1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 - paths used by single-key lookups
97 Previously this was permitted.
99 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
104 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
108 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
113 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
119 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
125 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
130 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
135 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
140 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
144 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
147 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
151 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
153 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
156 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
160 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
163 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
167 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
170 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
179 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
180 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
182 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
183 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
186 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
189 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
191 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
193 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
194 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
196 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
197 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
198 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
199 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
200 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
201 suitably configured).
203 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
204 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
206 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
207 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
210 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
211 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
213 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
214 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
215 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
216 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
219 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
220 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
221 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
223 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
226 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
227 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
229 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
230 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
231 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
232 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
235 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
236 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
237 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
238 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
241 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
242 shared (NFS) environment.
244 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
245 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
248 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
249 on some platforms for bit 31.
251 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
252 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
253 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
254 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
255 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
256 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
257 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
258 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
260 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
262 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
263 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
265 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
266 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
269 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
270 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
273 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
274 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
275 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
278 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
279 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
280 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
282 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
283 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
284 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
285 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
286 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
288 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
291 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
292 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
293 be requested on all coneections.
295 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
296 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
298 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
300 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
301 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
302 one for these; the option was ignored.
304 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
305 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
306 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
307 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
309 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
310 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
311 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
314 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
315 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
316 error ignored was made.
318 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
320 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
321 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
322 values, to catch one form of exploit.
324 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
325 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
326 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
328 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
329 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
332 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
333 them in our smtp response.
335 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
336 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
337 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
338 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
339 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
341 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
342 link count into consideration.
344 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
345 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
347 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
348 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
349 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
352 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
354 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
356 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
358 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
359 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
360 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
361 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
363 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
365 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
366 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
369 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
370 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
371 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
373 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
374 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
375 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
377 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
378 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
379 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
380 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
381 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
382 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
383 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
384 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
386 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
387 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
388 resulted in an indefinite loop.
390 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
391 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
392 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
398 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
399 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
401 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
402 non-signal-safe functions being used.
404 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
405 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
406 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
408 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
409 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
410 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
412 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
413 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
414 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
415 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
416 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
419 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
420 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
422 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
423 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
424 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
425 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
426 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
427 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
428 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
430 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
431 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
433 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
436 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
437 Previously this would segfault.
439 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
442 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
443 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
444 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
445 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
446 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
447 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
449 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
451 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
452 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
453 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
454 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
456 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
458 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
459 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
460 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
461 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
463 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
465 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
467 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
468 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
469 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
471 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
472 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
473 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
475 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
477 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
478 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
479 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
480 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
482 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
483 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
484 promised '?' replacement.
486 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
488 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
489 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
490 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
491 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
492 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
494 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
495 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
496 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
498 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
499 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
500 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
502 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
503 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
504 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
506 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
507 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
508 hope that is portable enough.
510 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
511 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
512 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
513 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
515 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
516 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
517 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
519 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
520 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
521 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
522 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
524 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
525 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
527 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
528 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
529 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
530 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
532 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
533 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
534 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
536 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
537 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
538 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
539 the previous G, M, k.
541 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
542 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
545 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
546 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
547 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
548 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
550 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
551 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
553 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
554 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
555 off past the nul-terimation.
557 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
558 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
559 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
560 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
561 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
563 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
565 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
566 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
567 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
570 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
571 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
573 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
574 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
575 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
577 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
578 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
579 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
581 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
582 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
588 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
589 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
590 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
591 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
592 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
593 be defined in redis_servers.
595 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
596 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
598 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
599 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
600 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
601 extant use locations.
603 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
604 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
606 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
607 Previously only the last row was returned.
609 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
610 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
611 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
612 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
615 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
616 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
617 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
618 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
619 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
620 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
621 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
622 Main pool for expansions.
623 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
624 active in the testsuite.
625 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
627 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
628 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
629 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
630 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
633 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
634 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
637 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
638 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
639 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
641 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
642 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
643 ClamAV interface method is removed.
645 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
646 rows affected is given instead).
648 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
649 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
651 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
652 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
653 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
654 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
655 for all multi-message initiating connections.
657 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
658 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
659 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
661 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
662 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
663 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
664 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
667 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
668 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
669 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
672 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
674 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
675 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
677 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
678 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
679 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
681 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
682 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
683 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
686 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
687 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
689 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
690 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
691 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
693 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
694 for the build is renamed.
696 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
697 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
698 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
700 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
701 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
702 result replacing the original.
704 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
705 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
706 and the resources needed to be freed.
708 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
710 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
713 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
714 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
715 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
716 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
718 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
719 length value. Previously this would segfault.
721 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
722 newer versions of the scanner.
724 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
725 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
726 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
727 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
728 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
729 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
730 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
732 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
733 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
734 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
735 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
736 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
737 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
738 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
739 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
740 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
741 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
743 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
744 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
746 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
748 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
749 allows proper process termination in container environments.
751 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
752 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
754 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
755 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
756 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
758 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
759 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
760 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
761 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
763 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
764 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
767 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
768 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
770 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
771 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
772 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
773 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
774 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
776 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
777 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
780 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
781 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
783 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
786 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
787 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
788 "bare" representation.
790 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
791 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
792 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
793 corrupted the output.
799 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
800 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
801 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
802 pairs of long lines into single ones.
804 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
805 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
807 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
808 This permits better logging.
810 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
811 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
812 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
813 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
814 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
815 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
817 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
818 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
821 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
822 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
823 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
825 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
826 than 255 are no longer allowed.
828 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
829 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
830 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
831 client, there is no benefit for these.
832 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
833 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
834 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
837 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
838 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
840 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
841 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
842 erroneously found still-pending ones.
844 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
845 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
847 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
848 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
849 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
850 signature and again for transmission.
852 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
853 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
854 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
856 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
857 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
858 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
859 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
860 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
861 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
862 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
864 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
865 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
866 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
867 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
869 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
870 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
871 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
872 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
873 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
874 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
877 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
878 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
879 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
880 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
883 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
884 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
885 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
886 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
889 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
890 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
893 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
894 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
895 banner-time rejection.
897 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
900 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
901 is the name of a transport.
904 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
906 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
907 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
909 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
910 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
911 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
914 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
915 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
916 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
917 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
919 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
920 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
921 initial verify call returned a defer.
923 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
924 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
926 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
927 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
929 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
930 if present. Previously it was ignored.
932 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
933 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
935 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
936 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
939 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
940 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
942 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
943 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
944 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
946 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
947 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
948 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
949 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
951 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
952 and confused the parent.
954 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
955 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
957 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
960 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
961 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
962 out-of-order delivery.
964 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
965 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
966 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
969 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
970 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
973 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
974 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
975 one run was done. Bug 2189.
977 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
978 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
979 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
980 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
981 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
982 message is still "Temporary local problem".
984 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
985 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
986 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
988 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
989 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
990 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
992 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
993 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
994 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
995 though a different problem.
1001 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1002 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1004 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1006 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1007 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1009 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1010 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1012 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1013 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1014 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1015 before acknowledging the chunk.
1017 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1018 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1019 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1021 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1022 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1023 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1026 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1027 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1028 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1030 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1031 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1033 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1034 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1035 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1036 body hash calculated value.
1038 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1039 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1040 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1042 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1044 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1045 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1047 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1048 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1049 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1051 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1052 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1053 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1054 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1055 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1056 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1058 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1059 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1060 past that check, despite the cost.
1062 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1063 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1064 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1066 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1067 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1068 TLS library to consume.
1070 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1072 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1074 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1075 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1076 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1077 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1078 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1079 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1080 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1082 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1084 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1086 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1087 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1088 should be warning-free.
1090 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1092 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1093 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1095 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1096 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1097 general solution here.
1099 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1100 already-broken messages in the queue.
1102 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1104 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1110 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1111 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1113 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1114 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1115 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1117 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1118 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1119 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1120 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1121 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1122 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1123 if one fails this test.
1124 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1125 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1127 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1128 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1130 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1131 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1133 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1134 in rewrites and routers.
1136 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1137 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1139 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1140 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1142 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1144 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1147 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1148 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1149 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1150 connection after a verify cache hit.
1151 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1153 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1154 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1156 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1157 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1158 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1159 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1160 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1162 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1163 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1165 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1166 Previously they were not counted.
1168 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1169 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1170 that needed the lookup.
1172 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1173 distinguished as "(=".
1175 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1176 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1178 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1180 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1181 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1183 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1184 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1186 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1187 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1190 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1191 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1192 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1193 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1195 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1197 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1198 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1199 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1201 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1202 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1203 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1206 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1207 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1208 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1211 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1212 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1213 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1215 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1216 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1219 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1221 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1222 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1224 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1225 are not in the system include path.
1227 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1228 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1229 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1230 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1232 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1233 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1234 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1236 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1238 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1239 an incoming connection.
1241 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1244 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1245 fallback to "prime256v1".
1247 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1248 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1254 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1255 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1256 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1257 client dropping the TLS connection.
1259 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1260 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1262 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1263 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1264 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1265 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1268 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1269 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1270 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1271 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1272 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1273 check on the next write.
1275 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1276 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1277 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1278 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1279 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1281 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1282 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1284 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1285 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1286 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1288 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1289 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1290 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1291 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1293 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1294 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1296 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1297 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1299 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1300 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1301 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1304 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1306 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1308 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1310 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1311 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1313 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1314 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1316 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1318 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1319 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1321 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1323 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1324 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1326 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1328 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1329 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1330 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1331 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1332 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1333 they will retry in-clear.
1334 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1335 at installation time.
1337 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1338 with the $config_file variable.
1340 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1341 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1342 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1343 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1344 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1346 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1347 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1348 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1349 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1350 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1352 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1354 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1355 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1356 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1357 list order is no longer honoured.
1359 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1360 for DKIM processing.
1362 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1363 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1365 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1366 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1367 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1368 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1370 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1371 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1373 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1374 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1376 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1377 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1379 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1381 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1382 cached by the daemon.
1384 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1385 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1387 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1388 keys are given for lookup.
1390 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1391 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1392 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1393 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1395 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1396 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1397 server-side so match that on older versions.
1399 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1400 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1401 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1403 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1404 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1406 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1407 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1408 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1409 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1410 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1411 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1412 initial truncated version.
1414 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1416 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1418 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1419 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1421 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1423 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1425 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1426 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1429 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1430 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1433 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1434 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1436 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1437 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1440 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1441 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1442 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1444 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1445 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1446 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1447 extraction. Accept either.
1453 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1456 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1458 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1461 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1462 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1463 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1464 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1466 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1467 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1468 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1470 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1471 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1472 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1475 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1478 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1479 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1480 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1481 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1482 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1484 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1485 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1486 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1488 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1490 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1491 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1493 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1494 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1496 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1499 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1500 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1502 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1503 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1504 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1506 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1507 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1508 specify a port-range.
1510 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1511 timeout value per server.
1513 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1514 now have the list separator specified.
1516 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1519 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1522 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1524 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1525 rather than the verbs used.
1527 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1528 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1530 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1532 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1533 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1535 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1536 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1538 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1539 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1541 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1543 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1545 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1546 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1547 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1548 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1550 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1552 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1553 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1555 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1556 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1558 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1560 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1562 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1564 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1565 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1567 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1568 added for tls authenticator.
1570 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1576 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1577 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1578 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1579 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1580 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1581 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1582 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1584 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1585 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1586 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1587 function when detected.
1589 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1590 cause callback expansion.
1592 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1593 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1594 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1595 instead of bool when processing it.
1597 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1598 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1600 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1602 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1604 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1606 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1607 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1609 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1610 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1611 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1612 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1613 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1614 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1616 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1617 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1620 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1621 version 3.3.6 or later.
1623 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1624 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1625 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1626 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1627 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1628 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1631 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1632 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1634 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1635 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1636 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1639 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1640 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1641 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1643 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1644 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1646 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1647 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1650 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1652 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1653 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1655 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1656 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1659 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1661 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1664 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1665 output list separator was used.
1670 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1671 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1674 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1675 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1677 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1679 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1680 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1686 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1688 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1689 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1690 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1691 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1692 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1693 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1695 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1696 utilities have not been installed.
1698 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1699 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1701 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1702 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1704 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1705 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1706 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1707 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1709 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1711 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1712 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1714 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1717 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1719 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1720 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1721 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1723 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1724 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1725 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1726 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1727 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1728 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1730 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1732 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1733 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1735 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1738 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1740 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1742 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1743 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1745 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1746 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1748 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1750 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1752 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1753 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1755 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1756 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1757 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1759 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1760 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1761 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1764 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1766 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1767 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1770 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1771 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1774 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1775 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1777 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1778 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1780 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1782 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1783 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1784 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1786 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1787 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1789 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1790 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1793 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1794 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1795 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1797 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1799 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1800 Christian Aistleitner.
1802 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1804 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1805 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1807 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1808 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1810 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1811 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1813 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1814 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1816 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1817 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1819 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1820 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1821 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1823 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1825 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1826 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1829 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1831 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1832 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1839 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1841 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1842 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1844 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1847 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1848 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1851 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1853 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1854 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1855 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1856 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1857 using channel bindings instead).
1859 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1860 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1861 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1862 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1863 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1866 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1868 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1870 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1871 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1873 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1874 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1875 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1877 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1879 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1881 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1882 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1884 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1886 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1888 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1890 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1891 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1893 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1895 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1896 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1899 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1900 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1902 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1903 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1906 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1908 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1910 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1911 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1913 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1916 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1917 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1919 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1920 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1922 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1924 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1926 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1929 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1932 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1934 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1935 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1936 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1937 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1939 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1941 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1942 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1943 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1944 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1947 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1948 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1949 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1951 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1952 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1953 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1954 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1956 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1957 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1958 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1959 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1960 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1961 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1962 delivery, as in LMTP.
1964 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1965 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1967 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1969 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1973 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1974 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1975 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1976 username as equal to the username.
1978 This change corrects that bug.
1980 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1981 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1982 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1984 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1986 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1987 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1988 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1989 NULL dereference and crash.
1991 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1993 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1994 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1995 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1997 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1999 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2000 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2001 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2002 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2003 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2004 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2005 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2006 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2007 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2008 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2009 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2011 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2012 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2014 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2015 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2018 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2019 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2020 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2021 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2022 an empty string is now equivalent.
2024 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2025 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2026 not performing validation itself.
2028 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2029 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2031 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2034 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2036 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2037 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2038 other false fix of the same issue.
2039 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2042 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2043 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2045 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2046 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2047 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2049 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2050 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2051 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2053 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2055 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2057 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2058 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2060 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2063 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2064 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2065 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2066 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2067 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2069 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2070 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2072 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2073 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2076 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2077 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2078 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2079 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2081 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2083 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2084 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2085 from multiple comments on this bug.
2087 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2089 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2090 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2093 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2094 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2096 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2097 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2103 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2105 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2111 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2112 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2113 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2115 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2117 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2120 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2122 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2124 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2126 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2127 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2129 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2130 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2132 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2133 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2135 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2136 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2137 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2139 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2141 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2142 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2144 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2146 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2148 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2149 non-compliant senders.
2150 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2152 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2153 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2154 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2156 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2157 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2158 in spool file corruption.
2160 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2161 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2162 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2165 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2166 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2167 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2169 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2170 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2172 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2174 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2176 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2178 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2179 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2180 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2182 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2183 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2184 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2185 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2187 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2188 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2190 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2191 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2192 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2193 resolver implementation change.
2195 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2196 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2198 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2200 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2202 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2203 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2205 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2206 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2208 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2209 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2211 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2212 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2213 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2214 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2215 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2217 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2219 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2220 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2221 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2223 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2225 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2226 read-only, out of scope).
2227 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2229 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2230 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2231 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2232 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2234 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2236 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2237 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2238 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2239 real issues in debug logging.
2241 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2242 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2244 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2245 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2246 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2248 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2249 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2250 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2253 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2254 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2256 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2257 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2258 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2259 needs to override this, it can.
2261 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2262 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2263 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2265 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2266 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2267 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2268 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2270 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2276 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2277 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2279 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2281 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2284 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2285 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2287 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2288 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2289 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2291 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2292 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2293 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2294 not safe for signals.
2296 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2297 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2298 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2299 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2302 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2304 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2305 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2306 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2307 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2308 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2310 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2311 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2312 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2313 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2314 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2315 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2317 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2318 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2319 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2320 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2322 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2323 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2324 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2325 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2327 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2328 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2329 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2330 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2331 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2332 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2333 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2334 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2335 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2337 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2338 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2339 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2340 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2342 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2343 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2344 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2345 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2346 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2347 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2348 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2349 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2350 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2351 details in the main documentation.
2353 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2355 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2357 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2358 repository when doing development or release builds.
2360 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2361 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2363 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2364 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2367 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2369 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2370 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2372 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2373 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2375 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2376 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2378 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2379 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2381 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2382 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2384 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2386 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2389 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2390 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2391 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2393 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2395 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2397 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2398 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2404 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2406 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2407 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2409 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2411 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2413 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2416 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2417 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2419 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2420 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2422 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2423 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2425 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2428 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2429 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2431 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2432 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2433 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2434 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2436 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2437 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2443 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2446 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2447 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2448 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2450 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2451 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2453 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2454 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2455 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2457 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2458 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2460 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2461 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2463 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2464 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2466 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2467 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2469 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2470 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2472 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2475 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2476 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2478 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2479 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2481 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2482 SQL string expansion failure details.
2483 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2485 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2486 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2488 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2489 extern declarations in function scope.
2490 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2492 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2493 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2494 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2497 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2498 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2500 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2501 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2503 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2504 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2506 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2507 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2509 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2510 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2513 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2515 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2517 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2518 Patch by Simon Arlott
2520 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2521 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2527 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2528 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2530 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2531 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2533 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2535 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2536 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2537 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2539 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2540 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2541 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2543 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2544 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2545 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2546 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2548 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2549 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2550 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2551 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2553 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2554 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2555 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2558 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2561 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2562 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2563 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2564 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2565 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2571 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2572 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2573 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2575 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2576 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2578 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2580 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2582 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2584 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2586 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2588 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2589 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2590 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2591 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2593 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2594 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2595 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2596 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2597 more caution in buffer sizes.
2599 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2601 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2603 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2605 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2607 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2609 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2611 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2613 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2614 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2615 ignore trailing whitespace.
2617 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2619 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2622 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2623 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2625 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2626 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2627 Notification from John Horne.
2629 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2632 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2633 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2636 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2639 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2640 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2641 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2643 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2644 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2645 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2648 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2649 option (effectively making it always true).
2651 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2652 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2654 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2655 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2657 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2658 run-time user, instead of root.
2660 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2661 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2663 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2664 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2667 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2668 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2669 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2671 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2673 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2679 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2680 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2683 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2684 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2687 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2688 Patch from Alain Williams
2690 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2692 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2693 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2695 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2696 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2698 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2700 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2702 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2703 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2705 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2707 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2709 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2710 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2711 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2713 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2714 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2716 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2717 Patch by Simon Arlott
2719 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2720 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2726 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2728 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2730 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2732 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2734 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2740 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2741 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2743 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2744 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2747 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2748 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2749 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2751 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2752 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2754 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2755 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2756 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2757 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2759 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2760 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2761 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2763 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2765 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2767 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2768 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2770 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2772 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2773 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2774 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2775 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2777 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2778 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2780 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2782 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2784 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2785 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2787 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2788 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2790 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2791 that they are available at delivery time.
2793 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2795 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2796 incoming_port log selectors.
2798 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2799 setting expands to an empty string.
2801 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2802 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2804 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2805 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2807 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2808 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2810 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2811 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2813 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2814 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2816 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2817 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2819 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2821 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2822 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2824 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2825 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2827 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2829 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2830 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2832 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2834 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2836 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2839 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2840 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2842 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2843 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2845 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2846 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2848 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2849 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2851 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2852 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2854 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2855 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2857 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2858 plus update to original patch.
2860 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2862 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2863 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2865 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2867 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2869 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2871 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2873 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2874 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2876 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2877 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2879 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2880 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2882 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2883 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2885 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2887 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2889 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2891 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2897 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2898 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2899 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2901 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2902 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2903 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2904 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2905 build errors in sieve.c.
2907 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2908 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2909 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2911 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2913 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2915 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2917 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2923 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2925 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2926 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2927 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2928 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2929 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2930 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2931 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2932 for iplsearch lookups.
2934 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2935 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2936 previously such lookups could never work.
2938 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2939 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2940 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2942 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2945 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2946 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2947 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2948 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2949 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2950 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2952 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2953 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2955 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2956 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2957 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2958 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2959 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2960 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2962 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2965 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2967 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2968 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2971 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2972 by clients under certain conditions.
2974 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2975 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2977 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2979 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2980 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2982 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2984 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2986 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2988 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2989 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2991 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2993 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2994 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2996 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2998 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3000 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3001 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3002 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3003 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3005 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3006 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3007 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3009 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3010 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3012 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3014 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3016 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3018 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3019 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3020 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3026 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3027 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3030 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3031 issue a MAIL command.
3033 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3035 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3037 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3038 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3039 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3040 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3041 item. This has been fixed.
3043 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3044 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3046 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3047 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3049 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3050 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3051 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3053 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3055 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3056 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3057 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3058 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3059 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3061 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3062 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3063 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3065 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3066 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3067 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3068 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3070 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3072 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3074 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3075 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3076 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3077 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3078 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3080 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3082 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3083 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3084 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3087 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3089 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3091 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3093 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3095 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3097 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3098 no_callout_flush is set.
3100 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3101 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3102 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3105 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3107 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3108 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3109 other ACL rejections are.
3111 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3112 with slight modification.
3114 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3115 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3117 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3118 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3121 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3122 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3124 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3126 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3127 expansion side effects.
3129 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3130 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3131 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3134 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3135 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3136 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3138 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3139 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3140 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3141 were accidentally chopped off.
3143 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3144 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3145 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3146 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3147 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3148 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3149 pipelining has not been advertised.
3151 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3153 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3154 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3155 This has been fixed.
3157 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3158 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3159 reported on Solaris.
3161 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3162 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3163 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3164 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3165 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3166 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3167 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3169 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3172 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3174 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3176 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3177 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3178 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3179 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3180 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3181 criteria to be more general.
3183 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3184 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3185 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3186 host_all_ignored option.
3188 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3189 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3190 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3191 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3192 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3193 is what is supposed to happen).
3195 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3196 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3197 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3198 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3199 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3202 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3203 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3204 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3205 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3206 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3207 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3210 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3212 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3213 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3215 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3216 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3218 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3220 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3222 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3223 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3224 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3225 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3226 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3227 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3228 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3229 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3230 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3231 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3232 least in a lot of common cases.
3234 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3235 advertised in response to EHLO.
3241 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3242 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3244 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3245 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3247 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3248 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3249 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3251 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3252 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3253 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3254 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3255 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3261 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3262 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3265 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3266 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3267 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3269 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3270 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3271 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3272 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3273 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3274 rather than extend the field.
3280 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3281 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3282 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3283 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3286 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3287 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3288 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3290 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3291 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3292 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3294 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3295 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3296 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3299 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3300 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3301 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3302 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3303 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3304 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3305 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3306 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3307 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3308 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3309 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3311 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3314 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3315 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3316 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3317 ignores EPIPE as well.
3319 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3320 (quoted-printable decoding).
3322 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3323 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3325 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3327 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3329 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3331 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3332 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3334 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3337 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3338 miscellaneous code fixes
3340 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3343 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3344 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3345 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3346 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3347 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3348 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3349 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3350 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3352 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3353 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3354 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3355 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3357 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3358 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3359 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3360 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3361 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3362 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3363 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3364 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3365 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3367 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3370 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3371 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3372 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3373 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3374 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3375 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3376 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3377 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3379 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3380 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3383 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3384 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3385 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3386 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3387 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3388 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3389 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3390 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3391 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3392 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3393 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3394 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3395 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3397 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3398 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3399 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3400 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3401 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3402 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3403 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3405 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3406 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3407 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3408 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3409 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3410 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3411 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3412 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3413 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3414 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3416 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3417 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3418 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3419 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3420 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3422 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3423 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3424 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3425 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3426 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3427 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3428 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3430 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3431 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3432 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3433 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3434 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3435 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3438 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3439 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3440 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3443 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3444 if any retry times were supplied.
3446 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3447 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3448 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3450 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3452 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3454 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3455 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3456 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3457 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3458 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3459 before) are ignored.
3461 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3462 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3464 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3465 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3466 committing the later change.]
3468 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3469 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3470 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3471 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3472 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3473 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3474 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3475 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3476 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3478 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3479 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3480 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3481 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3482 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3483 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3484 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3485 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3486 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3488 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3489 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3490 hammering the server.
3492 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3493 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3495 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3497 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3498 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3499 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3501 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3502 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3503 one case where this was not true.
3505 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3506 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3507 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3508 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3511 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3512 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3513 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3514 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3515 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3516 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3517 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3518 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3519 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3522 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3523 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3524 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3525 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3527 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3528 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3530 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3531 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3532 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3534 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3536 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3538 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3540 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3541 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3542 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3543 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3545 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3546 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3548 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to