1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
73 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
74 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
76 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
77 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
80 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
83 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
85 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
87 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
88 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
90 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
91 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
92 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
93 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
94 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
97 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
98 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
100 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
101 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
104 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
105 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
107 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
108 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
109 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
110 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
113 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
114 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
115 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
117 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
120 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
121 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
123 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
124 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
125 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
126 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
129 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
130 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
131 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
132 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
135 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
136 shared (NFS) environment.
138 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
139 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
142 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
143 on some platforms for bit 31.
145 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
146 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
147 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
148 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
149 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
150 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
151 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
152 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
154 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
156 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
157 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
159 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
160 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
163 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
164 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
167 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
168 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
169 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
172 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
173 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
174 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
176 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
177 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
178 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
179 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
180 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
182 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
185 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
186 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
187 be requested on all coneections.
189 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
190 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
192 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
194 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
195 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
196 one for these; the option was ignored.
198 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
199 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
200 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
201 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
203 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
204 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
205 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
208 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
209 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
210 error ignored was made.
212 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
214 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
215 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
216 values, to catch one form of exploit.
218 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
219 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
220 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
222 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
223 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
226 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
227 them in our smtp response.
229 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
230 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
231 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
232 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
233 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
235 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
236 link count into consideration.
238 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
239 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
241 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
242 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
243 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
246 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
248 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
250 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
252 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
253 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
254 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
255 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
257 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
259 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
260 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
263 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
264 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
265 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
267 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
268 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
269 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
271 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
272 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
273 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
274 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
275 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
276 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
277 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
278 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
280 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
281 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
282 resulted in an indefinite loop.
284 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
285 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
286 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
292 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
293 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
295 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
296 non-signal-safe functions being used.
298 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
299 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
300 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
302 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
303 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
304 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
306 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
307 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
308 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
309 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
310 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
313 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
314 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
316 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
317 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
318 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
319 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
320 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
321 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
322 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
324 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
325 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
327 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
330 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
331 Previously this would segfault.
333 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
336 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
337 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
338 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
339 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
340 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
341 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
343 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
345 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
346 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
347 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
348 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
350 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
352 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
353 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
354 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
355 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
357 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
359 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
361 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
362 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
363 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
365 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
366 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
367 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
369 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
371 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
372 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
373 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
374 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
376 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
377 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
378 promised '?' replacement.
380 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
382 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
383 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
384 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
385 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
386 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
388 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
389 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
390 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
392 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
393 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
394 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
396 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
397 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
398 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
400 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
401 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
402 hope that is portable enough.
404 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
405 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
406 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
407 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
409 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
410 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
411 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
413 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
414 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
415 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
416 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
418 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
419 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
421 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
422 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
423 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
424 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
426 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
427 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
428 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
430 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
431 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
432 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
433 the previous G, M, k.
435 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
436 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
439 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
440 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
441 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
442 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
444 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
445 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
447 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
448 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
449 off past the nul-terimation.
451 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
452 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
453 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
454 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
455 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
457 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
459 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
460 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
461 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
464 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
465 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
467 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
468 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
469 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
471 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
472 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
473 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
475 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
476 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
482 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
483 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
484 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
485 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
486 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
487 be defined in redis_servers.
489 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
490 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
492 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
493 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
494 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
495 extant use locations.
497 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
498 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
500 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
501 Previously only the last row was returned.
503 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
504 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
505 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
506 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
509 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
510 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
511 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
512 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
513 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
514 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
515 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
516 Main pool for expansions.
517 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
518 active in the testsuite.
519 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
521 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
522 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
523 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
524 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
527 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
528 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
531 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
532 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
533 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
535 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
536 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
537 ClamAV interface method is removed.
539 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
540 rows affected is given instead).
542 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
543 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
545 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
546 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
547 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
548 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
549 for all multi-message initiating connections.
551 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
552 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
553 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
555 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
556 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
557 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
558 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
561 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
562 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
563 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
566 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
568 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
569 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
571 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
572 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
573 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
575 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
576 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
577 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
580 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
581 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
583 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
584 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
585 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
587 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
588 for the build is renamed.
590 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
591 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
592 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
594 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
595 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
596 result replacing the original.
598 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
599 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
600 and the resources needed to be freed.
602 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
604 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
607 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
608 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
609 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
610 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
612 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
613 length value. Previously this would segfault.
615 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
616 newer versions of the scanner.
618 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
619 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
620 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
621 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
622 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
623 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
624 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
626 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
627 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
628 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
629 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
630 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
631 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
632 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
633 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
634 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
635 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
637 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
638 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
640 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
642 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
643 allows proper process termination in container environments.
645 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
646 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
648 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
649 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
650 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
652 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
653 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
654 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
655 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
657 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
658 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
661 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
662 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
664 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
665 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
666 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
667 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
668 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
670 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
671 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
674 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
675 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
677 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
680 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
681 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
682 "bare" representation.
684 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
685 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
686 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
687 corrupted the output.
693 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
694 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
695 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
696 pairs of long lines into single ones.
698 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
699 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
701 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
702 This permits better logging.
704 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
705 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
706 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
707 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
708 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
709 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
711 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
712 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
715 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
716 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
717 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
719 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
720 than 255 are no longer allowed.
722 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
723 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
724 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
725 client, there is no benefit for these.
726 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
727 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
728 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
731 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
732 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
734 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
735 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
736 erroneously found still-pending ones.
738 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
739 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
741 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
742 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
743 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
744 signature and again for transmission.
746 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
747 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
748 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
750 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
751 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
752 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
753 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
754 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
755 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
756 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
758 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
759 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
760 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
761 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
763 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
764 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
765 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
766 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
767 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
768 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
771 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
772 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
773 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
774 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
777 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
778 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
779 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
780 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
783 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
784 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
787 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
788 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
789 banner-time rejection.
791 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
794 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
795 is the name of a transport.
798 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
800 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
801 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
803 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
804 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
805 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
808 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
809 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
810 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
811 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
813 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
814 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
815 initial verify call returned a defer.
817 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
818 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
820 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
821 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
823 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
824 if present. Previously it was ignored.
826 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
827 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
829 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
830 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
833 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
834 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
836 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
837 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
838 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
840 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
841 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
842 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
843 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
845 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
846 and confused the parent.
848 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
849 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
851 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
854 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
855 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
856 out-of-order delivery.
858 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
859 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
860 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
863 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
864 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
867 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
868 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
869 one run was done. Bug 2189.
871 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
872 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
873 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
874 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
875 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
876 message is still "Temporary local problem".
878 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
879 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
880 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
882 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
883 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
884 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
886 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
887 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
888 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
889 though a different problem.
895 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
896 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
898 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
900 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
901 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
903 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
904 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
906 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
907 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
908 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
909 before acknowledging the chunk.
911 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
912 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
913 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
915 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
916 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
917 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
920 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
921 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
922 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
924 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
925 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
927 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
928 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
929 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
930 body hash calculated value.
932 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
933 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
934 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
936 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
938 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
939 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
941 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
942 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
943 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
945 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
946 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
947 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
948 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
949 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
950 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
952 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
953 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
954 past that check, despite the cost.
956 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
957 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
958 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
960 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
961 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
962 TLS library to consume.
964 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
966 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
968 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
969 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
970 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
971 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
972 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
973 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
974 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
976 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
978 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
980 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
981 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
982 should be warning-free.
984 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
986 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
987 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
989 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
990 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
991 general solution here.
993 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
994 already-broken messages in the queue.
996 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
998 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1004 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1005 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1007 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1008 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1009 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1011 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1012 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1013 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1014 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1015 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1016 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1017 if one fails this test.
1018 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1019 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1021 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1022 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1024 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1025 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1027 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1028 in rewrites and routers.
1030 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1031 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1033 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1034 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1036 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1038 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1041 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1042 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1043 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1044 connection after a verify cache hit.
1045 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1047 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1048 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1050 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1051 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1052 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1053 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1054 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1056 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1057 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1059 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1060 Previously they were not counted.
1062 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1063 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1064 that needed the lookup.
1066 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1067 distinguished as "(=".
1069 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1070 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1072 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1074 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1075 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1077 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1078 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1080 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1081 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1084 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1085 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1086 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1087 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1089 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1091 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1092 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1093 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1095 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1096 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1097 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1100 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1101 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1102 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1105 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1106 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1107 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1109 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1110 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1113 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1115 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1116 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1118 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1119 are not in the system include path.
1121 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1122 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1123 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1124 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1126 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1127 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1128 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1130 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1132 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1133 an incoming connection.
1135 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1138 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1139 fallback to "prime256v1".
1141 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1142 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1148 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1149 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1150 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1151 client dropping the TLS connection.
1153 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1154 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1156 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1157 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1158 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1159 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1162 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1163 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1164 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1165 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1166 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1167 check on the next write.
1169 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1170 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1171 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1172 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1173 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1175 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1176 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1178 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1179 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1180 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1182 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1183 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1184 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1185 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1187 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1188 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1190 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1191 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1193 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1194 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1195 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1198 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1200 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1202 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1204 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1205 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1207 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1208 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1210 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1212 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1213 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1215 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1217 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1218 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1220 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1222 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1223 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1224 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1225 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1226 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1227 they will retry in-clear.
1228 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1229 at installation time.
1231 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1232 with the $config_file variable.
1234 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1235 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1236 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1237 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1238 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1240 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1241 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1242 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1243 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1244 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1246 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1248 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1249 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1250 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1251 list order is no longer honoured.
1253 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1254 for DKIM processing.
1256 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1257 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1259 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1260 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1261 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1262 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1264 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1265 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1267 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1268 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1270 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1271 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1273 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1275 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1276 cached by the daemon.
1278 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1279 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1281 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1282 keys are given for lookup.
1284 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1285 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1286 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1287 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1289 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1290 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1291 server-side so match that on older versions.
1293 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1294 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1295 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1297 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1298 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1300 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1301 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1302 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1303 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1304 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1305 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1306 initial truncated version.
1308 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1310 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1312 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1313 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1315 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1317 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1319 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1320 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1323 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1324 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1327 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1328 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1330 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1331 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1334 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1335 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1336 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1338 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1339 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1340 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1341 extraction. Accept either.
1347 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1350 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1352 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1355 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1356 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1357 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1358 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1360 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1361 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1362 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1364 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1365 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1366 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1369 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1372 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1373 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1374 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1375 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1376 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1378 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1379 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1380 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1382 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1384 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1385 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1387 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1388 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1390 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1393 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1394 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1396 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1397 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1398 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1400 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1401 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1402 specify a port-range.
1404 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1405 timeout value per server.
1407 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1408 now have the list separator specified.
1410 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1413 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1416 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1418 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1419 rather than the verbs used.
1421 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1422 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1424 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1426 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1427 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1429 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1430 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1432 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1433 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1435 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1437 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1439 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1440 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1441 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1442 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1444 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1446 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1447 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1449 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1450 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1452 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1454 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1456 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1458 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1459 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1461 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1462 added for tls authenticator.
1464 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1470 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1471 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1472 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1473 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1474 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1475 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1476 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1478 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1479 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1480 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1481 function when detected.
1483 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1484 cause callback expansion.
1486 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1487 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1488 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1489 instead of bool when processing it.
1491 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1492 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1494 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1496 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1498 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1500 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1501 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1503 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1504 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1505 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1506 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1507 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1508 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1510 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1511 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1514 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1515 version 3.3.6 or later.
1517 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1518 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1519 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1520 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1521 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1522 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1525 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1526 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1528 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1529 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1530 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1533 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1534 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1535 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1537 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1538 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1540 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1541 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1544 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1546 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1547 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1549 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1550 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1553 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1555 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1558 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1559 output list separator was used.
1564 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1565 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1568 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1569 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1571 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1573 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1574 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1580 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1582 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1583 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1584 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1585 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1586 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1587 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1589 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1590 utilities have not been installed.
1592 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1593 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1595 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1596 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1598 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1599 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1600 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1601 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1603 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1605 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1606 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1608 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1611 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1613 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1614 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1615 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1617 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1618 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1619 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1620 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1621 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1622 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1624 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1626 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1627 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1629 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1632 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1634 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1636 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1637 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1639 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1640 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1642 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1644 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1646 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1647 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1649 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1650 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1651 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1653 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1654 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1655 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1658 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1660 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1661 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1664 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1665 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1668 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1669 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1671 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1672 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1674 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1676 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1677 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1678 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1680 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1681 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1683 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1684 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1687 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1688 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1689 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1691 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1693 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1694 Christian Aistleitner.
1696 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1698 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1699 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1701 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1702 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1704 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1705 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1707 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1708 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1710 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1711 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1713 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1714 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1715 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1717 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1719 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1720 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1723 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1725 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1726 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1733 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1735 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1736 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1738 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1741 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1742 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1745 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1747 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1748 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1749 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1750 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1751 using channel bindings instead).
1753 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1754 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1755 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1756 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1757 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1760 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1762 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1764 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1765 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1767 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1768 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1769 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1771 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1773 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1775 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1776 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1778 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1780 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1782 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1784 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1785 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1787 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1789 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1790 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1793 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1794 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1796 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1797 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1800 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1802 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1804 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1805 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1807 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1810 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1811 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1813 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1814 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1816 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1818 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1820 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1823 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1826 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1828 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1829 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1830 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1831 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1833 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1835 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1836 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1837 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1838 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1841 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1842 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1843 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1845 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1846 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1847 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1848 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1850 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1851 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1852 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1853 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1854 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1855 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1856 delivery, as in LMTP.
1858 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1859 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1861 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1863 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1867 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1868 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1869 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1870 username as equal to the username.
1872 This change corrects that bug.
1874 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1875 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1876 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1878 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1880 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1881 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1882 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1883 NULL dereference and crash.
1885 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1887 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1888 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1889 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1891 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1893 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1894 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1895 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1896 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1897 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1898 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1899 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1900 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1901 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1902 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1903 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1905 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1906 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1908 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1909 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1912 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1913 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1914 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1915 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1916 an empty string is now equivalent.
1918 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1919 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1920 not performing validation itself.
1922 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1923 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1925 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1928 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1930 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1931 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1932 other false fix of the same issue.
1933 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1936 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1937 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1939 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1940 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1941 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1943 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1944 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1945 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1947 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1949 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1951 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1952 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1954 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1957 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1958 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1959 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1960 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1961 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1963 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1964 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1966 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1967 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1970 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1971 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1972 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1973 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1975 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1977 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1978 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1979 from multiple comments on this bug.
1981 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1983 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1984 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1987 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1988 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1990 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1991 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1997 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1999 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2005 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2006 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2007 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2009 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2011 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2014 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2016 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2018 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2020 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2021 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2023 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2024 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2026 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2027 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2029 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2030 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2031 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2033 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2035 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2036 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2038 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2040 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2042 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2043 non-compliant senders.
2044 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2046 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2047 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2048 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2050 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2051 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2052 in spool file corruption.
2054 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2055 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2056 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2059 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2060 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2061 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2063 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2064 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2066 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2068 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2070 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2072 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2073 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2074 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2076 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2077 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2078 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2079 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2081 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2082 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2084 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2085 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2086 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2087 resolver implementation change.
2089 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2090 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2092 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2094 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2096 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2097 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2099 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2100 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2102 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2103 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2105 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2106 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2107 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2108 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2109 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2111 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2113 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2114 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2115 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2117 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2119 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2120 read-only, out of scope).
2121 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2123 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2124 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2125 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2126 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2128 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2130 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2131 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2132 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2133 real issues in debug logging.
2135 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2136 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2138 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2139 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2140 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2142 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2143 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2144 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2147 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2148 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2150 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2151 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2152 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2153 needs to override this, it can.
2155 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2156 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2157 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2159 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2160 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2161 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2162 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2164 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2170 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2171 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2173 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2175 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2178 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2179 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2181 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2182 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2183 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2185 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2186 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2187 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2188 not safe for signals.
2190 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2191 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2192 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2193 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2196 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2198 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2199 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2200 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2201 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2202 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2204 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2205 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2206 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2207 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2208 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2209 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2211 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2212 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2213 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2214 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2216 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2217 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2218 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2219 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2221 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2222 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2223 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2224 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2225 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2226 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2227 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2228 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2229 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2231 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2232 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2233 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2234 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2236 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2237 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2238 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2239 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2240 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2241 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2242 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2243 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2244 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2245 details in the main documentation.
2247 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2249 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2251 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2252 repository when doing development or release builds.
2254 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2255 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2257 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2258 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2261 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2263 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2264 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2266 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2267 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2269 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2270 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2272 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2273 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2275 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2276 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2278 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2280 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2283 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2284 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2285 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2287 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2289 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2291 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2292 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2298 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2300 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2301 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2303 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2305 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2307 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2310 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2311 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2313 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2314 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2316 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2317 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2319 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2322 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2323 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2325 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2326 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2327 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2328 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2330 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2331 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2337 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2340 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2341 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2342 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2344 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2345 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2347 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2348 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2349 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2351 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2352 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2354 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2355 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2357 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2358 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2360 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2361 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2363 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2364 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2366 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2369 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2370 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2372 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2373 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2375 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2376 SQL string expansion failure details.
2377 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2379 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2380 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2382 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2383 extern declarations in function scope.
2384 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2386 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2387 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2388 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2391 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2392 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2394 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2395 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2397 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2398 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2400 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2401 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2403 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2404 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2407 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2409 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2411 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2412 Patch by Simon Arlott
2414 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2415 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2421 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2422 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2424 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2425 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2427 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2429 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2430 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2431 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2433 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2434 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2435 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2437 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2438 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2439 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2440 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2442 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2443 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2444 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2445 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2447 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2448 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2449 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2452 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2455 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2456 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2457 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2458 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2459 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2465 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2466 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2467 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2469 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2470 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2472 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2474 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2476 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2478 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2480 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2482 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2483 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2484 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2485 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2487 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2488 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2489 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2490 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2491 more caution in buffer sizes.
2493 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2495 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2497 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2499 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2501 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2503 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2505 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2507 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2508 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2509 ignore trailing whitespace.
2511 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2513 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2516 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2517 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2519 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2520 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2521 Notification from John Horne.
2523 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2526 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2527 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2530 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2533 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2534 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2535 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2537 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2538 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2539 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2542 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2543 option (effectively making it always true).
2545 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2546 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2548 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2549 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2551 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2552 run-time user, instead of root.
2554 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2555 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2557 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2558 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2561 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2562 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2563 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2565 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2567 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2573 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2574 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2577 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2578 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2581 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2582 Patch from Alain Williams
2584 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2586 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2587 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2589 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2590 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2592 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2594 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2596 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2597 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2599 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2601 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2603 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2604 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2605 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2607 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2608 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2610 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2611 Patch by Simon Arlott
2613 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2614 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2620 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2622 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2624 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2626 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2628 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2634 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2635 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2637 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2638 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2641 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2642 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2643 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2645 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2646 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2648 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2649 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2650 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2651 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2653 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2654 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2655 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2657 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2659 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2661 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2662 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2664 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2666 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2667 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2668 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2669 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2671 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2672 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2674 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2676 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2678 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2679 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2681 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2682 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2684 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2685 that they are available at delivery time.
2687 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2689 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2690 incoming_port log selectors.
2692 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2693 setting expands to an empty string.
2695 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2696 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2698 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2699 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2701 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2702 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2704 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2705 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2707 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2708 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2710 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2711 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2713 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2715 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2716 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2718 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2719 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2721 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2723 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2724 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2726 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2728 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2730 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2733 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2734 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2736 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2737 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2739 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2740 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2742 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2743 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2745 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2746 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2748 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2749 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2751 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2752 plus update to original patch.
2754 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2756 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2757 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2759 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2761 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2763 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2765 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2767 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2768 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2770 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2771 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2773 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2774 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2776 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2777 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2779 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2781 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2783 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2785 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2791 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2792 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2793 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2795 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2796 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2797 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2798 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2799 build errors in sieve.c.
2801 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2802 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2803 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2805 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2807 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2809 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2811 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2817 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2819 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2820 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2821 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2822 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2823 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2824 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2825 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2826 for iplsearch lookups.
2828 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2829 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2830 previously such lookups could never work.
2832 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2833 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2834 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2836 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2839 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2840 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2841 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2842 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2843 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2844 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2846 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2847 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2849 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2850 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2851 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2852 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2853 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2854 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2856 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2859 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2861 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2862 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2865 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2866 by clients under certain conditions.
2868 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2869 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2871 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2873 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2874 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2876 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2878 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2880 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2882 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2883 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2885 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2887 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2888 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2890 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2892 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2894 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2895 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2896 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2897 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2899 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2900 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2901 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2903 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2904 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2906 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2908 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2910 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2912 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2913 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2914 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2920 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2921 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2924 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2925 issue a MAIL command.
2927 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2929 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2931 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2932 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2933 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2934 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2935 item. This has been fixed.
2937 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2938 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2940 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2941 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2943 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2944 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2945 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2947 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2949 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2950 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2951 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2952 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2953 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2955 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2956 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2957 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2959 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2960 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2961 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2962 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2964 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2966 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2968 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2969 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2970 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2971 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2972 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2974 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2976 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2977 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2978 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2981 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2983 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2985 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2987 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2989 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2991 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2992 no_callout_flush is set.
2994 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2995 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2996 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2999 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3001 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3002 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3003 other ACL rejections are.
3005 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3006 with slight modification.
3008 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3009 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3011 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3012 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3015 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3016 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3018 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3020 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3021 expansion side effects.
3023 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3024 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3025 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3028 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3029 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3030 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3032 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3033 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3034 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3035 were accidentally chopped off.
3037 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3038 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3039 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3040 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3041 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3042 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3043 pipelining has not been advertised.
3045 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3047 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3048 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3049 This has been fixed.
3051 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3052 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3053 reported on Solaris.
3055 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3056 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3057 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3058 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3059 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3060 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3061 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3063 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3066 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3068 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3070 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3071 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3072 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3073 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3074 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3075 criteria to be more general.
3077 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3078 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3079 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3080 host_all_ignored option.
3082 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3083 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3084 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3085 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3086 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3087 is what is supposed to happen).
3089 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3090 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3091 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3092 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3093 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3096 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3097 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3098 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3099 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3100 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3101 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3104 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3106 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3107 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3109 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3110 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3112 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3114 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3116 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3117 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3118 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3119 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3120 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3121 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3122 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3123 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3124 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3125 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3126 least in a lot of common cases.
3128 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3129 advertised in response to EHLO.
3135 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3136 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3138 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3139 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3141 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3142 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3143 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3145 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3146 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3147 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3148 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3149 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3155 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3156 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3159 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3160 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3161 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3163 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3164 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3165 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3166 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3167 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3168 rather than extend the field.
3174 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3175 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3176 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3177 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3180 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3181 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3182 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3184 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3185 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3186 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3188 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3189 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3190 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3193 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3194 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3195 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3196 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3197 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3198 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3199 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3200 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3201 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3202 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3203 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3205 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3208 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3209 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3210 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3211 ignores EPIPE as well.
3213 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3214 (quoted-printable decoding).
3216 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3217 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3219 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3221 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3223 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3225 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3226 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3228 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3231 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3232 miscellaneous code fixes
3234 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3237 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3238 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3239 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3240 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3241 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3242 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3243 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3244 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3246 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3247 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3248 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3249 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3251 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3252 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3253 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3254 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3255 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3256 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3257 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3258 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3259 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3261 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3264 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3265 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3266 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3267 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3268 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3269 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3270 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3271 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3273 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3274 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3277 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3278 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3279 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3280 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3281 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3282 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3283 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3284 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3285 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3286 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3287 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3288 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3289 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3291 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3292 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3293 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3294 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3295 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3296 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3297 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3299 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3300 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3301 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3302 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3303 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3304 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3305 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3306 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3307 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3308 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3310 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3311 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3312 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3313 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3314 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3316 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3317 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3318 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3319 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3320 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3321 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3322 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3324 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3325 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3326 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3327 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3328 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3329 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3332 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3333 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3334 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3337 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3338 if any retry times were supplied.
3340 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3341 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3342 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3344 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3346 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3348 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3349 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3350 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3351 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3352 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3353 before) are ignored.
3355 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3356 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3358 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3359 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3360 committing the later change.]
3362 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3363 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3364 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3365 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3366 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3367 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3368 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3369 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3370 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3372 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3373 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3374 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3375 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3376 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3377 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3378 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3379 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3380 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3382 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3383 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3384 hammering the server.
3386 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3387 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3389 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3391 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3392 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3393 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3395 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3396 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3397 one case where this was not true.
3399 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3400 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3401 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3402 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3405 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3406 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3407 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3408 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3409 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3410 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3411 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3412 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3413 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3416 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3417 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3418 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3419 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3421 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3422 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3424 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3425 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3426 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3428 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3430 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3432 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3434 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3435 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3436 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3437 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3439 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3440 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3442 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3443 be meaningful with "accept".
3445 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3446 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3448 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3449 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3450 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3452 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3453 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3454 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3455 there is data to show.
3456 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3458 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3459 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3460 as well as the number of messages.
3462 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3463 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3464 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3466 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3467 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3468 have a flag are now skipped.
3470 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3471 Added the -emptyok flag.
3473 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3474 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3476 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3477 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3478 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3480 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3483 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3484 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3486 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3488 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3489 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3491 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3493 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3494 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3495 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3496 contravention of the specifications.
3498 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3499 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3500 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3502 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3503 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3504 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3506 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3508 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3509 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3510 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3511 some point in the past.
3513 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3514 transport during callout processing was broken.
3516 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3517 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3519 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3520 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3522 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3523 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3525 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3531 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3532 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3534 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3535 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3536 there is data to show.
3537 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3539 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3540 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3542 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3543 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3545 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3546 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3548 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3549 submissions from trusted users.
3551 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3552 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3554 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3555 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3556 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3557 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3558 there is now a framework to start from.
3560 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3561 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3562 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3564 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3566 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3568 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3570 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3571 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3572 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3574 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3577 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3578 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3579 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3581 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3582 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3583 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3586 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3587 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3588 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3589 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3590 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3592 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3593 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3595 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3597 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3598 operations in malware.c.
3600 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3603 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3604 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3605 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3608 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3609 statements to "add_header".
3611 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3612 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3614 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3615 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3618 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3622 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3623 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3624 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3627 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3628 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3630 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3631 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3633 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3634 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3635 any possible encoding problems.
3637 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3638 but not after initializing Perl.
3640 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3641 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3642 apparently, which is not desirable.
3644 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3647 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3650 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3652 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3653 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3654 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3655 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3657 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3658 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3659 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3661 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3662 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3663 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3666 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3667 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3668 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3669 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3670 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3676 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3677 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3679 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3682 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3683 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3684 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3685 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3686 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3687 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3688 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3689 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3692 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3694 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3695 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3696 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3698 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3699 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3700 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3703 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3704 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3706 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3707 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3708 option (which defaults to 0600).
3710 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3712 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3713 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3714 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3715 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3716 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3717 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3718 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3720 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3726 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3727 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3728 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3729 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3730 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3731 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3734 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3735 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3737 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3739 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3740 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3741 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3742 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3743 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3746 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3747 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3749 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3750 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3751 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3752 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3753 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3755 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3756 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3757 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3758 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3760 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3761 be the same on different OS.
3763 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3766 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3767 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3769 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3772 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3773 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3774 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3775 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3776 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3777 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3780 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3781 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3782 when Exim was called.
3784 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3785 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3787 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3788 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3789 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3790 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3792 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3793 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3794 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3795 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3798 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3799 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3800 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3802 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3803 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3804 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3806 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3809 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3810 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3811 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3812 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3813 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3814 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3815 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3816 values from the SRV records were lost.
3818 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3819 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3820 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3822 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3823 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3824 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3826 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3827 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3828 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3829 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3830 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3831 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3832 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3833 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3834 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3835 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3837 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3838 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3839 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3841 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3842 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3844 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3845 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3846 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3847 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3850 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3851 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3852 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3854 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3855 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3856 PH/23 above applies.
3858 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3859 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3860 (for which there is an explicit test).
3862 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3864 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3865 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3866 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3867 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3868 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3870 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3871 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3872 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3873 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3875 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3876 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3877 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3879 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3881 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3883 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3884 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3885 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3887 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3888 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3889 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3890 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3891 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3893 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3894 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3895 the message gets confusing).
3897 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3898 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3899 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3900 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3902 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3903 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3904 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3905 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3908 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3909 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3910 the different processes.
3912 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3914 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3916 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3917 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3919 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3920 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3922 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3923 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3924 messages matching specified criteria.
3926 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3928 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3929 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3931 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3932 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3933 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3934 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3935 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3936 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3937 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3938 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3939 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3940 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3942 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3943 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3944 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3946 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3948 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3949 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3950 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3951 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3952 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3953 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3954 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3957 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3958 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3960 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3962 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3964 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3966 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3967 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3968 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3969 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3970 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3971 size of the count of files.
3973 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3975 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3978 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3979 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3980 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3981 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3983 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3984 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3985 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3987 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3988 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3989 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3990 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3991 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3993 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3994 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3996 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3997 will now be deprecated.
3999 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4001 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4002 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4003 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4005 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4006 with very large, slow to parse queues
4008 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4010 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4012 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4013 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4014 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4017 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4018 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4019 Sieve code now uses this.
4021 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4022 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4024 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4025 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4027 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4029 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4030 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4031 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4032 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4033 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4035 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4036 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4037 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4038 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4040 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4042 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4044 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4045 is preferred over IPv4.
4047 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4048 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4049 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4050 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4051 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4052 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4053 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4055 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4056 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4057 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4059 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4061 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4062 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4063 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4064 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4065 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4066 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4067 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4068 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4069 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4070 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4071 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4073 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4074 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4075 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4081 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4083 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4084 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4086 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4087 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4088 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4090 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4092 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4095 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4098 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4099 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4100 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4103 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4104 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4106 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4107 inside the third argument.
4109 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4110 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4113 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4114 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4116 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4117 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4119 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4121 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4122 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4125 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4127 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4128 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4129 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4130 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4131 identical. For example:
4133 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4135 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4136 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4137 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4139 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4140 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4141 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4142 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4144 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4145 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4146 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4149 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4151 o fixes some comments
4152 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4153 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4154 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4155 and documents the missing references header update
4159 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4160 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4163 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4164 Electronic Mail") by including:
4166 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4168 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4169 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4170 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4171 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4172 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4174 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4176 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4178 The auto-replied keyword:
4180 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4181 message by an automatic process,
4183 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4185 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4186 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4188 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4189 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4192 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4193 to the default Received: header definition.
4195 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4197 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4198 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4199 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4201 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4202 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4203 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4205 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4206 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4207 and treats the condition as false.
4209 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4211 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4212 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4213 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4214 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4215 not changing the active code.
4217 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4218 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4220 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4221 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4223 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4226 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4227 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4228 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4229 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4230 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4231 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4232 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4233 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4234 the text comparison.
4236 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4237 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4238 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4239 The same fix has been applied.
4245 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4246 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4249 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4250 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4252 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4254 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4255 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4256 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4257 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4258 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4260 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4261 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4262 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4263 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4266 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4274 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4275 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4277 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4279 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4281 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4282 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4283 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4285 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4286 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4287 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4289 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4290 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4293 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4294 ${stat: expansion item.
4296 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4297 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4299 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4300 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4303 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4305 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4308 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4309 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4311 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4313 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4314 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4315 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4316 the end of the subprocess.
4318 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4319 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4320 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4321 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4322 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4324 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4326 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4328 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4329 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4331 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4333 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4335 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4336 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4339 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4341 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4342 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4343 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4345 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4346 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4348 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4349 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4351 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4352 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4354 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4355 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4357 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4358 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4359 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4360 contributed by a Radius user.
4362 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4363 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4365 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4366 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4368 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4371 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4372 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4375 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4376 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4377 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4378 header lines when this was not necessary.
4380 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4382 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4383 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4384 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4387 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4390 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4391 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4392 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4393 return code was incorrect.
4395 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4397 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4399 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4401 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4403 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4404 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4405 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4406 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4407 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4410 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4412 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4413 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4414 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4415 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4416 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4417 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4418 which is clearly wrong.
4420 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4422 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4423 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4424 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4427 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4428 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4430 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4432 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4433 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4435 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4436 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4438 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4439 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4441 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4442 recipients, not senders.
4444 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4445 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4447 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4449 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4451 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4452 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4453 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4454 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4456 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4458 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4459 clock is set back in time.
4461 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4462 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4464 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4465 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4467 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4468 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4471 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4472 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4475 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4478 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4480 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4481 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4482 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4484 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4485 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4486 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4487 helo verification defer as a failure.
4489 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4490 actual error message.
4496 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4498 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4499 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4500 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4501 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4503 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4505 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4506 can still be requested.
4508 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4509 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4510 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4511 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4513 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4514 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4515 circumstances, but probably never did.
4517 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4518 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4519 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4522 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4524 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4525 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4527 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4529 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4531 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4532 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4533 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4534 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4535 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4536 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4538 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4539 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4540 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4541 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4542 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4543 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4545 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4546 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4548 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4549 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4551 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4552 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4554 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4556 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4558 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4560 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4562 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4564 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4566 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4568 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4569 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4570 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4572 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4573 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4574 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4575 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4577 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4578 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4579 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4581 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4582 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4583 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4584 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4586 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4587 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4590 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4591 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4592 should work with maildirs and everything.
4594 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4595 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4597 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4600 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4601 function for BDB 4.3.
4603 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4605 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4606 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4609 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4610 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4611 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4612 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4613 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4614 formatting function string_vformat().
4616 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4617 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4618 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4619 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4620 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4621 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4622 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4623 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4625 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4626 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4629 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4630 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4632 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4633 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4634 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4635 test. It is now used for both.
4637 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4638 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4639 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4640 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4641 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4642 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4644 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4645 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4646 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4649 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4650 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4651 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4653 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4654 experimental DomainKeys support:
4656 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4657 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4658 the control was given.
4660 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4662 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4664 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4666 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4667 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4668 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4671 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4672 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4673 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4674 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4675 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4676 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4679 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4680 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4681 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4682 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4683 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4684 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4686 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4687 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4688 do -d+all out of habit.
4690 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4691 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4694 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4695 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4696 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4697 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4698 record types that Exim uses.
4700 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4701 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4702 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4703 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4704 non-existent file that was broken.
4706 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4707 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4709 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4710 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4711 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4713 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4715 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4716 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4717 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4718 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4719 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4722 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4723 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4724 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4725 at a slight CPU cost.
4727 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4728 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4730 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4733 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4735 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4736 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4742 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4743 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4745 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4747 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4749 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4750 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4752 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4753 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4754 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4755 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4756 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4757 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4760 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4761 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4762 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4763 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4766 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4767 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4768 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4769 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4770 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4771 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4772 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4775 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4776 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4778 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4779 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4780 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4781 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4782 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4783 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4785 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4786 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4787 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4788 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4790 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4793 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4794 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4796 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4797 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4798 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4799 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4802 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4804 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4805 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4807 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4808 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4809 to what was transported.)
4811 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4813 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4814 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4815 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4816 spamd_address settings.
4818 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4819 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4820 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4821 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4822 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4824 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4826 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4827 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4828 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4829 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4830 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4832 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4833 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4835 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4836 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4837 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4838 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4839 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4840 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4841 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4844 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4845 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4846 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4847 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4848 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4849 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4850 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4853 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4855 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4856 driver and ACL definitions.
4858 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4859 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4861 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4862 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4863 understands it better than I do:
4865 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4866 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4868 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4869 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4870 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4871 => three warnings about OTP not working
4872 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4874 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4875 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4876 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4877 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4879 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4880 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4882 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4883 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4884 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4886 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4887 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4890 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4891 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4894 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4895 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4896 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4898 warn !verify = sender
4899 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4901 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4902 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4904 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4906 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4907 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4909 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4910 nomenclature these days.)
4912 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4913 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4915 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4916 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4917 . First host does not offer TLS;
4918 . First host accepts first address;
4919 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4920 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4921 . Second host accepts second address.
4922 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4923 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4926 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4927 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4928 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4929 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4930 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4932 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4933 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4935 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4936 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4938 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4939 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4940 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4942 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4943 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4946 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4948 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4949 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4950 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4951 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4952 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4953 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4954 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4956 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4957 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4958 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4959 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4960 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4962 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4963 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4966 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4967 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4968 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4969 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4970 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4971 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4973 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4975 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4976 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4977 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4978 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4979 printable escape sequences.
4981 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4982 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4985 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4986 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4989 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4990 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4991 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4992 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4993 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4995 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4996 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4997 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4999 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5001 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5002 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5005 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5006 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5007 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5008 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5009 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5010 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5011 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5012 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5013 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5016 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5017 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5018 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5019 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5023 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5024 ----------------------------------------
5026 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5027 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5028 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5029 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5030 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5031 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5034 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5035 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5036 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5037 historical information.
5043 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5045 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5046 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5048 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5049 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5052 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5053 filter fails to execute.
5055 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5056 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5057 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5058 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5059 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5061 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5063 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5064 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5065 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5066 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5068 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5069 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5070 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5071 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5072 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5074 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5076 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5078 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5079 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5080 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5081 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5083 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5084 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5085 sender verification.
5087 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5088 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5090 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5092 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5095 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5096 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5098 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5099 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5101 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5102 information about exactly what failed.
5104 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5106 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5107 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5108 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5110 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5111 It is now set to "smtps".
5113 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5114 ignore_target_hosts.
5116 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5117 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5118 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5119 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5122 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5123 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5124 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5126 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5127 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5128 wake it up if nothing else does.
5130 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5131 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5132 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5135 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5136 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5138 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5140 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5141 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5142 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5143 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5144 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5145 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5146 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5147 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5149 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5150 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5151 than one IP address.
5153 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5154 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5155 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5156 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5158 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5159 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5160 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5161 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5162 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5165 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5166 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5167 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5168 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5170 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5171 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5174 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5175 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5176 $sender_host_address.
5178 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5179 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5180 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5181 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5182 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5185 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5187 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5188 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5190 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5191 just the host names, not the priorities.
5193 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5194 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5195 controlled by a keyword.
5197 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5198 multiple records are returned.
5200 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5201 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5204 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5206 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5207 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5209 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5210 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5211 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5213 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5215 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5217 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5219 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5220 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5221 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5222 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5223 because the tests only now provoked it.
5225 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5226 (this can affect the format of dates).
5228 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5229 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5230 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5231 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5233 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5235 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5236 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5237 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5238 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5240 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5241 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5242 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5244 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5247 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5248 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5249 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5250 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5251 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5252 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5255 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5256 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5257 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5260 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5261 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5262 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5264 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5265 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5266 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5267 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5268 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5269 so I produce this patch..."
5271 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5272 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5275 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5276 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5277 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5278 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5281 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5283 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5284 long debug lines gets shown.
5286 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5287 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5289 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5291 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5292 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5293 of $primary_hostname.
5295 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5296 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5297 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5298 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5299 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5300 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5301 by change 4.50/55 above.
5303 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5304 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5305 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5306 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5307 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5308 running as the user.
5311 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5312 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5313 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5316 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5317 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5319 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5320 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5321 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5322 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5323 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5325 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5326 This has been fixed.
5328 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5329 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5330 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5331 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5334 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5336 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5337 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5338 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5339 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5341 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5342 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5344 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5345 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5346 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5348 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5349 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5350 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5353 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5354 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5355 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5357 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5358 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5359 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5360 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5362 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5363 during host lookups.
5365 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5366 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5368 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5370 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5371 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5372 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5373 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5374 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5377 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5378 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5380 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5381 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5382 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5384 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5386 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5387 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5388 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5389 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5390 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5391 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5394 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5395 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5396 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5397 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5398 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5400 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5403 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5405 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5406 "vacation" handling.
5408 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5409 OS variants using glibc.
5411 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5414 ----------------------------------------------------
5415 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5416 ----------------------------------------------------
5422 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5423 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5426 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5427 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5430 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5431 filter fails to execute.
5433 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5434 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5435 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5436 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5437 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5439 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5440 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5441 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5442 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5444 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5445 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5446 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5447 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5448 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5450 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5452 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5453 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5454 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5455 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5457 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5458 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5459 sender verification.
5461 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5462 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5464 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5465 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5467 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5468 ignore_target_hosts.
5470 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5471 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5472 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5473 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5476 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5477 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5478 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5480 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5481 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5482 wake it up if nothing else does.
5484 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5485 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5486 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5489 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5490 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5492 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5494 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5495 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5498 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5499 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5502 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5503 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5504 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5505 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5506 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5509 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5510 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5513 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5514 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5515 $sender_host_address.
5517 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5519 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5520 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5521 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5523 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5526 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5527 (this can affect the format of dates).
5529 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5530 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5531 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5532 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5534 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5535 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5536 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5538 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5539 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5540 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5541 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5543 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5544 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5545 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5547 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5550 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5551 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5552 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5553 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5554 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5555 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5558 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5559 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5560 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5561 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5564 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5565 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5566 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5567 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5568 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5569 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5570 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5572 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5573 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5574 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5575 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5576 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5577 running as the user.
5580 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5581 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5582 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5585 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5586 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5587 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5588 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5589 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5591 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5592 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5593 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5594 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5597 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5598 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5599 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5600 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5601 because the tests only now provoked it.
5607 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5608 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5609 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5610 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5611 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5612 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5613 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5615 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5616 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5619 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5621 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5623 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5624 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5627 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5628 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5629 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5630 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5631 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5633 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5634 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5636 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5638 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5640 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5643 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5644 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5646 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5647 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5648 affecting debugging statements).
5650 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5652 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5653 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5654 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5655 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5656 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5657 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5658 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5659 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5660 after the received time, and all would be well.
5662 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5663 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5664 condition in an expansion string.
5666 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5668 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5669 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5670 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5671 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5672 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5673 job under whatever limits there are.
5675 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5677 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5680 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5681 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5682 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5683 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5686 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5687 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5688 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5689 binary data in such strings.
5691 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5693 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5694 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5695 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5696 failure, which is pointless.
5698 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5700 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5702 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5703 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5704 Sender: header lines.
5706 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5707 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5708 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5710 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5711 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5712 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5713 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5714 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5717 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5718 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5719 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5720 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5721 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5723 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5724 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5725 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5728 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5729 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5731 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5732 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5734 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5736 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5738 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5740 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5743 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5745 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5747 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5748 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5749 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5750 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5752 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5753 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5759 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5760 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5761 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5763 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5764 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5765 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5766 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5767 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5768 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5770 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5771 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5772 verification failure".
5774 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5775 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5776 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5777 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5779 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5780 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5781 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5782 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5783 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5784 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5785 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5786 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5787 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5788 treated as a timeout.
5790 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5791 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5792 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5793 not set for Exim filters).
5795 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5796 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5797 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5799 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5801 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5802 try to make them clearer.
5804 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5805 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5807 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5809 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5811 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5812 only the Cygwin environment.
5814 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5815 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5816 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5817 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5818 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5820 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5821 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5822 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5823 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5824 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5825 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5826 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5828 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5829 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5831 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5833 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5834 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5835 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5837 To: susanne@some.where
5839 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5840 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5841 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5842 of addresses in From: header lines).
5844 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5845 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5846 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5848 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5849 treated as non-personal.
5851 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5852 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5854 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5856 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5858 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5859 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5860 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5862 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5863 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5865 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5866 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5867 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5868 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5869 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5870 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5872 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5873 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5874 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5875 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5876 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5877 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5878 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5879 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5881 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5883 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5884 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5886 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5887 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5888 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5890 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5891 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5893 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5894 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5895 rather than long int.
5897 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5899 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5905 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5906 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5907 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5908 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5909 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5910 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5916 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5917 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5919 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5920 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5921 socklen_t is defined.
5923 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5926 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5929 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5930 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5931 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5932 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5933 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5935 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5936 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5937 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5938 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5940 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5941 of flapping under certain conditions.
5943 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5944 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5945 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5947 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5949 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5951 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5952 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5953 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5954 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5956 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5957 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5958 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5959 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5960 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5961 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5962 preserved with the message after it was received.
5964 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5965 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5966 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5967 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5968 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5969 test suite worked just fine.
5971 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5972 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5973 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5975 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5976 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5979 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5980 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5981 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5982 does not fully solve it.
5984 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5985 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5986 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5987 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5988 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5990 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5991 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5992 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5994 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5995 string, for example:
5997 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5999 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6000 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6001 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6002 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6003 the routers could not see them.
6005 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6006 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6008 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6009 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6012 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6013 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6014 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6015 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6016 that needed quoting.
6018 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6019 was not being matched caselessly.
6021 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6024 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6025 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6026 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6027 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6028 when use_sender is false.
6030 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6032 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6034 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6036 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6037 the configuration file.
6039 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6040 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6042 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6044 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6045 bytes in the message body.
6047 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6048 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6051 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6053 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6055 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6056 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6057 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6058 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6065 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6066 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6068 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6069 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6070 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6071 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6072 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6074 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6075 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6077 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6078 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6079 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6081 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6082 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6083 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6085 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6088 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6089 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6090 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6091 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6092 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6093 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6094 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6100 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6101 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6102 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6103 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6104 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6105 default (and expected) setting.
6107 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6108 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6109 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6110 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6112 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6113 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6115 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6118 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6119 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6120 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6121 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6122 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6123 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6125 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6126 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6127 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6129 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6130 part (NOT match_host).
6132 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6134 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6135 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6136 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6137 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6138 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6139 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6140 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6141 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6142 the same named file.
6144 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6145 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6148 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6149 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6150 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6151 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6154 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6155 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6156 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6158 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6160 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6162 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6164 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6165 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6167 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6168 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6169 before starting the TLS session.
6171 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6173 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6174 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6176 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6177 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6178 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6179 colon in the middle).
6185 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6186 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6187 multiple configurations are in use.
6189 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6190 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6191 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6192 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6193 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6194 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6196 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6197 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6199 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6200 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6201 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6203 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6204 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6207 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6208 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6210 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6212 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6213 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6215 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6223 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6224 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6225 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6226 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6227 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6229 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6232 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6233 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6234 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6235 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6236 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6237 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6239 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6240 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6241 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6242 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6243 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6244 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6245 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6248 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6249 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6250 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6251 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6252 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6254 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6256 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6257 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6258 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6260 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6262 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6263 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6264 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6267 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6268 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6270 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6271 Three changes have been made:
6273 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6274 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6275 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6276 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6277 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6279 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6282 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6283 the modified behaviour.
6289 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6292 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6293 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6295 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6296 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6297 try to track down a specific problem.
6299 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6300 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6301 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6303 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6306 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6307 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6308 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6309 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6310 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6311 some earlier ones do not.
6313 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6315 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6316 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6317 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6318 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6319 address literals are enabled, of course).
6321 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6323 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6324 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6325 by a command such as
6329 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6331 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6333 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6334 remained set. It is now erased.
6336 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6337 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6339 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6340 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6341 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6342 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6343 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6344 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6345 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6346 appropriate error code.
6348 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6349 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6350 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6351 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6352 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6353 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6355 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6356 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6357 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6359 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6360 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6361 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6362 terminate the header.
6364 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6365 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6366 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6368 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6369 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6370 (4.30/29). In particular:
6372 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6375 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6376 to write a maildirsize file.
6378 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6379 the transport, the new value overrides.
6381 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6384 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6385 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6386 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6389 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6390 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6391 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6394 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6395 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6396 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6398 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6399 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6402 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6403 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6404 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6406 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6408 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6410 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6412 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6413 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6416 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6417 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6418 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6419 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6420 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6421 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6422 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6425 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6426 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6427 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6428 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6429 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6432 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6433 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6434 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6435 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6436 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6437 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6438 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6439 cached value only when the same options are set.
6441 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6443 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6444 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6445 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6446 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6447 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6449 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6450 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6451 it is clearly obsolete.
6453 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6456 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6457 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6458 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6461 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6462 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6463 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6464 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6465 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6467 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6468 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6469 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6470 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6472 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6474 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6476 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6477 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6480 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6481 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6482 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6483 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6484 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6485 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6488 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6489 with the -f command-line option.
6491 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6492 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6493 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6494 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6495 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6496 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6498 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6499 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6502 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6503 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6504 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6505 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6506 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6507 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6508 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6509 buffer is too small.
6511 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6512 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6514 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6515 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6516 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6517 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6518 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6519 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6520 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6521 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6522 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6524 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6525 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6526 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6528 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6529 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6532 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6533 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6534 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6535 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6536 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6538 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6539 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6540 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6541 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6544 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6546 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6548 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6549 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6551 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6552 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6553 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6555 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6556 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6557 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6558 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6559 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6561 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6562 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6563 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6564 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6565 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6566 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6567 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6569 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6570 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6571 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6572 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6573 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6574 the test of how many are available.
6576 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6577 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6578 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6579 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6580 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6581 new message is started.
6583 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6584 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6586 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6587 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6589 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6590 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6591 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6594 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6595 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6596 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6597 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6598 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6599 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6600 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6602 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6603 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6604 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6605 interpreted as octal.
6607 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6610 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6611 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6612 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6613 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6614 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6615 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6617 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6618 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6619 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6620 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6622 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6623 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6624 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6625 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6627 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6628 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6631 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6632 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6634 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6636 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6637 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6638 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6639 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6641 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6642 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6643 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6644 supplied", which is not helpful.
6646 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6647 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6648 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6650 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6651 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6652 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6653 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6654 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6655 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6656 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6657 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6659 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6660 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6661 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6662 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6663 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6665 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6666 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6667 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6668 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6669 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6670 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6672 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6673 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6674 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6676 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6678 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6679 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6680 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6683 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6685 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6686 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6687 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6688 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6689 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6690 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6691 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6692 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6694 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6695 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6696 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6697 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6698 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6700 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6703 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6704 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6705 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6706 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6707 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6708 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6709 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6710 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6711 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6717 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6718 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6719 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6721 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6724 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6725 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6726 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6728 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6729 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6730 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6731 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6732 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6733 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6735 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6736 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6737 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6738 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6739 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6740 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6741 the Exim test suite.
6743 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6744 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6745 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6746 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6748 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6749 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6750 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6751 specify it in this variable.
6753 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6754 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6755 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6756 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6758 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6759 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6760 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6761 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6763 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6764 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6765 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6766 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6767 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6769 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6771 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6774 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6775 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6776 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6777 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6778 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6780 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6781 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6783 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6784 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6785 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6786 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6787 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6789 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6790 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6792 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6793 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6794 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6796 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6797 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6799 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6800 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6802 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6803 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6804 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6806 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6807 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6809 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6810 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6811 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6812 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6814 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6816 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6817 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6818 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6819 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6821 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6823 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6824 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6826 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6828 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6829 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6830 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6831 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6832 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6833 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6835 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6837 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6838 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6841 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6843 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6844 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6846 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6847 550 Sender verify failed
6849 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6850 the final line of the response.
6852 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6853 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6854 all other user lookups.
6856 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6859 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6860 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6861 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6862 result into an int without checking.
6864 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6865 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6866 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6868 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6869 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6870 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6871 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6873 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6876 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6877 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6879 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6880 to the empty sender.
6882 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6883 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6884 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6885 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6886 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6887 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6888 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6891 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6892 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6893 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6894 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6897 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6898 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6900 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6903 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6904 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6906 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6908 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6909 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6912 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6913 as soon as it is encountered.
6915 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6917 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6920 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6921 recognizes a tab character.
6923 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6924 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6925 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6926 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6928 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6930 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6933 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6935 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6937 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6938 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6941 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6942 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6943 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6944 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6945 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6947 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6948 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6950 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6951 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6952 list (.included file names were always shown).
6954 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6955 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6956 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6959 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6960 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6962 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6964 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6966 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6968 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6969 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6970 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6971 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6972 failures to open the logs.
6974 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6975 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6976 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6977 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6978 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6979 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6980 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6986 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6987 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6988 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6991 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6992 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6993 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6995 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6996 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6997 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6999 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7000 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7001 causing some misleading effects.
7003 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7004 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7005 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7007 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7008 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7009 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7010 queue-runner function directly.
7016 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7019 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7020 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7021 was always written to the default place.
7023 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7024 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7025 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7027 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7029 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7031 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7032 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7033 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7035 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7036 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7039 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7040 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7041 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7043 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7044 command line option is disabled.
7046 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7047 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7049 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7051 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7053 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7054 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7056 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7058 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7059 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7060 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7061 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7062 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7063 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7065 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7066 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7069 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7070 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7072 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7073 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7075 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7076 received was valid base64.
7078 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7079 name of the variable that was being set.
7081 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7083 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7084 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7085 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7086 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7087 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7088 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7090 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7092 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7093 nor realm was specified.
7095 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7096 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7097 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7098 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7100 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7101 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7102 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7104 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7105 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7106 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7108 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7109 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7110 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7111 some systems use these upper case variants.
7113 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7114 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7115 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7116 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7118 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7120 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7121 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7123 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7124 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7127 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7129 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7130 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7131 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7132 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7134 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7137 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7138 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7139 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7141 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7142 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7144 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7145 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7146 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7147 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7149 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7150 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7151 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7153 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7155 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7156 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7157 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7158 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7161 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7162 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7163 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7165 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7167 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7168 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7170 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7171 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7173 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7174 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7175 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7176 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7177 when emails are that large.
7184 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7185 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7187 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7188 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7189 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7191 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7192 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7193 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7195 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7196 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7197 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7198 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7199 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7201 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7202 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7203 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7204 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7205 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7208 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7209 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7210 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7211 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7212 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7213 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7214 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7215 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7216 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7217 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7218 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7219 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7220 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7221 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7223 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7224 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7227 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7228 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7229 error should be diagnosed.
7231 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7232 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7233 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7234 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7235 appeared instead of "NULL".
7237 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7238 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7239 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7240 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7241 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7242 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7245 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7246 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7247 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7253 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7254 or receiver verification errors.
7256 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7259 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7260 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7261 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7262 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7264 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7265 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7266 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7267 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7268 shouldn't happen again.
7270 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7271 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7272 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7274 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7275 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7277 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7279 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7280 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7282 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7283 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7286 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7287 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7288 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7290 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7291 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7292 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7293 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7295 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7296 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7297 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7298 to define what should happen).
7300 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7301 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7302 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7304 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7306 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7308 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7309 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7311 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7312 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7313 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7314 structure in all cases.
7316 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7317 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7318 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7319 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7321 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7322 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7325 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7326 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7328 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7329 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7331 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7332 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7333 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7335 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7336 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7337 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7339 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7340 the book and for uniformity.
7342 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7344 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7345 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7346 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7347 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7348 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7349 non-existent command as the problem.
7351 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7352 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7353 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7355 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7357 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7358 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7359 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7361 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7362 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7363 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7364 timestamps using strftime().
7366 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7367 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7369 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7370 transport-time rewrites.
7372 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7373 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7374 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7375 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7377 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7378 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7380 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7381 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7382 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7383 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7386 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7387 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7388 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7389 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7390 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7391 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7392 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7394 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7395 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7396 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7397 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7398 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7400 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7401 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7402 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7403 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7404 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7405 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7406 remaining text gets split now.
7408 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7409 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7410 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7411 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7413 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7414 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7415 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7416 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7419 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7420 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7421 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7422 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7423 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7424 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7425 passed through if needed.
7427 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7428 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7429 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7430 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7431 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7432 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7434 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7435 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7436 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7437 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7438 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7440 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7441 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7442 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7443 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7444 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7446 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7447 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7450 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7451 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7452 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7453 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7454 mayhem of various kinds.
7456 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7457 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7458 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7459 the right test for positive values.
7461 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7462 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7463 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7464 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7465 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7466 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7467 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7468 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7469 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7470 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7473 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7476 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7477 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7480 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7481 the existing equality matching.
7483 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7484 dealing with inode numbers.
7486 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7487 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7488 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7490 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7491 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7492 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7493 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7496 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7497 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7498 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7499 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7500 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7501 relay addresses has also been removed.
7503 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7505 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7506 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7507 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7509 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7510 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7511 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7512 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7513 processing applies to CR:
7515 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7516 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7518 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7519 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7520 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7521 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7523 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7524 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7525 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7527 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7528 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7529 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7530 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7531 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7532 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7535 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7538 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7539 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7540 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7541 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7544 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7546 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7548 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7550 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7551 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7552 not considered personal.
7554 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7556 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7558 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7560 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7561 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7562 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7563 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7564 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7565 header lines, and spool format errors.
7567 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7568 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7569 for more flexibility.
7571 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7572 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7573 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7575 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7578 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7579 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7580 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7581 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7582 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7583 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7584 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7585 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7586 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7588 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7589 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7590 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7591 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7592 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7593 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7594 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7596 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7597 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7598 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7600 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7601 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7602 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7603 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7604 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7605 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7606 instead of killing the process with assert().
7608 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7609 than Unicode encoding.
7611 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7612 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7613 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7614 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7616 77. Added process_log_path.
7618 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7619 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7621 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7622 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7624 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7625 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7626 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7628 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7629 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7630 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7631 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7632 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7635 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7636 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7639 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7640 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7641 they will be used during message reception.
7647 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.