1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
14 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
17 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
21 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
25 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
32 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
35 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
43 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
46 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
49 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
52 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
55 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
62 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
64 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
69 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
71 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
76 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
77 JH/16 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
83 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
84 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
85 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
86 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
87 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
88 be defined in redis_servers.
90 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
91 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
93 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
94 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
95 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
98 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
99 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
101 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
102 Previously only the last row was returned.
104 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
105 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
106 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
107 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
110 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
111 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
112 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
113 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
114 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
115 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
116 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
117 Main pool for expansions.
118 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
119 active in the testsuite.
120 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
122 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
123 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
124 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
125 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
128 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
129 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
132 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
133 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
134 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
136 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
137 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
138 ClamAV interface method is removed.
140 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
141 rows affected is given instead).
143 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
144 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
146 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
147 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
148 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
149 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
150 for all multi-message initiating connections.
152 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
153 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
154 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
156 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
157 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
158 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
159 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
162 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
163 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
164 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
167 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
169 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
170 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
172 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
173 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
174 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
176 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
177 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
178 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
181 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
182 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
184 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
185 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
186 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
188 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
189 for the build is renamed.
191 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
192 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
193 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
195 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
196 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
197 result replacing the original.
199 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
200 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
201 and the resources needed to be freed.
203 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
205 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
208 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
209 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
210 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
211 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
213 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
214 length value. Previously this would segfault.
216 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
217 newer versions of the scanner.
219 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
220 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
221 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
222 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
223 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
224 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
225 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
227 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
228 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
229 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
230 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
231 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
232 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
233 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
234 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
235 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
236 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
238 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
239 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
241 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
243 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
244 allows proper process termination in container environments.
246 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
247 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
249 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
250 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
251 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
253 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
254 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
255 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
256 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
258 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
259 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
262 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
263 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
265 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
266 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
267 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
268 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
269 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
271 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
272 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
275 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
276 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
278 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
281 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
282 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
283 "bare" representation.
285 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
286 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
287 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
288 corrupted the output.
294 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
295 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
296 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
297 pairs of long lines into single ones.
299 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
300 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
302 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
303 This permits better logging.
305 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
306 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
307 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
308 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
309 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
310 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
312 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
313 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
316 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
317 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
318 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
320 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
321 than 255 are no longer allowed.
323 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
324 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
325 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
326 client, there is no benefit for these.
327 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
328 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
329 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
332 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
333 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
335 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
336 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
337 erroneously found still-pending ones.
339 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
340 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
342 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
343 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
344 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
345 signature and again for transmission.
347 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
348 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
349 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
351 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
352 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
353 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
354 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
355 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
356 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
357 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
359 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
360 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
361 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
362 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
364 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
365 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
366 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
367 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
368 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
369 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
372 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
373 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
374 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
375 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
378 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
379 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
380 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
381 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
384 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
385 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
388 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
389 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
390 banner-time rejection.
392 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
395 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
396 is the name of a transport.
399 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
401 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
402 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
404 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
405 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
406 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
409 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
410 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
411 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
412 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
414 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
415 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
416 initial verify call returned a defer.
418 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
419 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
421 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
422 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
424 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
425 if present. Previously it was ignored.
427 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
428 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
430 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
431 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
434 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
435 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
437 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
438 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
439 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
441 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
442 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
443 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
444 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
446 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
447 and confused the parent.
449 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
450 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
452 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
455 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
456 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
457 out-of-order delivery.
459 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
460 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
461 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
464 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
465 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
468 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
469 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
470 one run was done. Bug 2189.
472 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
473 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
474 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
475 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
476 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
477 message is still "Temporary local problem".
479 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
480 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
481 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
483 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
484 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
485 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
487 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
488 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
489 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
490 though a different problem.
496 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
497 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
499 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
501 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
502 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
504 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
505 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
507 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
508 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
509 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
510 before acknowledging the chunk.
512 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
513 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
514 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
516 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
517 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
518 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
521 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
522 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
523 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
525 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
526 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
528 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
529 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
530 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
531 body hash calculated value.
533 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
534 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
535 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
537 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
539 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
540 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
542 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
543 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
544 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
546 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
547 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
548 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
549 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
550 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
551 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
553 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
554 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
555 past that check, despite the cost.
557 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
558 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
559 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
561 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
562 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
563 TLS library to consume.
565 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
567 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
569 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
570 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
571 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
572 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
573 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
574 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
575 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
577 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
579 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
581 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
582 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
583 should be warning-free.
585 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
587 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
588 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
590 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
591 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
592 general solution here.
594 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
595 already-broken messages in the queue.
597 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
599 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
605 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
606 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
608 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
609 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
610 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
612 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
613 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
614 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
615 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
616 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
617 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
618 if one fails this test.
619 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
620 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
622 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
623 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
625 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
626 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
628 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
629 in rewrites and routers.
631 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
632 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
634 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
635 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
637 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
639 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
642 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
643 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
644 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
645 connection after a verify cache hit.
646 Do not update it with the verify result either.
648 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
649 when routing results in more than one destination address.
651 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
652 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
653 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
654 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
655 when the cutthrough connection is made).
657 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
658 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
660 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
661 Previously they were not counted.
663 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
664 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
665 that needed the lookup.
667 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
668 distinguished as "(=".
670 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
671 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
673 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
675 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
676 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
678 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
679 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
681 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
682 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
685 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
686 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
687 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
688 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
690 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
692 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
693 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
694 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
696 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
697 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
698 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
701 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
702 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
703 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
706 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
707 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
708 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
710 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
711 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
714 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
716 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
717 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
719 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
720 are not in the system include path.
722 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
723 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
724 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
725 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
727 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
728 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
729 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
731 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
733 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
734 an incoming connection.
736 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
739 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
740 fallback to "prime256v1".
742 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
743 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
749 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
750 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
751 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
752 client dropping the TLS connection.
754 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
755 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
757 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
758 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
759 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
760 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
763 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
764 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
765 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
766 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
767 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
768 check on the next write.
770 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
771 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
772 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
773 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
774 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
776 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
777 mime_regex ACL conditions.
779 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
780 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
781 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
783 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
784 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
785 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
786 an authenticate fail is not an error.
788 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
789 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
791 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
792 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
794 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
795 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
796 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
799 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
801 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
803 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
805 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
806 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
808 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
809 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
811 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
813 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
814 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
816 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
818 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
819 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
821 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
823 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
824 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
825 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
826 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
827 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
828 they will retry in-clear.
829 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
830 at installation time.
832 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
833 with the $config_file variable.
835 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
836 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
837 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
838 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
839 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
841 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
842 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
843 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
844 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
845 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
847 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
849 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
850 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
851 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
852 list order is no longer honoured.
854 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
857 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
858 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
860 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
861 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
862 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
863 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
865 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
866 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
868 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
869 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
871 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
872 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
874 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
876 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
877 cached by the daemon.
879 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
880 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
882 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
883 keys are given for lookup.
885 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
886 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
887 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
888 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
890 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
891 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
892 server-side so match that on older versions.
894 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
895 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
896 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
898 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
899 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
901 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
902 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
903 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
904 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
905 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
906 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
907 initial truncated version.
909 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
911 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
913 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
914 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
916 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
918 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
920 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
921 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
924 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
925 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
928 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
929 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
931 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
932 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
935 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
936 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
937 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
939 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
940 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
941 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
942 extraction. Accept either.
948 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
951 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
953 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
956 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
957 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
958 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
959 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
961 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
962 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
963 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
965 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
966 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
967 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
970 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
973 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
974 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
975 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
976 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
977 have a dsn_lasthop option.
979 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
980 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
981 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
983 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
985 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
986 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
988 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
989 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
991 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
994 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
995 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
997 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
998 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
999 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1001 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1002 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1003 specify a port-range.
1005 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1006 timeout value per server.
1008 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1009 now have the list separator specified.
1011 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1014 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1017 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1019 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1020 rather than the verbs used.
1022 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1023 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1025 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1027 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1028 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1030 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1031 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1033 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1034 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1036 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1038 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1040 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1041 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1042 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1043 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1045 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1047 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1048 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1050 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1051 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1053 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1055 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1057 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1059 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1060 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1062 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1063 added for tls authenticator.
1065 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1071 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1072 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1073 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1074 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1075 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1076 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1077 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1079 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1080 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1081 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1082 function when detected.
1084 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1085 cause callback expansion.
1087 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1088 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1089 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1090 instead of bool when processing it.
1092 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1093 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1095 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1097 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1099 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1101 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1102 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1104 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1105 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1106 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1107 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1108 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1109 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1111 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1112 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1115 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1116 version 3.3.6 or later.
1118 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1119 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1120 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1121 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1122 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1123 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1126 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1127 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1129 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1130 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1131 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1134 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1135 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1136 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1138 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1139 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1141 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1142 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1145 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1147 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1148 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1150 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1151 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1154 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1156 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1159 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1160 output list separator was used.
1165 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1166 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1169 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1170 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1172 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1174 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1175 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1181 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1183 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1184 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1185 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1186 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1187 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1188 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1190 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1191 utilities have not been installed.
1193 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1194 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1196 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1197 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1199 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1200 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1201 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1202 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1204 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1206 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1207 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1209 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1212 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1214 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1215 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1216 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1218 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1219 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1220 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1221 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1222 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1223 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1225 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1227 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1228 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1230 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1233 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1235 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1237 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1238 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1240 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1241 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1243 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1245 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1247 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1248 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1250 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1251 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1252 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1254 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1255 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1256 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1259 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1261 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1262 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1265 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1266 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1269 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1270 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1272 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1273 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1275 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1277 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1278 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1279 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1281 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1282 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1284 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1285 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1288 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1289 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1290 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1292 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1294 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1295 Christian Aistleitner.
1297 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1299 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1300 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1302 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1303 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1305 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1306 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1308 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1309 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1311 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1312 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1314 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1315 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1316 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1318 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1320 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1321 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1324 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1326 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1327 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1334 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1336 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1337 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1339 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1342 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1343 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1346 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1348 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1349 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1350 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1351 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1352 using channel bindings instead).
1354 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1355 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1356 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1357 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1358 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1361 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1363 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1365 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1366 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1368 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1369 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1370 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1372 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1374 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1376 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1377 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1379 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1381 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1383 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1385 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1386 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1388 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1390 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1391 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1394 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1395 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1397 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1398 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1401 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1403 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1405 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1406 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1408 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1411 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1412 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1414 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1415 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1417 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1419 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1421 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1424 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1427 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1429 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1430 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1431 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1432 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1434 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1436 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1437 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1438 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1439 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1442 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1443 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1444 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1446 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1447 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1448 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1449 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1451 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1452 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1453 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1454 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1455 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1456 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1457 delivery, as in LMTP.
1459 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1460 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1462 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1464 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1468 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1469 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1470 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1471 username as equal to the username.
1473 This change corrects that bug.
1475 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1476 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1477 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1479 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1481 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1482 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1483 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1484 NULL dereference and crash.
1486 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1488 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1489 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1490 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1492 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1494 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1495 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1496 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1497 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1498 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1499 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1500 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1501 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1502 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1503 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1504 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1506 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1507 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1509 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1510 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1513 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1514 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1515 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1516 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1517 an empty string is now equivalent.
1519 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1520 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1521 not performing validation itself.
1523 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1524 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1526 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1529 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1531 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1532 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1533 other false fix of the same issue.
1534 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1537 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1538 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1540 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1541 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1542 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1544 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1545 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1546 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1548 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1550 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1552 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1553 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1555 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1558 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1559 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1560 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1561 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1562 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1564 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1565 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1567 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1568 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1571 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1572 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1573 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1574 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1576 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1578 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1579 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1580 from multiple comments on this bug.
1582 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1584 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1585 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1588 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1589 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1591 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1592 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1598 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1600 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1606 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1607 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1608 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1610 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1612 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1615 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1617 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1619 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1621 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1622 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1624 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1625 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1627 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1628 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1630 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1631 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1632 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1634 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1636 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1637 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1639 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1641 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1643 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1644 non-compliant senders.
1645 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1647 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1648 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1649 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1651 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1652 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1653 in spool file corruption.
1655 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1656 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1657 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1660 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1661 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1662 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1664 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1665 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1667 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1669 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1671 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1673 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1674 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1675 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1677 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1678 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1679 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1680 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1682 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1683 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1685 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1686 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1687 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1688 resolver implementation change.
1690 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1691 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1693 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1695 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1697 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1698 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1700 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1701 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1703 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1704 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1706 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1707 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1708 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1709 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1710 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1712 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1714 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1715 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1716 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1718 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1720 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1721 read-only, out of scope).
1722 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1724 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1725 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1726 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1727 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1729 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1731 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1732 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1733 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1734 real issues in debug logging.
1736 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1737 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1739 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1740 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1741 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1743 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1744 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1745 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1748 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1749 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1751 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1752 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1753 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1754 needs to override this, it can.
1756 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1757 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1758 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1760 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1761 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1762 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1763 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1765 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1771 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1772 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1774 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1776 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1779 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1780 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1782 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1783 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1784 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1786 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1787 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1788 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1789 not safe for signals.
1791 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1792 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1793 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1794 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1797 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1799 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1800 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1801 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1802 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1803 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1805 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1806 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1807 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1808 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1809 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1810 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1812 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1813 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1814 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1815 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1817 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1818 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1819 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1820 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1822 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1823 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1824 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1825 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1826 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1827 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1828 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1829 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1830 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1832 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1833 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1834 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1835 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1837 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1838 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1839 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1840 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1841 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1842 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1843 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1844 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1845 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1846 details in the main documentation.
1848 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1850 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1852 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1853 repository when doing development or release builds.
1855 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1856 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1858 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1859 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1862 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1864 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1865 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1867 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1868 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1870 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1871 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1873 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1874 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1876 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1877 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1879 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1881 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1884 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1885 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1886 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1888 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1890 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1892 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1893 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1899 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1901 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1902 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1904 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1906 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1908 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1911 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1912 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1914 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1915 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1917 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1918 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1920 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1923 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1924 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1926 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1927 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1928 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1929 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1931 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1932 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1938 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1941 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1942 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1943 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1945 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1946 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1948 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1949 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1950 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1952 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1953 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1955 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1956 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1958 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1959 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1961 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1962 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1964 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1965 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1967 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1970 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1971 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1973 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1974 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1976 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1977 SQL string expansion failure details.
1978 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1980 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1981 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1983 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1984 extern declarations in function scope.
1985 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1987 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1988 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1989 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1992 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1993 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1995 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1996 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1998 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1999 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2001 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2002 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2004 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2005 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2008 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2010 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2012 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2013 Patch by Simon Arlott
2015 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2016 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2022 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2023 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2025 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2026 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2028 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2030 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2031 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2032 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2034 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2035 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2036 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2038 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2039 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2040 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2041 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2043 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2044 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2045 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2046 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2048 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2049 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2050 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2053 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2056 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2057 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2058 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2059 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2060 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2066 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2067 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2068 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2070 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2071 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2073 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2075 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2077 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2079 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2081 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2083 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2084 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2085 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2086 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2088 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2089 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2090 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2091 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2092 more caution in buffer sizes.
2094 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2096 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2098 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2100 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2102 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2104 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2106 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2108 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2109 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2110 ignore trailing whitespace.
2112 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2114 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2117 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2118 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2120 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2121 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2122 Notification from John Horne.
2124 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2127 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2128 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2131 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2134 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2135 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2136 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2138 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2139 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2140 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2143 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2144 option (effectively making it always true).
2146 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2147 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2149 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2150 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2152 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2153 run-time user, instead of root.
2155 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2156 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2158 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2159 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2162 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2163 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2164 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2166 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2168 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2174 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2175 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2178 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2179 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2182 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2183 Patch from Alain Williams
2185 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2187 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2188 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2190 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2191 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2193 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2195 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2197 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2198 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2200 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2202 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2204 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2205 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2206 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2208 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2209 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2211 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2212 Patch by Simon Arlott
2214 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2215 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2221 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2223 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2225 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2227 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2229 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2235 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2236 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2238 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2239 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2242 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2243 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2244 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2246 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2247 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2249 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2250 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2251 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2252 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2254 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2255 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2256 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2258 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2260 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2262 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2263 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2265 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2267 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2268 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2269 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2270 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2272 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2273 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2275 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2277 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2279 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2280 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2282 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2283 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2285 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2286 that they are available at delivery time.
2288 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2290 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2291 incoming_port log selectors.
2293 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2294 setting expands to an empty string.
2296 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2297 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2299 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2300 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2302 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2303 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2305 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2306 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2308 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2309 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2311 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2312 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2314 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2316 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2317 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2319 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2320 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2322 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2324 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2325 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2327 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2329 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2331 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2334 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2335 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2337 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2338 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2340 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2341 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2343 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2344 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2346 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2347 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2349 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2350 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2352 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2353 plus update to original patch.
2355 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2357 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2358 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2360 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2362 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2364 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2366 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2368 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2369 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2371 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2372 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2374 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2375 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2377 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2378 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2380 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2382 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2384 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2386 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2392 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2393 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2394 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2396 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2397 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2398 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2399 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2400 build errors in sieve.c.
2402 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2403 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2404 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2406 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2408 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2410 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2412 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2418 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2420 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2421 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2422 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2423 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2424 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2425 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2426 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2427 for iplsearch lookups.
2429 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2430 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2431 previously such lookups could never work.
2433 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2434 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2435 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2437 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2440 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2441 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2442 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2443 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2444 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2445 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2447 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2448 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2450 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2451 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2452 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2453 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2454 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2455 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2457 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2460 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2462 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2463 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2466 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2467 by clients under certain conditions.
2469 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2470 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2472 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2474 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2475 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2477 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2479 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2481 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2483 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2484 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2486 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2488 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2489 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2491 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2493 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2495 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2496 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2497 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2498 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2500 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2501 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2502 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2504 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2505 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2507 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2509 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2511 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2513 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2514 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2515 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2521 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2522 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2525 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2526 issue a MAIL command.
2528 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2530 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2532 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2533 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2534 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2535 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2536 item. This has been fixed.
2538 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2539 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2541 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2542 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2544 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2545 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2546 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2548 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2550 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2551 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2552 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2553 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2554 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2556 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2557 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2558 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2560 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2561 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2562 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2563 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2565 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2567 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2569 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2570 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2571 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2572 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2573 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2575 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2577 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2578 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2579 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2582 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2584 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2586 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2588 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2590 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2592 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2593 no_callout_flush is set.
2595 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2596 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2597 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2600 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2602 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2603 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2604 other ACL rejections are.
2606 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2607 with slight modification.
2609 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2610 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2612 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2613 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2616 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2617 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2619 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2621 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2622 expansion side effects.
2624 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2625 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2626 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2629 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2630 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2631 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2633 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2634 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2635 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2636 were accidentally chopped off.
2638 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2639 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2640 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2641 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2642 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2643 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2644 pipelining has not been advertised.
2646 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2648 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2649 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2650 This has been fixed.
2652 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2653 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2654 reported on Solaris.
2656 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2657 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2658 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2659 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2660 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2661 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2662 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2664 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2667 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2669 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2671 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2672 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2673 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2674 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2675 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2676 criteria to be more general.
2678 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2679 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2680 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2681 host_all_ignored option.
2683 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2684 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2685 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2686 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2687 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2688 is what is supposed to happen).
2690 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2691 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2692 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2693 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2694 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2697 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2698 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2699 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2700 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2701 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2702 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2705 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2707 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2708 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2710 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2711 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2713 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2715 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2717 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2718 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2719 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2720 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2721 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2722 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2723 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2724 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2725 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2726 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2727 least in a lot of common cases.
2729 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2730 advertised in response to EHLO.
2736 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2737 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2739 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2740 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2742 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2743 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2744 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2746 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2747 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2748 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2749 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2750 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2756 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2757 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2760 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2761 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2762 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2764 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2765 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2766 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2767 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2768 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2769 rather than extend the field.
2775 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2776 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2777 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2778 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2781 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2782 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2783 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2785 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2786 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2787 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2789 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2790 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2791 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2794 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2795 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2796 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2797 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2798 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2799 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2800 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2801 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2802 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2803 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2804 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2806 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2809 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2810 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2811 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2812 ignores EPIPE as well.
2814 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2815 (quoted-printable decoding).
2817 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2818 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2820 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2822 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2824 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2826 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2827 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2829 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2832 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2833 miscellaneous code fixes
2835 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2838 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2839 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2840 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2841 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2842 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2843 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2844 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2845 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2847 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2848 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2849 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2850 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2852 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2853 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2854 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2855 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2856 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2857 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2858 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2859 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2860 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2862 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2865 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2866 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2867 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2868 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2869 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2870 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2871 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2872 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2874 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2875 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2878 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2879 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2880 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2881 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2882 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2883 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2884 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2885 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2886 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2887 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2888 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2889 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2890 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2892 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2893 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2894 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2895 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2896 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2897 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2898 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2900 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2901 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2902 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2903 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2904 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2905 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2906 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2907 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2908 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2909 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2911 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2912 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2913 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2914 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2915 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2917 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2918 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2919 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2920 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2921 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2922 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2923 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2925 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2926 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2927 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2928 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2929 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2930 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2933 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2934 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2935 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2938 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2939 if any retry times were supplied.
2941 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2942 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2943 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2945 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2947 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2949 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2950 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2951 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2952 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2953 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2954 before) are ignored.
2956 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2957 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2959 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2960 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2961 committing the later change.]
2963 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2964 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2965 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2966 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2967 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2968 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2969 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2970 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2971 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2973 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2974 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2975 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2976 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2977 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2978 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2979 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2980 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2981 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2983 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2984 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2985 hammering the server.
2987 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2988 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2990 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2992 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2993 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2994 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2996 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2997 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2998 one case where this was not true.
3000 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3001 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3002 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3003 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3006 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3007 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3008 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3009 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3010 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3011 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3012 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3013 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3014 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3017 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3018 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3019 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3020 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3022 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3023 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3025 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3026 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3027 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3029 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3031 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3033 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3035 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3036 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3037 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3038 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3040 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3041 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3043 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3044 be meaningful with "accept".
3046 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3047 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3049 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3050 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3051 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3053 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3054 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3055 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3056 there is data to show.
3057 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3059 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3060 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3061 as well as the number of messages.
3063 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3064 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3065 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3067 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3068 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3069 have a flag are now skipped.
3071 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3072 Added the -emptyok flag.
3074 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3075 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3077 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3078 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3079 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3081 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3084 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3085 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3087 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3089 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3090 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3092 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3094 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3095 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3096 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3097 contravention of the specifications.
3099 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3100 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3101 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3103 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3104 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3105 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3107 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3109 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3110 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3111 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3112 some point in the past.
3114 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3115 transport during callout processing was broken.
3117 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3118 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3120 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3121 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3123 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3124 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3126 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3132 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3133 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3135 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3136 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3137 there is data to show.
3138 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3140 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3141 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3143 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3144 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3146 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3147 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3149 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3150 submissions from trusted users.
3152 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3153 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3155 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3156 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3157 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3158 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3159 there is now a framework to start from.
3161 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3162 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3163 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3165 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3167 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3169 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3171 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3172 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3173 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3175 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3178 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3179 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3180 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3182 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3183 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3184 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3187 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3188 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3189 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3190 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3191 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3193 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3194 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3196 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3198 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3199 operations in malware.c.
3201 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3204 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3205 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3206 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3209 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3210 statements to "add_header".
3212 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3213 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3215 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3216 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3219 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3223 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3224 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3225 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3228 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3229 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3231 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3232 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3234 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3235 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3236 any possible encoding problems.
3238 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3239 but not after initializing Perl.
3241 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3242 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3243 apparently, which is not desirable.
3245 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3248 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3251 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3253 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3254 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3255 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3256 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3258 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3259 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3260 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3262 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3263 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3264 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3267 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3268 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3269 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3270 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3271 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3277 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3278 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3280 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3283 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3284 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3285 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3286 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3287 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3288 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3289 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3290 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3293 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3295 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3296 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3297 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3299 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3300 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3301 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3304 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3305 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3307 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3308 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3309 option (which defaults to 0600).
3311 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3313 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3314 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3315 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3316 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3317 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3318 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3319 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3321 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3327 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3328 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3329 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3330 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3331 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3332 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3335 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3336 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3338 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3340 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3341 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3342 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3343 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3344 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3347 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3348 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3350 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3351 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3352 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3353 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3354 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3356 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3357 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3358 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3359 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3361 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3362 be the same on different OS.
3364 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3367 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3368 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3370 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3373 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3374 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3375 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3376 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3377 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3378 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3381 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3382 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3383 when Exim was called.
3385 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3386 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3388 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3389 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3390 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3391 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3393 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3394 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3395 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3396 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3399 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3400 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3401 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3403 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3404 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3405 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3407 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3410 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3411 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3412 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3413 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3414 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3415 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3416 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3417 values from the SRV records were lost.
3419 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3420 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3421 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3423 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3424 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3425 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3427 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3428 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3429 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3430 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3431 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3432 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3433 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3434 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3435 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3436 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3438 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3439 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3440 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3442 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3443 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3445 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3446 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3447 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3448 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3451 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3452 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3453 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3455 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3456 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3457 PH/23 above applies.
3459 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3460 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3461 (for which there is an explicit test).
3463 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3465 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3466 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3467 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3468 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3469 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3471 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3472 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3473 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3474 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3476 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3477 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3478 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3480 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3482 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3484 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3485 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3486 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3488 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3489 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3490 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3491 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3492 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3494 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3495 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3496 the message gets confusing).
3498 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3499 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3500 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3501 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3503 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3504 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3505 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3506 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3509 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3510 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3511 the different processes.
3513 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3515 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3517 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3518 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3520 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3521 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3523 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3524 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3525 messages matching specified criteria.
3527 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3529 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3530 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3532 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3533 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3534 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3535 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3536 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3537 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3538 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3539 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3540 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3541 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3543 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3544 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3545 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3547 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3549 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3550 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3551 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3552 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3553 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3554 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3555 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3558 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3559 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3561 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3563 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3565 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3567 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3568 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3569 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3570 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3571 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3572 size of the count of files.
3574 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3576 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3579 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3580 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3581 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3582 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3584 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3585 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3586 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3588 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3589 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3590 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3591 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3592 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3594 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3595 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3597 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3598 will now be deprecated.
3600 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3602 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3603 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3604 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3606 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3607 with very large, slow to parse queues
3609 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3611 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3613 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3614 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3615 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3618 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3619 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3620 Sieve code now uses this.
3622 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3623 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3625 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3626 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3628 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3630 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3631 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3632 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3633 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3634 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3636 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3637 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3638 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3639 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3641 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3643 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3645 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3646 is preferred over IPv4.
3648 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3649 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3650 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3651 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3652 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3653 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3654 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3656 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3657 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3658 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3660 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3662 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3663 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3664 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3665 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3666 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3667 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3668 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3669 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3670 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3671 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3672 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3674 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3675 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3676 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3682 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3684 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3685 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3687 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3688 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3689 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3691 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3693 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3696 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3699 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3700 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3701 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3704 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3705 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3707 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3708 inside the third argument.
3710 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3711 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3714 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3715 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3717 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3718 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3720 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3722 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3723 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3726 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3728 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3729 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3730 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3731 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3732 identical. For example:
3734 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3736 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3737 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3738 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3740 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3741 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3742 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3743 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3745 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3746 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3747 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3750 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3752 o fixes some comments
3753 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3754 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3755 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3756 and documents the missing references header update
3760 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3761 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3764 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3765 Electronic Mail") by including:
3767 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3769 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3770 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3771 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3772 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3773 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3775 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3777 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3779 The auto-replied keyword:
3781 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3782 message by an automatic process,
3784 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3786 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3787 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3789 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3790 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3793 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3794 to the default Received: header definition.
3796 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3798 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3799 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3800 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3802 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3803 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3804 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3806 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3807 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3808 and treats the condition as false.
3810 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3812 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3813 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3814 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3815 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3816 not changing the active code.
3818 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3819 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3821 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3822 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3824 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3827 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3828 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3829 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3830 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3831 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3832 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3833 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3834 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3835 the text comparison.
3837 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3838 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3839 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3840 The same fix has been applied.
3846 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3847 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3850 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3851 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3853 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3855 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3856 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3857 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3858 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3859 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3861 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3862 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3863 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3864 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3867 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3875 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3876 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3878 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3880 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3882 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3883 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3884 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3886 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3887 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3888 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3890 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3891 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3894 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3895 ${stat: expansion item.
3897 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3898 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3900 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3901 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3904 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3906 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3909 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3910 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3912 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3914 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3915 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3916 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3917 the end of the subprocess.
3919 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3920 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3921 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3922 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3923 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3925 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3927 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3929 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3930 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3932 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3934 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3936 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3937 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3940 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3942 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3943 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3944 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3946 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3947 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3949 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3950 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3952 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3953 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3955 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3956 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3958 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3959 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3960 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3961 contributed by a Radius user.
3963 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3964 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3966 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3967 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3969 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3972 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3973 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3976 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3977 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3978 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3979 header lines when this was not necessary.
3981 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3983 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3984 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3985 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3988 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3991 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3992 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3993 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3994 return code was incorrect.
3996 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3998 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4000 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4002 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4004 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4005 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4006 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4007 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4008 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4011 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4013 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4014 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4015 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4016 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4017 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4018 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4019 which is clearly wrong.
4021 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4023 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4024 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4025 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4028 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4029 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4031 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4033 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4034 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4036 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4037 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4039 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4040 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4042 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4043 recipients, not senders.
4045 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4046 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4048 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4050 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4052 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4053 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4054 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4055 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4057 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4059 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4060 clock is set back in time.
4062 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4063 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4065 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4066 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4068 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4069 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4072 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4073 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4076 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4079 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4081 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4082 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4083 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4085 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4086 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4087 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4088 helo verification defer as a failure.
4090 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4091 actual error message.
4097 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4099 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4100 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4101 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4102 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4104 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4106 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4107 can still be requested.
4109 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4110 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4111 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4112 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4114 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4115 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4116 circumstances, but probably never did.
4118 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4119 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4120 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4123 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4125 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4126 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4128 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4130 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4132 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4133 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4134 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4135 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4136 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4137 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4139 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4140 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4141 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4142 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4143 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4144 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4146 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4147 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4149 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4150 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4152 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4153 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4155 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4157 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4159 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4161 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4163 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4165 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4167 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4169 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4170 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4171 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4173 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4174 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4175 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4176 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4178 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4179 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4180 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4182 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4183 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4184 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4185 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4187 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4188 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4191 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4192 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4193 should work with maildirs and everything.
4195 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4196 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4198 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4201 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4202 function for BDB 4.3.
4204 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4206 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4207 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4210 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4211 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4212 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4213 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4214 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4215 formatting function string_vformat().
4217 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4218 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4219 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4220 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4221 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4222 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4223 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4224 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4226 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4227 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4230 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4231 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4233 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4234 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4235 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4236 test. It is now used for both.
4238 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4239 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4240 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4241 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4242 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4243 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4245 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4246 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4247 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4250 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4251 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4252 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4254 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4255 experimental DomainKeys support:
4257 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4258 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4259 the control was given.
4261 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4263 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4265 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4267 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4268 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4269 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4272 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4273 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4274 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4275 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4276 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4277 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4280 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4281 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4282 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4283 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4284 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4285 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4287 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4288 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4289 do -d+all out of habit.
4291 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4292 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4295 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4296 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4297 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4298 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4299 record types that Exim uses.
4301 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4302 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4303 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4304 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4305 non-existent file that was broken.
4307 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4308 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4310 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4311 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4312 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4314 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4316 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4317 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4318 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4319 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4320 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4323 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4324 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4325 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4326 at a slight CPU cost.
4328 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4329 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4331 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4334 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4336 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4337 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4343 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4344 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4346 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4348 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4350 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4351 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4353 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4354 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4355 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4356 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4357 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4358 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4361 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4362 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4363 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4364 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4367 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4368 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4369 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4370 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4371 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4372 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4373 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4376 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4377 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4379 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4380 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4381 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4382 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4383 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4384 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4386 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4387 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4388 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4389 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4391 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4394 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4395 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4397 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4398 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4399 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4400 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4403 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4405 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4406 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4408 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4409 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4410 to what was transported.)
4412 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4414 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4415 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4416 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4417 spamd_address settings.
4419 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4420 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4421 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4422 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4423 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4425 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4427 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4428 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4429 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4430 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4431 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4433 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4434 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4436 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4437 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4438 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4439 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4440 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4441 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4442 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4445 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4446 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4447 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4448 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4449 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4450 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4451 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4454 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4456 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4457 driver and ACL definitions.
4459 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4460 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4462 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4463 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4464 understands it better than I do:
4466 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4467 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4469 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4470 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4471 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4472 => three warnings about OTP not working
4473 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4475 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4476 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4477 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4478 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4480 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4481 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4483 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4484 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4485 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4487 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4488 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4491 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4492 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4495 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4496 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4497 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4499 warn !verify = sender
4500 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4502 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4503 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4505 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4507 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4508 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4510 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4511 nomenclature these days.)
4513 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4514 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4516 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4517 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4518 . First host does not offer TLS;
4519 . First host accepts first address;
4520 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4521 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4522 . Second host accepts second address.
4523 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4524 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4527 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4528 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4529 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4530 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4531 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4533 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4534 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4536 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4537 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4539 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4540 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4541 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4543 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4544 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4547 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4549 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4550 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4551 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4552 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4553 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4554 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4555 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4557 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4558 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4559 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4560 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4561 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4563 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4564 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4567 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4568 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4569 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4570 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4571 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4572 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4574 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4576 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4577 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4578 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4579 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4580 printable escape sequences.
4582 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4583 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4586 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4587 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4590 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4591 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4592 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4593 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4594 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4596 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4597 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4598 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4600 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4602 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4603 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4606 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4607 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4608 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4609 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4610 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4611 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4612 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4613 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4614 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4617 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4618 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4619 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4620 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4624 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4625 ----------------------------------------
4627 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4628 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4629 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4630 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4631 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4632 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4635 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4636 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4637 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4638 historical information.
4644 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4646 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4647 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4649 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4650 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4653 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4654 filter fails to execute.
4656 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4657 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4658 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4659 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4660 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4662 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4664 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4669 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4675 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4677 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4679 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4680 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4681 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4682 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4684 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4685 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4686 sender verification.
4688 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4689 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4691 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4693 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4696 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4697 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4699 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4700 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4702 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4703 information about exactly what failed.
4705 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4707 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4708 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4709 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4711 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4712 It is now set to "smtps".
4714 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4715 ignore_target_hosts.
4717 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4718 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4719 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4720 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4723 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4724 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4725 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4727 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4728 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4729 wake it up if nothing else does.
4731 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4732 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4733 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4736 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4737 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4739 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4741 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4742 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4743 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4744 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4745 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4746 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4747 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4748 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4750 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4751 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4752 than one IP address.
4754 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4755 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4756 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4757 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4759 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4760 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4761 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4762 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4763 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4766 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4767 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4768 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4769 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4771 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4772 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4775 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4776 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4777 $sender_host_address.
4779 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4780 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4781 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4782 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4783 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4786 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4788 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4789 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4791 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4792 just the host names, not the priorities.
4794 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4795 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4796 controlled by a keyword.
4798 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4799 multiple records are returned.
4801 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4802 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4805 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4807 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4808 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4810 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4811 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4812 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4814 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4816 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4818 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4820 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4821 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4822 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4823 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4824 because the tests only now provoked it.
4826 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4827 (this can affect the format of dates).
4829 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4830 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4831 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4832 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4834 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4836 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4837 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4838 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4839 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4841 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4842 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4843 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4845 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4848 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4849 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4850 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4851 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4852 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4853 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4856 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4857 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4858 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4861 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4862 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4863 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4865 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4866 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4867 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4868 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4869 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4870 so I produce this patch..."
4872 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4873 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4876 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4877 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4878 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4879 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4882 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4884 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4885 long debug lines gets shown.
4887 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4888 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4890 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4892 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4893 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4894 of $primary_hostname.
4896 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4897 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4898 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4899 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4900 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4901 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4902 by change 4.50/55 above.
4904 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4905 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4906 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4907 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4908 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4909 running as the user.
4912 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4913 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4914 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4917 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4918 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4920 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4921 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4922 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4923 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4924 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4926 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4927 This has been fixed.
4929 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4930 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4931 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4932 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4935 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4937 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4938 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4939 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4940 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4942 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4943 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4945 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4946 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4947 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4949 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4950 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4951 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4954 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4955 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4956 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4958 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4959 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4960 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4961 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4963 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4964 during host lookups.
4966 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4967 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4969 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4971 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4972 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4973 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4974 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4975 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4978 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4979 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4981 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4982 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4983 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4985 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4987 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4988 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4989 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4990 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4991 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4992 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4995 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4996 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4997 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4998 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4999 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5001 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5004 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5006 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5007 "vacation" handling.
5009 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5010 OS variants using glibc.
5012 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5015 ----------------------------------------------------
5016 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5017 ----------------------------------------------------
5023 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5024 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5027 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5028 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5031 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5032 filter fails to execute.
5034 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5035 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5036 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5037 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5038 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5040 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5041 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5042 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5043 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5045 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5046 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5047 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5048 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5049 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5051 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5053 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5054 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5055 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5056 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5058 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5059 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5060 sender verification.
5062 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5063 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5065 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5066 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5068 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5069 ignore_target_hosts.
5071 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5072 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5073 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5074 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5077 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5078 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5079 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5081 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5082 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5083 wake it up if nothing else does.
5085 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5086 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5087 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5090 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5091 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5093 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5095 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5096 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5099 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5100 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5103 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5104 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5105 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5106 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5107 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5110 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5111 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5114 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5115 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5116 $sender_host_address.
5118 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5120 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5121 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5122 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5124 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5127 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5128 (this can affect the format of dates).
5130 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5131 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5132 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5133 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5135 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5136 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5137 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5139 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5140 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5141 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5142 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5144 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5145 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5146 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5148 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5151 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5152 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5153 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5154 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5155 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5156 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5159 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5160 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5161 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5162 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5165 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5166 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5167 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5168 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5169 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5170 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5171 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5173 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5174 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5175 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5176 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5177 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5178 running as the user.
5181 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5182 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5183 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5186 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5187 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5188 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5189 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5190 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5192 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5193 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5194 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5195 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5198 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5199 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5200 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5201 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5202 because the tests only now provoked it.
5208 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5209 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5210 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5211 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5212 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5213 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5214 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5216 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5217 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5220 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5222 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5224 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5225 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5228 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5229 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5230 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5231 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5232 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5234 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5235 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5237 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5239 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5241 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5244 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5245 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5247 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5248 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5249 affecting debugging statements).
5251 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5253 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5254 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5255 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5256 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5257 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5258 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5259 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5260 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5261 after the received time, and all would be well.
5263 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5264 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5265 condition in an expansion string.
5267 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5269 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5270 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5271 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5272 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5273 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5274 job under whatever limits there are.
5276 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5278 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5281 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5282 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5283 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5284 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5287 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5288 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5289 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5290 binary data in such strings.
5292 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5294 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5295 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5296 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5297 failure, which is pointless.
5299 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5301 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5303 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5304 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5305 Sender: header lines.
5307 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5308 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5309 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5311 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5312 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5313 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5314 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5315 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5318 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5319 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5320 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5321 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5322 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5324 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5325 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5326 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5329 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5330 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5332 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5333 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5335 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5337 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5339 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5341 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5344 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5346 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5348 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5349 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5350 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5351 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5353 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5354 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5360 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5361 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5362 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5364 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5365 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5366 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5367 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5368 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5369 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5371 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5372 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5373 verification failure".
5375 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5376 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5377 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5378 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5380 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5381 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5382 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5383 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5384 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5385 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5386 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5387 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5388 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5389 treated as a timeout.
5391 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5392 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5393 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5394 not set for Exim filters).
5396 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5397 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5398 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5400 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5402 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5403 try to make them clearer.
5405 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5406 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5408 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5410 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5412 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5413 only the Cygwin environment.
5415 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5416 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5417 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5418 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5419 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5421 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5422 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5423 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5424 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5425 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5426 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5427 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5429 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5430 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5432 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5434 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5435 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5436 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5438 To: susanne@some.where
5440 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5441 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5442 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5443 of addresses in From: header lines).
5445 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5446 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5447 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5449 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5450 treated as non-personal.
5452 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5453 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5455 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5457 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5459 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5460 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5461 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5463 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5464 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5466 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5467 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5468 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5469 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5470 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5471 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5473 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5474 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5475 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5476 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5477 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5478 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5479 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5480 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5482 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5484 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5485 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5487 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5488 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5489 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5491 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5492 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5494 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5495 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5496 rather than long int.
5498 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5500 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5506 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5507 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5508 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5509 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5510 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5511 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5517 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5518 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5520 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5521 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5522 socklen_t is defined.
5524 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5527 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5530 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5531 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5532 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5533 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5534 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5536 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5537 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5538 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5539 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5541 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5542 of flapping under certain conditions.
5544 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5545 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5546 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5548 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5550 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5552 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5553 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5554 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5555 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5557 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5558 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5559 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5560 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5561 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5562 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5563 preserved with the message after it was received.
5565 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5566 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5567 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5568 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5569 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5570 test suite worked just fine.
5572 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5573 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5574 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5576 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5577 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5580 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5581 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5582 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5583 does not fully solve it.
5585 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5586 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5587 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5588 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5589 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5591 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5592 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5593 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5595 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5596 string, for example:
5598 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5600 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5601 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5602 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5603 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5604 the routers could not see them.
5606 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5607 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5609 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5610 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5613 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5614 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5615 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5616 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5617 that needed quoting.
5619 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5620 was not being matched caselessly.
5622 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5625 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5626 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5627 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5628 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5629 when use_sender is false.
5631 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5633 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5635 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5637 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5638 the configuration file.
5640 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5641 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5643 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5645 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5646 bytes in the message body.
5648 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5649 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5652 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5654 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5656 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5657 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5658 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5659 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5666 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5667 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5669 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5670 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5671 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5672 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5673 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5675 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5676 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5678 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5679 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5680 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5682 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5683 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5684 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5686 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5689 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5690 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5691 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5692 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5693 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5694 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5695 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5701 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5702 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5703 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5704 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5705 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5706 default (and expected) setting.
5708 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5709 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5710 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5711 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5713 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5714 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5716 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5719 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5720 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5721 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5722 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5723 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5724 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5726 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5727 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5728 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5730 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5731 part (NOT match_host).
5733 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5735 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5736 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5737 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5738 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5739 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5740 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5741 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5742 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5743 the same named file.
5745 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5746 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5749 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5750 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5751 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5752 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5755 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5756 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5757 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5759 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5761 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5763 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5765 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5766 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5768 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5769 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5770 before starting the TLS session.
5772 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5774 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5775 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5777 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5778 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5779 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5780 colon in the middle).
5786 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5787 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5788 multiple configurations are in use.
5790 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5791 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5792 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5793 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5794 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5795 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5797 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5798 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5800 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5801 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5802 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5804 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5805 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5808 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5809 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5811 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5813 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5814 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5816 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5824 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5825 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5826 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5827 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5828 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5830 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5833 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5834 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5835 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5836 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5837 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5838 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5840 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5841 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5842 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5843 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5844 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5845 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5846 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5849 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5850 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5851 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5852 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5853 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5855 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5857 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5858 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5859 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5861 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5863 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5864 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5865 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5868 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5869 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5871 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5872 Three changes have been made:
5874 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5875 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5876 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5877 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5878 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5880 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5883 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5884 the modified behaviour.
5890 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5893 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5894 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5896 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5897 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5898 try to track down a specific problem.
5900 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5901 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5902 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5904 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5907 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5908 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5909 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5910 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5911 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5912 some earlier ones do not.
5914 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5916 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5917 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5918 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5919 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5920 address literals are enabled, of course).
5922 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5924 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5925 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5926 by a command such as
5930 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5932 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5934 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5935 remained set. It is now erased.
5937 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5938 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5940 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5941 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5942 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5943 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5944 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5945 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5946 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5947 appropriate error code.
5949 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5950 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5951 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5952 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5953 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5954 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5956 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5957 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5958 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5960 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5961 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5962 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5963 terminate the header.
5965 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5966 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5967 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5969 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5970 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5971 (4.30/29). In particular:
5973 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5976 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5977 to write a maildirsize file.
5979 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5980 the transport, the new value overrides.
5982 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5985 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5986 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5987 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5990 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5991 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5992 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5995 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5996 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5997 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5999 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6000 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6003 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6004 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6005 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6007 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6009 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6011 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6013 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6014 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6017 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6018 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6019 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6020 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6021 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6022 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6023 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6026 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6027 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6028 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6029 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6030 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6033 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6034 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6035 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6036 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6037 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6038 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6039 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6040 cached value only when the same options are set.
6042 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6044 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6045 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6046 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6047 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6048 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6050 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6051 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6052 it is clearly obsolete.
6054 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6057 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6058 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6059 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6062 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6063 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6064 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6065 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6066 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6068 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6069 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6070 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6071 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6073 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6075 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6077 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6078 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6081 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6082 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6083 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6084 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6085 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6086 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6089 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6090 with the -f command-line option.
6092 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6093 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6094 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6095 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6096 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6097 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6099 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6100 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6103 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6104 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6105 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6106 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6107 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6108 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6109 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6110 buffer is too small.
6112 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6113 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6115 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6116 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6117 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6118 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6119 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6120 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6121 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6122 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6123 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6125 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6126 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6127 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6129 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6130 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6133 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6134 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6135 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6136 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6137 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6139 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6140 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6141 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6142 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6145 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6147 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6149 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6150 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6152 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6153 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6154 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6156 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6157 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6158 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6159 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6160 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6162 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6163 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6164 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6165 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6166 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6167 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6168 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6170 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6171 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6172 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6173 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6174 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6175 the test of how many are available.
6177 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6178 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6179 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6180 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6181 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6182 new message is started.
6184 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6185 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6187 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6188 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6190 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6191 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6192 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6195 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6196 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6197 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6198 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6199 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6200 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6201 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6203 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6204 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6205 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6206 interpreted as octal.
6208 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6211 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6212 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6213 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6214 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6215 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6216 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6218 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6219 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6220 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6221 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6223 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6224 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6225 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6226 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6228 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6229 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6232 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6233 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6235 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6237 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6238 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6239 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6240 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6242 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6243 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6244 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6245 supplied", which is not helpful.
6247 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6248 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6249 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6251 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6252 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6253 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6254 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6255 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6256 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6257 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6258 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6260 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6261 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6262 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6263 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6264 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6266 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6267 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6268 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6269 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6270 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6271 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6273 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6274 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6275 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6277 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6279 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6280 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6281 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6284 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6286 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6287 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6288 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6289 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6290 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6291 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6292 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6293 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6295 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6296 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6297 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6298 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6299 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6301 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6304 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6305 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6306 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6307 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6308 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6309 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6310 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6311 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6312 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6318 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6319 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6320 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6322 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6325 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6326 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6327 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6329 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6330 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6331 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6332 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6333 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6334 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6336 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6337 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6338 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6339 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6340 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6341 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6342 the Exim test suite.
6344 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6345 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6346 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6347 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6349 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6350 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6351 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6352 specify it in this variable.
6354 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6355 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6356 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6357 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6359 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6360 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6361 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6362 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6364 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6365 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6366 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6367 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6368 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6370 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6372 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6375 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6376 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6377 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6378 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6379 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6381 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6382 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6384 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6385 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6386 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6387 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6388 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6390 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6391 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6393 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6394 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6395 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6397 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6398 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6400 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6401 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6403 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6404 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6405 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6407 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6408 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6410 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6411 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6412 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6413 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6415 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6417 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6418 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6419 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6420 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6422 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6424 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6425 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6427 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6429 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6430 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6431 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6432 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6433 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6434 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6436 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6438 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6439 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6442 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6444 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6445 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6447 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6448 550 Sender verify failed
6450 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6451 the final line of the response.
6453 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6454 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6455 all other user lookups.
6457 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6460 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6461 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6462 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6463 result into an int without checking.
6465 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6466 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6467 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6469 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6470 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6471 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6472 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6474 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6477 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6478 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6480 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6481 to the empty sender.
6483 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6484 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6485 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6486 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6487 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6488 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6489 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6492 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6493 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6494 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6495 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6498 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6499 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6501 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6504 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6505 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6507 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6509 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6510 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6513 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6514 as soon as it is encountered.
6516 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6518 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6521 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6522 recognizes a tab character.
6524 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6525 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6526 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6527 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6529 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6531 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6534 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6536 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6538 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6539 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6542 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6543 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6544 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6545 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6546 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6548 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6549 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6551 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6552 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6553 list (.included file names were always shown).
6555 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6556 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6557 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6560 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6561 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6563 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6565 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6567 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6569 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6570 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6571 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6572 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6573 failures to open the logs.
6575 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6576 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6577 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6578 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6579 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6580 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6581 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6587 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6588 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6589 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6592 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6593 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6594 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6596 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6597 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6598 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6600 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6601 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6602 causing some misleading effects.
6604 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6605 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6606 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6608 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6609 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6610 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6611 queue-runner function directly.
6617 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6620 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6621 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6622 was always written to the default place.
6624 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6625 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6626 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6628 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6630 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6632 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6633 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6634 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6636 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6637 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6640 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6641 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6642 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6644 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6645 command line option is disabled.
6647 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6648 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6650 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6652 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6654 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6655 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6657 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6659 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6660 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6661 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6662 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6663 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6664 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6666 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6667 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6670 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6671 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6673 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6674 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6676 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6677 received was valid base64.
6679 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6680 name of the variable that was being set.
6682 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6684 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6685 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6686 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6687 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6688 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6689 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6691 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6693 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6694 nor realm was specified.
6696 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6697 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6698 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6699 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6701 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6702 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6703 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6705 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6706 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6707 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6709 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6710 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6711 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6712 some systems use these upper case variants.
6714 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6715 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6716 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6717 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6719 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6721 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6722 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6724 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6725 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6728 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6730 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6731 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6732 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6733 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6735 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6738 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6739 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6740 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6742 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6743 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6745 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6746 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6747 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6748 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6750 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6751 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6752 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6754 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6756 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6757 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6758 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6759 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6762 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6763 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6764 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6766 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6768 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6769 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6771 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6772 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6774 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6775 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6776 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6777 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6778 when emails are that large.
6785 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6786 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6788 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6789 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6790 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6792 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6793 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6794 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6796 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6797 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6798 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6799 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6800 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6802 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6803 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6804 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6805 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6806 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6809 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6810 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6811 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6812 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6813 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6814 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6815 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6816 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6817 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6818 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6819 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6820 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6821 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6822 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6824 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6825 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6828 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6829 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6830 error should be diagnosed.
6832 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6833 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6834 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6835 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6836 appeared instead of "NULL".
6838 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6839 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6840 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6841 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6842 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6843 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6846 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6847 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6848 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6854 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6855 or receiver verification errors.
6857 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6860 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6861 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6862 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6863 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6865 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6866 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6867 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6868 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6869 shouldn't happen again.
6871 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6872 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6873 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6875 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6876 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6878 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6880 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6881 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6883 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6884 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6887 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6888 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6889 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6891 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6892 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6893 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6894 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6896 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6897 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6898 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6899 to define what should happen).
6901 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6902 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6903 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6905 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6907 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6909 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6910 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6912 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6913 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6914 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6915 structure in all cases.
6917 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6918 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6919 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6920 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6922 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6923 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6926 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6927 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6929 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6930 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6932 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6933 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6934 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6936 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6937 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6938 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6940 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6941 the book and for uniformity.
6943 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6945 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6946 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6947 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6948 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6949 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6950 non-existent command as the problem.
6952 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6953 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6954 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6956 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6958 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6959 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6960 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6962 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6963 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6964 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6965 timestamps using strftime().
6967 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6968 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6970 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6971 transport-time rewrites.
6973 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6974 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6975 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6976 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6978 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6979 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6981 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6982 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6983 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6984 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6987 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6988 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6989 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6990 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6991 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6992 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6993 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6995 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6996 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6997 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6998 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6999 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7001 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7002 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7003 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7004 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7005 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7006 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7007 remaining text gets split now.
7009 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7010 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7011 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7012 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7014 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7015 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7016 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7017 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7020 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7021 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7022 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7023 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7024 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7025 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7026 passed through if needed.
7028 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7029 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7030 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7031 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7032 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7033 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7035 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7036 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7037 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7038 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7039 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7041 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7042 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7043 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7044 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7045 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7047 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7048 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7051 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7052 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7053 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7054 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7055 mayhem of various kinds.
7057 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7058 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7059 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7060 the right test for positive values.
7062 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7063 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7064 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7065 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7066 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7067 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7068 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7069 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7070 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7071 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7074 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7077 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7078 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7081 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7082 the existing equality matching.
7084 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7085 dealing with inode numbers.
7087 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7088 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7089 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7091 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7092 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7093 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7094 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7097 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7098 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7099 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7100 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7101 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7102 relay addresses has also been removed.
7104 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7106 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7107 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7108 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7110 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7111 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7112 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7113 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7114 processing applies to CR:
7116 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7117 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7119 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7120 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7121 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7122 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7124 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7125 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7126 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7128 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7129 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7130 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7131 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7132 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7133 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7136 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7139 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7140 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7141 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7142 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7145 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7147 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7149 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7151 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7152 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7153 not considered personal.
7155 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7157 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7159 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7161 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7162 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7163 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7164 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7165 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7166 header lines, and spool format errors.
7168 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7169 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7170 for more flexibility.
7172 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7173 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7174 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7176 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7179 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7180 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7181 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7182 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7183 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7184 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7185 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7186 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7187 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7189 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7190 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7191 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7192 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7193 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7194 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7195 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7197 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7198 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7199 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7201 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7202 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7203 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7204 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7205 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7206 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7207 instead of killing the process with assert().
7209 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7210 than Unicode encoding.
7212 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7213 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7214 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7215 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7217 77. Added process_log_path.
7219 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7220 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7222 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7223 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7225 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7226 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7227 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7229 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7230 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7231 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7232 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7233 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7236 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7237 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7240 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7241 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7242 they will be used during message reception.
7248 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.