1 2 SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES 3 4This document describes the sendmail configuration files. It 5explains how to create a sendmail.cf file for use with sendmail. 6It also describes how to set options for sendmail which are explained 7in the Sendmail Installation and Operation guide (doc/op/op.me). 8 9To get started, you may want to look at tcpproto.mc (for TCP-only 10sites) and clientproto.mc (for clusters of clients using a single 11mail host), or the generic-*.mc files as operating system-specific 12examples. 13 14Table of Content: 15 16INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE 17A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO M4 18FILE LOCATIONS 19OSTYPE 20DOMAINS 21MAILERS 22FEATURES 23HACKS 24SITE CONFIGURATION 25USING UUCP MAILERS 26TWEAKING RULESETS 27MASQUERADING AND RELAYING 28USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES 29LDAP ROUTING 30ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL 31CONNECTION CONTROL 32STARTTLS 33SMTP AUTHENTICATION 34ADDING NEW MAILERS OR RULESETS 35ADDING NEW MAIL FILTERS 36QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS 37NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS 38WHO AM I? 39ACCEPTING MAIL FOR MULTIPLE NAMES 40USING MAILERTABLES 41USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES 42MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES 43SECURITY NOTES 44TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 45MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM 46FORMAT OF FILES AND MAPS 47DIRECTORY LAYOUT 48ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS 49 50 51+--------------------------+ 52| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE | 53+--------------------------+ 54 55Configuration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a 56suffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file. 57You must pre-load "cf.m4": 58 59 m4 ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4 config.mc > config.cf 60 61Alternatively, you can simply: 62 63 cd ${CFDIR}/cf 64 ./Build config.cf 65 66where ${CFDIR} is the root of the cf directory and config.mc is the 67name of your configuration file. If you are running a version of M4 68that understands the __file__ builtin (versions of GNU m4 >= 0.75 do 69this, but the versions distributed with 4.4BSD and derivatives do not) 70or the -I flag (ditto), then ${CFDIR} can be in an arbitrary directory. 71For "traditional" versions, ${CFDIR} ***MUST*** be "..", or you MUST 72use -D_CF_DIR_=/path/to/cf/dir/ -- note the trailing slash! For example: 73 74 m4 -D_CF_DIR_=${CFDIR}/ ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4 config.mc > config.cf 75 76Let's examine a typical .mc file: 77 78 divert(-1) 79 # 80 # Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers. 81 # All rights reserved. 82 # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. 83 # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 84 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 85 # 86 # By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set 87 # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of 88 # the sendmail distribution. 89 # 90 91 # 92 # This is a Berkeley-specific configuration file for HP-UX 9.x. 93 # It applies only to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley, 94 # and should not be used elsewhere. It is provided on the sendmail 95 # distribution as a sample only. To create your own configuration 96 # file, create an appropriate domain file in ../domain, change the 97 # `DOMAIN' macro below to reference that file, and copy the result 98 # to a name of your own choosing. 99 # 100 divert(0) 101 102The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file. 103The copyright notice can be replaced by whatever your lawyers require; 104our lawyers require the one that is included in these files. A copyleft 105is a copyright by another name. The divert(0) restores regular output. 106 107 VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>') 108 109VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the 110resulting file. You could use SCCS, RCS, CVS, something else, or 111omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included 112in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4. 113 114 OSTYPE(`hpux9')dnl 115 116You must specify an OSTYPE to properly configure things such as the 117pathname of the help and status files, the flags needed for the local 118mailer, and other important things. If you omit it, you will get an 119error when you try to build the configuration. Look at the ostype 120directory for the list of known operating system types. 121 122 DOMAIN(`CS.Berkeley.EDU')dnl 123 124This example is specific to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley. 125You can use "DOMAIN(`generic')" to get a sufficiently bland definition 126that may well work for you, or you can create a customized domain 127definition appropriate for your environment. 128 129 MAILER(`local') 130 MAILER(`smtp') 131 132These describe the mailers used at the default CS site. The local 133mailer is always included automatically. Beware: MAILER declarations 134should only be followed by LOCAL_* sections. The general rules are 135that the order should be: 136 137 VERSIONID 138 OSTYPE 139 DOMAIN 140 FEATURE 141 local macro definitions 142 MAILER 143 LOCAL_CONFIG 144 LOCAL_RULE_* 145 LOCAL_RULESETS 146 147There are a few exceptions to this rule. Local macro definitions which 148influence a FEATURE() should be done before that feature. For example, 149a define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', ...) should be done before 150FEATURE(`local_procmail'). 151 152******************************************************************* 153*** BE SURE YOU CUSTOMIZE THESE FILES! They have some *** 154*** Berkeley-specific assumptions built in, such as the name *** 155*** of their UUCP-relay. You'll want to create your own *** 156*** domain description, and use that in place of *** 157*** domain/Berkeley.EDU.m4. *** 158******************************************************************* 159 160 161Note: 162Some rulesets, features, and options are only useful if the sendmail 163binary has been compiled with the appropriate options, e.g., the 164ruleset tls_server is only invoked if sendmail has been compiled 165with STARTTLS. This is usually obvious from the context and hence 166not further specified here. 167There are also so called "For Future Releases" (FFR) compile time 168options which might be included in a subsequent version or might 169simply be removed as they turned out not to be really useful. 170These are generally not documented but if they are, then the required 171compile time options are listed in doc/op/op.* for rulesets and 172macros, and for mc/cf specific options they are usually listed here. 173In addition to compile time options for the sendmail binary, there 174can also be FFRs for mc/cf which in general can be enabled when the 175configuration file is generated by defining them at the top of your 176.mc file: 177 178define(`_FFR_NAME_HERE', 1) 179 180 181+----------------------------+ 182| A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO M4 | 183+----------------------------+ 184 185Sendmail uses the M4 macro processor to ``compile'' the configuration 186files. The most important thing to know is that M4 is stream-based, 187that is, it doesn't understand about lines. For this reason, in some 188places you may see the word ``dnl'', which stands for ``delete 189through newline''; essentially, it deletes all characters starting 190at the ``dnl'' up to and including the next newline character. In 191most cases sendmail uses this only to avoid lots of unnecessary 192blank lines in the output. 193 194Other important directives are define(A, B) which defines the macro 195``A'' to have value ``B''. Macros are expanded as they are read, so 196one normally quotes both values to prevent expansion. For example, 197 198 define(`SMART_HOST', `smart.foo.com') 199 200One word of warning: M4 macros are expanded even in lines that appear 201to be comments. For example, if you have 202 203 # See FEATURE(`foo') above 204 205it will not do what you expect, because the FEATURE(`foo') will be 206expanded. This also applies to 207 208 # And then define the $X macro to be the return address 209 210because ``define'' is an M4 keyword. If you want to use them, surround 211them with directed quotes, `like this'. 212 213Since m4 uses single quotes (opening "`" and closing "'") to quote 214arguments, those quotes can't be used in arguments. For example, 215it is not possible to define a rejection message containing a single 216quote. Usually there are simple workarounds by changing those 217messages; in the worst case it might be ok to change the value 218directly in the generated .cf file, which however is not advised. 219 220 221Notice: 222------- 223 224This package requires a post-V7 version of m4; if you are running the 2254.2bsd, SysV.2, or 7th Edition version. SunOS's /usr/5bin/m4 or 226BSD-Net/2's m4 both work. GNU m4 version 1.1 or later also works. 227Unfortunately, the M4 on BSDI 1.0 doesn't work -- you'll have to use a 228Net/2 or GNU version. GNU m4 is available from 229ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.tar.gz (check for the latest version). 230EXCEPTIONS: DEC's m4 on Digital UNIX 4.x is broken (3.x is fine). Use GNU 231m4 on this platform. 232 233 234+----------------+ 235| FILE LOCATIONS | 236+----------------+ 237 238sendmail 8.9 has introduced a new configuration directory for sendmail 239related files, /etc/mail. The new files available for sendmail 8.9 -- 240the class {R} /etc/mail/relay-domains and the access database 241/etc/mail/access -- take advantage of this new directory. Beginning with 2428.10, all files will use this directory by default (some options may be 243set by OSTYPE() files). This new directory should help to restore 244uniformity to sendmail's file locations. 245 246Below is a table of some of the common changes: 247 248Old filename New filename 249------------ ------------ 250/etc/bitdomain /etc/mail/bitdomain 251/etc/domaintable /etc/mail/domaintable 252/etc/genericstable /etc/mail/genericstable 253/etc/uudomain /etc/mail/uudomain 254/etc/virtusertable /etc/mail/virtusertable 255/etc/userdb /etc/mail/userdb 256 257/etc/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 258/etc/sendmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 259/etc/ucbmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 260/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 261/usr/lib/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 262/usr/lib/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 263/usr/ucblib/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 264 265/etc/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 266/etc/mail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 267/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 268 269/etc/sendmail.ct /etc/mail/trusted-users 270 271/etc/sendmail.oE /etc/mail/error-header 272 273/etc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 274/etc/mail/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 275/usr/ucblib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 276/etc/ucbmail/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 277/usr/lib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 278/usr/share/lib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 279/usr/share/misc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 280/share/misc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 281 282/etc/service.switch /etc/mail/service.switch 283 284/etc/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 285/etc/mail/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 286/etc/mailer/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 287/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 288/usr/lib/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 289/usr/ucblib/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 290 291Note that all of these paths actually use a new m4 macro MAIL_SETTINGS_DIR 292to create the pathnames. The default value of this variable is 293`/etc/mail/'. If you set this macro to a different value, you MUST include 294a trailing slash. 295 296Notice: all filenames used in a .mc (or .cf) file should be absolute 297(starting at the root, i.e., with '/'). Relative filenames most 298likely cause surprises during operations (unless otherwise noted). 299 300 301+--------+ 302| OSTYPE | 303+--------+ 304 305You MUST define an operating system environment, or the configuration 306file build will puke. There are several environments available; look 307at the "ostype" directory for the current list. This macro changes 308things like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some 309of these files are identical to one another. 310 311It is IMPERATIVE that the OSTYPE occur before any MAILER definitions. 312In general, the OSTYPE macro should go immediately after any version 313information, and MAILER definitions should always go last. 314 315Operating system definitions are usually easy to write. They may define 316the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file may be 317empty). Unfortunately, the list of configuration-supported systems is 318not as broad as the list of source-supported systems, since many of 319the source contributors do not include corresponding ostype files. 320 321ALIAS_FILE [/etc/mail/aliases] The location of the text version 322 of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated 323 list of names (but be sure you quote values with 324 commas in them -- for example, use 325 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b') 326 to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files; 327 otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a"). 328HELP_FILE [/etc/mail/helpfile] The name of the file 329 containing information printed in response to 330 the SMTP HELP command. 331QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing 332 queue files. To use multiple queues, supply 333 a value ending with an asterisk. For 334 example, /var/spool/mqueue/qd* will use all of the 335 directories or symbolic links to directories 336 beginning with 'qd' in /var/spool/mqueue as queue 337 directories. The names 'qf', 'df', and 'xf' are 338 reserved as specific subdirectories for the 339 corresponding queue file types as explained in 340 doc/op/op.me. See also QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS. 341MSP_QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/clientmqueue] The directory containing 342 queue files for the MSP (Mail Submission Program, 343 see sendmail/SECURITY). 344STATUS_FILE [/etc/mail/statistics] The file containing status 345 information. 346LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail. 347LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [Prmn9] The flags used by the local mailer. The 348 flags lsDFMAw5:/|@q are always included. 349LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local 350 mail. 351LOCAL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If defined, the maximum size of local 352 mail that you are willing to accept. 353LOCAL_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 354 messages to deliver in a single connection. Only 355 useful for LMTP local mailers. 356LOCAL_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 357 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to the 358 local mailer and which are converted to MIME will be 359 labeled with this character set. 360LOCAL_MAILER_EOL [undefined] If defined, the string to use as the 361 end of line for the local mailer. 362LOCAL_MAILER_DSN_DIAGNOSTIC_CODE 363 [X-Unix] The DSN Diagnostic-Code value for the 364 local mailer. This should be changed with care. 365LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email. 366LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu9] The flags used by the shell mailer. The 367 flags lsDFM are always included. 368LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog" 369 mail. 370LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the 371 shell should run. 372LOCAL_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the local mailer. 373USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program 374 used to submit news. 375USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer. 376USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the 377 usenet mailer. NOTE: Some versions of inews 378 (such as those shipped with newer versions of INN) 379 use different flags. Double check the defaults 380 against the inews man page. 381USENET_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will 382 be accepted by the usenet mailer. 383USENET_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the usenet mailer. 384SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default 385 flags are `mDFMuX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the 386 "esmtp" mailer adds `a'; "smtp8" adds `8'; and 387 "dsmtp" adds `%'. 388RELAY_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to the relay mailer. Default 389 flags are `mDFMuX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the 390 relay mailer adds `a8'. If this is not defined, 391 then SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS is used. 392SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will 393 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp 394 mailers. 395SMTP_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 396 messages to deliver in a single connection for the 397 smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp mailers. 398SMTP_MAILER_MAXRCPTS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 399 recipients to deliver in a single envelope for the 400 smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp mailers. 401SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer. 402 About the only reason you would want to change this 403 would be to change the default port. 404ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer. 405SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer. 406DSMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the dsmtp mailer. 407RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer. 408SMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the smtp mailer. 409ESMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the esmtp mailer. 410SMTP8_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the smtp8 mailer. 411DSMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the dsmtp mailer. 412RELAY_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the relay mailer. 413RELAY_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 414 messages to deliver in a single connection for the 415 relay mailer. 416SMTP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 417 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of 418 the SMTP mailers and which are converted to MIME will 419 be labeled with this character set. 420RELAY_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 421 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to the 422 relay mailers and which are converted to MIME will 423 be labeled with this character set. 424SMTP_MAILER_LL [990] The maximum line length for SMTP mailers 425 (except the relay mailer). 426RELAY_MAILER_LL [2040] The maximum line length for the relay mailer. 427UUCP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/bin/uux] The program used to send UUCP mail. 428UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default 429 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for uucp-new mailer, 430 minus `U' for uucp-dom mailer). 431UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments 432 passed to the UUCP mailer. 433UUCP_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for 434 transmission by the UUCP mailers. 435UUCP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 436 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of 437 the UUCP mailers and which are converted to MIME will 438 be labeled with this character set. 439UUCP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the UUCP mailers. 440FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to 441 submit FAX messages. 442FAX_MAILER_ARGS [mailfax $u $h $f] The arguments passed to the FAX 443 mailer. 444FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for 445 transmission by FAX. 446POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer. 447POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags lsDFMq 448 are always added. 449POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer. 450POP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the pop mailer. 451PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/bin/procmail] The path to the procmail 452 program. This is also used by 453 FEATURE(`local_procmail'). 454PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [SPhnu9] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags 455 DFM are always set. This is NOT used by 456 FEATURE(`local_procmail'); tweak LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS 457 instead. 458PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -Y -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to 459 the Procmail mailer. This is NOT used by 460 FEATURE(`local_procmail'); tweak LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS 461 instead. 462PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that 463 will be accepted by the procmail mailer. 464PROCMAIL_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the procmail mailer. 465MAIL11_MAILER_PATH [/usr/etc/mail11] The path to the mail11 mailer. 466MAIL11_MAILER_FLAGS [nsFx] Flags for the mail11 mailer. 467MAIL11_MAILER_ARGS [mail11 $g $x $h $u] Arguments passed to the mail11 468 mailer. 469MAIL11_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the mail11 mailer. 470PH_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/etc/phquery] The path to the phquery 471 program. 472PH_MAILER_FLAGS [ehmu] Flags for the phquery mailer. Flags nrDFM 473 are always set. 474PH_MAILER_ARGS [phquery -- $u] -- arguments to the phquery mailer. 475PH_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the ph mailer. 476CYRUS_MAILER_FLAGS [Ah5@/:|] The flags used by the cyrus mailer. The 477 flags lsDFMnPq are always included. 478CYRUS_MAILER_PATH [/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver] The program used to deliver 479 cyrus mail. 480CYRUS_MAILER_ARGS [deliver -e -m $h -- $u] The arguments passed 481 to deliver cyrus mail. 482CYRUS_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that 483 will be accepted by the cyrus mailer. 484CYRUS_MAILER_USER [cyrus:mail] The user and group to become when 485 running the cyrus mailer. 486CYRUS_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the cyrus mailer. 487CYRUS_BB_MAILER_FLAGS [u] The flags used by the cyrusbb mailer. 488 The flags lsDFMnP are always included. 489CYRUS_BB_MAILER_ARGS [deliver -e -m $u] The arguments passed 490 to deliver cyrusbb mail. 491CYRUSV2_MAILER_FLAGS [A@/:|m] The flags used by the cyrusv2 mailer. The 492 flags lsDFMnqXz are always included. 493CYRUSV2_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 494 messages to deliver in a single connection for the 495 cyrusv2 mailer. 496CYRUSV2_MAILER_MAXRCPTS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 497 recipients to deliver in a single connection for the 498 cyrusv2 mailer. 499CYRUSV2_MAILER_ARGS [FILE /var/imap/socket/lmtp] The arguments passed 500 to the cyrusv2 mailer. This can be used to 501 change the name of the Unix domain socket, or 502 to switch to delivery via TCP (e.g., `TCP $h lmtp') 503CYRUSV2_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the cyrusv2 mailer. 504CYRUSV2_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 505 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one the 506 Cyrus mailer and which are converted to MIME will 507 be labeled with this character set. 508confEBINDIR [/usr/libexec] The directory for executables. 509 Currently used for FEATURE(`local_lmtp') and 510 FEATURE(`smrsh'). 511QPAGE_MAILER_FLAGS [mDFMs] The flags used by the qpage mailer. 512QPAGE_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/bin/qpage] The program used to deliver 513 qpage mail. 514QPAGE_MAILER_ARGS [qpage -l0 -m -P$u] The arguments passed 515 to deliver qpage mail. 516QPAGE_MAILER_MAX [4096] If set, the maximum size message that 517 will be accepted by the qpage mailer. 518QPAGE_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the qpage mailer. 519LOCAL_PROG_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the prog mailer. 520 521Note: to tweak Name_MAILER_FLAGS use the macro MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS: 522MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`Name', `change') where Name is the first part 523of the macro Name_MAILER_FLAGS (note: that means Name is entirely in 524upper case) and change can be: flags that should be used directly 525(thus overriding the default value), or if it starts with `+' (`-') 526then those flags are added to (removed from) the default value. 527Example: 528 529 MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+e') 530 531will add the flag `e' to LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS. Notice: there are 532several smtp mailers all of which are manipulated individually. 533See the section MAILERS for the available mailer names. 534WARNING: The FEATUREs local_lmtp and local_procmail set LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS 535unconditionally, i.e., without respecting any definitions in an 536OSTYPE setting. 537 538 539+---------+ 540| DOMAINS | 541+---------+ 542 543You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one 544file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, the Berkeley 545domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished 546hosts: 547 548UUCP_RELAY The host that will accept UUCP-addressed email. 549 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly 550 connected. 551BITNET_RELAY The host that will accept BITNET-addressed email. 552 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work. 553DECNET_RELAY The host that will accept DECNET-addressed email. 554 If not defined, the .DECNET pseudo-domain and addresses 555 of the form node::user will not work. 556FAX_RELAY The host that will accept mail to the .FAX pseudo-domain. 557 The "fax" mailer overrides this value. 558LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that 559 is, names without an @domain extension. 560 Normally MAIL_HUB is preferred for this function. 561 LOCAL_RELAY is mostly useful in conjunction with 562 FEATURE(`stickyhost') -- see the discussion of 563 stickyhost below. If not set, they are assumed to 564 belong on this machine. This allows you to have a 565 central site to store a company- or department-wide 566 alias database. This only works at small sites, 567 and only with some user agents. 568LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently 569 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases. To 570 specify a local user instead of a site, set this to 571 ``local:username''. 572 573Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the 574mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``uucp-new'' and the hostname 575is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a 576``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'', 577a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX 578record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to 579have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back 580to yourself. 581 582The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed 583(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts 584at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use 585MASQUERADE_AS here. 586 587You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a 588single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than 589it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent 590knowledge" into one place. 591 592 593+---------+ 594| MAILERS | 595+---------+ 596 597There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous 598version, owing mostly to a simpler world. As a general rule, put the 599MAILER definitions last in your .mc file. 600 601local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always 602 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL 603 your mail to another site. This mailer is included 604 automatically. 605 606smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does 607 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other 608 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is 609 running the name server. This file actually defines 610 five mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to 611 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other 612 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without 613 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is 614 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit 615 clean even if it doesn't say so), "dsmtp" to do on 616 demand delivery, and "relay" for transmission to the 617 RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or MAIL_HUB. 618 619uucp The UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program mailer. Actually, this 620 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and 621 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you 622 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle 623 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer 624 is included in your configuration, two other mailers 625 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined [warning: you 626 MUST specify MAILER(`smtp') before MAILER(`uucp')]. When you 627 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in 628 class {U} and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all 629 names in class {Y} are sent to uucp-new; and all 630 names in class {Z} are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that 631 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on 632 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control. 633 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more 634 detail. 635 636usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified, 637 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all 638 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the 639 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups, 640 and may be considered a security problem. 641 642fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based 643 on Sam Leffler's HylaFAX software. For more information, 644 see http://www.hylafax.org/. 645 646pop Post Office Protocol. 647 648procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail). 649 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example, 650 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given 651 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer 652 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading: 653 654 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com 655 656 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading: 657 658 :0 # forward mail for host.com 659 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host 660 661 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent 662 to person@other.host. In a procmail script, $1 is the 663 name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient. 664 If you use this with FEATURE(`local_procmail'), the FEATURE 665 should be listed first. 666 667 Of course there are other ways to solve this particular 668 problem, e.g., a catch-all entry in a virtusertable. 669 670mail11 The DECnet mail11 mailer, useful only if you have the mail11 671 program from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/gwtools (and 672 DECnet, of course). This is for Phase IV DECnet support; 673 if you have Phase V at your site you may have additional 674 problems. 675 676phquery The phquery program. This is somewhat counterintuitively 677 referenced as the "ph" mailer internally. It can be used 678 to do CCSO name server lookups. The phquery program, which 679 this mailer uses, is distributed with the ph client. 680 681cyrus The cyrus and cyrusbb mailers. The cyrus mailer delivers to 682 a local cyrus user. this mailer can make use of the 683 "user+detail@local.host" syntax (see 684 FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail')); it will deliver the 685 mail to the user's "detail" mailbox if the mailbox's ACL 686 permits. The cyrusbb mailer delivers to a system-wide 687 cyrus mailbox if the mailbox's ACL permits. The cyrus 688 mailer must be defined after the local mailer. 689 690cyrusv2 The mailer for Cyrus v2.x. The cyrusv2 mailer delivers to 691 local cyrus users via LMTP. This mailer can make use of the 692 "user+detail@local.host" syntax (see 693 FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail')); it will deliver the 694 mail to the user's "detail" mailbox if the mailbox's ACL 695 permits. The cyrusv2 mailer must be defined after the 696 local mailer. 697 698qpage A mailer for QuickPage, a pager interface. See 699 http://www.qpage.org/ for further information. 700 701The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where 702the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available 703to certain local mail programs (in particular, see 704FEATURE(`local_procmail')). For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and 705"eric+sww" all indicate the same user, but additional arguments <null>, 706"sendmail", and "sww" may be provided for use in sorting mail. 707 708 709+----------+ 710| FEATURES | 711+----------+ 712 713Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For 714example, the .mc line: 715 716 FEATURE(`use_cw_file') 717 718tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/mail/local-host-names 719file to get values for class {w}. A FEATURE may contain up to 9 720optional parameters -- for example: 721 722 FEATURE(`mailertable', `dbm /usr/lib/mailertable') 723 724The default database map type for the table features can be set with 725 726 define(`DATABASE_MAP_TYPE', `dbm') 727 728which would set it to use ndbm databases. The default is the Berkeley DB 729hash database format. Note that you must still declare a database map type 730if you specify an argument to a FEATURE. DATABASE_MAP_TYPE is only used 731if no argument is given for the FEATURE. It must be specified before any 732feature that uses a map. 733 734Also, features which can take a map definition as an argument can also take 735the special keyword `LDAP'. If that keyword is used, the map will use the 736LDAP definition described in the ``USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND 737CLASSES'' section below. 738 739Available features are: 740 741use_cw_file Read the file /etc/mail/local-host-names file to get 742 alternate names for this host. This might be used if you 743 were on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other hosts. 744 If the set is static, just including the line "Cw<name1> 745 <name2> ..." (where the names are fully qualified domain 746 names) is probably superior. The actual filename can be 747 overridden by redefining confCW_FILE. 748 749use_ct_file Read the file /etc/mail/trusted-users file to get the 750 names of users that will be ``trusted'', that is, able to 751 set their envelope from address using -f without generating 752 a warning message. The actual filename can be overridden 753 by redefining confCT_FILE. 754 755redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with 756 a ``551 User has moved; please try <address>'' message. 757 If this is set, you can alias people who have left 758 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended. 759 760nouucp Don't route UUCP addresses. This feature takes one 761 parameter: 762 `reject': reject addresses which have "!" in the local 763 part unless it originates from a system 764 that is allowed to relay. 765 `nospecial': don't do anything special with "!". 766 Warnings: 1. See the notice in the anti-spam section. 767 2. don't remove "!" from OperatorChars if `reject' is 768 given as parameter. 769 770nopercenthack Don't treat % as routing character. This feature takes one 771 parameter: 772 `reject': reject addresses which have % in the local 773 part unless it originates from a system 774 that is allowed to relay. 775 `nospecial': don't do anything special with %. 776 Warnings: 1. See the notice in the anti-spam section. 777 2. Don't remove % from OperatorChars if `reject' is 778 given as parameter. 779 780nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification 781 by default, i.e., host/domain names are considered canonical, 782 except for unqualified names, which must not be used in this 783 mode (violation of the standard). It can be changed by 784 setting the DaemonPortOptions modifiers (M=). That is, 785 FEATURE(`nocanonify') will be overridden by setting the 786 'c' flag. Conversely, if FEATURE(`nocanonify') is not used, 787 it can be emulated by setting the 'C' flag 788 (DaemonPortOptions=Modifiers=C). This would generally only 789 be used by sites that only act as mail gateways or which have 790 user agents that do full canonification themselves. You may 791 also want to use 792 "define(`confBIND_OPTS', `-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to turn off 793 the usual resolver options that do a similar thing. 794 795 An exception list for FEATURE(`nocanonify') can be 796 specified with CANONIFY_DOMAIN or CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE, 797 i.e., a list of domains which are nevertheless passed to 798 $[ ... $] for canonification. This is useful to turn on 799 canonification for local domains, e.g., use 800 CANONIFY_DOMAIN(`my.domain my') to canonify addresses 801 which end in "my.domain" or "my". 802 Another way to require canonification in the local 803 domain is CANONIFY_DOMAIN(`$=m'). 804 805 A trailing dot is added to addresses with more than 806 one component in it such that other features which 807 expect a trailing dot (e.g., virtusertable) will 808 still work. 809 810 If `canonify_hosts' is specified as parameter, i.e., 811 FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts'), then 812 addresses which have only a hostname, e.g., 813 <user@host>, will be canonified (and hopefully fully 814 qualified), too. 815 816stickyhost This feature is sometimes used with LOCAL_RELAY, 817 although it can be used for a different effect with 818 MAIL_HUB. 819 820 When used without MAIL_HUB, email sent to 821 "user@local.host" are marked as "sticky" -- that 822 is, the local addresses aren't matched against UDB, 823 don't go through ruleset 5, and are not forwarded to 824 the LOCAL_RELAY (if defined). 825 826 With MAIL_HUB, mail addressed to "user@local.host" 827 is forwarded to the mail hub, with the envelope 828 address still remaining "user@local.host". 829 Without stickyhost, the envelope would be changed 830 to "user@mail_hub", in order to protect against 831 mailing loops. 832 833mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override 834 routing for particular domains (which are not in class {w}, 835 i.e. local host names). The argument of the FEATURE may be 836 the key definition. If none is specified, the definition 837 used is: 838 839 hash /etc/mail/mailertable 840 841 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names 842 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example, 843 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU". As a 844 special case of the latter, "." matches any domain not 845 covered by other keys. Values must be of the form: 846 mailer:domain 847 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain" 848 is where to send the message. These maps are not 849 reflected into the message header. As a special case, 850 the forms: 851 local:user 852 will forward to the indicated user using the local mailer, 853 local: 854 will forward to the original user in the e-mail address 855 using the local mailer, and 856 error:code message 857 error:D.S.N:code message 858 will give an error message with the indicated SMTP reply 859 code and message, where D.S.N is an RFC 1893 compliant 860 error code. 861 862domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide 863 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be 864 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you 865 change names (e.g., your company changes names from 866 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the 867 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified, 868 the definition used is: 869 870 hash /etc/mail/domaintable 871 872 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is 873 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the 874 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this 875 is done in ruleset 3. 876 877bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into 878 internet addresses. The table can be built using the 879 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers. 880 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if 881 none is specified, the definition used is: 882 883 hash /etc/mail/bitdomain 884 885 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding 886 internet hostname. 887 888uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition 889 is: 890 891 hash /etc/mail/uudomain 892 893 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this 894 database. 895 896always_add_domain 897 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered 898 mail. Normally it is not added on unqualified names. 899 However, if you use a shared message store but do not use 900 the same user name space everywhere, you may need the host 901 name on local names. An optional argument specifies 902 another domain to be added than the local. 903 904allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this 905 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade 906 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get 907 the local hostname. Although this may be right for 908 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example, 909 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will 910 find that alias and send to all members, but send the 911 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that 912 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this 913 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE 914 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the 915 local entries. 916 917limited_masquerade 918 Normally, any hosts listed in class {w} are masqueraded. If 919 this feature is given, only the hosts listed in class {M} (see 920 below: MASQUERADE_DOMAIN) are masqueraded. This is useful 921 if you have several domains with disjoint namespaces hosted 922 on the same machine. 923 924masquerade_entire_domain 925 If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS) and 926 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN (see below) is set, this feature will 927 cause addresses to be rewritten such that the masquerading 928 domains are actually entire domains to be hidden. All 929 hosts within the masquerading domains will be rewritten 930 to the masquerade name (used in MASQUERADE_AS). For example, 931 if you have: 932 933 MASQUERADE_AS(`masq.com') 934 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`foo.org') 935 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`bar.com') 936 937 then *foo.org and *bar.com are converted to masq.com. Without 938 this feature, only foo.org and bar.com are masqueraded. 939 940 NOTE: only domains within your jurisdiction and 941 current hierarchy should be masqueraded using this. 942 943local_no_masquerade 944 This feature prevents the local mailer from masquerading even 945 if MASQUERADE_AS is used. MASQUERADE_AS will only have effect 946 on addresses of mail going outside the local domain. 947 948masquerade_envelope 949 If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS) or the 950 genericstable is in use, this feature will cause envelope 951 addresses to also masquerade as being from the masquerade 952 host. Normally only the header addresses are masqueraded. 953 954genericstable This feature will cause unqualified addresses (i.e., without 955 a domain) and addresses with a domain listed in class {G} 956 to be looked up in a map and turned into another ("generic") 957 form, which can change both the domain name and the user name. 958 Notice: if you use an MSP (as it is default starting with 959 8.12), the MTA will only receive qualified addresses from the 960 MSP (as required by the RFCs). Hence you need to add your 961 domain to class {G}. This feature is similar to the userdb 962 functionality. The same types of addresses as for 963 masquerading are looked up, i.e., only header sender 964 addresses unless the allmasquerade and/or masquerade_envelope 965 features are given. Qualified addresses must have the domain 966 part in class {G}; entries can be added to this class by the 967 macros GENERICS_DOMAIN or GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously 968 to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 969 970 The argument of FEATURE(`genericstable') may be the map 971 definition; the default map definition is: 972 973 hash /etc/mail/genericstable 974 975 The key for this table is either the full address, the domain 976 (with a leading @; the localpart is passed as first argument) 977 or the unqualified username (tried in the order mentioned); 978 the value is the new user address. If the new user address 979 does not include a domain, it will be qualified in the standard 980 manner, i.e., using $j or the masquerade name. Note that the 981 address being looked up must be fully qualified. For local 982 mail, it is necessary to use FEATURE(`always_add_domain') 983 for the addresses to be qualified. 984 The "+detail" of an address is passed as %1, so entries like 985 986 old+*@foo.org new+%1@example.com 987 gen+*@foo.org %1@example.com 988 989 and other forms are possible. 990 991generics_entire_domain 992 If the genericstable is enabled and GENERICS_DOMAIN or 993 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE is used, this feature will cause 994 addresses to be searched in the map if their domain 995 parts are subdomains of elements in class {G}. 996 997virtusertable A domain-specific form of aliasing, allowing multiple 998 virtual domains to be hosted on one machine. For example, 999 if the virtuser table contains: 1000 1001 info@foo.com foo-info 1002 info@bar.com bar-info 1003 joe@bar.com error:nouser 550 No such user here 1004 jax@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid 1005 @baz.org jane@example.net 1006 1007 then mail addressed to info@foo.com will be sent to the 1008 address foo-info, mail addressed to info@bar.com will be 1009 delivered to bar-info, and mail addressed to anyone at baz.org 1010 will be sent to jane@example.net, mail to joe@bar.com will 1011 be rejected with the specified error message, and mail to 1012 jax@bar.com will also have a RFC 1893 compliant error code 1013 5.7.0. 1014 1015 The username from the original address is passed 1016 as %1 allowing: 1017 1018 @foo.org %1@example.com 1019 1020 meaning someone@foo.org will be sent to someone@example.com. 1021 Additionally, if the local part consists of "user+detail" 1022 then "detail" is passed as %2 and "+detail" is passed as %3 1023 when a match against user+* is attempted, so entries like 1024 1025 old+*@foo.org new+%2@example.com 1026 gen+*@foo.org %2@example.com 1027 +*@foo.org %1%3@example.com 1028 X++@foo.org Z%3@example.com 1029 @bar.org %1%3 1030 1031 and other forms are possible. Note: to preserve "+detail" 1032 for a default case (@domain) %1%3 must be used as RHS. 1033 There are two wildcards after "+": "+" matches only a non-empty 1034 detail, "*" matches also empty details, e.g., user+@foo.org 1035 matches +*@foo.org but not ++@foo.org. This can be used 1036 to ensure that the parameters %2 and %3 are not empty. 1037 1038 All the host names on the left hand side (foo.com, bar.com, 1039 and baz.org) must be in class {w} or class {VirtHost}. The 1040 latter can be defined by the macros VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 1041 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 1042 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). If VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 1043 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE is used, then the entries of class 1044 {VirtHost} are added to class {R}, i.e., relaying is allowed 1045 to (and from) those domains, which by default includes also 1046 all subdomains (see relay_hosts_only). The default map 1047 definition is: 1048 1049 hash /etc/mail/virtusertable 1050 1051 A new definition can be specified as the second argument of 1052 the FEATURE macro, such as 1053 1054 FEATURE(`virtusertable', `dbm /etc/mail/virtusers') 1055 1056virtuser_entire_domain 1057 If the virtusertable is enabled and VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 1058 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE is used, this feature will cause 1059 addresses to be searched in the map if their domain 1060 parts are subdomains of elements in class {VirtHost}. 1061 1062ldap_routing Implement LDAP-based e-mail recipient routing according to 1063 the Internet Draft draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-01. 1064 This provides a method to re-route addresses with a 1065 domain portion in class {LDAPRoute} to either a 1066 different mail host or a different address. Hosts can 1067 be added to this class using LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN and 1068 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 1069 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 1070 1071 See the LDAP ROUTING section below for more information. 1072 1073nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a configuration file 1074 containing nothing but support for forwarding all mail to a 1075 central hub via a local SMTP-based network. The argument 1076 is the name of that hub. 1077 1078 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction 1079 with this one is FEATURE(`nocanonify'). No mailers 1080 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done. 1081 1082local_lmtp Use an LMTP capable local mailer. The argument to this 1083 feature is the pathname of an LMTP capable mailer. By 1084 default, mail.local is used. This is expected to be the 1085 mail.local which came with the 8.9 distribution which is 1086 LMTP capable. The path to mail.local is set by the 1087 confEBINDIR m4 variable -- making the default 1088 LOCAL_MAILER_PATH /usr/libexec/mail.local. 1089 If a different LMTP capable mailer is used, its pathname 1090 can be specified as second parameter and the arguments 1091 passed to it (A=) as third parameter, e.g., 1092 1093 FEATURE(`local_lmtp', `/usr/local/bin/lmtp', `lmtp') 1094 1095 WARNING: This feature sets LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS unconditionally, 1096 i.e., without respecting any definitions in an OSTYPE setting. 1097 1098local_procmail Use procmail or another delivery agent as the local mailer. 1099 The argument to this feature is the pathname of the 1100 delivery agent, which defaults to PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH. 1101 Note that this does NOT use PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS or 1102 PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS for the local mailer; tweak 1103 LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS and LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS instead, or 1104 specify the appropriate parameters. When procmail is used, 1105 the local mailer can make use of the 1106 "user+indicator@local.host" syntax; normally the +indicator 1107 is just tossed, but by default it is passed as the -a 1108 argument to procmail. 1109 1110 This feature can take up to three arguments: 1111 1112 1. Path to the mailer program 1113 [default: /usr/local/bin/procmail] 1114 2. Argument vector including name of the program 1115 [default: procmail -Y -a $h -d $u] 1116 3. Flags for the mailer [default: SPfhn9] 1117 1118 Empty arguments cause the defaults to be taken. 1119 Note that if you are on a system with a broken 1120 setreuid() call, you may need to add -f $f to the procmail 1121 argument vector to pass the proper sender to procmail. 1122 1123 For example, this allows it to use the maildrop mailer 1124 instead by specifying: 1125 1126 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/maildrop', 1127 `maildrop -d $u') 1128 1129 or scanmails using: 1130 1131 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/scanmails') 1132 1133 WARNING: This feature sets LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS unconditionally, 1134 i.e., without respecting any definitions in an OSTYPE setting. 1135 1136bestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that 1137 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates 1138 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to 1139 medium traffic hosts. The argument may be a set of 1140 domains, which will limit the feature to only apply to 1141 these domains -- this will reduce unnecessary DNS 1142 traffic. THIS FEATURE IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH 1143 WILDCARD MX RECORDS!!! If you have a wildcard MX record 1144 that matches your domain, you cannot use this feature. 1145 1146smrsh Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided 1147 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing 1148 to programs. This improves the ability of the local 1149 system administrator to control what gets run via 1150 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the 1151 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, the path defined by 1152 confEBINDIR is used for the smrsh binary -- by default, 1153 /usr/libexec/smrsh is assumed. 1154 1155promiscuous_relay 1156 By default, the sendmail configuration files do not permit 1157 mail relaying (that is, accepting mail from outside your 1158 local host (class {w}) and sending it to another host than 1159 your local host). This option sets your site to allow 1160 mail relaying from any site to any site. In almost all 1161 cases, it is better to control relaying more carefully 1162 with the access map, class {R}, or authentication. Domains 1163 can be added to class {R} by the macros RELAY_DOMAIN or 1164 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 1165 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 1166 1167relay_entire_domain 1168 This option allows any host in your domain as defined by 1169 class {m} to use your server for relaying. Notice: make 1170 sure that your domain is not just a top level domain, 1171 e.g., com. This can happen if you give your host a name 1172 like example.com instead of host.example.com. 1173 1174relay_hosts_only 1175 By default, names that are listed as RELAY in the access 1176 db and class {R} are treated as domain names, not host names. 1177 For example, if you specify ``foo.com'', then mail to or 1178 from foo.com, abc.foo.com, or a.very.deep.domain.foo.com 1179 will all be accepted for relaying. This feature changes 1180 the behaviour to look up individual host names only. 1181 1182relay_based_on_MX 1183 Turns on the ability to allow relaying based on the MX 1184 records of the host portion of an incoming recipient; that 1185 is, if an MX record for host foo.com points to your site, 1186 you will accept and relay mail addressed to foo.com. See 1187 description below for more information before using this 1188 feature. Also, see the KNOWNBUGS entry regarding bestmx 1189 map lookups. 1190 1191 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') does not necessarily allow 1192 routing of these messages which you expect to be allowed, 1193 if route address syntax (or %-hack syntax) is used. If 1194 this is a problem, add entries to the access-table or use 1195 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check'). 1196 1197relay_mail_from 1198 Allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in 1199 the access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this 1200 is the literal word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, 1201 relaying can be allowed just based on the domain portion 1202 of the sender address. This feature should only be used if 1203 absolutely necessary as the sender address can be easily 1204 forged. Use of this feature requires the "From:" tag to 1205 be used for the key in the access map; see the discussion 1206 of tags and FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') in the section on 1207 anti-spam configuration control. 1208 1209relay_local_from 1210 Allows relaying if the domain portion of the mail sender 1211 is a local host. This should only be used if absolutely 1212 necessary as it opens a window for spammers. Specifically, 1213 they can send mail to your mail server that claims to be 1214 from your domain (either directly or via a routed address), 1215 and you will go ahead and relay it out to arbitrary hosts 1216 on the Internet. 1217 1218accept_unqualified_senders 1219 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1220 refused if the connection is a network connection and the 1221 sender address does not include a domain name. If your 1222 setup sends local mail unqualified (i.e., MAIL FROM:<joe>), 1223 you will need to use this feature to accept unqualified 1224 sender addresses. Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1225 'u' overrides the default behavior, i.e., unqualified 1226 addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. 1227 If this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1228 'f' can be used to enforce fully qualified addresses. 1229 1230accept_unresolvable_domains 1231 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1232 refused if the host part of the argument to MAIL FROM: 1233 cannot be located in the host name service (e.g., an A or 1234 MX record in DNS). If you are inside a firewall that has 1235 only a limited view of the Internet host name space, this 1236 could cause problems. In this case you probably want to 1237 use this feature to accept all domains on input, even if 1238 they are unresolvable. 1239 1240access_db Turns on the access database feature. The access db gives 1241 you the ability to allow or refuse to accept mail from 1242 specified domains for administrative reasons. Moreover, 1243 it can control the behavior of sendmail in various situations. 1244 By default, the access database specification is: 1245 1246 hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access 1247 1248 See the anti-spam configuration control section for further 1249 important information about this feature. Notice: 1250 "-T<TMPF>" is meant literal, do not replace it by anything. 1251 1252blocklist_recipients 1253 Turns on the ability to block incoming mail for certain 1254 recipient usernames, hostnames, or addresses. For 1255 example, you can block incoming mail to user nobody, 1256 host foo.mydomain.com, or guest@bar.mydomain.com. 1257 These specifications are put in the access db as 1258 described in the anti-spam configuration control section 1259 later in this document. 1260 1261delay_checks The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will not be called 1262 when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, respectively. 1263 Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 1264 ruleset; they will be skipped under certain circumstances. 1265 See "Delay all checks" in the anti-spam configuration control 1266 section. Note: this feature is incompatible to the versions 1267 in 8.10 and 8.11. 1268 1269check_other Enable a default check_other ruleset which terminates 1270 an SMTP session when it encounters a command which matches 1271 a regular expression given as argument. If no argument 1272 is given, then the default (to match potential headers) is: 1273 ^[[:print:]]+ *: 1274 1275use_client_ptr If this feature is enabled then check_relay will override 1276 its first argument with $&{client_ptr}. This is useful for 1277 rejections based on the unverified hostname of client, 1278 which turns on the same behavior as in earlier sendmail 1279 versions when delay_checks was not in use. See doc/op/op.* 1280 about check_relay, {client_name}, and {client_ptr}. 1281 1282dnsbl Turns on rejection, discarding, or quarantining of hosts 1283 found in a DNS based list. The first argument is used as 1284 the domain in which blocked hosts are listed. A second 1285 argument can be used to change the default error message, 1286 or select one of the operations `discard' and `quarantine'. 1287 Without that second argument, the error message will be 1288 1289 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 1290 1291 where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 1292 information. By default, temporary lookup failures are 1293 ignored. This behavior can be changed by specifying a 1294 third argument, which must be either `t' or a full error 1295 message. See the anti-spam configuration control section for 1296 an example. The dnsbl feature can be included several times 1297 to query different DNS based rejection lists. See also 1298 enhdnsbl for an enhanced version. 1299 1300 Set the DNSBL_MAP mc option to change the default map 1301 definition from `host'. Set the DNSBL_MAP_OPT mc option 1302 to add additional options to the map specification used. 1303 1304 Note: currently only IPv4 addresses are checked. 1305 1306 Some DNS based rejection lists cause failures if asked 1307 for AAAA records. If your sendmail version is compiled 1308 with IPv6 support (NETINET6) and you experience this 1309 problem, add 1310 1311 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A') 1312 1313 before the first use of this feature. Alternatively you 1314 can use enhdnsbl instead (see below). Moreover, this 1315 statement can be used to reduce the number of DNS retries, 1316 e.g., 1317 1318 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A -r2') 1319 1320 See below (EDNSBL_TO) for an explanation. 1321 1322enhdnsbl Enhanced version of dnsbl (see above). Further arguments 1323 (up to 5) can be used to specify specific return values 1324 from lookups. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless 1325 a third argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1326 error message. By default, any successful lookup will 1327 generate an error. Otherwise the result of the lookup is 1328 compared with the supplied argument(s), and only if a match 1329 occurs an error is generated. For example, 1330 1331 FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', `t', `127.0.0.2') 1332 1333 will reject the e-mail if the lookup returns the value 1334 ``127.0.0.2'', or generate a 451 response if the lookup 1335 temporarily failed. The arguments can contain metasymbols 1336 as they are allowed in the LHS of rules. As the example 1337 shows, the default values are also used if an empty argument, 1338 i.e., `', is specified. This feature requires that sendmail 1339 has been compiled with the flag DNSMAP (see sendmail/README). 1340 1341 Set the EDNSBL_TO mc option to change the DNS retry count 1342 from the default value of 5, this can be very useful when 1343 a DNS server is not responding, which in turn may cause 1344 clients to time out (an entry stating 1345 1346 did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN 1347 1348 will be logged). 1349 1350ratecontrol Enable simple ruleset to do connection rate control 1351 checking. This requires entries in access_db of the form 1352 1353 ClientRate:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1354 1355 The RHS specifies the maximum number of connections 1356 (an integer number) over the time interval defined 1357 by ConnectionRateWindowSize, where 0 means unlimited. 1358 1359 Take the following example: 1360 1361 ClientRate:10.1.2.3 4 1362 ClientRate:127.0.0.1 0 1363 ClientRate: 10 1364 1365 10.1.2.3 can only make up to 4 connections, the 1366 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 can make an unlimited 1367 number of connections per ConnectionRateWindowSize. 1368 1369 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1370 1371conncontrol Enable a simple check of the number of incoming SMTP 1372 connections. This requires entries in access_db of the 1373 form 1374 1375 ClientConn:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1376 1377 The RHS specifies the maximum number of open connections 1378 (an integer number). 1379 1380 Take the following example: 1381 1382 ClientConn:10.1.2.3 4 1383 ClientConn:127.0.0.1 0 1384 ClientConn: 10 1385 1386 10.1.2.3 can only have up to 4 open connections, the 1387 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 does not have any 1388 explicit limit. 1389 1390 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1391 1392mtamark Experimental support for "Marking Mail Transfer Agents in 1393 Reverse DNS with TXT RRs" (MTAMark), see 1394 draft-stumpf-dns-mtamark-01. Optional arguments are: 1395 1396 1. Error message, default: 1397 1398 550 Rejected: $&{client_addr} not listed as MTA 1399 1400 2. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless a second 1401 argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1402 error message. 1403 1404 3. Lookup prefix, default: _perm._smtp._srv. This should 1405 not be changed unless the draft changes it. 1406 1407 Example: 1408 1409 FEATURE(`mtamark', `', `t') 1410 1411lookupdotdomain Look up also .domain in the access map. This allows to 1412 match only subdomains. It does not work well with 1413 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only'), because most lookups for 1414 subdomains are suppressed by the latter feature. 1415 1416loose_relay_check 1417 Normally, if % addressing is used for a recipient, e.g. 1418 user%site@othersite, and othersite is in class {R}, the 1419 check_rcpt ruleset will strip @othersite and recheck 1420 user@site for relaying. This feature changes that 1421 behavior. It should not be needed for most installations. 1422 1423authinfo Provide a separate map for client side authentication 1424 information. See SMTP AUTHENTICATION for details. 1425 By default, the authinfo database specification is: 1426 1427 hash /etc/mail/authinfo 1428 1429preserve_luser_host 1430 Preserve the name of the recipient host if LUSER_RELAY is 1431 used. Without this option, the domain part of the 1432 recipient address will be replaced by the host specified as 1433 LUSER_RELAY. This feature only works if the hostname is 1434 passed to the mailer (see mailer triple in op.me). Note 1435 that in the default configuration the local mailer does not 1436 receive the hostname, i.e., the mailer triple has an empty 1437 hostname. 1438 1439preserve_local_plus_detail 1440 Preserve the +detail portion of the address when passing 1441 address to local delivery agent. Disables alias and 1442 .forward +detail stripping (e.g., given user+detail, only 1443 that address will be looked up in the alias file; user+* and 1444 user will not be looked up). Only use if the local 1445 delivery agent in use supports +detail addressing. 1446 Moreover, this will most likely not work if the 'w' flag 1447 for the local mailer is set as the entire local address 1448 including +detail is passed to the user lookup function. 1449 1450compat_check Enable ruleset check_compat to look up pairs of addresses 1451 with the Compat: tag -- Compat:sender<@>recipient -- in the 1452 access map. Valid values for the RHS include 1453 DISCARD silently discard recipient 1454 TEMP: return a temporary error 1455 ERROR: return a permanent error 1456 In the last two cases, a 4xy/5xy SMTP reply code should 1457 follow the colon. 1458 1459no_default_msa Don't generate the default MSA daemon, i.e., 1460 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587,Name=MSA,M=E') 1461 To define a MSA daemon with other parameters, use this 1462 FEATURE and introduce new settings via DAEMON_OPTIONS(). 1463 1464msp Defines config file for Message Submission Program. 1465 See sendmail/SECURITY for details and cf/cf/submit.mc how 1466 to use it. An optional argument can be used to override 1467 the default of `[localhost]' to use as host to send all 1468 e-mails to. Note that MX records will be used if the 1469 specified hostname is not in square brackets (e.g., 1470 [hostname]). If `MSA' is specified as second argument then 1471 port 587 is used to contact the server. Example: 1472 1473 FEATURE(`msp', `', `MSA') 1474 1475 Some more hints about possible changes can be found below 1476 in the section MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM. 1477 1478 Note: Due to many problems, submit.mc uses 1479 1480 FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]') 1481 1482 by default. If you have a machine with IPv6 only, 1483 change it to 1484 1485 FEATURE(`msp', `[IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]') 1486 1487 If you want to continue using '[localhost]', (the behavior 1488 up to 8.12.6), use 1489 1490 FEATURE(`msp') 1491 1492queuegroup A simple example how to select a queue group based 1493 on the full e-mail address or the domain of the 1494 recipient. Selection is done via entries in the 1495 access map using the tag QGRP:, for example: 1496 1497 QGRP:example.com main 1498 QGRP:friend@some.org others 1499 QGRP:my.domain local 1500 1501 where "main", "others", and "local" are names of 1502 queue groups. If an argument is specified, it is used 1503 as default queue group. 1504 1505 Note: please read the warning in doc/op/op.me about 1506 queue groups and possible queue manipulations. 1507 1508greet_pause Adds the greet_pause ruleset which enables open proxy 1509 and SMTP slamming protection. The feature can take an 1510 argument specifying the milliseconds to wait: 1511 1512 FEATURE(`greet_pause', `5000') dnl 5 seconds 1513 1514 If FEATURE(`access_db') is enabled, an access database 1515 lookup with the GreetPause tag is done using client 1516 hostname, domain, IP address, or subnet to determine the 1517 pause time: 1518 1519 GreetPause:my.domain 0 1520 GreetPause:example.com 5000 1521 GreetPause:10.1.2 2000 1522 GreetPause:127.0.0.1 0 1523 1524 When using FEATURE(`access_db'), the optional 1525 FEATURE(`greet_pause') argument becomes the default if 1526 nothing is found in the access database. A ruleset called 1527 Local_greet_pause can be used for local modifications, e.g., 1528 1529 LOCAL_RULESETS 1530 SLocal_greet_pause 1531 R$* $: $&{daemon_flags} 1532 R$* a $* $# 0 1533 1534block_bad_helo Reject messages from SMTP clients which provide a HELO/EHLO 1535 argument which is either unqualified, or is one of our own 1536 names (i.e., the server name instead of the client name). 1537 This check is performed at RCPT stage and disabled for the 1538 following cases: 1539 - authenticated sessions, 1540 - connections from IP addresses in class $={R}. 1541 Currently access_db lookups can not be used to 1542 (selectively) disable this test, moreover, 1543 1544 FEATURE(`delay_checks') 1545 1546 is required. Note, the block_bad_helo feature automatically 1547 adds the IPv6 and IPv4 localhost IP addresses to $={w} (local 1548 host names) and $={R} (relay permitted). 1549 1550require_rdns Reject mail from connecting SMTP clients without proper 1551 rDNS (reverse DNS), functional gethostbyaddr() resolution. 1552 Note: this feature will cause false positives, i.e., there 1553 are legitimate MTAs that do not have proper DNS entries. 1554 Rejecting mails from those MTAs is a local policy decision. 1555 1556 The basic policy is to reject message with a 5xx error if 1557 the IP address fails to resolve. However, if this is a 1558 temporary failure, a 4xx temporary failure is returned. 1559 If the look-up succeeds, but returns an apparently forged 1560 value, this is treated as a temporary failure with a 4xx 1561 error code. 1562 1563 EXCEPTIONS: 1564 1565 Exceptions based on access entries are discussed below. 1566 Any IP address matched using $=R (the "relay-domains" file) 1567 is excepted from the rules. Since we have explicitly 1568 allowed relaying for this host, based on IP address, we 1569 ignore the rDNS failure. 1570 1571 The philosophical assumption here is that most users do 1572 not control their rDNS. They should be able to send mail 1573 through their ISP, whether or not they have valid rDNS. 1574 The class $=R, roughly speaking, contains those IP addresses 1575 and address ranges for which we are the ISP, or are acting 1576 as if the ISP. 1577 1578 If `delay_checks' is in effect (recommended), then any 1579 sender who has authenticated is also excepted from the 1580 restrictions. This happens because the rules produced by 1581 this FEATURE() will not be applied to authenticated senders 1582 (assuming `delay_checks'). 1583 1584 ACCESS MAP ENTRIES: 1585 1586 Entries such as 1587 Connect:1.2.3.4 OK 1588 Connect:1.3 RELAY 1589 will allowlist IP address 1.2.3.4 and IP net 1.3.* 1590 so that the rDNS blocking does apply not to those IPs. 1591 1592 Entries such as 1593 Connect:1.2.3.4 REJECT 1594 will have the effect of forcing a temporary failure for 1595 that address to be treated as a permanent failure. 1596 1597badmx Reject envelope sender addresses (MAIL) whose domain part 1598 resolves to a "bad" MX record. By default these are 1599 MX records which resolve to A records that match the 1600 regular expression: 1601 1602 ^(127\.|10\.|0\.0\.0\.0) 1603 1604 This default regular expression can be overridden by 1605 specifying an argument, e.g., 1606 1607 FEATURE(`badmx', `^127\.0\.0\.1') 1608 1609 Note: this feature requires that the sendmail binary 1610 has been compiled with the options MAP_REGEX and 1611 DNSMAP. 1612 1613sts Experimental support for Strict Transport Security 1614 (MTA-STS, see RFC 8461). It sets the option 1615 StrictTransportSecurity and takes one optional 1616 argument: the socket map specification to access 1617 postfix-mta-sts-resolver (see feature/sts.m4 1618 for the default value). 1619 For more information see doc/op/op.me. 1620 1621fips3 Basic support for FIPS in OpenSSL 3 by setting 1622 the environment variables OPENSSL_CONF and 1623 OPENSSL_MODULES to the first and second argument, 1624 respectively. For details, see the file and 1625 the OpenSSL documentation. 1626 1627+-------+ 1628| HACKS | 1629+-------+ 1630 1631Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear, 1632they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK 1633macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release 1634includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes 1635sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU; 1636this is intended as a short-term aid while moving hosts into 1637subdomains. 1638 1639 1640+--------------------+ 1641| SITE CONFIGURATION | 1642+--------------------+ 1643 1644 ***************************************************** 1645 * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved * 1646 * only for back compatibility. You should plan on * 1647 * using mailertables for new installations. In * 1648 * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms * 1649 * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. * 1650 ***************************************************** 1651 1652Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as 1653lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more 1654tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc. 1655 1656The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent 1657configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For 1658example, the line 1659 1660 SITECONFIG(`uucp.ucbvax', `ucbvax', `U') 1661 1662reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The 1663second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since 1664it is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname). The third 1665parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in 1666this case, {U}) and the name of the class (e.g., {U}) in which to store 1667the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads 1668 1669 SITECONFIG(`uucp.ucbarpa', `ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU', `W') 1670 1671This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites 1672connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. Class {W} will be used to 1673store this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that 1674is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa 1675are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but this 1676out-of-date configuration file has been left around to demonstrate 1677how you might do this.] 1678 1679Note that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is 1680special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the 1681local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name 1682is entered into class {w} (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP. 1683 1684The siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing 1685more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For 1686example: 1687 1688 SITE(`cnmat') 1689 SITE(`sgi olympus') 1690 1691The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the 1692same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at 1693least in the same company). 1694 1695The macro LOCAL_UUCP can be used to add rules into the generated 1696cf file at the place where MAILER(`uucp') inserts its rules. This 1697should only be used if really necessary. 1698 1699 1700+--------------------+ 1701| USING UUCP MAILERS | 1702+--------------------+ 1703 1704It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc 1705nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed 1706for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites. 1707 1708There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to 1709use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at 1710the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that 1711define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you 1712should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have 1713to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages 1714people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid 1715UUCP, please do. 1716 1717The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a 1718non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other 1719end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the 1720other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses 1721don't work entirely properly. 1722 1723The four mailers are: 1724 1725 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp") 1726 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of 1727 sending messages across UUCP connections. It does bangify 1728 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's 1729 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can 1730 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of 1731 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all 1732 possible. 1733 1734 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp") 1735 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail 1736 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a 1737 lot of other problems. 1738 1739 uucp-dom 1740 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses. 1741 Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules. This mailer 1742 is only included if MAILER(`smtp') is specified before 1743 MAILER(`uucp'). 1744 1745 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require 1746 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use 1747 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope 1748 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So.... 1749 1750 uucp-uudom 1751 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses) 1752 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the 1753 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the 1754 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address 1755 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name 1756 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of 1757 "some.dom.ain!wolf"). This is also included only if MAILER(`smtp') 1758 is also specified earlier. 1759 1760Examples: 1761 1762On host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"), the following 1763summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers. 1764 1765Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope 1766------ ------ ------------------------- 1767uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf 1768uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1769uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf 1770 1771uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf 1772uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net 1773uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf 1774 1775uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf 1776uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1777uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf 1778 1779If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want 1780to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will 1781do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example, 1782if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo), 1783the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to 1784this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it 1785will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain 1786feature. 1787 1788 1789+-------------------+ 1790| TWEAKING RULESETS | 1791+-------------------+ 1792 1793For more complex configurations, you can define special rules. 1794The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing 1795the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header. 1796 1797A common use is to convert old UUCP addresses to SMTP addresses using 1798the UUCPSMTP macro. For example: 1799 1800 LOCAL_RULE_3 1801 UUCPSMTP(`decvax', `decvax.dec.com') 1802 UUCPSMTP(`research', `research.att.com') 1803 1804will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user" 1805to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com" 1806respectively. 1807 1808This could also be used to look up hosts in a database map: 1809 1810 LOCAL_RULE_3 1811 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3 1812 1813This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below. 1814 1815Similarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules. 1816For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept 1817via MX records. For example, you might have: 1818 1819 LOCAL_RULE_0 1820 R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.> 1821 1822You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU 1823pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on 1824using UUCP. 1825 1826You can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2. 1827These rulesets are normally empty. 1828 1829A similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the 1830boilerplate option setting but before rulesets. Do not declare rulesets in 1831the LOCAL_CONFIG section. It can be used to declare local database maps or 1832whatever. For example: 1833 1834 LOCAL_CONFIG 1835 Khostmap hash /etc/mail/hostmap 1836 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname 1837 1838 1839+---------------------------+ 1840| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING | 1841+---------------------------+ 1842 1843You can have your host masquerade as another using 1844 1845 MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain') 1846 1847This causes mail being sent to be labeled as coming from the 1848indicated host.domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as 1849one of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that 1850Berkeley would choose to masquerade as an MIT site). This 1851behaviour is modified by a plethora of FEATUREs; in particular, see 1852masquerade_envelope, allmasquerade, limited_masquerade, and 1853masquerade_entire_domain. 1854 1855The masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important 1856that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a 1857CNAME. However, if you use a CNAME, the receiving side may canonify 1858it for you, so don't think you can cheat CNAME mapping this way. 1859 1860Normally the only addresses that are masqueraded are those that come 1861from this host (that is, are either unqualified or in class {w}, the list 1862of local domain names). You can augment this list, which is realized 1863by class {M} using 1864 1865 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`otherhost.domain') 1866 1867The effect of this is that although mail to user@otherhost.domain 1868will not be delivered locally, any mail including any user@otherhost.domain 1869will, when relayed, be rewritten to have the MASQUERADE_AS address. 1870This can be a space-separated list of names. 1871 1872If these names are in a file, you can use 1873 1874 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(`filename') 1875 1876to read the list of names from the indicated file (i.e., to add 1877elements to class {M}). 1878 1879To exempt hosts or subdomains from being masqueraded, you can use 1880 1881 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION(`host.domain') 1882 1883This can come handy if you want to masquerade a whole domain 1884except for one (or a few) host(s). If these names are in a file, 1885you can use 1886 1887 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE(`filename') 1888 1889Normally only header addresses are masqueraded. If you want to 1890masquerade the envelope as well, use 1891 1892 FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') 1893 1894There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their 1895internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. 1896Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior to 8.10). 1897You can add users to this list using 1898 1899 EXPOSED_USER(`usernames') 1900 1901This adds users to class {E}; you could also use 1902 1903 EXPOSED_USER_FILE(`filename') 1904 1905You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names 1906without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central 1907email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have 1908to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using 1909 1910 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `mailer:hostname') 1911 1912The ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to 1913"relay". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps 1914because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be 1915locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using 1916 1917 LOCAL_USER(`usernames') 1918 1919This adds users to class {L}; you could also use 1920 1921 LOCAL_USER_FILE(`filename') 1922 1923If you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a 1924shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use 1925 1926 define(`MAIL_HUB', `mailer:hostname') 1927 1928Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY 1929and MAIL_HUB _AND_ you have FEATURE(`stickyhost'), unqualified names will 1930be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. 1931Note: there is a (long standing) bug which keeps this combination from 1932working for addresses of the form user+detail. 1933Names in class {L} will be delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or 1934.forward files for them. 1935 1936For example, if you are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU and you have 1937FEATURE(`stickyhost'), the following combinations of settings will have the 1938indicated effects: 1939 1940email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1941 1942LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally) 1943mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1944 1945MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1946mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU (aliasing done) (aliasing done) 1947 1948Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1949MAIL_HUB set as above (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1950 1951If you do not have FEATURE(`stickyhost') set, then LOCAL_RELAY and 1952MAIL_HUB act identically, with MAIL_HUB taking precedence. 1953 1954If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define 1955SMART_HOST as well. Briefly: 1956 1957 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualified names (e.g., "eric"). 1958 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the 1959 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU"). 1960 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts or 1961 bracketed addresses (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU" 1962 or "eric@[127.0.0.1]"). 1963 1964However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, 1965DECNET_RELAY, and FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you 1966really want absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will 1967need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a 1968minimal config file that does this. 1969 1970For duplicate suppression to work properly, the host name is best 1971specified with a terminal dot: 1972 1973 define(`MAIL_HUB', `host.domain.') 1974 note the trailing dot ---^ 1975 1976 1977+-------------------------------------------+ 1978| USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES | 1979+-------------------------------------------+ 1980 1981LDAP can be used for aliases, maps, and classes by either specifying your 1982own LDAP map specification or using the built-in default LDAP map 1983specification. The built-in default specifications all provide lookups 1984which match against either the machine's fully qualified hostname (${j}) or 1985a "cluster". The cluster allows you to share LDAP entries among a large 1986number of machines without having to enter each of the machine names into 1987each LDAP entry. To set the LDAP cluster name to use for a particular 1988machine or set of machines, set the confLDAP_CLUSTER m4 variable to a 1989unique name. For example: 1990 1991 define(`confLDAP_CLUSTER', `Servers') 1992 1993Here, the word `Servers' will be the cluster name. As an example, assume 1994that smtp.sendmail.org, etrn.sendmail.org, and mx.sendmail.org all belong 1995to the Servers cluster. 1996 1997Some of the LDAP LDIF examples below show use of the Servers cluster. 1998Every entry must have either a sendmailMTAHost or sendmailMTACluster 1999attribute or it will be ignored. Be careful as mixing clusters and 2000individual host records can have surprising results (see the CAUTION 2001sections below). 2002 2003See the file cf/sendmail.schema for the actual LDAP schemas. Note that 2004this schema (and therefore the lookups and examples below) is experimental 2005at this point as it has had little public review. Therefore, it may change 2006in future versions. Feedback via sendmail-YYYY@support.sendmail.org is 2007encouraged (replace YYYY with the current year, e.g., 2005). 2008 2009------- 2010Aliases 2011------- 2012 2013The ALIAS_FILE (O AliasFile) option can be set to use LDAP for alias 2014lookups. To use the default schema, simply use: 2015 2016 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:') 2017 2018By doing so, you will use the default schema which expands to a map 2019declared as follows: 2020 2021 ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAAliasObject) 2022 (sendmailMTAAliasGrouping=aliases) 2023 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2024 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 2025 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 2026 -v sendmailMTAAliasValue,sendmailMTAAliasSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAAliasObject,sendmailMTAAliasURL:URL:sendmailMTAAliasObject 2027 2028 2029NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 2030used when the binary expands the `ldap:' token as the AliasFile option is 2031not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 2032 2033Example LDAP LDIF entries might be: 2034 2035 dn: sendmailMTAKey=sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2036 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2037 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2038 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2039 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2040 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2041 sendmailMTAKey: sendmail-list 2042 sendmailMTAAliasValue: ca@example.org 2043 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2044 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro@example.com 2045 2046 dn: sendmailMTAKey=owner-sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2047 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2048 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2049 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2050 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2051 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2052 sendmailMTAKey: owner-sendmail-list 2053 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2054 2055 dn: sendmailMTAKey=postmaster, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2056 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2057 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2058 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2059 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2060 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2061 sendmailMTAKey: postmaster 2062 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2063 2064Here, the aliases sendmail-list and owner-sendmail-list will be available 2065only on etrn.sendmail.org but the postmaster alias will be available on 2066every machine in the Servers cluster (including etrn.sendmail.org). 2067 2068CAUTION: aliases are additive so that entries like these: 2069 2070 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bob, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2071 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2072 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2073 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2074 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2075 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2076 sendmailMTAKey: bob 2077 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2078 2079 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bobetrn, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2080 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2081 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2082 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2083 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2084 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2085 sendmailMTAKey: bob 2086 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro 2087 2088would mean that on all of the hosts in the cluster, mail to bob would go to 2089eric EXCEPT on etrn.sendmail.org in which case it would go to BOTH eric and 2090gshapiro. 2091 2092If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your aliases, you can 2093specify the map parameters when setting ALIAS_FILE. For example: 2094 2095 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:-k (&(objectClass=mailGroup)(mail=%0)) -v mgrpRFC822MailMember') 2096 2097---- 2098Maps 2099---- 2100 2101FEATURE()'s which take an optional map definition argument (e.g., access, 2102mailertable, virtusertable, etc.) can instead take the special keyword 2103`LDAP', e.g.: 2104 2105 FEATURE(`access_db', `LDAP') 2106 FEATURE(`virtusertable', `LDAP') 2107 2108When this keyword is given, that map will use LDAP lookups consisting of 2109the objectClass sendmailMTAClassObject, the attribute sendmailMTAMapName 2110with the map name, a search attribute of sendmailMTAKey, and the value 2111attribute sendmailMTAMapValue. 2112 2113The values for sendmailMTAMapName are: 2114 2115 FEATURE() sendmailMTAMapName 2116 --------- ------------------ 2117 access_db access 2118 authinfo authinfo 2119 bitdomain bitdomain 2120 domaintable domain 2121 genericstable generics 2122 mailertable mailer 2123 uucpdomain uucpdomain 2124 virtusertable virtuser 2125 2126For example, FEATURE(`mailertable', `LDAP') would use the map definition: 2127 2128 Kmailertable ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAMapObject) 2129 (sendmailMTAMapName=mailer) 2130 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2131 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 2132 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 2133 -1 -v sendmailMTAMapValue,sendmailMTAMapSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAMapObject,sendmailMTAMapURL:URL:sendmailMTAMapObject 2134 2135An example LDAP LDIF entry using this map might be: 2136 2137 dn: sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2138 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2139 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2140 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2141 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2142 2143 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2144 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2145 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2146 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 2147 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2148 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2149 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 2150 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[smtp.example.com] 2151 2152CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 2153specific record such as: 2154 2155 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com@etrn, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2156 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2157 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2158 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 2159 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2160 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2161 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 2162 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[mx.example.com] 2163 2164then these entries will give unexpected results. When the lookup is done 2165on etrn.sendmail.org, the effect is that there is *NO* match at all as maps 2166require a single match. Since the host etrn.sendmail.org is also in the 2167Servers cluster, LDAP would return two answers for the example.com map key 2168in which case sendmail would treat this as no match at all. 2169 2170If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your maps, you can 2171specify the map parameters when using the FEATURE(). For example: 2172 2173 FEATURE(`access_db', `ldap:-1 -k (&(objectClass=mapDatabase)(key=%0)) -v value') 2174 2175------- 2176Classes 2177------- 2178 2179Normally, classes can be filled via files or programs. As of 8.12, they 2180can also be filled via map lookups using a new syntax: 2181 2182 F{ClassName}mapkey@mapclass:mapspec 2183 2184mapkey is optional and if not provided the map key will be empty. This can 2185be used with LDAP to read classes from LDAP. Note that the lookup is only 2186done when sendmail is initially started. Use the special value `@LDAP' to 2187use the default LDAP schema. For example: 2188 2189 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(`@LDAP') 2190 2191would put all of the attribute sendmailMTAClassValue values of LDAP records 2192with objectClass sendmailMTAClass and an attribute sendmailMTAClassName of 2193'R' into class $={R}. In other words, it is equivalent to the LDAP map 2194specification: 2195 2196 F{R}@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAClass) 2197 (sendmailMTAClassName=R) 2198 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2199 (sendmailMTAHost=$j))) 2200 -v sendmailMTAClassValue,sendmailMTAClassSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAClass,sendmailMTAClassURL:URL:sendmailMTAClass 2201 2202NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 2203used when the binary expands the `@LDAP' token as class declarations are 2204not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 2205 2206This can be used with class related commands such as RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(), 2207MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(), etc: 2208 2209 Command sendmailMTAClassName 2210 ------- -------------------- 2211 CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE() Canonify 2212 EXPOSED_USER_FILE() E 2213 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE() G 2214 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN_FILE() LDAPRoute 2215 LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE() LDAPRouteEquiv 2216 LOCAL_USER_FILE() L 2217 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE() M 2218 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE() N 2219 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() R 2220 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE() VirtHost 2221 2222You can also add your own as any 'F'ile class of the form: 2223 2224 F{ClassName}@LDAP 2225 ^^^^^^^^^ 2226will use "ClassName" for the sendmailMTAClassName. 2227 2228An example LDAP LDIF entry would look like: 2229 2230 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2231 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2232 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 2233 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2234 sendmailMTAClassName: R 2235 sendmailMTAClassValue: sendmail.org 2236 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 2237 sendmailMTAClassValue: 10.56.23 2238 2239CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 2240specific record such as: 2241 2242 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R@etrn.sendmail.org, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2243 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2244 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 2245 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2246 sendmailMTAClassName: R 2247 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 2248 2249the result will be similar to the aliases caution above. When the lookup 2250is done on etrn.sendmail.org, $={R} would contain all of the entries (from 2251both the cluster match and the host match). In other words, the effective 2252is additive. 2253 2254If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your classes, you can 2255specify the map parameters when using the class command. For example: 2256 2257 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE(`@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=virtHosts)(host=*)) -v host') 2258 2259Remember, macros can not be used in a class declaration as the binary does 2260not expand them. 2261 2262 2263+--------------+ 2264| LDAP ROUTING | 2265+--------------+ 2266 2267FEATURE(`ldap_routing') can be used to implement the IETF Internet Draft 2268LDAP Schema for Intranet Mail Routing 2269(draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-01). This feature enables 2270LDAP-based rerouting of a particular address to either a different host 2271or a different address. The LDAP lookup is first attempted on the full 2272address (e.g., user@example.com) and then on the domain portion 2273(e.g., @example.com). Be sure to setup your domain for LDAP routing using 2274LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(), e.g.: 2275 2276 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(`example.com') 2277 2278Additionally, you can specify equivalent domains for LDAP routing using 2279LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT() and LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE(). 'Equivalent' 2280hostnames are mapped to $M (the masqueraded hostname for the server) before 2281the LDAP query. For example, if the mail is addressed to 2282user@host1.example.com, normally the LDAP lookup would only be done for 2283'user@host1.example.com' and '@host1.example.com'. However, if 2284LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT(`host1.example.com') is used, the lookups would also be 2285done on 'user@example.com' and '@example.com' after attempting the 2286host1.example.com lookups. 2287 2288By default, the feature will use the schemas as specified in the draft 2289and will not reject addresses not found by the LDAP lookup. However, 2290this behavior can be changed by giving additional arguments to the FEATURE() 2291command: 2292 2293 FEATURE(`ldap_routing', <mailHost>, <mailRoutingAddress>, <bounce>, 2294 <detail>, <nodomain>, <tempfail>) 2295 2296where <mailHost> is a map definition describing how to look up an alternative 2297mail host for a particular address; <mailRoutingAddress> is a map definition 2298describing how to look up an alternative address for a particular address; 2299the <bounce> argument, if present and not the word "passthru", dictates 2300that mail should be bounced if neither a mailHost nor mailRoutingAddress 2301is found, if set to "sendertoo", the sender will be rejected if not 2302found in LDAP; and <detail> indicates what actions to take if the address 2303contains +detail information -- `strip' tries the lookup with the +detail 2304and if no matches are found, strips the +detail and tries the lookup again; 2305`preserve', does the same as `strip' but if a mailRoutingAddress match is 2306found, the +detail information is copied to the new address; the <nodomain> 2307argument, if present, will prevent the @domain lookup if the full 2308address is not found in LDAP; the <tempfail> argument, if set to 2309"tempfail", instructs the rules to give an SMTP 4XX temporary 2310error if the LDAP server gives the MTA a temporary failure, or if set to 2311"queue" (the default), the MTA will locally queue the mail. 2312 2313The default <mailHost> map definition is: 2314 2315 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailHost -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2316 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2317 2318The default <mailRoutingAddress> map definition is: 2319 2320 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailRoutingAddress 2321 -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2322 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2323 2324Note that neither includes the LDAP server hostname (-h server) or base DN 2325(-b o=org,c=COUNTRY), both necessary for LDAP queries. It is presumed that 2326your .mc file contains a setting for the confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC option with 2327these settings. If this is not the case, the map definitions should be 2328changed as described above. The "-T<TMPF>" is required in any user 2329specified map definition to catch temporary errors. 2330 2331The following possibilities exist as a result of an LDAP lookup on an 2332address: 2333 2334 mailHost is mailRoutingAddress is Results in 2335 ----------- --------------------- ---------- 2336 set to a set mail delivered to 2337 "local" host mailRoutingAddress 2338 2339 set to a not set delivered to 2340 "local" host original address 2341 2342 set to a set mailRoutingAddress 2343 remote host relayed to mailHost 2344 2345 set to a not set original address 2346 remote host relayed to mailHost 2347 2348 not set set mail delivered to 2349 mailRoutingAddress 2350 2351 not set not set delivered to 2352 original address *OR* 2353 bounced as unknown user 2354 2355The term "local" host above means the host specified is in class {w}. If 2356the result would mean sending the mail to a different host, that host is 2357looked up in the mailertable before delivery. 2358 2359Note that the last case depends on whether the third argument is given 2360to the FEATURE() command. The default is to deliver the message to the 2361original address. 2362 2363The LDAP entries should be set up with an objectClass of 2364inetLocalMailRecipient and the address be listed in a mailLocalAddress 2365attribute. If present, there must be only one mailHost attribute and it 2366must contain a fully qualified host name as its value. Similarly, if 2367present, there must be only one mailRoutingAddress attribute and it must 2368contain an RFC 822 compliant address. Some example LDAP records (in LDIF 2369format): 2370 2371 dn: uid=tom, o=example.com, c=US 2372 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2373 mailLocalAddress: tom@example.com 2374 mailRoutingAddress: thomas@mailhost.example.com 2375 2376This would deliver mail for tom@example.com to thomas@mailhost.example.com. 2377 2378 dn: uid=dick, o=example.com, c=US 2379 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2380 mailLocalAddress: dick@example.com 2381 mailHost: eng.example.com 2382 2383This would relay mail for dick@example.com to the same address but redirect 2384the mail to MX records listed for the host eng.example.com (unless the 2385mailertable overrides). 2386 2387 dn: uid=harry, o=example.com, c=US 2388 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2389 mailLocalAddress: harry@example.com 2390 mailHost: mktmail.example.com 2391 mailRoutingAddress: harry@mkt.example.com 2392 2393This would relay mail for harry@example.com to the MX records listed for 2394the host mktmail.example.com using the new address harry@mkt.example.com 2395when talking to that host. 2396 2397 dn: uid=virtual.example.com, o=example.com, c=US 2398 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2399 mailLocalAddress: @virtual.example.com 2400 mailHost: server.example.com 2401 mailRoutingAddress: virtual@example.com 2402 2403This would send all mail destined for any username @virtual.example.com to 2404the machine server.example.com's MX servers and deliver to the address 2405virtual@example.com on that relay machine. 2406 2407 2408+---------------------------------+ 2409| ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL | 2410+---------------------------------+ 2411 2412The primary anti-spam features available in sendmail are: 2413 2414* Relaying is denied by default. 2415* Better checking on sender information. 2416* Access database. 2417* Header checks. 2418 2419Relaying (transmission of messages from a site outside your host (class 2420{w}) to another site except yours) is denied by default. Note that this 2421changed in sendmail 8.9; previous versions allowed relaying by default. 2422If you really want to revert to the old behaviour, you will need to use 2423FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay'). You can allow certain domains to relay 2424through your server by adding their domain name or IP address to class 2425{R} using RELAY_DOMAIN() and RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() or via the access database 2426(described below). Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2427The file consists (like any other file based class) of entries listed on 2428separate lines, e.g., 2429 2430 sendmail.org 2431 128.32 2432 IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 2433 IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 2434 host.mydomain.com 2435 [UNIX:localhost] 2436 2437Notice: the last entry allows relaying for connections via a UNIX 2438socket to the MTA/MSP. This might be necessary if your configuration 2439doesn't allow relaying by other means in that case, e.g., by having 2440localhost.$m in class {R} (make sure $m is not just a top level 2441domain). 2442 2443If you use 2444 2445 FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') 2446 2447then any host in any of your local domains (that is, class {m}) 2448will be relayed (that is, you will accept mail either to or from any 2449host in your domain). 2450 2451You can also allow relaying based on the MX records of the host 2452portion of an incoming recipient address by using 2453 2454 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') 2455 2456For example, if your server receives a recipient of user@domain.com 2457and domain.com lists your server in its MX records, the mail will be 2458accepted for relay to domain.com. This feature may cause problems 2459if MX lookups for the recipient domain are slow or time out. In that 2460case, mail will be temporarily rejected. It is usually better to 2461maintain a list of hosts/domains for which the server acts as relay. 2462Note also that this feature will stop spammers from using your host 2463to relay spam but it will not stop outsiders from using your server 2464as a relay for their site (that is, they set up an MX record pointing 2465to your mail server, and you will relay mail addressed to them 2466without any prior arrangement). Along the same lines, 2467 2468 FEATURE(`relay_local_from') 2469 2470will allow relaying if the sender specifies a return path (i.e. 2471MAIL FROM:<user@domain>) domain which is a local domain. This is a 2472dangerous feature as it will allow spammers to spam using your mail 2473server by simply specifying a return address of user@your.domain.com. 2474It should not be used unless absolutely necessary. 2475A slightly better solution is 2476 2477 FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') 2478 2479which allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in the 2480access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this is the literal 2481word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, the domain portion of 2482the mail sender is also checked to allowing relaying. This option 2483only works together with the tag From: for the LHS of the access 2484map entries. This feature allows spammers to abuse your mail server 2485by specifying a return address that you enabled in your access file. 2486This may be harder to figure out for spammers, but it should not 2487be used unless necessary. Instead use SMTP AUTH or STARTTLS to 2488allow relaying for roaming users. 2489 2490 2491If source routing is used in the recipient address (e.g., 2492RCPT TO:<user%site.com@othersite.com>), sendmail will check 2493user@site.com for relaying if othersite.com is an allowed relay host 2494in either class {R}, class {m} if FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') is used, 2495or the access database if FEATURE(`access_db') is used. To prevent 2496the address from being stripped down, use: 2497 2498 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check') 2499 2500If you think you need to use this feature, you probably do not. This 2501should only be used for sites which have no control over the addresses 2502that they provide a gateway for. Use this FEATURE with caution as it 2503can allow spammers to relay through your server if not setup properly. 2504 2505NOTICE: It is possible to relay mail through a system which the 2506anti-relay rules do not prevent: the case of a system that does use 2507FEATURE(`nouucp', `nospecial') / FEATURE(`nopercenthack', `nospecial') 2508(system A) and relays local messages to a mail hub (e.g., via 2509LOCAL_RELAY or LUSER_RELAY) (system B). If system B doesn't use the 2510same feature (nouucp / nopercenthack) at all, addresses of the form 2511<example.net!user@local.host> / <user%example.net@local.host> 2512would be relayed to <user@example.net>. 2513System A doesn't recognize `!' / `%' as an address separator and 2514therefore forwards it to the mail hub which in turns relays it 2515because it came from a trusted local host. So if a mailserver 2516allows UUCP (bang-format) / %-hack addresses, all systems from which 2517it allows relaying should do the same or reject those addresses. 2518 2519As of 8.9, sendmail will refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter has 2520an unresolvable domain (i.e., one that DNS, your local name service, 2521or special case rules in ruleset 3 cannot locate). This also applies 2522to addresses that use domain literals, e.g., <user@[1.2.3.4]>, if the 2523IP address can't be mapped to a host name. If you want to continue 2524to accept such domains, e.g., because you are inside a firewall that 2525has only a limited view of the Internet host name space (note that you 2526will not be able to return mail to them unless you have some "smart 2527host" forwarder), use 2528 2529 FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') 2530 2531Alternatively, you can allow specific addresses by adding them to 2532the access map, e.g., 2533 2534 From:unresolvable.domain OK 2535 From:[1.2.3.4] OK 2536 From:[1.2.4] OK 2537 2538Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily) 2539rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted 2540(which is discouraged) then you can use 2541 2542 LOCAL_CONFIG 2543 C{ResOk}TEMP 2544 2545sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not 2546fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you 2547want to continue to accept such senders, use 2548 2549 FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders') 2550 2551Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'u' overrides the default behavior, 2552i.e., unqualified addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. If 2553this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'f' can be used 2554to enforce fully qualified domain names. 2555 2556An ``access'' database can be created to accept or reject mail from 2557selected domains. For example, you may choose to reject all mail 2558originating from known spammers. To enable such a database, use 2559 2560 FEATURE(`access_db') 2561 2562Notice: the access database is applied to the envelope addresses 2563and the connection information, not to the header. 2564 2565The FEATURE macro can accept as second parameter the key file 2566definition for the database; for example 2567 2568 FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access_map') 2569 2570Notice: If a second argument is specified it must contain the option 2571`-T<TMPF>' as shown above. The optional parameters may be 2572 2573 `skip' enables SKIP as value part (see below). 2574 `lookupdotdomain' another way to enable the feature of the 2575 same name (see above). 2576 `relaytofulladdress' enable entries of the form 2577 To:user@example.com RELAY 2578 to allow relaying to just a specific 2579 e-mail address instead of an entire domain. 2580 2581Remember, since /etc/mail/access is a database, after creating the text 2582file as described below, you must use makemap to create the database 2583map. For example: 2584 2585 makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access 2586 2587The table itself uses e-mail addresses, domain names, and network 2588numbers as keys. Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2589For example, 2590 2591 From:spammer@aol.com REJECT 2592 From:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2593 Connect:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2594 Connect:TLD REJECT 2595 Connect:192.168.212 REJECT 2596 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 RELAY 2597 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 REJECT 2598 2599would refuse mail from spammer@aol.com, any user from cyberspammer.com 2600(or any host within the cyberspammer.com domain), any host in the entire 2601top level domain TLD, 192.168.212.* network, and the IPv6 address 26022002:c0a8:51d2::23f4. It would allow relay for the IPv6 network 26032002:c0a8:02c7::/48. 2604 2605Entries in the access map should be tagged according to their type. 2606These tags are applicable: 2607 2608 Connect: connection information (${client_addr}, ${client_name}) 2609 From: envelope sender 2610 To: envelope recipient 2611 2612Notice: untagged entries are deprecated. 2613 2614If the required item is looked up in a map, it will be tried first 2615with the corresponding tag in front, then (as fallback to enable 2616backward compatibility) without any tag, unless the specific feature 2617requires a tag. For example, 2618 2619 From:spammer@some.dom REJECT 2620 To:friend.domain RELAY 2621 Connect:friend.domain OK 2622 Connect:from.domain RELAY 2623 From:good@another.dom OK 2624 From:another.dom REJECT 2625 2626This would deny mails from spammer@some.dom but you could still 2627send mail to that address even if FEATURE(`blocklist_recipients') 2628is enabled. Your system will allow relaying to friend.domain, but 2629not from it (unless enabled by other means). Connections from that 2630domain will be allowed even if it ends up in one of the DNS based 2631rejection lists. Relaying is enabled from from.domain but not to 2632it (since relaying is based on the connection information for 2633outgoing relaying, the tag Connect: must be used; for incoming 2634relaying, which is based on the recipient address, To: must be 2635used). The last two entries allow mails from good@another.dom but 2636reject mail from all other addresses with another.dom as domain 2637part. 2638 2639 2640The value part of the map can contain: 2641 2642 OK Accept mail even if other rules in the running 2643 ruleset would reject it, for example, if the domain 2644 name is unresolvable. "Accept" does not mean 2645 "relay", but at most acceptance for local 2646 recipients. That is, OK allows less than RELAY. 2647 RELAY Accept mail addressed to the indicated domain 2648 (or address if `relaytofulladdress' is set) or 2649 received from the indicated domain for relaying 2650 through your SMTP server. RELAY also serves as 2651 an implicit OK for the other checks. 2652 REJECT Reject the sender or recipient with a general 2653 purpose message. 2654 DISCARD Discard the message completely using the 2655 $#discard mailer. If it is used in check_compat, 2656 it affects only the designated recipient, not 2657 the whole message as it does in all other cases. 2658 This should only be used if really necessary. 2659 SKIP This can only be used for host/domain names 2660 and IP addresses/nets. It will abort the current 2661 search for this entry without accepting or rejecting 2662 it but causing the default action. 2663 ### any text where ### is an RFC 821 compliant error code and 2664 "any text" is a message to return for the command. 2665 The entire string should be quoted to avoid 2666 surprises: 2667 2668 "### any text" 2669 2670 Otherwise sendmail formats the text as email 2671 addresses, e.g., it may remove spaces. 2672 This type is deprecated, use one of the two 2673 ERROR: entries below instead. 2674 ERROR:### any text 2675 as above, but useful to mark error messages as such. 2676 If quotes need to be used to avoid modifications 2677 (see above), they should be placed like this: 2678 2679 ERROR:"### any text" 2680 2681 ERROR:D.S.N:### any text 2682 where D.S.N is an RFC 1893 compliant error code 2683 and the rest as above. If quotes need to be used 2684 to avoid modifications, they should be placed 2685 like this: 2686 2687 ERROR:D.S.N:"### any text" 2688 2689 QUARANTINE:any text 2690 Quarantine the message using the given text as the 2691 quarantining reason. 2692 2693For example: 2694 2695 From:cyberspammer.com ERROR:"550 We don't accept mail from spammers" 2696 From:okay.cyberspammer.com OK 2697 Connect:sendmail.org RELAY 2698 To:sendmail.org RELAY 2699 Connect:128.32 RELAY 2700 Connect:128.32.2 SKIP 2701 Connect:IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7 RELAY 2702 Connect:suspicious.example.com QUARANTINE:Mail from suspicious host 2703 Connect:[127.0.0.3] OK 2704 Connect:[IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8] OK 2705 2706would accept mail from okay.cyberspammer.com, but would reject mail 2707from all other hosts at cyberspammer.com with the indicated message. 2708It would allow relaying mail from and to any hosts in the sendmail.org 2709domain, and allow relaying from the IPv6 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:* network 2710and from the 128.32.*.* network except for the 128.32.2.* network, 2711which shows how SKIP is useful to exempt subnets/subdomains. The 2712last two entries are for checks against ${client_name} if the IP 2713address doesn't resolve to a hostname (or is considered as "may be 2714forged"). That is, using square brackets means these are host 2715names, not network numbers. 2716 2717Warning: if you change the RFC 821 compliant error code from the default 2718value of 550, then you should probably also change the RFC 1893 compliant 2719error code to match it. For example, if you use 2720 2721 To:user@example.com ERROR:450 mailbox full 2722 2723the error returned would be "450 5.0.0 mailbox full" which is wrong. 2724Use "ERROR:4.2.2:450 mailbox full" instead. 2725 2726Note, UUCP users may need to add hostname.UUCP to the access database 2727or class {R}. 2728 2729If you also use: 2730 2731 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only') 2732 2733then the above example will allow relaying for sendmail.org, but not 2734hosts within the sendmail.org domain. Note that this will also require 2735hosts listed in class {R} to be fully qualified host names. 2736 2737You can also use the access database to block sender addresses based on 2738the username portion of the address. For example: 2739 2740 From:FREE.STEALTH.MAILER@ ERROR:550 Spam not accepted 2741 2742Note that you must include the @ after the username to signify that 2743this database entry is for checking only the username portion of the 2744sender address. 2745 2746If you use: 2747 2748 FEATURE(`blocklist_recipients') 2749 2750then you can add entries to the map for local users, hosts in your 2751domains, or addresses in your domain which should not receive mail: 2752 2753 To:badlocaluser@ ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for badlocaluser 2754 To:host.my.TLD ERROR:550 That host does not accept mail 2755 To:user@other.my.TLD ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for this recipient 2756 2757This would prevent a recipient of badlocaluser in any of the local 2758domains (class {w}), any user at host.my.TLD, and the single address 2759user@other.my.TLD from receiving mail. Please note: a local username 2760must be now tagged with an @ (this is consistent with the check of 2761the sender address, and hence it is possible to distinguish between 2762hostnames and usernames). Enabling this feature will keep you from 2763sending mails to all addresses that have an error message or REJECT 2764as value part in the access map. Taking the example from above: 2765 2766 spammer@aol.com REJECT 2767 cyberspammer.com REJECT 2768 2769Mail can't be sent to spammer@aol.com or anyone at cyberspammer.com. 2770That's why tagged entries should be used. 2771 2772There are several DNS based blocklists which can be found by 2773querying a search engine. These are databases of spammers 2774maintained in DNS. To use such a database, specify 2775 2776 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com') 2777 2778This will cause sendmail to reject mail from any site listed in the 2779DNS based blocklist. You must select a DNS based blocklist domain 2780to check by specifying an argument to the FEATURE. The default 2781error message is 2782 2783 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 2784 2785where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2786information. A second argument can be used to specify a different 2787text or action. For example, 2788 2789 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `quarantine') 2790 2791would quarantine the message if the client IP address is listed 2792at `dnsbl.example.com'. 2793 2794By default, temporary lookup failures are ignored 2795and hence cause the connection not to be rejected by the DNS based 2796rejection list. This behavior can be changed by specifying a third 2797argument, which must be either `t' or a full error message. For 2798example: 2799 2800 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', 2801 `"451 Temporary lookup failure for " $&{client_addr} " in dnsbl.example.com"') 2802 2803If `t' is used, the error message is: 2804 2805 451 Temporary lookup failure of IP-ADDRESS at SERVER 2806 2807where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2808information. 2809 2810This FEATURE can be included several times to query different 2811DNS based rejection lists. 2812 2813Notice: to avoid checking your own local domains against those 2814blocklists, use the access_db feature and add: 2815 2816 Connect:10.1 OK 2817 Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY 2818 2819to the access map, where 10.1 is your local network. You may 2820want to use "RELAY" instead of "OK" to allow also relaying 2821instead of just disabling the DNS lookups in the blocklists. 2822 2823 2824The features described above make use of the check_relay, check_mail, 2825and check_rcpt rulesets. Note that check_relay checks the SMTP 2826client hostname and IP address when the connection is made to your 2827server. It does not check if a mail message is being relayed to 2828another server. That check is done in check_rcpt. If you wish to 2829include your own checks, you can put your checks in the rulesets 2830Local_check_relay, Local_check_mail, and Local_check_rcpt. For 2831example if you wanted to block senders with all numeric usernames 2832(i.e. 2312343@bigisp.com), you would use Local_check_mail and the 2833regex map: 2834 2835 LOCAL_CONFIG 2836 Kallnumbers regex -a@MATCH ^[0-9]+$ 2837 2838 LOCAL_RULESETS 2839 SLocal_check_mail 2840 # check address against various regex checks 2841 R$* $: $>Parse0 $>3 $1 2842 R$+ < @ bigisp.com. > $* $: $(allnumbers $1 $) 2843 R@MATCH $#error $: 553 Address Error 2844 2845These rules are called with the original arguments of the corresponding 2846check_* ruleset. If the local ruleset returns $#OK, no further checking 2847is done by the features described above and the mail is accepted. If 2848the local ruleset resolves to a mailer (such as $#error or $#discard), 2849the appropriate action is taken. Other results starting with $# are 2850interpreted by sendmail and may lead to unspecified behavior. Note: do 2851NOT create a mailer with the name OK. Return values that do not start 2852with $# are ignored, i.e., normal processing continues. 2853 2854Delay all checks 2855---------------- 2856 2857By using FEATURE(`delay_checks') the rulesets check_mail and check_relay 2858will not be called when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, 2859respectively. Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 2860ruleset; they will be skipped if a sender has been authenticated using 2861a "trusted" mechanism, i.e., one that is defined via TRUST_AUTH_MECH(). 2862If check_mail returns an error then the RCPT TO command will be rejected 2863with that error. If it returns some other result starting with $# then 2864check_relay will be skipped. If the sender address (or a part of it) is 2865listed in the access map and it has a RHS of OK or RELAY, then check_relay 2866will be skipped. This has an interesting side effect: if your domain is 2867my.domain and you have 2868 2869 my.domain RELAY 2870 2871in the access map, then any e-mail with a sender address of 2872<user@my.domain> will not be rejected by check_relay even though 2873it would match the hostname or IP address. This allows spammers 2874to get around DNS based blocklist by faking the sender address. To 2875avoid this problem you have to use tagged entries: 2876 2877 To:my.domain RELAY 2878 Connect:my.domain RELAY 2879 2880if you need those entries at all (class {R} may take care of them). 2881 2882FEATURE(`delay_checks') can take an optional argument: 2883 2884 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend') 2885 enables spamfriend test 2886 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `hater') 2887 enables spamhater test 2888 2889If such an argument is given, the recipient will be looked up in the 2890access map (using the tag Spam:). If the argument is `friend', then 2891the default behavior is to apply the other rulesets and make a SPAM 2892friend the exception. The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will be 2893skipped only if the recipient address is found and has RHS FRIEND. If 2894the argument is `hater', then the default behavior is to skip the rulesets 2895check_mail and check_relay and make a SPAM hater the exception. The 2896other two rulesets will be applied only if the recipient address is 2897found and has RHS HATER. 2898 2899This allows for simple exceptions from the tests, e.g., by activating 2900the friend option and having 2901 2902 Spam:abuse@ FRIEND 2903 2904in the access map, mail to abuse@localdomain will get through (where 2905"localdomain" is any domain in class {w}). It is also possible to 2906specify a full address or an address with +detail: 2907 2908 Spam:abuse@my.domain FRIEND 2909 Spam:me+abuse@ FRIEND 2910 Spam:spam.domain FRIEND 2911 2912Note: The required tag has been changed in 8.12 from To: to Spam:. 2913This change is incompatible to previous versions. However, you can 2914(for now) simply add the new entries to the access map, the old 2915ones will be ignored. As soon as you removed the old entries from 2916the access map, specify a third parameter (`n') to this feature and 2917the backward compatibility rules will not be in the generated .cf 2918file. 2919 2920Header Checks 2921------------- 2922 2923You can also reject mail on the basis of the contents of headers. 2924This is done by adding a ruleset call to the 'H' header definition command 2925in sendmail.cf. For example, this can be used to check the validity of 2926a Message-ID: header: 2927 2928 LOCAL_CONFIG 2929 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2930 2931 LOCAL_RULESETS 2932 SCheckMessageId 2933 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2934 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2935 2936The alternative format: 2937 2938 HSubject: $>+CheckSubject 2939 2940that is, $>+ instead of $>, gives the full Subject: header including 2941comments to the ruleset (comments in parentheses () are stripped 2942by default). 2943 2944A default ruleset for headers which don't have a specific ruleset 2945defined for them can be given by: 2946 2947 H*: $>CheckHdr 2948 2949Notice: 29501. All rules act on tokens as explained in doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 2951That may cause problems with simple header checks due to the 2952tokenization. It might be simpler to use a regex map and apply it 2953to $&{currHeader}. 29542. There are no default rulesets coming with this distribution of 2955sendmail. You can write your own, can search the WWW for examples, 2956or take a look at cf/cf/knecht.mc. 29573. When using a default ruleset for headers, the name of the header 2958currently being checked can be found in the $&{hdr_name} macro. 2959 2960After all of the headers are read, the check_eoh ruleset will be called for 2961any final header-related checks. The ruleset is called with the number of 2962headers and the size of all of the headers in bytes separated by $|. One 2963example usage is to reject messages which do not have a Message-Id: 2964header. However, the Message-Id: header is *NOT* a required header and is 2965not a guaranteed spam indicator. This ruleset is an example and should 2966probably not be used in production. 2967 2968 LOCAL_CONFIG 2969 Kstorage macro 2970 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2971 2972 LOCAL_RULESETS 2973 SCheckMessageId 2974 # Record the presence of the header 2975 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $@ OK $) $1 2976 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2977 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2978 2979 Scheck_eoh 2980 # Check the macro 2981 R$* $: < $&{MessageIdCheck} > 2982 # Clear the macro for the next message 2983 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $) $1 2984 # Has a Message-Id: header 2985 R< $+ > $@ OK 2986 # Allow missing Message-Id: from local mail 2987 R$* $: < $&{client_name} > 2988 R< > $@ OK 2989 R< $=w > $@ OK 2990 # Otherwise, reject the mail 2991 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2992 2993 2994+--------------------+ 2995| CONNECTION CONTROL | 2996+--------------------+ 2997 2998The features ratecontrol and conncontrol allow to establish connection 2999limits per client IP address or net. These features can limit the 3000rate of connections (connections per time unit) or the number of 3001incoming SMTP connections, respectively. If enabled, appropriate 3002rulesets are called at the end of check_relay, i.e., after DNS 3003blocklists and generic access_db operations. The features require 3004FEATURE(`access_db') to be listed earlier in the mc file. 3005 3006Note: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays those connection control checks 3007after a recipient address has been received, hence making these 3008connection control features less useful. To run the checks as early 3009as possible, specify the parameter `nodelay', e.g., 3010 3011 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay') 3012 3013In that case, FEATURE(`delay_checks') has no effect on connection 3014control (and it must be specified earlier in the mc file). 3015 3016An optional second argument `terminate' specifies whether the 3017rulesets should return the error code 421 which will cause 3018sendmail to terminate the session with that error if it is 3019returned from check_relay, i.e., not delayed as explained in 3020the previous paragraph. Example: 3021 3022 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay', `terminate') 3023 3024 3025+----------+ 3026| STARTTLS | 3027+----------+ 3028 3029In this text, cert will be used as an abbreviation for X.509 certificate, 3030DN (CN) is the distinguished (common) name of a cert, and CA is a 3031certification authority, which signs (issues) certs. 3032 3033For STARTTLS to be offered by sendmail you need to set at least 3034these variables (the file names and paths are just examples): 3035 3036 define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/mail/certs/') 3037 define(`confCACERT', `/etc/mail/certs/CA.cert.pem') 3038 define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/my.cert.pem') 3039 define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/my.key.pem') 3040 3041On systems which do not have the compile flag HASURANDOM set (see 3042sendmail/README) you also must set confRAND_FILE. 3043 3044See doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt} for more information about these options, 3045especially the sections ``Certificates for STARTTLS'' and ``PRNG for 3046STARTTLS''. 3047 3048Macros related to STARTTLS are: 3049 3050${cert_issuer} holds the DN of the CA (the cert issuer). 3051${cert_subject} holds the DN of the cert (called the cert subject). 3052${cn_issuer} holds the CN of the CA (the cert issuer). 3053${cn_subject} holds the CN of the cert (called the cert subject). 3054${tls_version} the TLS/SSL version used for the connection, e.g., TLSv1, 3055 TLSv1/SSLv3, SSLv3, SSLv2. 3056${cipher} the cipher used for the connection, e.g., EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA, 3057 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA, DES-CBC-MD5, DES-CBC3-SHA. 3058${cipher_bits} the keylength (in bits) of the symmetric encryption algorithm 3059 used for the connection. 3060${verify} holds the result of the verification of the presented cert. 3061 Possible values are: 3062 OK verification succeeded. 3063 NO no cert presented. 3064 NOT no cert requested. 3065 FAIL cert presented but could not be verified, 3066 e.g., the cert of the signing CA is missing. 3067 NONE STARTTLS has not been performed. 3068 TEMP temporary error occurred. 3069 PROTOCOL protocol error occurred (SMTP level). 3070 SOFTWARE STARTTLS handshake failed. 3071${server_name} the name of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 3072 connection. 3073${server_addr} the address of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 3074 connection. 3075 3076Relaying 3077-------- 3078 3079SMTP STARTTLS can allow relaying for remote SMTP clients which have 3080successfully authenticated themselves. If the verification of the cert 3081failed (${verify} != OK), relaying is subject to the usual rules. 3082Otherwise the DN of the issuer is looked up in the access map using the 3083tag CERTISSUER. If the resulting value is RELAY, relaying is allowed. 3084If it is SUBJECT, the DN of the cert subject is looked up next in the 3085access map using the tag CERTSUBJECT. If the value is RELAY, relaying 3086is allowed. 3087 3088To make things a bit more flexible (or complicated), the values for 3089${cert_issuer} and ${cert_subject} can be optionally modified by regular 3090expressions defined in the m4 variables _CERT_REGEX_ISSUER_ and 3091_CERT_REGEX_SUBJECT_, respectively. To avoid problems with those macros in 3092rulesets and map lookups, they are modified as follows: each non-printable 3093character and the characters '<', '>', '(', ')', '"', '+', ' ' are replaced 3094by their HEX value with a leading '+'. For example: 3095 3096/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN=Darth Mail (Cert)/emailAddress= 3097darth+cert@endmail.org 3098 3099is encoded as: 3100 3101/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3102Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3103 3104(line breaks have been inserted for readability). 3105 3106The macros which are subject to this encoding are ${cert_subject}, 3107${cert_issuer}, ${cn_subject}, and ${cn_issuer}. 3108 3109Examples: 3110 3111To allow relaying for everyone who can present a cert signed by 3112 3113/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3114Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3115 3116simply use: 3117 3118CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3119Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org RELAY 3120 3121To allow relaying only for a subset of machines that have a cert signed by 3122 3123/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3124Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3125 3126use: 3127 3128CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3129Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org SUBJECT 3130CertSubject:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3131DeathStar/emailAddress=deathstar@endmail.org RELAY 3132 3133Note: line breaks have been inserted after "CN=" for readability, 3134each tagged entry must be one (long) line in the access map. 3135 3136Of course it is also possible to write a simple ruleset that allows 3137relaying for everyone who can present a cert that can be verified, e.g., 3138 3139LOCAL_RULESETS 3140SLocal_check_rcpt 3141R$* $: $&{verify} 3142ROK $# OK 3143 3144Allowing Connections 3145-------------------- 3146 3147The rulesets tls_server, tls_client, and tls_rcpt are used to decide whether 3148an SMTP connection is accepted (or should continue). 3149 3150tls_server is called when sendmail acts as client after a STARTTLS command 3151(should) have been issued. The parameter is the value of ${verify}. 3152 3153tls_client is called when sendmail acts as server, after a STARTTLS command 3154has been issued, and from check_mail. The parameter is the value of 3155${verify} and STARTTLS or MAIL, respectively. 3156 3157Both rulesets behave the same. If no access map is in use, the connection 3158will be accepted unless ${verify} is SOFTWARE, in which case the connection 3159is always aborted. For tls_server/tls_client, ${client_name}/${server_name} 3160is looked up in the access map using the tag TLS_Srv/TLS_Clt, which is done 3161with the ruleset LookUpDomain. If no entry is found, ${client_addr} 3162(${server_addr}) is looked up in the access map (same tag, ruleset 3163LookUpAddr). If this doesn't result in an entry either, just the tag is 3164looked up in the access map (included the trailing colon). Notice: 3165requiring that e-mail is sent to a server only encrypted, e.g., via 3166 3167TLS_Srv:secure.domain ENCR:112 3168 3169doesn't necessarily mean that e-mail sent to that domain is encrypted. 3170If the domain has multiple MX servers, e.g., 3171 3172secure.domain. IN MX 10 mail.secure.domain. 3173secure.domain. IN MX 50 mail.other.domain. 3174 3175then mail to user@secure.domain may go unencrypted to mail.other.domain. 3176tls_rcpt can be used to address this problem. 3177 3178tls_rcpt is called before a RCPT TO: command is sent. The parameter is the 3179current recipient. This ruleset is only defined if FEATURE(`access_db') 3180is selected. A recipient address user@domain is looked up in the access 3181map in four formats: TLS_Rcpt:user@domain, TLS_Rcpt:user@, TLS_Rcpt:domain, 3182and TLS_Rcpt:; the first match is taken. 3183 3184The result of the lookups is then used to call the ruleset TLS_connection, 3185which checks the requirement specified by the RHS in the access map against 3186the actual parameters of the current TLS connection, esp. ${verify} and 3187${cipher_bits}. Legal RHSs in the access map are: 3188 3189VERIFY verification must have succeeded 3190VERIFY:bits verification must have succeeded and ${cipher_bits} must 3191 be greater than or equal bits. 3192ENCR:bits ${cipher_bits} must be greater than or equal bits. 3193 3194The RHS can optionally be prefixed by TEMP+ or PERM+ to select a temporary 3195or permanent error. The default is a temporary error code unless 3196the macro TLS_PERM_ERR is set during generation of the .cf file. 3197 3198If a certain level of encryption is required, then it might also be 3199possible that this level is provided by the security layer from a SASL 3200algorithm, e.g., DIGEST-MD5. 3201 3202Furthermore, there can be a list of extensions added. Such a list 3203starts with '+' and the items are separated by '++'. Allowed 3204extensions are: 3205 3206CN:name name must match ${cn_subject} 3207CN ${client_name}/${server_name} must match ${cn_subject} 3208CS:name name must match ${cert_subject} 3209CI:name name must match ${cert_issuer} 3210CITag:MYTag look up MYTag:${cert_issuer} in access map; the check 3211 only succeeds if it is found with a RHS of OK. 3212 3213Example: e-mail sent to secure.example.com should only use an encrypted 3214connection. E-mail received from hosts within the laptop.example.com domain 3215should only be accepted if they have been authenticated. The host which 3216receives e-mail for darth@endmail.org must present a cert that uses the 3217CN smtp.endmail.org. E-mail sent to safe.example.com must be verified, 3218have a matching CN, and must present a cert signed by a CA with one of 3219the listed DNs. 3220 3221TLS_Srv:secure.example.com ENCR:112 3222TLS_Clt:laptop.example.com PERM+VERIFY:112 3223TLS_Rcpt:darth@endmail.org ENCR:112+CN:smtp.endmail.org 3224TLS_Srv:safe.example.net VERIFY+CN++CITag:MyCA 3225MyCA:/C=US/ST=CA/O=safe/CN=example.net/ OK 3226MyCA:/C=US/ST=CA/O=secure/CN=example.net/ OK 3227 3228 3229TLS Options per Session 3230----------------------- 3231 3232By default STARTTLS is used whenever possible. However, there are 3233MTAs with STARTTLS interoperability issues. To be able to send to 3234(or receive from) those MTAs several features are available: 3235 32361) Various TLS options be be set per IP/domain. 32372) STARTTLS can be turned off for specific IP addresses/domains. 3238 3239About 1): the rulesets tls_srv_features and tls_clt_features can 3240be used to return a (semicolon separated) list of TLS related 3241options: 3242 3243- Options: compare {Server,Client}SSLOptions. 3244- CipherList: same as the global option. 3245- CertFile, KeyFile: {Server,Client}{Cert,Key}File 3246- Flags: see doc/op/op.me for details. 3247 3248If FEATURE(`tls_session_features') and FEATURE(`access_db') are 3249used, then default rulesets are activated which look up entries in 3250the access map with the tags TLS_Srv_features and TLS_Clt_features, 3251respectively. For example, these entries: 3252 3253TLS_Srv_features:10.0.2.4 CipherList=MEDIUM+aRSA; 3254TLS_Clt_features:10.1.0.1 Options=SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2; CipherList=ALL:-EXPORT 3255 3256specify a cipherlist with MEDIUM strength ciphers that use RSA 3257certificates only for the client with the IP address 10.0.2.4, 3258and turn off TLSv1.2 when connecting to the server with the IP 3259address 10.1.0.1 as well as setting a specific cipherlist. 3260If FEATURE(`tls_session_features') is not used the user can provide 3261their own rulesets which must return the appropriate data. 3262If the rulesets are not defined or do not return a value, the 3263default TLS options are not modified. 3264 3265About 2): the rulesets try_tls, srv_features, and clt_features can 3266be used together with the access map. Entries for the access map 3267must be tagged with Try_TLS, Srv_Features, Clt_Features and refer 3268to the hostname or IP address of the connecting system (the latter 3269is not available for clt_features). A default case can be specified 3270by using just the tag. For example, the following entries in the 3271access map: 3272 3273 Try_TLS:broken.server NO 3274 Srv_Features:my.domain v 3275 Srv_Features: V 3276 Clt_Features:broken.sts M 3277 3278will turn off STARTTLS when sending to broken.server (or any host 3279in that domain), request a client certificate during the TLS handshake 3280only for hosts in my.domain, and disable MTA-STS for broken.sts. 3281The valid entries on the RHS for Srv_Features and Clt_Features are 3282listed in the Sendmail Installation and Operations Guide. 3283 3284 3285Received: Header 3286---------------- 3287 3288The Received: header reveals whether STARTTLS has been used. It contains an 3289extra line: 3290 3291(version=${tls_version} cipher=${cipher} bits=${cipher_bits} verify=${verify}) 3292 3293 3294+---------------------+ 3295| SMTP AUTHENTICATION | 3296+---------------------+ 3297 3298The macros ${auth_authen}, ${auth_author}, and ${auth_type} can be 3299used in anti-relay rulesets to allow relaying for those users that 3300authenticated themselves. A very simple example is: 3301 3302SLocal_check_rcpt 3303R$* $: $&{auth_type} 3304R$+ $# OK 3305 3306which checks whether a user has successfully authenticated using 3307any available mechanism. Depending on the setup of the Cyrus SASL 3308library, more sophisticated rulesets might be required, e.g., 3309 3310SLocal_check_rcpt 3311R$* $: $&{auth_type} $| $&{auth_authen} 3312RDIGEST-MD5 $| $+@$=w $# OK 3313 3314to allow relaying for users that authenticated using DIGEST-MD5 3315and have an identity in the local domains. 3316 3317The ruleset trust_auth is used to determine whether a given AUTH= 3318parameter (that is passed to this ruleset) should be trusted. This 3319ruleset may make use of the other ${auth_*} macros. Only if the 3320ruleset resolves to the error mailer, the AUTH= parameter is not 3321trusted. A user supplied ruleset Local_trust_auth can be written 3322to modify the default behavior, which only trust the AUTH= 3323parameter if it is identical to the authenticated user. 3324 3325Per default, relaying is allowed for any user who authenticated 3326via a "trusted" mechanism, i.e., one that is defined via 3327TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`list of mechanisms') 3328For example: 3329TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5') 3330 3331If the selected mechanism provides a security layer the number of 3332bits used for the key of the symmetric cipher is stored in the 3333macro ${auth_ssf}. 3334 3335Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client 3336----------------------------------------------------- 3337 3338If sendmail acts as client, it needs some information how to 3339authenticate against another MTA. This information can be provided 3340by the ruleset authinfo or by the option DefaultAuthInfo. The 3341authinfo ruleset looks up {server_name} using the tag AuthInfo: in 3342the access map. If no entry is found, {server_addr} is looked up 3343in the same way and finally just the tag AuthInfo: to provide 3344default values. Note: searches for domain parts or IP nets are 3345only performed if the access map is used; if the authinfo feature 3346is used then only up to three lookups are performed (two exact 3347matches, one default). 3348 3349Note: If your daemon does client authentication when sending, and 3350if it uses either PLAIN or LOGIN authentication, then you *must* 3351prevent ordinary users from seeing verbose output. Do NOT install 3352sendmail set-user-ID. Use PrivacyOptions to turn off verbose output 3353("goaway" works for this). 3354 3355Notice: the default configuration file causes the option DefaultAuthInfo 3356to fail since the ruleset authinfo is in the .cf file. If you really 3357want to use DefaultAuthInfo (it is deprecated) then you have to 3358remove the ruleset. 3359 3360The RHS for an AuthInfo: entry in the access map should consists of a 3361list of tokens, each of which has the form: "TDstring" (including 3362the quotes). T is a tag which describes the item, D is a delimiter, 3363either ':' for simple text or '=' for a base64 encoded string. 3364Valid values for the tag are: 3365 3366 U user (authorization) id 3367 I authentication id 3368 P password 3369 R realm 3370 M list of mechanisms delimited by spaces 3371 3372Example entries are: 3373 3374AuthInfo:other.dom "U:user" "I:user" "P:secret" "R:other.dom" "M:DIGEST-MD5" 3375AuthInfo:host.more.dom "U:user" "P=c2VjcmV0" 3376 3377User id or authentication id must exist as well as the password. All 3378other entries have default values. If one of user or authentication 3379id is missing, the existing value is used for the missing item. 3380If "R:" is not specified, realm defaults to $j. The list of mechanisms 3381defaults to those specified by AuthMechanisms. 3382 3383Since this map contains sensitive information, either the access 3384map must be unreadable by everyone but root (or the trusted user) 3385or FEATURE(`authinfo') must be used which provides a separate map. 3386Notice: It is not checked whether the map is actually 3387group/world-unreadable, this is left to the user. 3388 3389 3390+--------------------------------+ 3391| ADDING NEW MAILERS OR RULESETS | 3392+--------------------------------+ 3393 3394Sometimes you may need to add entirely new mailers or rulesets. They 3395should be introduced with the constructs MAILER_DEFINITIONS and 3396LOCAL_RULESETS respectively. For example: 3397 3398 MAILER_DEFINITIONS 3399 Mmymailer, ... 3400 ... 3401 3402 LOCAL_RULESETS 3403 Smyruleset 3404 ... 3405 3406Local additions for the rulesets srv_features, clt_features, try_tls, 3407tls_rcpt, tls_client, and tls_server can be made using LOCAL_SRV_FEATURES, 3408LOCAL_CLT_FEATURES, LOCAL_TRY_TLS, LOCAL_TLS_RCPT, LOCAL_TLS_CLIENT, 3409and LOCAL_TLS_SERVER, respectively. For example, to add a local 3410ruleset that decides whether to try STARTTLS in a sendmail client, use: 3411 3412 LOCAL_TRY_TLS 3413 R... 3414 3415Note: you don't need to add a name for the ruleset, it is implicitly 3416defined by using the appropriate macro. 3417 3418 3419+-------------------------+ 3420| ADDING NEW MAIL FILTERS | 3421+-------------------------+ 3422 3423Sendmail supports mail filters to filter incoming SMTP messages according 3424to the "Sendmail Mail Filter API" documentation. These filters can be 3425configured in your mc file using the two commands: 3426 3427 MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3428 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3429 3430The first command, MAIL_FILTER(), simply defines a filter with the given 3431name and equates. For example: 3432 3433 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3434 3435This creates the equivalent sendmail.cf entry: 3436 3437 Xarchive, S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R 3438 3439The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command performs the same actions as MAIL_FILTER 3440but also populates the m4 variable `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' with the name 3441of the filter such that the filter will actually be called by sendmail. 3442 3443For example, the two commands: 3444 3445 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3446 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3447 3448are equivalent to the three commands: 3449 3450 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3451 MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3452 define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `archive, spamcheck') 3453 3454In general, INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() should be used unless you need to define 3455more filters than you want to use for `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS'. 3456 3457Note that setting `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' after any INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3458commands will clear the list created by the prior INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3459commands. 3460 3461 3462+-------------------------+ 3463| QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS | 3464+-------------------------+ 3465 3466In addition to the queue directory (which is the default queue group 3467called "mqueue"), sendmail can deal with multiple queue groups, which 3468are collections of queue directories with the same behaviour. Queue 3469groups can be defined using the command: 3470 3471 QUEUE_GROUP(`name', `equates') 3472 3473For details about queue groups, please see doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 3474 3475 3476+-------------------------------+ 3477| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS | 3478+-------------------------------+ 3479 3480These configuration files are designed primarily for use by 3481SMTP-based sites. They may not be well tuned for UUCP-only or 3482UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net 3483connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is 3484one hook to handle some special cases. 3485 3486You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax 3487using: 3488 3489 define(`SMART_HOST', `mailer:hostname') 3490 3491In this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that 3492can't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host. 3493 3494If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside 3495world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules. 3496For example: 3497 3498 define(`SMART_HOST', `uucp-new:uunet') 3499 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3500 R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3 3501 3502This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) to be sent 3503via SMTP; anything else will be sent via uucp-new (smart UUCP) to uunet. 3504If you have FEATURE(`nocanonify'), you may need to omit the dots after 3505the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is 3506not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to 3507use: 3508 3509 define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:fire.wall.com') 3510 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3511 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3 3512 3513That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup; 3514anything else goes through SMART_HOST. 3515 3516You may need to turn off the anti-spam rules in order to accept 3517UUCP mail with FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') and 3518FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'). 3519 3520 3521+-----------+ 3522| WHO AM I? | 3523+-----------+ 3524 3525Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully 3526qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your 3527host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the 3528result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns 3529only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is 3530supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare) 3531cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case 3532you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain 3533name. This is usually done using: 3534 3535 Dmbar.com 3536 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl 3537 3538 3539+-----------------------------------+ 3540| ACCEPTING MAIL FOR MULTIPLE NAMES | 3541+-----------------------------------+ 3542 3543If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment 3544class {w}. This is a list of names by which your host is known, and 3545anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be 3546treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create the 3547file /etc/mail/local-host-names containing a list of your aliases (one per 3548line), and use ``FEATURE(`use_cw_file')'' in the .mc file, or add 3549``LOCAL_DOMAIN(`alias.host.name')''. Be sure you use the fully-qualified 3550name of the host, rather than a short name. 3551 3552If you want to have different address in different domains, take 3553a look at the virtusertable feature, which is also explained at 3554http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html 3555 3556 3557+--------------------+ 3558| USING MAILERTABLES | 3559+--------------------+ 3560 3561To use FEATURE(`mailertable'), you will have to create an external 3562database containing the routing information for various domains. 3563For example, a mailertable file in text format might be: 3564 3565 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain 3566 uuhost1.my.domain uucp-new:uuhost1 3567 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net 3568 3569This should normally be stored in /etc/mail/mailertable. The actual 3570database version of the mailertable is built using: 3571 3572 makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable 3573 3574The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with 3575a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning 3576with a dot match anything ending with that domain name (including 3577the leading dot) -- that is, they can be thought of as having a 3578leading ".+" regular expression pattern for a non-empty sequence of 3579characters. Matching is done in order of most-to-least qualified 3580-- for example, even though ".my.domain" is listed first in the 3581above example, an entry of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second 3582entry since it is more explicit. Note: e-mail to "user@my.domain" 3583does not match any entry in the above table. You need to have 3584something like: 3585 3586 my.domain esmtp:host.my.domain 3587 3588The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the 3589configuration name of a mailer (that is, an M line in the 3590sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to 3591that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading 3592dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of 3593the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything 3594addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using 3595the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer. 3596 3597In some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records, 3598particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX 3599everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it 3600directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration: 3601 3602 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine 3603 3604and on relay.machine use the mailertable: 3605 3606 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain] 3607 3608The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only. 3609If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record 3610again, which would give you an MX loop. Note that the use of 3611wildcard MX records is almost always a bad idea. Please avoid 3612using them if possible. 3613 3614 3615+--------------------------------+ 3616| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES | 3617+--------------------------------+ 3618 3619The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names 3620to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using 3621it that way. (it is recommended that you set up aliases for this 3622purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this 3623is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at 3624a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host. 3625 3626If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is 3627imperative that you not use FEATURE(`stickyhost') -- otherwise, 3628e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected. 3629 3630To build the internal form of the user database, use: 3631 3632 makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb < /etc/mail/userdb.txt 3633 3634As a general rule, it is an extremely bad idea to using full names 3635as e-mail addresses, since they are not in any sense unique. For 3636example, the UNIX software-development community has at least two 3637well-known Peter Deutsches, and at one time Bell Labs had two 3638Stephen R. Bournes with offices along the same hallway. Which one 3639will be forced to suffer the indignity of being Stephen_R_Bourne_2? 3640The less famous of the two, or the one that was hired later? 3641 3642Finger should handle full names (and be fuzzy). Mail should use 3643handles, and not be fuzzy. 3644 3645 3646+--------------------------------+ 3647| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES | 3648+--------------------------------+ 3649 3650Plussed users 3651 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a 3652 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all 3653 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be 3654 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class 3655 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this 3656 using plussed users. For example, a client might include 3657 the alias: 3658 3659 root: root+client1@server 3660 3661 On the server, this will match an alias for "root+client1". 3662 If that is not found, the alias "root+*" will be tried, 3663 then "root". 3664 3665 3666+----------------+ 3667| SECURITY NOTES | 3668+----------------+ 3669 3670A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much 3671more careful about checking for security problems than previous 3672versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch 3673for. In particular: 3674 3675* Make sure the aliases file is not writable except by trusted 3676 system personnel. This includes both the text and database 3677 version. 3678 3679* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the 3680 mailertable, are only writable by trusted system personnel. 3681 3682* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY 3683 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root 3684 user can chown any file they own to any other user). 3685 3686* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publicly 3687 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone 3688 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that 3689 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a 3690 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory). 3691 3692* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that 3693 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in 3694 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in 3695 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before 3696 files and programs listed in them will be honored). 3697 3698In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them 3699off, do so. 3700 3701 3702+--------------------------------+ 3703| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS | 3704+--------------------------------+ 3705 3706There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally 3707need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, 3708you can define the following M4 variables. Note that some of these 3709variables require formats that are defined in RFC 2821 or RFC 2822. 3710Before changing them you need to make sure you do not violate those 3711(and other relevant) RFCs. 3712 3713This list is shown in four columns: the name you define, the default 3714value for that definition, the option or macro that is affected 3715(either Ox for an option or Dx for a macro), and a brief description. 3716Greater detail of the semantics can be found in the Installation 3717and Operations Guide. 3718 3719Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is, 3720the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are 3721marked with "*". 3722 3723Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to 3724be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to 3725be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma 3726confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for 3727the read timeout. 3728 3729M4 Variable Name Configuration [Default] & Description 3730================ ============= ======================= 3731confMAILER_NAME $n macro [MAILER-DAEMON] The sender name used 3732 for internally generated outgoing 3733 messages. 3734confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should 3735 only be done if your system cannot 3736 determine your local domain name, 3737 and then it should be set to 3738 $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your 3739 domain name. 3740confCF_VERSION $Z macro If defined, this is appended to the 3741 configuration version name. 3742confLDAP_CLUSTER ${sendmailMTACluster} macro 3743 If defined, this is the LDAP 3744 cluster to use for LDAP searches 3745 as described above in ``USING LDAP 3746 FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES''. 3747confFROM_HEADER From: [$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.] The format of an 3748 internally generated From: address. 3749confRECEIVED_HEADER Received: 3750 [$?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) 3751 $.$?{auth_type}(authenticated) 3752 $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u 3753 for $u; $|; 3754 $.$b] 3755 The format of the Received: header 3756 in messages passed through this host. 3757 It is unwise to try to change this. 3758confMESSAGEID_HEADER Message-Id: [<$t.$i@$j>] The format of an 3759 internally generated Message-Id: 3760 header. 3761confCW_FILE Fw class [/etc/mail/local-host-names] Name 3762 of file used to get the local 3763 additions to class {w} (local host 3764 names). 3765confCT_FILE Ft class [/etc/mail/trusted-users] Name of 3766 file used to get the local additions 3767 to class {t} (trusted users). 3768confCR_FILE FR class [/etc/mail/relay-domains] Name of 3769 file used to get the local additions 3770 to class {R} (hosts allowed to relay). 3771confTRUSTED_USERS Ct class [no default] Names of users to add to 3772 the list of trusted users. This list 3773 always includes root, uucp, and daemon. 3774 See also FEATURE(`use_ct_file'). 3775confTRUSTED_USER TrustedUser [no default] Trusted user for file 3776 ownership and starting the daemon. 3777 Not to be confused with 3778 confTRUSTED_USERS (see above). 3779confSMTP_MAILER - [esmtp] The mailer name used when 3780 SMTP connectivity is required. 3781 One of "smtp", "smtp8", 3782 "esmtp", or "dsmtp". 3783confUUCP_MAILER - [uucp-old] The mailer to be used by 3784 default for bang-format recipient 3785 addresses. See also discussion of 3786 class {U}, class {Y}, and class {Z} 3787 in the MAILER(`uucp') section. 3788confLOCAL_MAILER - [local] The mailer name used when 3789 local connectivity is required. 3790 Almost always "local". 3791confRELAY_MAILER - [relay] The default mailer name used 3792 for relaying any mail (e.g., to a 3793 BITNET_RELAY, a SMART_HOST, or 3794 whatever). This can reasonably be 3795 "uucp-new" if you are on a 3796 UUCP-connected site. 3797confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT SevenBitInput [False] Force input to seven bits? 3798confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING EightBitMode [pass8] 8-bit data handling 3799confALIAS_WAIT AliasWait [10m] Time to wait for alias file 3800 rebuild until you get bored and 3801 decide that the apparently pending 3802 rebuild failed. 3803confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS MinFreeBlocks [100] Minimum number of free blocks on 3804 queue filesystem to accept SMTP mail. 3805 (Prior to 8.7 this was minfree/maxsize, 3806 where minfree was the number of free 3807 blocks and maxsize was the maximum 3808 message size. Use confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE 3809 for the second value now.) 3810confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE MaxMessageSize [infinite] The maximum size of messages 3811 that will be accepted (in bytes). 3812confBLANK_SUB BlankSub [.] Blank (space) substitution 3813 character. 3814confCON_EXPENSIVE HoldExpensive [False] Avoid connecting immediately 3815 to mailers marked expensive. 3816confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL CheckpointInterval 3817 [10] Checkpoint queue files every N 3818 recipients. 3819confDELIVERY_MODE DeliveryMode [background] Default delivery mode. 3820confERROR_MODE ErrorMode [print] Error message mode. 3821confERROR_MESSAGE ErrorHeader [undefined] Error message header/file. 3822confSAVE_FROM_LINES SaveFromLine Save extra leading From_ lines. 3823confTEMP_FILE_MODE TempFileMode [0600] Temporary file mode. 3824confMATCH_GECOS MatchGECOS [False] Match GECOS field. 3825confMAX_HOP MaxHopCount [25] Maximum hop count. 3826confIGNORE_DOTS* IgnoreDots [False; always False in -bs or -bd 3827 mode] Ignore dot as terminator for 3828 incoming messages? 3829confBIND_OPTS ResolverOptions [undefined] Default options for DNS 3830 resolver. 3831confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS* SendMimeErrors [True] Send error messages as MIME- 3832 encapsulated messages per RFC 1344. 3833confFORWARD_PATH ForwardPath [$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward] 3834 The colon-separated list of places to 3835 search for .forward files. N.B.: see 3836 the Security Notes section. 3837confMCI_CACHE_SIZE ConnectionCacheSize 3838 [2] Size of open connection cache. 3839confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT ConnectionCacheTimeout 3840 [5m] Open connection cache timeout. 3841confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY HostStatusDirectory 3842 [undefined] If set, host status is kept 3843 on disk between sendmail runs in the 3844 named directory tree. This need not be 3845 a full pathname, in which case it is 3846 interpreted relative to the queue 3847 directory. 3848confSINGLE_THREAD_DELIVERY SingleThreadDelivery 3849 [False] If this option and the 3850 HostStatusDirectory option are both 3851 set, single thread deliveries to other 3852 hosts. That is, don't allow any two 3853 sendmails on this host to connect 3854 simultaneously to any other single 3855 host. This can slow down delivery in 3856 some cases, in particular since a 3857 cached but otherwise idle connection 3858 to a host will prevent other sendmails 3859 from connecting to the other host. 3860confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES 3861 UseCompressedIPv6Addresses 3862 [undefined] If set, use the compressed 3863 form of IPv6 addresses, such as 3864 IPV6:::1, instead of the uncompressed 3865 form, such as IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. 3866confUSE_ERRORS_TO* UseErrorsTo [False] Use the Errors-To: header to 3867 deliver error messages. This should 3868 not be necessary because of general 3869 acceptance of the envelope/header 3870 distinction. 3871confLOG_LEVEL LogLevel [9] Log level. 3872confME_TOO MeToo [True] Include sender in group 3873 expansions. This option is 3874 deprecated and will be removed from 3875 a future version. 3876confCHECK_ALIASES CheckAliases [False] Check RHS of aliases when 3877 running newaliases. Since this does 3878 DNS lookups on every address, it can 3879 slow down the alias rebuild process 3880 considerably on large alias files. 3881confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS* OldStyleHeaders [True] Assume that headers without 3882 special chars are old style. 3883confPRIVACY_FLAGS PrivacyOptions [authwarnings] Privacy flags. 3884confCOPY_ERRORS_TO PostmasterCopy [undefined] Address for additional 3885 copies of all error messages. 3886confQUEUE_FACTOR QueueFactor [600000] Slope of queue-only function. 3887confQUEUE_FILE_MODE QueueFileMode [undefined] Default permissions for 3888 queue files (octal). If not set, 3889 sendmail uses 0600 unless its real 3890 and effective uid are different in 3891 which case it uses 0644. 3892confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES DontPruneRoutes [False] Don't prune down route-addr 3893 syntax addresses to the minimum 3894 possible. 3895confSAFE_QUEUE* SuperSafe [True] Commit all messages to disk 3896 before forking. 3897confTO_INITIAL Timeout.initial [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3898 on the initial connect. 3899confTO_CONNECT Timeout.connect [0] The timeout waiting for an initial 3900 connect() to complete. This can only 3901 shorten connection timeouts; the kernel 3902 silently enforces an absolute maximum 3903 (which varies depending on the system). 3904confTO_ICONNECT Timeout.iconnect 3905 [undefined] Like Timeout.connect, but 3906 applies only to the very first attempt 3907 to connect to a host in a message. 3908 This allows a single very fast pass 3909 followed by more careful delivery 3910 attempts in the future. 3911confTO_ACONNECT Timeout.aconnect 3912 [0] The overall timeout waiting for 3913 all connection for a single delivery 3914 attempt to succeed. If 0, no overall 3915 limit is applied. 3916confTO_HELO Timeout.helo [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3917 to a HELO or EHLO command. 3918confTO_MAIL Timeout.mail [10m] The timeout waiting for a 3919 response to the MAIL command. 3920confTO_RCPT Timeout.rcpt [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3921 to the RCPT command. 3922confTO_DATAINIT Timeout.datainit 3923 [5m] The timeout waiting for a 354 3924 response from the DATA command. 3925confTO_DATABLOCK Timeout.datablock 3926 [1h] The timeout waiting for a block 3927 during DATA phase. 3928confTO_DATAFINAL Timeout.datafinal 3929 [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3930 to the final "." that terminates a 3931 message. 3932confTO_RSET Timeout.rset [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3933 to the RSET command. 3934confTO_QUIT Timeout.quit [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3935 to the QUIT command. 3936confTO_MISC Timeout.misc [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3937 to other SMTP commands. 3938confTO_COMMAND Timeout.command [1h] In server SMTP, the timeout 3939 waiting for a command to be issued. 3940confTO_IDENT Timeout.ident [5s] The timeout waiting for a 3941 response to an IDENT query. 3942confTO_FILEOPEN Timeout.fileopen 3943 [60s] The timeout waiting for a file 3944 (e.g., :include: file) to be opened. 3945confTO_LHLO Timeout.lhlo [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3946 to an LMTP LHLO command. 3947confTO_AUTH Timeout.auth [10m] The timeout waiting for a 3948 response in an AUTH dialogue. 3949confTO_STARTTLS Timeout.starttls 3950 [1h] The timeout waiting for a 3951 response to an SMTP STARTTLS command. 3952confTO_CONTROL Timeout.control 3953 [2m] The timeout for a complete 3954 control socket transaction to complete. 3955confTO_QUEUERETURN Timeout.queuereturn 3956 [5d] The timeout before a message is 3957 returned as undeliverable. 3958confTO_QUEUERETURN_NORMAL 3959 Timeout.queuereturn.normal 3960 [undefined] As above, for normal 3961 priority messages. 3962confTO_QUEUERETURN_URGENT 3963 Timeout.queuereturn.urgent 3964 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3965 priority messages. 3966confTO_QUEUERETURN_NONURGENT 3967 Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent 3968 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3969 (low) priority messages. 3970confTO_QUEUERETURN_DSN 3971 Timeout.queuereturn.dsn 3972 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3973 status notification messages. 3974confTO_QUEUEWARN Timeout.queuewarn 3975 [4h] The timeout before a warning 3976 message is sent to the sender telling 3977 them that the message has been 3978 deferred. 3979confTO_QUEUEWARN_NORMAL Timeout.queuewarn.normal 3980 [undefined] As above, for normal 3981 priority messages. 3982confTO_QUEUEWARN_URGENT Timeout.queuewarn.urgent 3983 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3984 priority messages. 3985confTO_QUEUEWARN_NONURGENT 3986 Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent 3987 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3988 (low) priority messages. 3989confTO_QUEUEWARN_DSN 3990 Timeout.queuewarn.dsn 3991 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3992 status notification messages. 3993confTO_HOSTSTATUS Timeout.hoststatus 3994 [30m] How long information about host 3995 statuses will be maintained before it 3996 is considered stale and the host should 3997 be retried. This applies both within 3998 a single queue run and to persistent 3999 information (see below). 4000confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS Timeout.resolver.retrans 4001 [varies] Sets the resolver's 4002 retransmission time interval (in 4003 seconds). Sets both 4004 Timeout.resolver.retrans.first and 4005 Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal. 4006confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retrans.first 4007 [varies] Sets the resolver's 4008 retransmission time interval (in 4009 seconds) for the first attempt to 4010 deliver a message. 4011confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal 4012 [varies] Sets the resolver's 4013 retransmission time interval (in 4014 seconds) for all resolver lookups 4015 except the first delivery attempt. 4016confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY Timeout.resolver.retry 4017 [varies] Sets the number of times 4018 to retransmit a resolver query. 4019 Sets both 4020 Timeout.resolver.retry.first and 4021 Timeout.resolver.retry.normal. 4022confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retry.first 4023 [varies] Sets the number of times 4024 to retransmit a resolver query for 4025 the first attempt to deliver a 4026 message. 4027confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retry.normal 4028 [varies] Sets the number of times 4029 to retransmit a resolver query for 4030 all resolver lookups except the 4031 first delivery attempt. 4032confTIME_ZONE TimeZoneSpec [USE_SYSTEM] Time zone info -- can be 4033 USE_SYSTEM to use the system's idea, 4034 USE_TZ to use the user's TZ envariable, 4035 or something else to force that value. 4036confDEF_USER_ID DefaultUser [1:1] Default user id. 4037confUSERDB_SPEC UserDatabaseSpec 4038 [undefined] User database 4039 specification. 4040confFALLBACK_MX FallbackMXhost [undefined] Fallback MX host. 4041confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST FallbackSmartHost 4042 [undefined] Fallback smart host. 4043confTLS_FALLBACK_TO_CLEAR TLSFallbacktoClear 4044 [undefined] If set, immediately try 4045 a connection again without STARTTLS 4046 after a TLS handshake failure. 4047confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST TryNullMXList [False] If this host is the best MX 4048 for a host and other arrangements 4049 haven't been made, try connecting 4050 to the host directly; normally this 4051 would be a config error. 4052confQUEUE_LA QueueLA [varies] Load average at which 4053 queue-only function kicks in. 4054 Default values is (8 * numproc) 4055 where numproc is the number of 4056 processors online (if that can be 4057 determined). 4058confREFUSE_LA RefuseLA [varies] Load average at which 4059 incoming SMTP connections are 4060 refused. Default values is (12 * 4061 numproc) where numproc is the 4062 number of processors online (if 4063 that can be determined). 4064confREJECT_LOG_INTERVAL RejectLogInterval [3h] Log interval when 4065 refusing connections for this long. 4066confDELAY_LA DelayLA [0] Load average at which sendmail 4067 will sleep for one second on most 4068 SMTP commands and before accepting 4069 connections. 0 means no limit. 4070confMAX_ALIAS_RECURSION MaxAliasRecursion 4071 [10] Maximum depth of alias recursion. 4072confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN MaxDaemonChildren 4073 [undefined] The maximum number of 4074 children the daemon will permit. After 4075 this number, connections will be 4076 rejected. If not set or <= 0, there is 4077 no limit. 4078confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH MaxHeadersLength 4079 [32768] Maximum length of the sum 4080 of all headers. 4081confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH MaxMimeHeaderLength 4082 [undefined] Maximum length of 4083 certain MIME header field values. 4084confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE ConnectionRateThrottle 4085 [undefined] The maximum number of 4086 connections permitted per second per 4087 daemon. After this many connections 4088 are accepted, further connections 4089 will be delayed. If not set or <= 0, 4090 there is no limit. 4091confCONNECTION_RATE_WINDOW_SIZE ConnectionRateWindowSize 4092 [60s] Define the length of the 4093 interval for which the number of 4094 incoming connections is maintained. 4095confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR 4096 RecipientFactor [30000] Cost of each recipient. 4097confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob [False] Run all deliveries in a 4098 separate process. 4099confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR ClassFactor [1800] Priority multiplier for class. 4100confWORK_TIME_FACTOR RetryFactor [90000] Cost of each delivery attempt. 4101confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER QueueSortOrder [Priority] Queue sort algorithm: 4102 Priority, Host, Filename, Random, 4103 Modification, or Time. 4104confMAX_QUEUE_AGE MaxQueueAge [undefined] If set to a value greater 4105 than zero, entries in the queue 4106 will be retried during a queue run 4107 only if the individual retry time 4108 has been reached which is doubled 4109 for each attempt. The maximum retry 4110 time is limited by the specified value. 4111confMIN_QUEUE_AGE MinQueueAge [0] The minimum amount of time a job 4112 must sit in the queue between queue 4113 runs. This allows you to set the 4114 queue run interval low for better 4115 responsiveness without trying all 4116 jobs in each run. 4117confDEF_CHAR_SET DefaultCharSet [unknown-8bit] When converting 4118 unlabeled 8 bit input to MIME, the 4119 character set to use by default. 4120confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE ServiceSwitchFile 4121 [/etc/mail/service.switch] The file 4122 to use for the service switch on 4123 systems that do not have a 4124 system-defined switch. 4125confHOSTS_FILE HostsFile [/etc/hosts] The file to use when doing 4126 "file" type access of hosts names. 4127confDIAL_DELAY DialDelay [0s] If a connection fails, wait this 4128 long and try again. Zero means "don't 4129 retry". This is to allow "dial on 4130 demand" connections to have enough time 4131 to complete a connection. 4132confNO_RCPT_ACTION NoRecipientAction 4133 [none] What to do if there are no legal 4134 recipient fields (To:, Cc: or Bcc:) 4135 in the message. Legal values can 4136 be "none" to just leave the 4137 nonconforming message as is, "add-to" 4138 to add a To: header with all the 4139 known recipients (which may expose 4140 blind recipients), "add-apparently-to" 4141 to do the same but use Apparently-To: 4142 instead of To: (strongly discouraged 4143 in accordance with IETF standards), 4144 "add-bcc" to add an empty Bcc: 4145 header, or "add-to-undisclosed" to 4146 add the header 4147 ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;''. 4148confSAFE_FILE_ENV SafeFileEnvironment 4149 [undefined] If set, sendmail will do a 4150 chroot() into this directory before 4151 writing files. 4152confCOLON_OK_IN_ADDR ColonOkInAddr [True unless Configuration Level > 6] 4153 If set, colons are treated as a regular 4154 character in addresses. If not set, 4155 they are treated as the introducer to 4156 the RFC 822 "group" syntax. Colons are 4157 handled properly in route-addrs. This 4158 option defaults on for V5 and lower 4159 configuration files. 4160confMAX_QUEUE_RUN_SIZE MaxQueueRunSize [0] If set, limit the maximum size of 4161 any given queue run to this number of 4162 entries. Essentially, this will stop 4163 reading each queue directory after this 4164 number of entries are reached; it does 4165 _not_ pick the highest priority jobs, 4166 so this should be as large as your 4167 system can tolerate. If not set, there 4168 is no limit. 4169confMAX_QUEUE_CHILDREN MaxQueueChildren 4170 [undefined] Limits the maximum number 4171 of concurrent queue runners active. 4172 This is to keep system resources used 4173 within a reasonable limit. Relates to 4174 Queue Groups and ForkEachJob. 4175confMAX_RUNNERS_PER_QUEUE MaxRunnersPerQueue 4176 [1] Only active when MaxQueueChildren 4177 defined. Controls the maximum number 4178 of queue runners (aka queue children) 4179 active at the same time in a work 4180 group. See also MaxQueueChildren. 4181confDONT_EXPAND_CNAMES DontExpandCnames 4182 [False] If set, $[ ... $] lookups that 4183 do DNS based lookups do not expand 4184 CNAME records. This currently violates 4185 the published standards, but the IETF 4186 seems to be moving toward legalizing 4187 this. For example, if "FTP.Foo.ORG" 4188 is a CNAME for "Cruft.Foo.ORG", then 4189 with this option set a lookup of 4190 "FTP" will return "FTP.Foo.ORG"; if 4191 clear it returns "Cruft.FOO.ORG". N.B. 4192 you may not see any effect until your 4193 downstream neighbors stop doing CNAME 4194 lookups as well. 4195confFROM_LINE UnixFromLine [From $g $d] The From_ line used 4196 when sending to files or programs. 4197confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER SingleLineFromHeader 4198 [False] From: lines that have 4199 embedded newlines are unwrapped 4200 onto one line. 4201confALLOW_BOGUS_HELO AllowBogusHELO [False] Allow HELO SMTP command that 4202 does not include a host name. 4203confMUST_QUOTE_CHARS MustQuoteChars [.'] Characters to be quoted in a full 4204 name phrase (@,;:\()[] are automatic). 4205confOPERATORS OperatorChars [.:%@!^/[]+] Address operator 4206 characters. 4207confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG SmtpGreetingMessage 4208 [$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b] 4209 The initial (spontaneous) SMTP 4210 greeting message. The word "ESMTP" 4211 will be inserted between the first and 4212 second words to convince other 4213 sendmails to try to speak ESMTP. 4214confDONT_INIT_GROUPS DontInitGroups [False] If set, the initgroups(3) 4215 routine will never be invoked. You 4216 might want to do this if you are 4217 running NIS and you have a large group 4218 map, since this call does a sequential 4219 scan of the map; in a large site this 4220 can cause your ypserv to run 4221 essentially full time. If you set 4222 this, agents run on behalf of users 4223 will only have their primary 4224 (/etc/passwd) group permissions. 4225confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES UnsafeGroupWrites 4226 [True] If set, group-writable 4227 :include: and .forward files are 4228 considered "unsafe", that is, programs 4229 and files cannot be directly referenced 4230 from such files. World-writable files 4231 are always considered unsafe. 4232 Notice: this option is deprecated and 4233 will be removed in future versions; 4234 Set GroupWritableForwardFileSafe 4235 and GroupWritableIncludeFileSafe in 4236 DontBlameSendmail if required. 4237confCONNECT_ONLY_TO ConnectOnlyTo [undefined] override connection 4238 address (for testing). 4239confCONTROL_SOCKET_NAME ControlSocketName 4240 [undefined] Control socket for daemon 4241 management. 4242confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS DoubleBounceAddress 4243 [postmaster] If an error occurs when 4244 sending an error message, send that 4245 "double bounce" error message to this 4246 address. If it expands to an empty 4247 string, double bounces are dropped. 4248confSOFT_BOUNCE SoftBounce [False] If set, issue temporary errors 4249 (4xy) instead of permanent errors 4250 (5xy). This can be useful during 4251 testing of a new configuration to 4252 avoid erroneous bouncing of mails. 4253confDEAD_LETTER_DROP DeadLetterDrop [undefined] Filename to save bounce 4254 messages which could not be returned 4255 to the user or sent to postmaster. 4256 If not set, the queue file will 4257 be renamed. 4258confRRT_IMPLIES_DSN RrtImpliesDsn [False] Return-Receipt-To: header 4259 implies DSN request. 4260confRUN_AS_USER RunAsUser [undefined] If set, become this user 4261 when reading and delivering mail. 4262 Causes all file reads (e.g., .forward 4263 and :include: files) to be done as 4264 this user. Also, all programs will 4265 be run as this user, and all output 4266 files will be written as this user. 4267confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE MaxRecipientsPerMessage 4268 [infinite] If set, allow no more than 4269 the specified number of recipients in 4270 an SMTP envelope. Further recipients 4271 receive a 452 error code (i.e., they 4272 are deferred for the next delivery 4273 attempt). 4274confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE BadRcptThrottle [infinite] If set and the specified 4275 number of recipients in a single SMTP 4276 transaction have been rejected, sleep 4277 for one second after each subsequent 4278 RCPT command in that transaction. 4279confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES DontProbeInterfaces 4280 [False] If set, sendmail will _not_ 4281 insert the names and addresses of any 4282 local interfaces into class {w} 4283 (list of known "equivalent" addresses). 4284 If you set this, you must also include 4285 some support for these addresses (e.g., 4286 in a mailertable entry) -- otherwise, 4287 mail to addresses in this list will 4288 bounce with a configuration error. 4289 If set to "loopback" (without 4290 quotes), sendmail will skip 4291 loopback interfaces (e.g., "lo0"). 4292confPID_FILE PidFile [system dependent] Location of pid 4293 file. 4294confPROCESS_TITLE_PREFIX ProcessTitlePrefix 4295 [undefined] Prefix string for the 4296 process title shown on 'ps' listings. 4297confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL DontBlameSendmail 4298 [safe] Override sendmail's file 4299 safety checks. This will definitely 4300 compromise system security and should 4301 not be used unless absolutely 4302 necessary. 4303confREJECT_MSG - [550 Access denied] The message 4304 given if the access database contains 4305 REJECT in the value portion. 4306confRELAY_MSG - [550 Relaying denied] The message 4307 given if an unauthorized relaying 4308 attempt is rejected. 4309confDF_BUFFER_SIZE DataFileBufferSize 4310 [4096] The maximum size of a 4311 memory-buffered data (df) file 4312 before a disk-based file is used. 4313confXF_BUFFER_SIZE XScriptFileBufferSize 4314 [4096] The maximum size of a 4315 memory-buffered transcript (xf) 4316 file before a disk-based file is 4317 used. 4318confAUTH_MECHANISMS AuthMechanisms [EXTERNAL GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 4319 CRAM-MD5] List of authentication 4320 mechanisms for AUTH (separated by 4321 spaces). The advertised list of 4322 authentication mechanisms will be the 4323 intersection of this list and the list 4324 of available mechanisms as determined 4325 by the Cyrus SASL library. 4326confAUTH_REALM AuthRealm [undefined] The authentication realm 4327 that is passed to the Cyrus SASL 4328 library. If no realm is specified, 4329 $j is used. See KNOWNBUGS. 4330confDEF_AUTH_INFO DefaultAuthInfo [undefined] Name of file that contains 4331 authentication information for 4332 outgoing connections. This file must 4333 contain the user id, the authorization 4334 id, the password (plain text), the 4335 realm to use, and the list of 4336 mechanisms to try, each on a separate 4337 line and must be readable by root (or 4338 the trusted user) only. If no realm 4339 is specified, $j is used. If no 4340 mechanisms are given in the file, 4341 AuthMechanisms is used. Notice: this 4342 option is deprecated and will be 4343 removed in future versions; it doesn't 4344 work for the MSP since it can't read 4345 the file. Use the authinfo ruleset 4346 instead. See also the section SMTP 4347 AUTHENTICATION. 4348confAUTH_OPTIONS AuthOptions [undefined] If this option is 'A' 4349 then the AUTH= parameter for the 4350 MAIL FROM command is only issued 4351 when authentication succeeded. 4352 See doc/op/op.me for more options 4353 and details. 4354confAUTH_MAX_BITS AuthMaxBits [INT_MAX] Limit the maximum encryption 4355 strength for the security layer in 4356 SMTP AUTH (SASL). Default is 4357 essentially unlimited. 4358confTLS_SRV_OPTIONS TLSSrvOptions If this option is 'V' no client 4359 verification is performed, i.e., 4360 the server doesn't ask for a 4361 certificate. 4362confSERVER_SSL_OPTIONS ServerSSLOptions [undefined] SSL related 4363 options for server side. See 4364 SSL_CTX_set_options(3) for a list. 4365confCLIENT_SSL_OPTIONS ClientSSLOptions [undefined] SSL related 4366 options for client side. See 4367 SSL_CTX_set_options(3) for a list. 4368confCIPHER_LIST CipherList [undefined] Cipher list for TLS. 4369 See ciphers(1) for possible values. 4370confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC LDAPDefaultSpec [undefined] Default map 4371 specification for LDAP maps. The 4372 value should only contain LDAP 4373 specific settings such as "-h host 4374 -p port -d bindDN", etc. The 4375 settings will be used for all LDAP 4376 maps unless they are specified in 4377 the individual map specification 4378 ('K' command). 4379confCACERT_PATH CACertPath [undefined] Path to directory with 4380 certificates of CAs which must contain 4381 their hashes as filenames or links. 4382confCACERT CACertFile [undefined] File containing at least 4383 one CA certificate. 4384confSERVER_CERT ServerCertFile [undefined] File containing the 4385 cert of the server, i.e., this cert 4386 is used when sendmail acts as 4387 server. 4388confSERVER_KEY ServerKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 4389 private key belonging to the server 4390 cert. 4391confCLIENT_CERT ClientCertFile [undefined] File containing the 4392 cert of the client, i.e., this cert 4393 is used when sendmail acts as 4394 client. 4395confCLIENT_KEY ClientKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 4396 private key belonging to the client 4397 cert. 4398confCRL CRLFile [undefined] File containing certificate 4399 revocation status, useful for X.509v3 4400 authentication. 4401confCRL_PATH CRLPath [undefined] Directory containing 4402 hashes pointing to certificate 4403 revocation status files. 4404confDH_PARAMETERS DHParameters [undefined] File containing the 4405 DH parameters. 4406confDANE DANE [false] Enable DANE support. 4407confRAND_FILE RandFile [undefined] File containing random 4408 data (use prefix file:) or the 4409 name of the UNIX socket if EGD is 4410 used (use prefix egd:). STARTTLS 4411 requires this option if the compile 4412 flag HASURANDOM is not set (see 4413 sendmail/README). 4414confCERT_FINGERPRINT_ALGORITHM CertFingerprintAlgorithm 4415 [undefined] The fingerprint algorithm 4416 (digest) to use for the presented 4417 cert. 4418confSSL_ENGINE SSLEngine [undefined] Name of SSLEngine. 4419confSSL_ENGINE_PATH SSLEnginePath [undefined] Path to dynamic library 4420 for SSLEngine. 4421confOPENSSL_CNF [/etc/mail/sendmail.ossl] Set the 4422 environment variable OPENSSL_CONF. 4423 An empty value disables setting it. 4424confNICE_QUEUE_RUN NiceQueueRun [undefined] If set, the priority of 4425 queue runners is set the given value 4426 (nice(3)). 4427confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS DirectSubmissionModifiers 4428 [undefined] Defines {daemon_flags} 4429 for direct submissions. 4430confUSE_MSP UseMSP [undefined] Use as mail submission 4431 program, see sendmail/SECURITY. 4432confDELIVER_BY_MIN DeliverByMin [0] Minimum time for Deliver By 4433 SMTP Service Extension (RFC 2852). 4434confREQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC RequiresDirfsync [true] RequiresDirfsync can 4435 be used to turn off the compile time 4436 flag REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC at runtime. 4437 See sendmail/README for details. 4438confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY SharedMemoryKey [0] Key for shared memory. 4439confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY_FILE 4440 SharedMemoryKeyFile 4441 [undefined] File where the 4442 automatically selected key for 4443 shared memory is stored. 4444confFAST_SPLIT FastSplit [1] If set to a value greater than 4445 zero, the initial MX lookups on 4446 addresses is suppressed when they 4447 are sorted which may result in 4448 faster envelope splitting. If the 4449 mail is submitted directly from the 4450 command line, then the value also 4451 limits the number of processes to 4452 deliver the envelopes. 4453confMAILBOX_DATABASE MailboxDatabase [pw] Type of lookup to find 4454 information about local mailboxes. 4455confDEQUOTE_OPTS - [empty] Additional options for the 4456 dequote map. 4457confMAX_NOOP_COMMANDS MaxNOOPCommands [20] Maximum number of "useless" 4458 commands before the SMTP server 4459 will slow down responding. 4460confHELO_NAME HeloName If defined, use as name for EHLO/HELO 4461 command (instead of $j). 4462confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS InputMailFilters 4463 A comma separated list of filters 4464 which determines which filters and 4465 the invocation sequence are 4466 contacted for incoming SMTP 4467 messages. If none are set, no 4468 filters will be contacted. 4469confMILTER_LOG_LEVEL Milter.LogLevel [9] Log level for input mail filter 4470 actions, defaults to LogLevel. 4471confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT Milter.macros.connect 4472 [j, _, {daemon_name}, {if_name}, 4473 {if_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4474 milters when a session connection 4475 starts. 4476confMILTER_MACROS_HELO Milter.macros.helo 4477 [{tls_version}, {cipher}, 4478 {cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, 4479 {cert_issuer}] Macros to transmit to 4480 milters after HELO/EHLO command. 4481confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM Milter.macros.envfrom 4482 [i, {auth_type}, {auth_authen}, 4483 {auth_ssf}, {auth_author}, 4484 {mail_mailer}, {mail_host}, 4485 {mail_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4486 milters after MAIL FROM command. 4487confMILTER_MACROS_ENVRCPT Milter.macros.envrcpt 4488 [{rcpt_mailer}, {rcpt_host}, 4489 {rcpt_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4490 milters after RCPT TO command. 4491confMILTER_MACROS_EOM Milter.macros.eom 4492 [{msg_id}] Macros to transmit to 4493 milters after the terminating 4494 DATA '.' is received. 4495confMILTER_MACROS_EOH Milter.macros.eoh 4496 Macros to transmit to milters 4497 after the end of headers. 4498confMILTER_MACROS_DATA Milter.macros.data 4499 Macros to transmit to milters 4500 after DATA command is received. 4501 4502 4503See also the description of OSTYPE for some parameters that can be 4504tweaked (generally pathnames to mailers). 4505 4506ClientPortOptions and DaemonPortOptions are special cases since multiple 4507clients/daemons can be defined. This can be done via 4508 4509 CLIENT_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4510 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4511 4512Note that multiple CLIENT_OPTIONS() commands (and therefore multiple 4513ClientPortOptions settings) are allowed in order to give settings for each 4514protocol family (e.g., one for Family=inet and one for Family=inet6). A 4515restriction placed on one family only affects outgoing connections on that 4516particular family. 4517 4518If DAEMON_OPTIONS is not used, then the default is 4519 4520 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') 4521 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E') 4522 4523If you use one DAEMON_OPTIONS macro, it will alter the parameters 4524of the first of these. The second will still be defaulted; it 4525represents a "Message Submission Agent" (MSA) as defined by RFC 45262476 (see below). To turn off the default definition for the MSA, 4527use FEATURE(`no_default_msa') (see also FEATURES). If you use 4528additional DAEMON_OPTIONS macros, they will add additional daemons. 4529 4530Example 1: To change the port for the SMTP listener, while 4531still using the MSA default, use 4532 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=925, Name=MTA') 4533 4534Example 2: To change the port for the MSA daemon, while still 4535using the default SMTP port, use 4536 FEATURE(`no_default_msa') 4537 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA') 4538 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=987, Name=MSA, M=E') 4539 4540Note that if the first of those DAEMON_OPTIONS lines were omitted, then 4541there would be no listener on the standard SMTP port. 4542 4543Example 3: To listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, use 4544 4545 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v4, Family=inet') 4546 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6') 4547 4548A "Message Submission Agent" still uses all of the same rulesets for 4549processing the message (and therefore still allows message rejection via 4550the check_* rulesets). In accordance with the RFC, the MSA will ensure 4551that all domains in envelope addresses are fully qualified if the message 4552is relayed to another MTA. It will also enforce the normal address syntax 4553rules and log error messages. Additionally, by using the M=a modifier you 4554can require authentication before messages are accepted by the MSA. 4555Notice: Do NOT use the 'a' modifier on a public accessible MTA! Finally, 4556the M=E modifier shown above disables ETRN as required by RFC 2476. 4557 4558Mail filters can be defined using the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() and MAIL_FILTER() 4559commands: 4560 4561 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sample', `S=local:/var/run/f1.sock') 4562 MAIL_FILTER(`myfilter', `S=inet:3333@localhost') 4563 4564The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command causes the filter(s) to be called in the 4565same order they were specified by also setting confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS. A 4566filter can be defined without adding it to the input filter list by using 4567MAIL_FILTER() instead of INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() in your .mc file. 4568Alternatively, you can reset the list of filters and their order by setting 4569confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS option after all INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() commands in 4570your .mc file. 4571 4572 4573+----------------------------+ 4574| MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM | 4575+----------------------------+ 4576 4577The purpose of the message submission program (MSP) is explained 4578in sendmail/SECURITY. This section contains a list of caveats and 4579a few hints how for those who want to tweak the default configuration 4580for it (which is installed as submit.cf). 4581 4582Notice: do not add options/features to submit.mc unless you are 4583absolutely sure you need them. Options you may want to change 4584include: 4585 4586- confTRUSTED_USERS, FEATURE(`use_ct_file'), and confCT_FILE for 4587 avoiding X-Authentication warnings. 4588- confTIME_ZONE to change it from the default `USE_TZ'. 4589- confDELIVERY_MODE is set to interactive in msp.m4 instead 4590 of the default background mode. 4591- FEATURE(stickyhost) and LOCAL_RELAY to send unqualified addresses 4592 to the LOCAL_RELAY instead of the default relay. 4593- confRAND_FILE if you use STARTTLS and sendmail is not compiled with 4594 the flag HASURANDOM. 4595 4596The MSP performs hostname canonicalization by default. As also 4597explained in sendmail/SECURITY, mail may end up for various DNS 4598related reasons in the MSP queue. This problem can be minimized by 4599using 4600 4601 FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts') 4602 define(`confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS', `C') 4603 4604See the discussion about nocanonify for possible side effects. 4605 4606Some things are not intended to work with the MSP. These include 4607features that influence the delivery process (e.g., mailertable, 4608aliases), or those that are only important for a SMTP server (e.g., 4609virtusertable, DaemonPortOptions, multiple queues). Moreover, 4610relaxing certain restrictions (RestrictQueueRun, permissions on 4611queue directory) or adding features (e.g., enabling prog/file mailer) 4612can cause security problems. 4613 4614Other things don't work well with the MSP and require tweaking or 4615workarounds. For example, to allow for client authentication it 4616is not just sufficient to provide a client certificate and the 4617corresponding key, but it is also necessary to make the key group 4618(smmsp) readable and tell sendmail not to complain about that, i.e., 4619 4620 define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupReadableKeyFile') 4621 4622If the MSP should actually use AUTH then the necessary data 4623should be placed in a map as explained in SMTP AUTHENTICATION: 4624 4625FEATURE(`authinfo', `DATABASE_MAP_TYPE /etc/mail/msp-authinfo') 4626 4627/etc/mail/msp-authinfo should contain an entry like: 4628 4629 AuthInfo:127.0.0.1 "U:smmsp" "P:secret" "M:DIGEST-MD5" 4630 4631The file and the map created by makemap should be owned by smmsp, 4632its group should be smmsp, and it should have mode 640. The database 4633used by the MTA for AUTH must have a corresponding entry. 4634Additionally the MTA must trust this authentication data so the AUTH= 4635part will be relayed on to the next hop. This can be achieved by 4636adding the following to your sendmail.mc file: 4637 4638 LOCAL_RULESETS 4639 SLocal_trust_auth 4640 R$* $: $&{auth_authen} 4641 Rsmmsp $# OK 4642 4643Note: the authentication data can leak to local users who invoke 4644the MSP with debug options or even with -v. For that reason either 4645an authentication mechanism that does not show the password in the 4646AUTH dialogue (e.g., DIGEST-MD5) or a different authentication 4647method like STARTTLS should be used. 4648 4649feature/msp.m4 defines almost all settings for the MSP. Most of 4650those should not be changed at all. Some of the features and options 4651can be overridden if really necessary. It is a bit tricky to do 4652this, because it depends on the actual way the option is defined 4653in feature/msp.m4. If it is directly defined (i.e., define()) then 4654the modified value must be defined after 4655 4656 FEATURE(`msp') 4657 4658If it is conditionally defined (i.e., ifdef()) then the desired 4659value must be defined before the FEATURE line in the .mc file. 4660To see how the options are defined read feature/msp.m4. 4661 4662 4663+--------------------------+ 4664| FORMAT OF FILES AND MAPS | 4665+--------------------------+ 4666 4667Files that define classes, i.e., F{classname}, consist of lines 4668each of which contains a single element of the class. For example, 4669/etc/mail/local-host-names may have the following content: 4670 4671my.domain 4672another.domain 4673 4674Maps must be created using makemap(8) , e.g., 4675 4676 makemap hash MAP < MAP 4677 4678In general, a text file from which a map is created contains lines 4679of the form 4680 4681key value 4682 4683where 'key' and 'value' are also called LHS and RHS, respectively. 4684By default, the delimiter between LHS and RHS is a non-empty sequence 4685of white space characters. 4686 4687 4688+------------------+ 4689| DIRECTORY LAYOUT | 4690+------------------+ 4691 4692Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit: 4693 4694m4 General support routines. These are typically 4695 very important and should not be changed without 4696 very careful consideration. 4697 4698cf The configuration files themselves. They have 4699 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to 4700 become complete. The resulting output should 4701 have a ".cf" suffix. 4702 4703ostype Definitions describing a particular operating 4704 system type. These should always be referenced 4705 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples 4706 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and 4707 "sunos4.1". 4708 4709domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced 4710 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are 4711 site dependent; for example, "CS.Berkeley.EDU.m4" 4712 describes hosts in the CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain. 4713 4714mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using 4715 the MAILER macro in the .mc file. 4716 4717sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the 4718 .mc file in the cf subdirectory. 4719 4720feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might 4721 want to include. They should be referenced using 4722 the FEATURE macro. 4723 4724hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK 4725 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic 4726 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows? 4727 4728siteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected 4729 UUCP sites. 4730 4731 4732+------------------------+ 4733| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS | 4734+------------------------+ 4735 4736The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the 4737sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify 4738the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these 4739should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more). 4740 4741RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail) 4742 4743 0 * Parsing 4744 1 * Sender rewriting 4745 2 * Recipient rewriting 4746 3 * Canonicalization 4747 4 * Post cleanup 4748 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing) 4749 1x mailer rules (sender qualification) 4750 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification) 4751 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification) 4752 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification) 4753 5x mailer subroutines (general) 4754 6x mailer subroutines (general) 4755 7x mailer subroutines (general) 4756 8x reserved 4757 90 Mailertable host stripping 4758 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail) 4759 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail) 4760 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail) 4761 4762 4763MAILERS 4764 4765 0 local, prog local and program mailers 4766 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel 4767 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program 4768 3 netnews Network News delivery 4769 4 fax Sam Leffler's HylaFAX software 4770 5 mail11 DECnet mailer 4771 4772 4773MACROS 4774 4775 A 4776 B Bitnet Relay 4777 C DECnet Relay 4778 D The local domain -- usually not needed 4779 E reserved for X.400 Relay 4780 F FAX Relay 4781 G 4782 H mail Hub (for mail clusters) 4783 I 4784 J 4785 K 4786 L Luser Relay 4787 M Masquerade (who you claim to be) 4788 N 4789 O 4790 P 4791 Q 4792 R Relay (for unqualified names) 4793 S Smart Host 4794 T 4795 U my UUCP name (if you have a UUCP connection) 4796 V UUCP Relay (class {V} hosts) 4797 W UUCP Relay (class {W} hosts) 4798 X UUCP Relay (class {X} hosts) 4799 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts) 4800 Z Version number 4801 4802 4803CLASSES 4804 4805 A 4806 B domains that are candidates for bestmx lookup 4807 C 4808 D 4809 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M 4810 F hosts this system forward for 4811 G domains that should be looked up in genericstable 4812 H 4813 I 4814 J 4815 K 4816 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R 4817 M domains that should be mapped to $M 4818 N host/domains that should not be mapped to $M 4819 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names) 4820 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, DECNET, FAX, UUCP, etc. 4821 Q 4822 R domains this system is willing to relay (pass anti-spam filters) 4823 S 4824 T 4825 U locally connected UUCP hosts 4826 V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V 4827 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W 4828 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X 4829 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts 4830 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts 4831 . the class containing only a dot 4832 [ the class containing only a left bracket 4833 4834 4835M4 DIVERSIONS 4836 4837 1 Local host detection and resolution 4838 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions 4839 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions 4840 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions 4841 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R) 4842 6 local configuration (at top of file) 4843 7 mailer definitions 4844 8 DNS based blocklists 4845 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2) 4846 4847