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.
174 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
175 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
177 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
178 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
181 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
184 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
186 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
188 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
189 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
191 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
192 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
193 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
194 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
195 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
196 suitably configured).
198 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
199 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
201 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
202 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
205 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
206 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
208 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
209 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
210 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
211 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
214 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
215 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
216 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
218 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
221 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
222 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
224 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
225 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
226 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
227 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
230 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
231 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
232 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
233 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
236 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
237 shared (NFS) environment.
239 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
240 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
243 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
244 on some platforms for bit 31.
246 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
247 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
248 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
249 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
250 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
251 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
252 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
253 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
255 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
257 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
258 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
260 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
261 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
264 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
265 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
268 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
269 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
270 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
273 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
274 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
275 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
277 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
278 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
279 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
280 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
281 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
283 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
286 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
287 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
288 be requested on all coneections.
290 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
291 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
293 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
295 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
296 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
297 one for these; the option was ignored.
299 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
300 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
301 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
302 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
304 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
305 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
306 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
309 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
310 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
311 error ignored was made.
313 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
315 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
316 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
317 values, to catch one form of exploit.
319 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
320 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
321 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
323 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
324 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
327 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
328 them in our smtp response.
330 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
331 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
332 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
333 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
334 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
336 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
337 link count into consideration.
339 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
340 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
342 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
343 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
344 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
347 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
349 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
351 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
353 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
354 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
355 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
356 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
358 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
360 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
361 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
364 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
365 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
366 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
368 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
369 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
370 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
372 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
373 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
374 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
375 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
376 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
377 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
378 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
379 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
381 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
382 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
383 resulted in an indefinite loop.
385 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
386 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
387 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
393 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
394 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
396 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
397 non-signal-safe functions being used.
399 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
400 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
401 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
403 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
404 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
405 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
407 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
408 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
409 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
410 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
411 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
414 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
415 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
417 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
418 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
419 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
420 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
421 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
422 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
423 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
425 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
426 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
428 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
431 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
432 Previously this would segfault.
434 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
437 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
438 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
439 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
440 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
441 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
442 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
444 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
446 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
447 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
448 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
449 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
451 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
453 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
454 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
455 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
456 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
458 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
460 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
462 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
463 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
464 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
466 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
467 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
468 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
470 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
472 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
473 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
474 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
475 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
477 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
478 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
479 promised '?' replacement.
481 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
483 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
484 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
485 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
486 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
487 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
489 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
490 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
491 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
493 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
494 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
495 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
497 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
498 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
499 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
501 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
502 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
503 hope that is portable enough.
505 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
506 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
507 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
508 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
510 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
511 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
512 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
514 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
515 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
516 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
517 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
519 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
520 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
522 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
523 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
524 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
525 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
527 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
528 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
529 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
531 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
532 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
533 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
534 the previous G, M, k.
536 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
537 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
540 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
541 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
542 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
543 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
545 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
546 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
548 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
549 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
550 off past the nul-terimation.
552 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
553 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
554 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
555 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
556 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
558 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
560 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
561 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
562 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
565 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
566 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
568 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
569 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
570 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
572 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
573 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
574 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
576 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
577 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
583 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
584 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
585 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
586 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
587 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
588 be defined in redis_servers.
590 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
591 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
593 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
594 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
595 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
596 extant use locations.
598 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
599 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
601 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
602 Previously only the last row was returned.
604 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
605 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
606 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
607 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
610 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
611 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
612 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
613 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
614 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
615 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
616 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
617 Main pool for expansions.
618 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
619 active in the testsuite.
620 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
622 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
623 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
624 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
625 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
628 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
629 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
632 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
633 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
634 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
636 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
637 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
638 ClamAV interface method is removed.
640 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
641 rows affected is given instead).
643 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
644 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
646 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
647 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
648 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
649 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
650 for all multi-message initiating connections.
652 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
653 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
654 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
656 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
657 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
658 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
659 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
662 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
663 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
664 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
667 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
669 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
670 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
672 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
673 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
674 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
676 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
677 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
678 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
681 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
682 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
684 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
685 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
686 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
688 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
689 for the build is renamed.
691 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
692 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
693 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
695 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
696 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
697 result replacing the original.
699 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
700 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
701 and the resources needed to be freed.
703 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
705 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
708 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
709 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
710 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
711 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
713 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
714 length value. Previously this would segfault.
716 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
717 newer versions of the scanner.
719 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
720 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
721 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
722 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
723 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
724 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
725 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
727 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
728 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
729 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
730 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
731 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
732 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
733 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
734 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
735 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
736 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
738 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
739 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
741 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
743 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
744 allows proper process termination in container environments.
746 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
747 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
749 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
750 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
751 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
753 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
754 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
755 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
756 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
758 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
759 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
762 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
763 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
765 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
766 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
767 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
768 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
769 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
771 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
772 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
775 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
776 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
778 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
781 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
782 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
783 "bare" representation.
785 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
786 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
787 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
788 corrupted the output.
794 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
795 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
796 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
797 pairs of long lines into single ones.
799 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
800 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
802 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
803 This permits better logging.
805 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
806 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
807 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
808 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
809 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
810 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
812 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
813 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
816 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
817 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
818 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
820 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
821 than 255 are no longer allowed.
823 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
824 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
825 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
826 client, there is no benefit for these.
827 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
828 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
829 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
832 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
833 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
835 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
836 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
837 erroneously found still-pending ones.
839 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
840 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
842 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
843 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
844 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
845 signature and again for transmission.
847 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
848 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
849 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
851 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
852 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
853 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
854 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
855 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
856 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
857 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
859 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
860 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
861 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
862 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
864 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
865 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
866 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
867 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
868 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
869 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
872 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
873 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
874 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
875 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
878 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
879 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
880 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
881 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
884 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
885 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
888 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
889 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
890 banner-time rejection.
892 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
895 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
896 is the name of a transport.
899 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
901 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
902 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
904 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
905 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
906 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
909 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
910 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
911 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
912 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
914 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
915 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
916 initial verify call returned a defer.
918 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
919 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
921 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
922 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
924 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
925 if present. Previously it was ignored.
927 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
928 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
930 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
931 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
934 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
935 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
937 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
938 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
939 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
941 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
942 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
943 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
944 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
946 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
947 and confused the parent.
949 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
950 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
952 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
955 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
956 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
957 out-of-order delivery.
959 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
960 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
961 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
964 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
965 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
968 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
969 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
970 one run was done. Bug 2189.
972 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
973 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
974 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
975 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
976 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
977 message is still "Temporary local problem".
979 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
980 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
981 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
983 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
984 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
985 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
987 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
988 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
989 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
990 though a different problem.
996 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
997 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
999 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1001 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1002 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1004 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1005 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1007 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1008 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1009 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1010 before acknowledging the chunk.
1012 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1013 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1014 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1016 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1017 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1018 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1021 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1022 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1023 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1025 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1026 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1028 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1029 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1030 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1031 body hash calculated value.
1033 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1034 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1035 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1037 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1039 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1040 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1042 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1043 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1044 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1046 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1047 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1048 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1049 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1050 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1051 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1053 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1054 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1055 past that check, despite the cost.
1057 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1058 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1059 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1061 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1062 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1063 TLS library to consume.
1065 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1067 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1069 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1070 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1071 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1072 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1073 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1074 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1075 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1077 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1079 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1081 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1082 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1083 should be warning-free.
1085 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1087 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1088 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1090 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1091 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1092 general solution here.
1094 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1095 already-broken messages in the queue.
1097 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1099 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1105 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1106 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1108 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1109 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1110 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1112 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1113 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1114 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1115 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1116 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1117 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1118 if one fails this test.
1119 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1120 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1122 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1123 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1125 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1126 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1128 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1129 in rewrites and routers.
1131 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1132 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1134 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1135 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1137 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1139 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1142 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1143 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1144 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1145 connection after a verify cache hit.
1146 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1148 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1149 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1151 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1152 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1153 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1154 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1155 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1157 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1158 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1160 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1161 Previously they were not counted.
1163 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1164 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1165 that needed the lookup.
1167 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1168 distinguished as "(=".
1170 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1171 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1173 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1175 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1176 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1178 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1179 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1181 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1182 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1185 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1186 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1187 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1188 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1190 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1192 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1193 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1194 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1196 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1197 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1198 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1201 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1202 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1203 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1206 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1207 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1208 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1210 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1211 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1214 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1216 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1217 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1219 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1220 are not in the system include path.
1222 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1223 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1224 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1225 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1227 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1228 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1229 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1231 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1233 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1234 an incoming connection.
1236 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1239 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1240 fallback to "prime256v1".
1242 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1243 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1249 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1250 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1251 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1252 client dropping the TLS connection.
1254 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1255 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1257 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1258 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1259 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1260 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1263 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1264 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1265 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1266 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1267 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1268 check on the next write.
1270 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1271 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1272 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1273 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1274 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1276 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1277 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1279 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1280 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1281 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1283 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1284 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1285 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1286 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1288 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1289 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1291 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1292 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1294 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1295 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1296 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1299 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1301 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1303 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1305 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1306 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1308 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1309 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1311 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1313 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1314 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1316 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1318 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1319 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1321 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1323 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1324 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1325 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1326 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1327 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1328 they will retry in-clear.
1329 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1330 at installation time.
1332 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1333 with the $config_file variable.
1335 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1336 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1337 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1338 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1339 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1341 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1342 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1343 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1344 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1345 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1347 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1349 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1350 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1351 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1352 list order is no longer honoured.
1354 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1355 for DKIM processing.
1357 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1358 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1360 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1361 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1362 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1363 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1365 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1366 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1368 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1369 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1371 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1372 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1374 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1376 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1377 cached by the daemon.
1379 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1380 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1382 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1383 keys are given for lookup.
1385 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1386 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1387 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1388 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1390 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1391 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1392 server-side so match that on older versions.
1394 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1395 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1396 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1398 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1399 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1401 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1402 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1403 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1404 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1405 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1406 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1407 initial truncated version.
1409 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1411 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1413 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1414 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1416 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1418 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1420 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1421 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1424 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1425 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1428 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1429 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1431 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1432 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1435 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1436 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1437 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1439 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1440 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1441 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1442 extraction. Accept either.
1448 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1451 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1453 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1456 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1457 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1458 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1459 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1461 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1462 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1463 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1465 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1466 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1467 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1470 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1473 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1474 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1475 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1476 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1477 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1479 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1480 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1481 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1483 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1485 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1486 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1488 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1489 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1491 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1494 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1495 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1497 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1498 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1499 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1501 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1502 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1503 specify a port-range.
1505 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1506 timeout value per server.
1508 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1509 now have the list separator specified.
1511 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1514 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1517 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1519 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1520 rather than the verbs used.
1522 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1523 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1525 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1527 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1528 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1530 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1531 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1533 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1534 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1536 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1538 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1540 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1541 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1542 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1543 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1545 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1547 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1548 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1550 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1551 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1553 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1555 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1557 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1559 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1560 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1562 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1563 added for tls authenticator.
1565 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1571 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1572 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1573 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1574 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1575 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1576 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1577 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1579 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1580 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1581 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1582 function when detected.
1584 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1585 cause callback expansion.
1587 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1588 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1589 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1590 instead of bool when processing it.
1592 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1593 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1595 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1597 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1599 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1601 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1602 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1604 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1605 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1606 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1607 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1608 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1609 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1611 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1612 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1615 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1616 version 3.3.6 or later.
1618 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1619 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1620 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1621 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1622 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1623 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1626 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1627 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1629 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1630 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1631 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1634 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1635 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1636 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1638 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1639 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1641 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1642 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1645 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1647 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1648 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1650 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1651 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1654 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1656 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1659 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1660 output list separator was used.
1665 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1666 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1669 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1670 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1672 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1674 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1675 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1681 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1683 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1684 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1685 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1686 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1687 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1688 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1690 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1691 utilities have not been installed.
1693 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1694 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1696 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1697 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1699 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1700 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1701 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1702 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1704 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1706 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1707 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1709 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1712 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1714 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1715 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1716 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1718 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1719 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1720 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1721 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1722 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1723 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1725 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1727 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1728 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1730 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1733 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1735 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1737 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1738 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1740 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1741 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1743 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1745 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1747 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1748 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1750 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1751 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1752 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1754 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1755 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1756 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1759 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1761 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1762 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1765 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1766 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1769 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1770 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1772 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1773 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1775 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1777 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1778 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1779 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1781 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1782 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1784 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1785 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1788 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1789 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1790 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1792 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1794 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1795 Christian Aistleitner.
1797 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1799 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1800 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1802 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1803 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1805 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1806 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1808 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1809 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1811 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1812 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1814 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1815 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1816 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1818 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1820 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1821 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1824 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1826 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1827 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1834 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1836 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1837 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1839 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1842 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1843 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1846 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1848 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1849 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1850 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1851 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1852 using channel bindings instead).
1854 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1855 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1856 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1857 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1858 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1861 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1863 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1865 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1866 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1868 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1869 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1870 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1872 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1874 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1876 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1877 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1879 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1881 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1883 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1885 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1886 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1888 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1890 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1891 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1894 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1895 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1897 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1898 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1901 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1903 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1905 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1906 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1908 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1911 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1912 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1914 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1915 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1917 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1919 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1921 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1924 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1927 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1929 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1930 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1931 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1932 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1934 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1936 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1937 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1938 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1939 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1942 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1943 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1944 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1946 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1947 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1948 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1949 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1951 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1952 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1953 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1954 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1955 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1956 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1957 delivery, as in LMTP.
1959 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1960 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1962 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1964 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1968 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1969 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1970 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1971 username as equal to the username.
1973 This change corrects that bug.
1975 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1976 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1977 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1979 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1981 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1982 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1983 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1984 NULL dereference and crash.
1986 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1988 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1989 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1990 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1992 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1994 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1995 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1996 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1997 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1998 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1999 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2000 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2001 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2002 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2003 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2004 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2006 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2007 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2009 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2010 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2013 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2014 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2015 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2016 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2017 an empty string is now equivalent.
2019 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2020 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2021 not performing validation itself.
2023 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2024 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2026 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2029 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2031 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2032 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2033 other false fix of the same issue.
2034 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2037 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2038 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2040 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2041 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2042 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2044 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2045 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2046 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2048 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2050 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2052 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2053 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2055 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2058 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2059 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2060 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2061 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2062 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2064 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2065 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2067 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2068 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2071 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2072 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2073 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2074 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2076 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2078 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2079 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2080 from multiple comments on this bug.
2082 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2084 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2085 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2088 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2089 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2091 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2092 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2098 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2100 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2106 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2107 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2108 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2110 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2112 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2115 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2117 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2119 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2121 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2122 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2124 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2125 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2127 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2128 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2130 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2131 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2132 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2134 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2136 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2137 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2139 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2141 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2143 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2144 non-compliant senders.
2145 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2147 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2148 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2149 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2151 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2152 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2153 in spool file corruption.
2155 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2156 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2157 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2160 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2161 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2162 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2164 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2165 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2167 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2169 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2171 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2173 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2174 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2175 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2177 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2178 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2179 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2180 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2182 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2183 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2185 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2186 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2187 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2188 resolver implementation change.
2190 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2191 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2193 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2195 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2197 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2198 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2200 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2201 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2203 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2204 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2206 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2207 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2208 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2209 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2210 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2212 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2214 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2215 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2216 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2218 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2220 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2221 read-only, out of scope).
2222 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2224 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2225 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2226 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2227 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2229 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2231 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2232 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2233 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2234 real issues in debug logging.
2236 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2237 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2239 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2240 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2241 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2243 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2244 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2245 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2248 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2249 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2251 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2252 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2253 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2254 needs to override this, it can.
2256 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2257 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2258 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2260 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2261 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2262 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2263 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2265 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2271 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2272 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2274 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2276 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2279 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2280 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2282 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2283 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2284 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2286 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2287 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2288 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2289 not safe for signals.
2291 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2292 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2293 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2294 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2297 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2299 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2300 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2301 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2302 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2303 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2305 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2306 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2307 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2308 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2309 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2310 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2312 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2313 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2314 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2315 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2317 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2318 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2319 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2320 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2322 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2323 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2324 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2325 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2326 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2327 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2328 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2329 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2330 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2332 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2333 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2334 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2335 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2337 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2338 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2339 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2340 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2341 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2342 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2343 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2344 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2345 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2346 details in the main documentation.
2348 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2350 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2352 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2353 repository when doing development or release builds.
2355 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2356 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2358 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2359 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2362 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2364 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2365 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2367 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2368 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2370 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2371 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2373 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2374 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2376 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2377 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2379 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2381 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2384 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2385 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2386 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2388 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2390 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2392 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2393 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2399 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2401 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2402 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2404 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2406 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2408 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2411 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2412 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2414 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2415 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2417 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2418 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2420 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2423 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2424 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2426 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2427 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2428 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2429 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2431 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2432 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2438 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2441 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2442 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2443 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2445 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2446 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2448 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2449 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2450 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2452 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2453 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2455 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2456 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2458 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2459 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2461 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2462 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2464 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2465 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2467 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2470 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2471 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2473 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2474 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2476 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2477 SQL string expansion failure details.
2478 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2480 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2481 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2483 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2484 extern declarations in function scope.
2485 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2487 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2488 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2489 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2492 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2493 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2495 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2496 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2498 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2499 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2501 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2502 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2504 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2505 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2508 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2510 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2512 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2513 Patch by Simon Arlott
2515 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2516 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2522 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2523 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2525 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2526 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2528 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2530 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2531 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2532 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2534 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2535 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2536 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2538 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2539 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2540 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2541 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2543 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2544 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2545 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2546 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2548 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2549 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2550 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2553 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2556 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2557 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2558 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2559 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2560 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2566 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2567 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2568 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2570 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2571 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2573 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2575 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2577 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2579 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2581 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2583 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2584 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2585 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2586 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2588 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2589 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2590 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2591 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2592 more caution in buffer sizes.
2594 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2596 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2598 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2600 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2602 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2604 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2606 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2608 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2609 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2610 ignore trailing whitespace.
2612 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2614 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2617 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2618 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2620 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2621 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2622 Notification from John Horne.
2624 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2627 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2628 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2631 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2634 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2635 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2636 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2638 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2639 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2640 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2643 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2644 option (effectively making it always true).
2646 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2647 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2649 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2650 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2652 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2653 run-time user, instead of root.
2655 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2656 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2658 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2659 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2662 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2663 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2664 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2666 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2668 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2674 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2675 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2678 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2679 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2682 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2683 Patch from Alain Williams
2685 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2687 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2688 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2690 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2691 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2693 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2695 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2697 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2698 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2700 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2702 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2704 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2705 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2706 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2708 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2709 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2711 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2712 Patch by Simon Arlott
2714 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2715 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2721 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2723 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2725 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2727 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2729 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2735 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2736 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2738 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2739 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2742 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2743 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2744 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2746 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2747 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2749 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2750 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2751 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2752 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2754 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2755 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2756 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2758 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2760 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2762 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2763 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2765 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2767 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2768 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2769 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2770 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2772 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2773 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2775 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2777 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2779 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2780 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2782 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2783 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2785 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2786 that they are available at delivery time.
2788 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2790 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2791 incoming_port log selectors.
2793 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2794 setting expands to an empty string.
2796 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2797 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2799 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2800 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2802 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2803 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2805 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2806 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2808 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2809 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2811 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2812 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2814 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2816 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2817 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2819 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2820 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2822 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2824 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2825 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2827 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2829 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2831 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2834 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2835 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2837 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2838 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2840 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2841 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2843 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2844 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2846 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2847 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2849 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2850 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2852 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2853 plus update to original patch.
2855 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2857 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2858 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2860 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2862 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2864 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2866 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2868 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2869 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2871 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2872 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2874 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2875 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2877 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2878 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2880 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2882 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2884 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2886 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2892 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2893 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2894 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2896 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2897 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2898 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2899 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2900 build errors in sieve.c.
2902 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2903 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2904 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2906 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2908 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2910 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2912 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2918 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2920 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2921 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2922 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2923 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2924 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2925 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2926 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2927 for iplsearch lookups.
2929 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2930 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2931 previously such lookups could never work.
2933 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2934 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2935 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2937 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2940 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2941 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2942 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2943 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2944 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2945 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2947 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2948 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2950 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2951 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2952 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2953 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2954 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2955 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2957 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2960 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2962 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2963 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2966 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2967 by clients under certain conditions.
2969 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2970 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2972 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2974 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2975 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2977 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2979 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2981 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2983 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2984 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2986 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2988 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2989 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2991 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2993 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2995 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2996 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2997 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2998 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3000 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3001 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3002 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3004 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3005 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3007 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3009 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3011 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3013 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3014 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3015 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3021 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3022 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3025 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3026 issue a MAIL command.
3028 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3030 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3032 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3033 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3034 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3035 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3036 item. This has been fixed.
3038 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3039 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3041 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3042 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3044 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3045 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3046 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3048 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3050 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3051 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3052 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3053 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3054 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3056 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3057 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3058 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3060 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3061 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3062 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3063 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3065 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3067 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3069 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3070 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3071 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3072 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3073 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3075 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3077 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3078 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3079 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3082 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3084 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3086 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3088 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3090 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3092 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3093 no_callout_flush is set.
3095 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3096 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3097 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3100 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3102 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3103 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3104 other ACL rejections are.
3106 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3107 with slight modification.
3109 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3110 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3112 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3113 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3116 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3117 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3119 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3121 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3122 expansion side effects.
3124 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3125 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3126 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3129 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3130 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3131 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3133 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3134 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3135 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3136 were accidentally chopped off.
3138 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3139 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3140 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3141 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3142 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3143 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3144 pipelining has not been advertised.
3146 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3148 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3149 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3150 This has been fixed.
3152 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3153 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3154 reported on Solaris.
3156 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3157 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3158 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3159 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3160 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3161 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3162 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3164 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3167 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3169 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3171 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3172 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3173 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3174 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3175 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3176 criteria to be more general.
3178 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3179 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3180 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3181 host_all_ignored option.
3183 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3184 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3185 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3186 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3187 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3188 is what is supposed to happen).
3190 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3191 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3192 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3193 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3194 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3197 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3198 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3199 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3200 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3201 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3202 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3205 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3207 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3208 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3210 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3211 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3213 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3215 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3217 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3218 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3219 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3220 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3221 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3222 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3223 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3224 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3225 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3226 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3227 least in a lot of common cases.
3229 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3230 advertised in response to EHLO.
3236 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3237 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3239 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3240 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3242 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3243 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3244 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3246 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3247 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3248 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3249 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3250 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3256 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3257 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3260 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3261 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3262 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3264 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3265 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3266 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3267 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3268 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3269 rather than extend the field.
3275 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3276 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3277 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3278 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3281 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3282 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3283 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3285 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3286 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3287 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3289 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3290 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3291 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3294 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3295 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3296 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3297 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3298 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3299 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3300 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3301 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3302 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3303 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3304 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3306 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3309 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3310 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3311 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3312 ignores EPIPE as well.
3314 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3315 (quoted-printable decoding).
3317 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3318 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3320 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3322 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3324 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3326 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3327 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3329 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3332 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3333 miscellaneous code fixes
3335 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3338 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3339 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3340 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3341 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3342 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3343 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3344 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3345 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3347 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3348 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3349 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3350 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3352 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3353 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3354 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3355 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3356 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3357 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3358 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3359 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3360 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3362 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3365 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3366 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3367 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3368 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3369 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3370 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3371 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3372 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3374 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3375 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3378 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3379 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3380 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3381 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3382 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3383 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3384 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3385 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3386 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3387 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3388 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3389 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3390 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3392 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3393 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3394 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3395 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3396 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3397 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3398 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3400 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3401 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3402 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3403 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3404 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3405 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3406 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3407 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3408 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3409 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3411 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3412 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3413 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3414 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3415 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3417 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3418 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3419 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3420 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3421 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3422 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3423 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3425 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3426 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3427 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3428 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3429 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3430 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3433 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3434 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3435 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3438 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3439 if any retry times were supplied.
3441 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3442 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3443 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3445 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3447 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3449 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3450 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3451 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3452 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3453 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3454 before) are ignored.
3456 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3457 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3459 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3460 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3461 committing the later change.]
3463 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3464 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3465 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3466 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3467 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3468 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3469 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3470 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3471 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3473 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3474 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3475 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3476 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3477 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3478 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3479 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3480 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3481 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3483 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3484 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3485 hammering the server.
3487 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3488 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3490 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3492 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3493 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3494 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3496 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3497 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3498 one case where this was not true.
3500 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3501 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3502 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3503 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3506 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3507 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3508 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3509 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3510 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3511 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3512 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3513 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3514 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3517 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3518 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3519 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3520 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3522 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3523 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3525 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3526 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3527 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3529 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3531 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3533 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3535 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3536 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3537 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3538 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3540 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3541 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3543 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3544 be meaningful with "accept".
3546 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3547 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3549 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3550 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3551 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3553 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3554 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3555 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3556 there is data to show.
3557 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3559 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3560 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3561 as well as the number of messages.
3563 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3564 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3565 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3567 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3568 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3569 have a flag are now skipped.
3571 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3572 Added the -emptyok flag.
3574 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3575 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3577 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3578 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3579 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3581 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3584 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3585 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3587 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3589 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3590 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3592 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3594 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3595 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3596 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3597 contravention of the specifications.
3599 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3600 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3601 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3603 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3604 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3605 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3607 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3609 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3610 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3611 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3612 some point in the past.
3614 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3615 transport during callout processing was broken.
3617 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3618 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3620 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3621 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3623 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3624 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3626 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3632 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3633 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3635 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3636 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3637 there is data to show.
3638 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3640 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3641 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3643 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3644 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3646 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3647 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3649 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3650 submissions from trusted users.
3652 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3653 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3655 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3656 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3657 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3658 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3659 there is now a framework to start from.
3661 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3662 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3663 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3665 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3667 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3669 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3671 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3672 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3673 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3675 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3678 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3679 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3680 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3682 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3683 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3684 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3687 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3688 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3689 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3690 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3691 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3693 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3694 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3696 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3698 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3699 operations in malware.c.
3701 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3704 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3705 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3706 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3709 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3710 statements to "add_header".
3712 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3713 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3715 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3716 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3719 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3723 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3724 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3725 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3728 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3729 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3731 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3732 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3734 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3735 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3736 any possible encoding problems.
3738 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3739 but not after initializing Perl.
3741 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3742 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3743 apparently, which is not desirable.
3745 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3748 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3751 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3753 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3754 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3755 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3756 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3758 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3759 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3760 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3762 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3763 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3764 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3767 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3768 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3769 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3770 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3771 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3777 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3778 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3780 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3783 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3784 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3785 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3786 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3787 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3788 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3789 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3790 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3793 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3795 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3796 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3797 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3799 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3800 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3801 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3804 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3805 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3807 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3808 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3809 option (which defaults to 0600).
3811 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3813 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3814 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3815 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3816 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3817 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3818 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3819 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3821 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3827 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3828 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3829 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3830 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3831 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3832 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3835 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3836 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3838 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3840 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3841 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3842 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3843 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3844 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3847 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3848 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3850 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3851 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3852 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3853 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3854 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3856 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3857 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3858 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3859 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3861 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3862 be the same on different OS.
3864 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3867 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3868 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3870 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3873 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3874 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3875 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3876 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3877 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3878 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3881 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3882 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3883 when Exim was called.
3885 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3886 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3888 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3889 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3890 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3891 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3893 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3894 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3895 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3896 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3899 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3900 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3901 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3903 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3904 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3905 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3907 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3910 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3911 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3912 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3913 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3914 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3915 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3916 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3917 values from the SRV records were lost.
3919 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3920 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3921 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3923 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3924 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3925 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3927 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3928 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3929 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3930 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3931 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3932 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3933 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3934 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3935 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3936 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3938 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3939 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3940 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3942 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3943 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3945 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3946 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3947 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3948 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3951 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3952 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3953 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3955 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3956 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3957 PH/23 above applies.
3959 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3960 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3961 (for which there is an explicit test).
3963 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3965 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3966 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3967 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3968 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3969 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3971 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3972 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3973 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3974 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3976 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3977 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3978 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3980 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3982 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3984 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3985 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3986 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3988 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3989 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3990 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3991 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3992 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3994 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3995 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3996 the message gets confusing).
3998 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3999 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4000 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4001 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4003 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4004 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4005 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4006 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4009 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4010 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4011 the different processes.
4013 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4015 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4017 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4018 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4020 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4021 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4023 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4024 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4025 messages matching specified criteria.
4027 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4029 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4030 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4032 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4033 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4034 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4035 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4036 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4037 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4038 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4039 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4040 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4041 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4043 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4044 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4045 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4047 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4049 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4050 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4051 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4052 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4053 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4054 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4055 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4058 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4059 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4061 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4063 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4065 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4067 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4068 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4069 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4070 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4071 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4072 size of the count of files.
4074 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4076 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4079 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4080 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4081 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4082 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4084 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4085 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4086 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4088 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4089 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4090 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4091 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4092 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4094 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4095 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4097 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4098 will now be deprecated.
4100 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4102 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4103 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4104 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4106 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4107 with very large, slow to parse queues
4109 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4111 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4113 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4114 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4115 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4118 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4119 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4120 Sieve code now uses this.
4122 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4123 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4125 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4126 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4128 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4130 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4131 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4132 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4133 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4134 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4136 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4137 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4138 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4139 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4141 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4143 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4145 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4146 is preferred over IPv4.
4148 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4149 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4150 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4151 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4152 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4153 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4154 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4156 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4157 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4158 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4160 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.