1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
16 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
19 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
26 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
27 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
29 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
31 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
32 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
34 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
35 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
37 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
38 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
39 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
40 before acknowledging the chunk.
42 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
43 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
44 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
46 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
47 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
48 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
51 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
52 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
53 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
55 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
56 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
58 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
59 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
60 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
61 body hash calculated value.
63 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
64 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
65 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
67 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
69 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
70 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
72 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
73 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
74 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
76 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
77 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
78 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
79 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
80 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
81 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
83 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
84 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
85 past that check, despite the cost.
87 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
88 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
89 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
91 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
92 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
93 TLS library to consume.
95 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
97 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
99 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
100 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
101 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
102 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
103 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
104 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
105 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
107 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
109 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
111 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
112 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
113 should be warning-free.
115 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
117 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
118 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
120 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
121 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
122 general solution here.
124 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
125 already-broken messages in the queue.
131 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
132 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
134 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
135 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
136 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
138 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
139 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
140 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
141 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
142 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
143 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
144 if one fails this test.
145 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
146 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
148 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
149 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
151 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
152 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
154 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
155 in rewrites and routers.
157 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
158 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
160 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
161 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
163 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
165 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
168 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
169 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
170 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
171 connection after a verify cache hit.
172 Do not update it with the verify result either.
174 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
175 when routing results in more than one destination address.
177 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
178 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
179 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
180 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
181 when the cutthrough connection is made).
183 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
184 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
186 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
187 Previously they were not counted.
189 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
190 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
191 that needed the lookup.
193 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
194 distinguished as "(=".
196 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
197 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
199 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
201 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
202 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
204 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
205 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
207 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
208 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
211 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
212 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
213 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
214 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
216 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
218 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
219 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
220 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
222 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
223 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
224 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
227 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
228 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
229 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
232 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
233 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
234 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
236 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
237 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
240 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
242 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
243 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
245 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
246 are not in the system include path.
248 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
249 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
250 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
251 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
253 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
254 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
255 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
257 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
259 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
260 an incoming connection.
262 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
265 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
266 fallback to "prime256v1".
268 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
269 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
275 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
276 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
277 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
278 client dropping the TLS connection.
280 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
281 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
283 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
284 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
285 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
286 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
289 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
290 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
291 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
292 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
293 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
294 check on the next write.
296 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
297 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
298 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
299 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
300 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
302 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
303 mime_regex ACL conditions.
305 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
306 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
307 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
309 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
310 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
311 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
312 an authenticate fail is not an error.
314 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
315 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
317 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
318 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
320 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
321 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
322 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
325 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
327 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
329 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
331 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
332 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
334 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
335 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
337 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
339 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
340 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
342 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
344 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
345 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
347 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
349 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
350 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
351 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
352 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
353 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
354 they will retry in-clear.
355 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
356 at installation time.
358 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
359 with the $config_file variable.
361 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
362 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
363 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
364 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
365 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
367 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
368 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
369 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
370 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
371 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
373 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
375 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
376 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
377 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
378 list order is no longer honoured.
380 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
383 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
384 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
386 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
387 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
388 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
389 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
391 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
392 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
394 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
395 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
397 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
398 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
400 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
402 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
403 cached by the daemon.
405 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
406 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
408 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
409 keys are given for lookup.
411 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
412 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
413 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
414 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
416 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
417 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
418 server-side so match that on older versions.
420 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
421 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
422 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
424 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
425 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
427 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
428 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
429 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
430 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
431 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
432 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
433 initial truncated version.
435 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
437 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
439 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
440 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
442 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
444 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
446 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
447 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
450 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
451 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
454 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
455 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
457 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
458 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
461 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
462 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
463 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
465 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
466 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
467 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
468 extraction. Accept either.
474 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
477 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
479 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
482 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
483 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
484 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
485 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
487 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
488 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
489 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
491 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
492 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
493 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
496 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
499 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
500 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
501 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
502 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
503 have a dsn_lasthop option.
505 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
506 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
507 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
509 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
511 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
512 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
514 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
515 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
517 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
520 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
521 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
523 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
524 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
525 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
527 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
528 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
529 specify a port-range.
531 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
532 timeout value per server.
534 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
535 now have the list separator specified.
537 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
540 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
543 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
545 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
546 rather than the verbs used.
548 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
549 from 255 to 1024 chars.
551 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
553 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
554 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
556 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
557 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
559 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
560 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
562 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
564 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
566 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
567 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
568 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
569 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
571 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
573 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
574 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
576 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
577 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
579 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
581 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
583 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
585 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
586 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
588 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
589 added for tls authenticator.
591 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
597 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
598 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
599 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
600 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
601 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
602 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
603 the script parsing/test process like normal.
605 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
606 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
607 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
608 function when detected.
610 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
611 cause callback expansion.
613 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
614 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
615 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
616 instead of bool when processing it.
618 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
619 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
621 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
623 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
625 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
627 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
628 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
630 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
631 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
632 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
633 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
634 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
635 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
637 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
638 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
641 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
642 version 3.3.6 or later.
644 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
645 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
646 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
647 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
648 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
649 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
652 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
653 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
655 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
656 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
657 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
660 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
661 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
662 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
664 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
665 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
667 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
668 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
671 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
673 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
674 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
676 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
677 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
680 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
682 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
685 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
686 output list separator was used.
691 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
692 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
695 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
696 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
698 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
700 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
701 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
707 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
709 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
710 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
711 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
712 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
713 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
714 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
716 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
717 utilities have not been installed.
719 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
720 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
722 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
723 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
725 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
726 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
727 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
728 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
730 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
732 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
733 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
735 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
738 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
740 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
741 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
742 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
744 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
745 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
746 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
747 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
748 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
749 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
751 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
753 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
754 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
756 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
759 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
761 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
763 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
764 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
766 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
767 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
769 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
771 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
773 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
774 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
776 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
777 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
778 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
780 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
781 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
782 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
785 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
787 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
788 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
791 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
792 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
795 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
796 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
798 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
799 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
801 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
803 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
804 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
805 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
807 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
808 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
810 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
811 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
814 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
815 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
816 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
818 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
820 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
821 Christian Aistleitner.
823 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
825 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
826 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
828 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
829 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
831 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
832 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
834 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
835 support and error reporting did not work properly.
837 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
838 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
840 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
841 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
842 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
844 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
846 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
847 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
850 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
852 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
853 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
860 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
862 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
863 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
865 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
868 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
869 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
872 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
874 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
875 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
876 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
877 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
878 using channel bindings instead).
880 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
881 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
882 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
883 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
884 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
887 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
889 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
891 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
892 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
894 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
895 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
896 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
898 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
900 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
902 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
903 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
905 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
907 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
909 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
911 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
912 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
914 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
916 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
917 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
920 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
921 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
923 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
924 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
927 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
929 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
931 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
932 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
934 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
937 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
938 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
940 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
941 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
943 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
945 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
947 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
950 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
953 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
955 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
956 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
957 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
958 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
960 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
962 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
963 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
964 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
965 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
968 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
969 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
970 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
972 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
973 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
974 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
975 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
977 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
978 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
979 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
980 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
981 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
982 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
983 delivery, as in LMTP.
985 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
986 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
988 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
990 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
994 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
995 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
996 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
997 username as equal to the username.
999 This change corrects that bug.
1001 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1002 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1003 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1005 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1007 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1008 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1009 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1010 NULL dereference and crash.
1012 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1014 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1015 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1016 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1018 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1020 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1021 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1022 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1023 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1024 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1025 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1026 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1027 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1028 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1029 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1030 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1032 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1033 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1035 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1036 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1039 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1040 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1041 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1042 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1043 an empty string is now equivalent.
1045 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1046 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1047 not performing validation itself.
1049 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1050 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1052 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1055 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1057 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1058 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1059 other false fix of the same issue.
1060 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1063 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1064 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1066 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1067 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1068 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1070 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1071 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1072 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1074 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1076 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1078 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1079 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1081 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1084 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1085 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1086 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1087 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1088 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1090 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1091 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1093 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1094 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1097 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1098 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1099 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1100 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1102 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1104 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1105 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1106 from multiple comments on this bug.
1108 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1110 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1111 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1114 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1115 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1117 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1118 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1124 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1126 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1132 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1133 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1134 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1136 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1138 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1141 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1143 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1145 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1147 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1148 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1150 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1151 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1153 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1154 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1156 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1157 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1158 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1160 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1162 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1163 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1165 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1167 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1169 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1170 non-compliant senders.
1171 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1173 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1174 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1175 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1177 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1178 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1179 in spool file corruption.
1181 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1182 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1183 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1186 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1187 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1188 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1190 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1191 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1193 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1195 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1197 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1199 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1200 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1201 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1203 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1204 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1205 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1206 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1208 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1209 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1211 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1212 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1213 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1214 resolver implementation change.
1216 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1217 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1219 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1221 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1223 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1224 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1226 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1227 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1229 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1230 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1232 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1233 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1234 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1235 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1236 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1238 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1240 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1241 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1242 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1244 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1246 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1247 read-only, out of scope).
1248 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1250 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1251 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1252 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1253 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1255 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1257 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1258 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1259 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1260 real issues in debug logging.
1262 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1263 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1265 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1266 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1267 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1269 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1270 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1271 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1274 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1275 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1277 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1278 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1279 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1280 needs to override this, it can.
1282 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1283 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1284 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1286 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1287 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1288 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1289 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1291 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1297 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1298 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1300 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1302 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1305 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1306 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1308 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1309 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1310 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1312 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1313 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1314 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1315 not safe for signals.
1317 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1318 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1319 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1320 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1323 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1325 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1326 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1327 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1328 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1329 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1331 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1332 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1333 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1334 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1335 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1336 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1338 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1339 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1340 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1341 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1343 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1344 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1345 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1346 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1348 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1349 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1350 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1351 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1352 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1353 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1354 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1355 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1356 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1358 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1359 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1360 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1361 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1363 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1364 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1365 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1366 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1367 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1368 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1369 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1370 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1371 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1372 details in the main documentation.
1374 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1376 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1378 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1379 repository when doing development or release builds.
1381 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1382 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1384 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1385 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1388 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1390 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1391 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1393 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1394 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1396 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1397 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1399 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1400 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1402 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1403 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1405 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1407 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1410 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1411 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1412 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1414 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1416 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1418 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1419 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1425 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1427 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1428 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1430 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1432 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1434 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1437 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1438 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1440 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1441 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1443 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1444 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1446 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1449 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1450 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1452 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1453 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1454 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1455 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1457 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1458 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1464 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1467 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1468 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1469 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1471 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1472 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1474 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1475 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1476 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1478 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1479 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1481 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1482 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1484 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1485 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1487 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1488 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1490 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1491 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1493 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1496 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1497 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1499 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1500 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1502 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1503 SQL string expansion failure details.
1504 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1506 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1507 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1509 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1510 extern declarations in function scope.
1511 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1513 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1514 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1515 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1518 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1519 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1521 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1522 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1524 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1525 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1527 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1528 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1530 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1531 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1534 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1536 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1538 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1539 Patch by Simon Arlott
1541 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1542 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1548 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1549 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1551 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1552 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1554 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1556 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1557 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1558 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1560 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1561 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1562 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1564 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1565 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1566 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1567 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1569 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1570 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1571 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1572 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1574 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1575 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1576 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1579 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1582 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1583 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1584 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1585 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1586 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1592 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1593 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1594 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1596 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1597 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1599 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1601 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1603 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1605 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1607 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1609 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1610 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1611 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1612 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1614 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1615 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1616 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1617 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1618 more caution in buffer sizes.
1620 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1622 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1624 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1626 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1628 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1630 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1632 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1634 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1635 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1636 ignore trailing whitespace.
1638 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1640 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1643 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1644 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1646 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1647 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1648 Notification from John Horne.
1650 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1653 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1654 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1657 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1660 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1661 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1662 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1664 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1665 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1666 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1669 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1670 option (effectively making it always true).
1672 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1673 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1675 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1676 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1678 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1679 run-time user, instead of root.
1681 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1682 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1684 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1685 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1688 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1689 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1690 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1692 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1694 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1700 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1701 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1704 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1705 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1708 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1709 Patch from Alain Williams
1711 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1713 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1714 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1716 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1717 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1719 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1721 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1723 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1724 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1726 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1728 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1730 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1731 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1732 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1734 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1735 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1737 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1738 Patch by Simon Arlott
1740 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1741 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1747 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1749 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1751 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1753 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1755 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1761 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1762 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1764 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1765 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1768 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1769 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1770 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1772 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1773 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1775 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1776 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1777 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1778 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1780 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1781 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1782 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1784 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1786 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1788 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1789 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1791 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1793 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1794 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1795 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1796 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1798 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1799 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1801 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1803 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1805 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1806 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1808 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1809 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1811 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1812 that they are available at delivery time.
1814 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1816 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1817 incoming_port log selectors.
1819 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1820 setting expands to an empty string.
1822 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1823 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1825 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1826 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1828 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1829 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1831 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1832 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1834 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1835 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1837 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1838 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1840 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1842 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1843 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1845 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1846 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1848 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1850 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1851 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1853 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1855 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1857 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1860 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1861 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1863 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1864 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1866 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1867 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1869 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1870 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1872 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1873 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1875 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1876 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1878 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1879 plus update to original patch.
1881 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1883 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1884 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1886 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1888 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1890 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1892 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1894 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1895 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1897 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1898 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1900 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1901 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1903 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1904 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1906 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1908 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1910 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1912 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1918 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1919 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1920 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1922 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1923 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1924 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1925 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1926 build errors in sieve.c.
1928 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1929 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1930 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1932 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1934 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1936 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1938 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1944 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1946 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1947 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1948 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1949 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1950 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1951 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1952 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1953 for iplsearch lookups.
1955 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1956 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1957 previously such lookups could never work.
1959 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
1960 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1961 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1963 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1966 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1967 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1968 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1969 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1970 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1971 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1973 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1974 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1976 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1977 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1978 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1979 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1980 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1981 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1983 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1986 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1988 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1989 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1992 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1993 by clients under certain conditions.
1995 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1996 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1998 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2000 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2001 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2003 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2005 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2007 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2009 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2010 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2012 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2014 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2015 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2017 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2019 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2021 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2022 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2023 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2024 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2026 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2027 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2028 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2030 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2031 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2033 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2035 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2037 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2039 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2040 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2041 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2047 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2048 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2051 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2052 issue a MAIL command.
2054 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2056 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2058 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2059 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2060 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2061 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2062 item. This has been fixed.
2064 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2065 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2067 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2068 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2070 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2071 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2072 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2074 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2076 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2077 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2078 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2079 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2080 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2082 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2083 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2084 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2086 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2087 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2088 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2089 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2091 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2093 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2095 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2096 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2097 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2098 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2099 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2101 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2103 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2104 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2105 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2108 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2110 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2112 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2114 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2116 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2118 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2119 no_callout_flush is set.
2121 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2122 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2123 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2126 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2128 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2129 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2130 other ACL rejections are.
2132 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2133 with slight modification.
2135 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2136 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2138 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2139 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2142 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2143 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2145 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2147 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2148 expansion side effects.
2150 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2151 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2152 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2155 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2156 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2157 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2159 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2160 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2161 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2162 were accidentally chopped off.
2164 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2165 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2166 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2167 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2168 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2169 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2170 pipelining has not been advertised.
2172 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2174 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2175 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2176 This has been fixed.
2178 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2179 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2180 reported on Solaris.
2182 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2183 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2184 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2185 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2186 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2187 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2188 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2190 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2193 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2195 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2197 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2198 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2199 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2200 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2201 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2202 criteria to be more general.
2204 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2205 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2206 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2207 host_all_ignored option.
2209 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2210 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2211 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2212 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2213 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2214 is what is supposed to happen).
2216 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2217 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2218 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2219 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2220 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2223 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2224 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2225 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2226 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2227 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2228 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2231 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2233 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2234 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2236 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2237 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2239 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2241 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2243 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2244 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2245 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2246 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2247 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2248 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2249 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2250 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2251 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2252 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2253 least in a lot of common cases.
2255 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2256 advertised in response to EHLO.
2262 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2263 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2265 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2266 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2268 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2269 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2270 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2272 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2273 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2274 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2275 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2276 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2282 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2283 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2286 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2287 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2288 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2290 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2291 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2292 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2293 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2294 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2295 rather than extend the field.
2301 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2302 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2303 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2304 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2307 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2308 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2309 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2311 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2312 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2313 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2315 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2316 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2317 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2320 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2321 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2322 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2323 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2324 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2325 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2326 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2327 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2328 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2329 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2330 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2332 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2335 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2336 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2337 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2338 ignores EPIPE as well.
2340 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2341 (quoted-printable decoding).
2343 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2344 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2346 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2348 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2350 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2352 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2353 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2355 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2358 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2359 miscellaneous code fixes
2361 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2364 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2365 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2366 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2367 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2368 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2369 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2370 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2371 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2373 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2374 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2375 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2376 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2378 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2379 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2380 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2381 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2382 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2383 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2384 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2385 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2386 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2388 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2391 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2392 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2393 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2394 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2395 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2396 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2397 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2398 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2400 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2401 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2404 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2405 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2406 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2407 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2408 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2409 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2410 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2411 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2412 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2413 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2414 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2415 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2416 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2418 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2419 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2420 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2421 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2422 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2423 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2424 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2426 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2427 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2428 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2429 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2430 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2431 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2432 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2433 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2434 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2435 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2437 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2438 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2439 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2440 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2441 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2443 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2444 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2445 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2446 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2447 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2448 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2449 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2451 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2452 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2453 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2454 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2455 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2456 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2459 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2460 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2461 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2464 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2465 if any retry times were supplied.
2467 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2468 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2469 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2471 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2473 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2475 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2476 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2477 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2478 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2479 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2480 before) are ignored.
2482 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2483 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2485 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2486 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2487 committing the later change.]
2489 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2490 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2491 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2492 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2493 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2494 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2495 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2496 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2497 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2499 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2500 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2501 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2502 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2503 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2504 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2505 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2506 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2507 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2509 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2510 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2511 hammering the server.
2513 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2514 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2516 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2518 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2519 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2520 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2522 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2523 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2524 one case where this was not true.
2526 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2527 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2528 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2529 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2532 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2533 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2534 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2535 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2536 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2537 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2538 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2539 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2540 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2543 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2544 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2545 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2546 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2548 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2549 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2551 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2552 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2553 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2555 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2557 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2559 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2561 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2562 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2563 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2564 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2566 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2567 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2569 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2570 be meaningful with "accept".
2572 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2573 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2575 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2576 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2577 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2579 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2580 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2581 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2582 there is data to show.
2583 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2585 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2586 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2587 as well as the number of messages.
2589 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2590 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2591 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2593 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2594 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2595 have a flag are now skipped.
2597 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2598 Added the -emptyok flag.
2600 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2601 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2603 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2604 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2605 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2607 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2610 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2611 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2613 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2615 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2616 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2618 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2620 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2621 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2622 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2623 contravention of the specifications.
2625 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2626 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2627 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2629 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2630 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2631 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2633 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2635 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2636 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2637 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2638 some point in the past.
2640 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2641 transport during callout processing was broken.
2643 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2644 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2646 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2647 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2649 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2650 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2652 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2658 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2659 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2661 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2662 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2663 there is data to show.
2664 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2666 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2667 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2669 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2670 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2672 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2673 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2675 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2676 submissions from trusted users.
2678 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2679 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2681 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2682 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2683 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2684 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2685 there is now a framework to start from.
2687 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2688 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2689 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2691 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2693 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2695 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2697 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2698 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2699 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2701 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2704 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2705 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2706 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2708 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2709 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2710 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2713 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2714 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2715 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2716 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2717 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2719 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2720 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2722 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2724 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2725 operations in malware.c.
2727 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2730 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2731 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2732 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2735 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2736 statements to "add_header".
2738 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2739 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2741 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2742 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2745 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2749 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2750 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2751 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2754 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2755 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2757 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2758 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2760 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2761 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2762 any possible encoding problems.
2764 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2765 but not after initializing Perl.
2767 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2768 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2769 apparently, which is not desirable.
2771 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2774 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2777 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2779 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2780 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2781 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2782 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2784 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2785 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2786 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2788 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2789 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2790 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2793 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2794 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2795 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2796 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2797 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2803 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2804 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2806 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2809 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2810 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2811 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2812 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2813 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2814 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2815 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2816 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2819 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2821 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2822 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2823 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2825 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2826 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2827 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2830 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2831 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2833 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2834 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2835 option (which defaults to 0600).
2837 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2839 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2840 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2841 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2842 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2843 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2844 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2845 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2847 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2853 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2854 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2855 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2856 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2857 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2858 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2861 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2862 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2864 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2866 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2867 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2868 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2869 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2870 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2873 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2874 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2876 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2877 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2878 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2879 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2880 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2882 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2883 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2884 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2885 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2887 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2888 be the same on different OS.
2890 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2893 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2894 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2896 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2899 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2900 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2901 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2902 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2903 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2904 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2907 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2908 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2909 when Exim was called.
2911 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2912 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2914 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2915 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2916 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2917 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2919 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2920 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2921 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2922 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2925 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2926 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2927 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2929 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2930 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2931 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2933 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2936 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2937 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2938 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2939 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2940 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2941 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2942 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2943 values from the SRV records were lost.
2945 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2946 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2947 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2949 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2950 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2951 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2953 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2954 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2955 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2956 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2957 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2958 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2959 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2960 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2961 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2962 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2964 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2965 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2966 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2968 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2969 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2971 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2972 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2973 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2974 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2977 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2978 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2979 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2981 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2982 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2983 PH/23 above applies.
2985 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2986 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2987 (for which there is an explicit test).
2989 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2991 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2992 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2993 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2994 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2995 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2997 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2998 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2999 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3000 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3002 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3003 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3004 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3006 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3008 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3010 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3011 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3012 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3014 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3015 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3016 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3017 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3018 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3020 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3021 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3022 the message gets confusing).
3024 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3025 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3026 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3027 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3029 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3030 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3031 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3032 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3035 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3036 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3037 the different processes.
3039 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3041 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3043 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3044 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3046 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3047 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3049 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3050 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3051 messages matching specified criteria.
3053 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3055 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3056 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3058 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3059 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3060 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3061 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3062 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3063 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3064 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3065 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3066 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3067 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3069 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3070 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3071 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3073 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3075 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3076 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3077 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3078 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3079 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3080 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3081 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3084 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3085 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3087 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3089 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3091 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3093 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3094 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3095 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3096 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3097 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3098 size of the count of files.
3100 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3102 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3105 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3106 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3107 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3108 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3110 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3111 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3112 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3114 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3115 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3116 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3117 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3118 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3120 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3121 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3123 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3124 will now be deprecated.
3126 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3128 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3129 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3130 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3132 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3133 with very large, slow to parse queues
3135 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3137 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3139 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3140 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3141 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3144 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3145 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3146 Sieve code now uses this.
3148 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3149 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3151 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3152 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3154 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3156 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3157 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3158 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3159 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3160 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3162 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3163 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3164 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3165 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3167 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3169 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3171 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3172 is preferred over IPv4.
3174 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3175 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3176 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3177 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3178 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3179 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3180 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3182 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3183 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3184 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3186 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3188 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3189 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3190 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3191 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3192 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3193 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3194 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3195 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3196 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3197 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3198 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3200 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3201 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3202 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3208 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3210 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3211 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3213 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3214 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3215 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3217 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3219 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3222 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3225 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3226 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3227 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3230 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3231 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3233 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3234 inside the third argument.
3236 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3237 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3240 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3241 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3243 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3244 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3246 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3248 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3249 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3252 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3254 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3255 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3256 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3257 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3258 identical. For example:
3260 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3262 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3263 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3264 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3266 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3267 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3268 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3269 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3271 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3272 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3273 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3276 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3278 o fixes some comments
3279 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3280 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3281 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3282 and documents the missing references header update
3286 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3287 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3290 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3291 Electronic Mail") by including:
3293 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3295 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3296 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3297 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3298 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3299 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3301 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3303 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3305 The auto-replied keyword:
3307 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3308 message by an automatic process,
3310 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3312 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3313 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3315 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3316 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3319 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3320 to the default Received: header definition.
3322 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3324 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3325 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3326 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3328 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3329 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3330 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3332 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3333 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3334 and treats the condition as false.
3336 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3338 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3339 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3340 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3341 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3342 not changing the active code.
3344 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3345 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3347 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3348 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3350 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3353 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3354 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3355 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3356 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3357 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3358 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3359 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3360 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3361 the text comparison.
3363 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3364 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3365 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3366 The same fix has been applied.
3372 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3373 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3376 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3377 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3379 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3381 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3382 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3383 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3384 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3385 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3387 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3388 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3389 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3390 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3393 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3401 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3402 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3404 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3406 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3408 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3409 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3410 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3412 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3413 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3414 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3416 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3417 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3420 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3421 ${stat: expansion item.
3423 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3424 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3426 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3427 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3430 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3432 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3435 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3436 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3438 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3440 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3441 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3442 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3443 the end of the subprocess.
3445 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3446 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3447 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3448 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3449 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3451 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3453 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3455 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3456 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3458 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3460 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3462 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3463 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3466 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3468 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3469 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3470 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3472 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3473 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3475 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3476 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3478 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3479 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3481 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3482 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3484 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3485 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3486 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3487 contributed by a Radius user.
3489 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3490 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3492 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3493 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3495 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3498 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3499 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3502 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3503 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3504 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3505 header lines when this was not necessary.
3507 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3509 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3510 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3511 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3514 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3517 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3518 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3519 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3520 return code was incorrect.
3522 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3524 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3526 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3528 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3530 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3531 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3532 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3533 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3534 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3537 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3539 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3540 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3541 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3542 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3543 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3544 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3545 which is clearly wrong.
3547 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3549 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3550 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3551 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3554 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3555 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3557 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3559 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3560 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3562 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3563 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3565 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3566 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3568 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3569 recipients, not senders.
3571 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3572 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3574 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3576 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3578 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3579 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3580 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3581 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3583 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3585 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3586 clock is set back in time.
3588 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3589 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3591 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3592 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3594 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3595 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3598 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3599 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3602 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3605 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3607 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3608 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3609 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3611 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3612 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3613 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3614 helo verification defer as a failure.
3616 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3617 actual error message.
3623 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3625 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3626 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3627 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3628 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3630 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3632 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3633 can still be requested.
3635 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3636 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3637 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3638 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3640 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3641 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3642 circumstances, but probably never did.
3644 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3645 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3646 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3649 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3651 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3652 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3654 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3656 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3658 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3659 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3660 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3661 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3662 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3663 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3665 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3666 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3667 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3668 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3669 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3670 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3672 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3673 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3675 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3676 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3678 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3679 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3681 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3683 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3685 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3687 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3689 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3691 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3693 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3695 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3696 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3697 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3699 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3700 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3701 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3702 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3704 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3705 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3706 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3708 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3709 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3710 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3711 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3713 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3714 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3717 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3718 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3719 should work with maildirs and everything.
3721 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3722 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3724 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3727 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3728 function for BDB 4.3.
3730 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3732 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3733 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3736 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3737 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3738 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3739 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3740 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3741 formatting function string_vformat().
3743 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3744 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3745 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3746 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3747 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3748 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3749 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3750 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3752 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3753 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3756 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3757 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3759 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3760 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3761 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3762 test. It is now used for both.
3764 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3765 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3766 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3767 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3768 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3769 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3771 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3772 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3773 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3776 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3777 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3778 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3780 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3781 experimental DomainKeys support:
3783 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3784 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3785 the control was given.
3787 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3789 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3791 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3793 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3794 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3795 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3798 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3799 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3800 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3801 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3802 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3803 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3806 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3807 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3808 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3809 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3810 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3811 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3813 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3814 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3815 do -d+all out of habit.
3817 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3818 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3821 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3822 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3823 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3824 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3825 record types that Exim uses.
3827 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3828 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3829 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3830 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3831 non-existent file that was broken.
3833 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3834 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3836 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3837 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3838 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3840 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3842 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3843 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3844 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3845 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3846 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3849 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3850 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3851 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3852 at a slight CPU cost.
3854 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3855 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3857 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3860 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3862 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3863 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3869 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3870 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3872 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3874 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3876 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3877 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3879 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3880 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3881 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3882 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3883 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3884 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3887 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3888 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3889 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3890 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3893 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3894 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3895 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3896 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3897 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3898 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3899 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3902 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3903 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3905 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3906 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3907 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3908 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3909 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3910 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3912 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3913 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3914 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3915 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3917 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3920 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3921 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3923 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3924 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3925 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3926 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3929 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3931 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3932 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3934 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3935 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3936 to what was transported.)
3938 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3940 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3941 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3942 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3943 spamd_address settings.
3945 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3946 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3947 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3948 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3949 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3951 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3953 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3954 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3955 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3956 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3957 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3959 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3960 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3962 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3963 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3964 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3965 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3966 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3967 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3968 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3971 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3972 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3973 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3974 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3975 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3976 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3977 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3980 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3982 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3983 driver and ACL definitions.
3985 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3986 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3988 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3989 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3990 understands it better than I do:
3992 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3993 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3995 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3996 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3997 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3998 => three warnings about OTP not working
3999 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4001 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4002 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4003 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4004 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4006 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4007 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4009 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4010 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4011 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4013 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4014 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4017 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4018 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4021 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4022 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4023 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4025 warn !verify = sender
4026 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4028 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4029 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4031 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4033 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4034 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4036 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4037 nomenclature these days.)
4039 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4040 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4042 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4043 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4044 . First host does not offer TLS;
4045 . First host accepts first address;
4046 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4047 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4048 . Second host accepts second address.
4049 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4050 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4053 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4054 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4055 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4056 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4057 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4059 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4060 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4062 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4063 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4065 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4066 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4067 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4069 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4070 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4073 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4075 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4076 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4077 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4078 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4079 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4080 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4081 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4083 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4084 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4085 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4086 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4087 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4089 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4090 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4093 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4094 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4095 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4096 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4097 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4098 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4100 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4102 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4103 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4104 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4105 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4106 printable escape sequences.
4108 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4109 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4112 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4113 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4116 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4117 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4118 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4119 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4120 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4122 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4123 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4124 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4126 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4128 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4129 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4132 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4133 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4134 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4135 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4136 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4137 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4138 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4139 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4140 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4143 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4144 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4145 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4146 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4150 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4151 ----------------------------------------
4153 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4154 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4155 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4156 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4157 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4158 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4161 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4162 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4163 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4164 historical information.
4170 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4172 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4173 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4175 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4176 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4179 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4180 filter fails to execute.
4182 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4183 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4184 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4185 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4186 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4188 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4190 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4191 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4192 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4193 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4195 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4196 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4197 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4198 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4199 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4201 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4203 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4205 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4206 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4207 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4208 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4210 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4211 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4212 sender verification.
4214 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4215 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4217 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4219 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4222 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4223 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4225 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4226 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4228 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4229 information about exactly what failed.
4231 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4233 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4234 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4235 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4237 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4238 It is now set to "smtps".
4240 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4241 ignore_target_hosts.
4243 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4244 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4245 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4246 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4249 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4250 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4251 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4253 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4254 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4255 wake it up if nothing else does.
4257 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4258 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4259 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4262 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4263 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4265 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4267 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4268 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4269 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4270 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4271 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4272 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4273 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4274 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4276 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4277 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4278 than one IP address.
4280 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4281 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4282 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4283 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4285 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4286 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4287 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4288 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4289 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4292 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4293 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4294 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4295 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4297 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4298 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4301 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4302 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4303 $sender_host_address.
4305 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4306 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4307 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4308 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4309 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4312 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4314 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4315 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4317 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4318 just the host names, not the priorities.
4320 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4321 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4322 controlled by a keyword.
4324 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4325 multiple records are returned.
4327 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4328 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4331 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4333 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4334 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4336 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4337 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4338 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4340 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4342 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4344 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4346 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4347 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4348 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4349 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4350 because the tests only now provoked it.
4352 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4353 (this can affect the format of dates).
4355 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4356 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4357 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4358 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4360 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4362 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4363 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4364 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4365 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4367 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4368 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4369 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4371 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4374 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4375 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4376 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4377 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4378 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4379 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4382 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4383 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4384 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4387 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4388 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4389 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4391 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4392 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4393 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4394 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4395 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4396 so I produce this patch..."
4398 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4399 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4402 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4403 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4404 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4405 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4408 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4410 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4411 long debug lines gets shown.
4413 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4414 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4416 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4418 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4419 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4420 of $primary_hostname.
4422 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4423 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4424 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4425 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4426 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4427 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4428 by change 4.50/55 above.
4430 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4431 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4432 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4433 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4434 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4435 running as the user.
4438 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4439 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4440 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4443 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4444 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4446 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4447 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4448 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4449 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4450 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4452 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4453 This has been fixed.
4455 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4456 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4457 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4458 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4461 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4463 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4464 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4465 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4466 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4468 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4469 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4471 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4472 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4473 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4475 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4476 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4477 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4480 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4481 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4482 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4484 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4485 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4486 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4487 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4489 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4490 during host lookups.
4492 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4493 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4495 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4497 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4498 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4499 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4500 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4501 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4504 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4505 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4507 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4508 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4509 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4511 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4513 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4514 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4515 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4516 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4517 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4518 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4521 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4522 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4523 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4524 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4525 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4527 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4530 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4532 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4533 "vacation" handling.
4535 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4536 OS variants using glibc.
4538 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4541 ----------------------------------------------------
4542 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4543 ----------------------------------------------------
4549 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4550 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4553 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4554 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4557 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4558 filter fails to execute.
4560 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4561 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4562 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4563 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4564 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4566 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4567 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4568 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4569 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4571 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4572 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4573 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4574 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4575 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4577 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4579 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4580 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4581 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4582 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4584 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4585 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4586 sender verification.
4588 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4589 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4591 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4592 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4594 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4595 ignore_target_hosts.
4597 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4598 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4599 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4600 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4603 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4604 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4605 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4607 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4608 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4609 wake it up if nothing else does.
4611 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4612 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4613 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4616 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4617 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4619 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4621 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4622 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4625 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4626 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4629 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4630 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4631 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4632 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4633 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4636 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4637 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4640 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4641 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4642 $sender_host_address.
4644 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4646 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4647 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4648 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4650 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4653 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4654 (this can affect the format of dates).
4656 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4657 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4658 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4659 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4661 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4662 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4663 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4665 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4666 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4667 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4668 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4670 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4671 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4672 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4674 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4677 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4678 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4679 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4680 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4681 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4682 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4685 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4686 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4687 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4688 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4691 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4692 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4693 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4694 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4695 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4696 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4697 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4699 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4700 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4701 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4702 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4703 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4704 running as the user.
4707 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4708 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4709 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4712 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4713 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4714 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4715 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4716 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4718 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4719 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4720 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4721 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4724 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4725 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4726 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4727 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4728 because the tests only now provoked it.
4734 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4735 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4736 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4737 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4738 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4739 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4740 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4742 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4743 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4746 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4748 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4750 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4751 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4754 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4755 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4756 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4757 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4758 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4760 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4761 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4763 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4765 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4767 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4770 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4771 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4773 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4774 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4775 affecting debugging statements).
4777 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4779 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4780 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4781 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4782 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4783 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4784 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4785 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4786 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4787 after the received time, and all would be well.
4789 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4790 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4791 condition in an expansion string.
4793 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4795 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4796 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4797 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4798 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4799 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4800 job under whatever limits there are.
4802 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4804 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4807 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4808 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4809 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4810 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4813 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4814 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4815 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4816 binary data in such strings.
4818 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4820 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4821 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4822 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4823 failure, which is pointless.
4825 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4827 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4829 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4830 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4831 Sender: header lines.
4833 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4834 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4835 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4837 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4838 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4839 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4840 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4841 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4844 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4845 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4846 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4847 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4848 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4850 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4851 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4852 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4855 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4856 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4858 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4859 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4861 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4863 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4865 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4867 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4870 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4872 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4874 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4875 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4876 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4877 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4879 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4880 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4886 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4887 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4888 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4890 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4891 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4892 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4893 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4894 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4895 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4897 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4898 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4899 verification failure".
4901 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4902 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4903 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4904 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4906 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4907 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4908 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4909 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4910 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4911 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4912 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4913 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4914 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4915 treated as a timeout.
4917 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4918 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4919 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4920 not set for Exim filters).
4922 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4923 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4924 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4926 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4928 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4929 try to make them clearer.
4931 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4932 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4934 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4936 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4938 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4939 only the Cygwin environment.
4941 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4942 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4943 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4944 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4945 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4947 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4948 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4949 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4950 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4951 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4952 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4953 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4955 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4956 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4958 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4960 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4961 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4962 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4964 To: susanne@some.where
4966 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4967 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4968 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4969 of addresses in From: header lines).
4971 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4972 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4973 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4975 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4976 treated as non-personal.
4978 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4979 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4981 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4983 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4985 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4986 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4987 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4989 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4990 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4992 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4993 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4994 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4995 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4996 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4997 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4999 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5000 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5001 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5002 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5003 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5004 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5005 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5006 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5008 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5010 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5011 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5013 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5014 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5015 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5017 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5018 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5020 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5021 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5022 rather than long int.
5024 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5026 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5032 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5033 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5034 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5035 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5036 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5037 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5043 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5044 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5046 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5047 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5048 socklen_t is defined.
5050 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5053 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5056 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5057 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5058 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5059 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5060 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5062 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5063 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5064 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5065 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5067 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5068 of flapping under certain conditions.
5070 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5071 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5072 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5074 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5076 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5078 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5079 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5080 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5081 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5083 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5084 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5085 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5086 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5087 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5088 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5089 preserved with the message after it was received.
5091 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5092 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5093 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5094 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5095 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5096 test suite worked just fine.
5098 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5099 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5100 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5102 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5103 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5106 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5107 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5108 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5109 does not fully solve it.
5111 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5112 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5113 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5114 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5115 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5117 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5118 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5119 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5121 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5122 string, for example:
5124 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5126 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5127 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5128 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5129 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5130 the routers could not see them.
5132 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5133 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5135 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5136 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5139 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5140 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5141 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5142 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5143 that needed quoting.
5145 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5146 was not being matched caselessly.
5148 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5151 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5152 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5153 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5154 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5155 when use_sender is false.
5157 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5159 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5161 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5163 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5164 the configuration file.
5166 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5167 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5169 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5171 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5172 bytes in the message body.
5174 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5175 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5178 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5180 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5182 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5183 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5184 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5185 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5192 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5193 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5195 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5196 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5197 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5198 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5199 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5201 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5202 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5204 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5205 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5206 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5208 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5209 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5210 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5212 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5215 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5216 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5217 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5218 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5219 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5220 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5221 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5227 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5228 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5229 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5230 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5231 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5232 default (and expected) setting.
5234 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5235 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5236 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5237 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5239 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5240 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5242 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5245 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5246 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5247 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5248 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5249 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5250 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5252 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5253 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5254 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5256 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5257 part (NOT match_host).
5259 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5261 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5262 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5263 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5264 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5265 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5266 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5267 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5268 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5269 the same named file.
5271 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5272 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5275 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5276 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5277 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5278 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5281 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5282 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5283 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5285 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5287 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5289 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5291 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5292 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5294 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5295 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5296 before starting the TLS session.
5298 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5300 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5301 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5303 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5304 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5305 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5306 colon in the middle).
5312 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5313 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5314 multiple configurations are in use.
5316 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5317 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5318 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5319 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5320 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5321 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5323 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5324 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5326 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5327 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5328 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5330 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5331 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5334 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5335 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5337 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5339 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5340 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5342 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5350 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5351 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5352 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5353 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5354 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5356 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5359 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5360 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5361 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5362 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5363 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5364 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5366 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5367 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5368 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5369 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5370 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5371 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5372 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5375 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5376 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5377 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5378 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5379 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5381 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5383 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5384 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5385 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5387 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5389 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5390 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5391 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5394 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5395 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5397 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5398 Three changes have been made:
5400 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5401 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5402 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5403 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5404 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5406 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5409 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5410 the modified behaviour.
5416 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5419 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5420 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5422 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5423 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5424 try to track down a specific problem.
5426 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5427 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5428 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5430 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5433 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5434 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5435 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5436 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5437 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5438 some earlier ones do not.
5440 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5442 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5443 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5444 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5445 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5446 address literals are enabled, of course).
5448 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5450 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5451 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5452 by a command such as
5456 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5458 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5460 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5461 remained set. It is now erased.
5463 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5464 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5466 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5467 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5468 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5469 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5470 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5471 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5472 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5473 appropriate error code.
5475 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5476 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5477 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5478 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5479 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5480 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5482 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5483 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5484 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5486 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5487 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5488 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5489 terminate the header.
5491 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5492 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5493 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5495 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5496 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5497 (4.30/29). In particular:
5499 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5502 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5503 to write a maildirsize file.
5505 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5506 the transport, the new value overrides.
5508 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5511 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5512 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5513 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5516 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5517 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5518 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5521 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5522 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5523 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5525 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5526 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5529 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5530 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5531 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5533 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5535 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5537 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5539 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5540 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5543 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5544 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5545 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5546 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5547 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5548 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5549 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5552 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5553 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5554 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5555 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5556 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5559 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5560 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5561 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5562 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5563 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5564 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5565 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5566 cached value only when the same options are set.
5568 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5570 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5571 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5572 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5573 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5574 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5576 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5577 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5578 it is clearly obsolete.
5580 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5583 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5584 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5585 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5588 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5589 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5590 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5591 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5592 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5594 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5595 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5596 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5597 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5599 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5601 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5603 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5604 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5607 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5608 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5609 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5610 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5611 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5612 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5615 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5616 with the -f command-line option.
5618 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5619 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5620 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5621 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5622 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5623 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5625 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5626 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5629 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5630 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5631 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5632 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5633 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5634 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5635 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5636 buffer is too small.
5638 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5639 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5641 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5642 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5643 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5644 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5645 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5646 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5647 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5648 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5649 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5651 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5652 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5653 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5655 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5656 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5659 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5660 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5661 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5662 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5663 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5665 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5666 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5667 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5668 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5671 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5673 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5675 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5676 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5678 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5679 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5680 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5682 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5683 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5684 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5685 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5686 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5688 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5689 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5690 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5691 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5692 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5693 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5694 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5696 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5697 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5698 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5699 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5700 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5701 the test of how many are available.
5703 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5704 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5705 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5706 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5707 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5708 new message is started.
5710 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5711 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5713 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5714 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5716 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5717 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5718 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5721 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5722 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5723 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5724 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5725 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5726 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5727 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5729 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5730 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5731 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5732 interpreted as octal.
5734 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5737 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5738 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5739 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5740 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5741 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5742 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5744 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5745 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5746 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5747 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5749 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5750 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5751 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5752 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5754 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5755 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5758 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5759 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5761 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5763 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5764 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5765 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5766 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5768 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5769 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5770 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5771 supplied", which is not helpful.
5773 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5774 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5775 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5777 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5778 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5779 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5780 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5781 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5782 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5783 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5784 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5786 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5787 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5788 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5789 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5790 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5792 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5793 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5794 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5795 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5796 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5797 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5799 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5800 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5801 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5803 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5805 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5806 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5807 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5810 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5812 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5813 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5814 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5815 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5816 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5817 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5818 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5819 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5821 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5822 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5823 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5824 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5825 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5827 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5830 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5831 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5832 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5833 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5834 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5835 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5836 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5837 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5838 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5844 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5845 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5846 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5848 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5851 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5852 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5853 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5855 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5856 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5857 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5858 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5859 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5860 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5862 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5863 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5864 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5865 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5866 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5867 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5868 the Exim test suite.
5870 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5871 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5872 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5873 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5875 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5876 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5877 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5878 specify it in this variable.
5880 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5881 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5882 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5883 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5885 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5886 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5887 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5888 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5890 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5891 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5892 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5893 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5894 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5896 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5898 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5901 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5902 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5903 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5904 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5905 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5907 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5908 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5910 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5911 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5912 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5913 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5914 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5916 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5917 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5919 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5920 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5921 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5923 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5924 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5926 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5927 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5929 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5930 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5931 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5933 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5934 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5936 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5937 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5938 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5939 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5941 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5943 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5944 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5945 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5946 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5948 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5950 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5951 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5953 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5955 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5956 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5957 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5958 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5959 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5960 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5962 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5964 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5965 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5968 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5970 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5971 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5973 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5974 550 Sender verify failed
5976 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5977 the final line of the response.
5979 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5980 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5981 all other user lookups.
5983 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5986 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5987 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5988 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5989 result into an int without checking.
5991 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5992 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5993 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
5995 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5996 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5997 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5998 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6000 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6003 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6004 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6006 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6007 to the empty sender.
6009 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6010 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6011 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6012 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6013 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6014 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6015 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6018 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6019 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6020 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6021 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6024 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6025 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6027 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6030 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6031 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6033 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6035 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6036 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6039 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6040 as soon as it is encountered.
6042 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6044 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6047 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6048 recognizes a tab character.
6050 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6051 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6052 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6053 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6055 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6057 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6060 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6062 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6064 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6065 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6068 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6069 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6070 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6071 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6072 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6074 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6075 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6077 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6078 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6079 list (.included file names were always shown).
6081 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6082 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6083 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6086 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6087 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6089 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6091 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6093 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6095 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6096 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6097 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6098 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6099 failures to open the logs.
6101 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6102 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6103 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6104 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6105 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6106 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6107 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6113 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6114 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6115 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6118 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6119 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6120 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6122 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6123 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6124 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6126 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6127 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6128 causing some misleading effects.
6130 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6131 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6132 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6134 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6135 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6136 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6137 queue-runner function directly.
6143 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6146 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6147 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6148 was always written to the default place.
6150 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6151 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6152 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6154 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6156 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6158 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6159 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6160 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6162 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6163 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6166 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6167 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6168 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6170 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6171 command line option is disabled.
6173 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6174 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6176 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6178 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6180 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6181 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6183 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6185 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6186 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6187 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6188 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6189 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6190 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6192 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6193 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6196 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6197 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6199 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6200 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6202 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6203 received was valid base64.
6205 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6206 name of the variable that was being set.
6208 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6210 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6211 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6212 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6213 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6214 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6215 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6217 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6219 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6220 nor realm was specified.
6222 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6223 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6224 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6225 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6227 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6228 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6229 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6231 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6232 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6233 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6235 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6236 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6237 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6238 some systems use these upper case variants.
6240 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6241 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6242 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6243 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6245 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6247 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6248 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6250 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6251 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6254 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6256 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6257 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6258 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6259 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6261 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6264 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6265 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6266 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6268 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6269 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6271 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6272 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6273 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6274 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6276 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6277 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6278 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6280 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6282 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6283 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6284 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6285 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6288 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6289 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6290 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6292 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6294 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6295 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6297 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6298 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6300 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6301 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6302 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6303 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6304 when emails are that large.
6311 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6312 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6314 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6315 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6316 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6318 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6319 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6320 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6322 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6323 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6324 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6325 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6326 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6328 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6329 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6330 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6331 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6332 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6335 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6336 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6337 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6338 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6339 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6340 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6341 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6342 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6343 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6344 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6345 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6346 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6347 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6348 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6350 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6351 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6354 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6355 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6356 error should be diagnosed.
6358 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6359 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6360 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6361 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6362 appeared instead of "NULL".
6364 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6365 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6366 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6367 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6368 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6369 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6372 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6373 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6374 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6380 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6381 or receiver verification errors.
6383 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6386 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6387 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6388 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6389 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6391 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6392 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6393 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6394 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6395 shouldn't happen again.
6397 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6398 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6399 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6401 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6402 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6404 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6406 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6407 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6409 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6410 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6413 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6414 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6415 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6417 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6418 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6419 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6420 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6422 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6423 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6424 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6425 to define what should happen).
6427 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6428 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6429 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6431 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6433 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6435 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6436 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6438 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6439 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6440 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6441 structure in all cases.
6443 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6444 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6445 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6446 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6448 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6449 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6452 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6453 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6455 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6456 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6458 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6459 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6460 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6462 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6463 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6464 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6466 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6467 the book and for uniformity.
6469 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6471 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6472 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6473 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6474 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6475 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6476 non-existent command as the problem.
6478 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6479 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6480 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6482 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6484 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6485 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6486 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6488 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6489 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6490 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6491 timestamps using strftime().
6493 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6494 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6496 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6497 transport-time rewrites.
6499 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6500 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6501 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6502 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6504 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6505 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6507 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6508 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6509 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6510 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6513 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6514 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6515 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6516 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6517 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6518 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6519 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6521 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6522 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6523 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6524 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6525 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6527 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6528 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6529 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6530 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6531 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6532 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6533 remaining text gets split now.
6535 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6536 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6537 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6538 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6540 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6541 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6542 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6543 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6546 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6547 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6548 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6549 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6550 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6551 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6552 passed through if needed.
6554 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6555 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6556 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6557 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6558 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6559 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6561 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6562 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6563 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6564 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6565 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6567 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6568 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6569 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6570 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6571 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6573 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6574 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6577 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6578 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6579 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6580 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6581 mayhem of various kinds.
6583 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6584 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6585 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6586 the right test for positive values.
6588 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6589 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6590 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6591 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6592 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6593 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6594 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6595 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6596 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6597 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6600 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6603 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6604 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6607 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6608 the existing equality matching.
6610 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6611 dealing with inode numbers.
6613 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6614 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6615 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6617 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6618 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6619 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6620 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6623 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6624 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6625 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6626 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6627 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6628 relay addresses has also been removed.
6630 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6632 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6633 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6634 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6636 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6637 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6638 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6639 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6640 processing applies to CR:
6642 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6643 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6645 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6646 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6647 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6648 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6650 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6651 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6652 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6654 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6655 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6656 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6657 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6658 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6659 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6662 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6665 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6666 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6667 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6668 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6671 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6673 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6675 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6677 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6678 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6679 not considered personal.
6681 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6683 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6685 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6687 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6688 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6689 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6690 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6691 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6692 header lines, and spool format errors.
6694 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6695 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6696 for more flexibility.
6698 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6699 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6700 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6702 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6705 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6706 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6707 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6708 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6709 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6710 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6711 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6712 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6713 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6715 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6716 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6717 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6718 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6719 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6720 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6721 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6723 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6724 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6725 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6727 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6728 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6729 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6730 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6731 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6732 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6733 instead of killing the process with assert().
6735 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6736 than Unicode encoding.
6738 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6739 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6740 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6741 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6743 77. Added process_log_path.
6745 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6746 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6748 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6749 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6751 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6752 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6753 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6755 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6756 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6757 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6758 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6759 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6762 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6763 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6766 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6767 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6768 they will be used during message reception.
6774 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.