603 for more flexibility.
7605 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7606 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7607 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7609 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7612 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7613 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7614 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7615 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7616 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7617 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7618 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7619 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7620 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7622 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7623 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7624 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7625 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7626 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7627 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7628 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7630 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7631 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7632 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7634 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7635 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7636 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7637 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7638 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7639 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7640 instead of killing the process with assert().
7642 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7643 than Unicode encoding.
7645 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7646 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7647 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7648 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7650 77. Added process_log_path.
7652 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7653 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7655 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7656 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7658 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7659 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7660 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7662 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7663 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7664 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7665 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7666 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7669 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7670 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7673 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7674 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7675 they will be used during message reception.
7681 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.