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 1124 (http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/) mailer instead 1125 by specifying: 1126 1127 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/maildrop', 1128 `maildrop -d $u') 1129 1130 or scanmails using: 1131 1132 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/scanmails') 1133 1134 WARNING: This feature sets LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS unconditionally, 1135 i.e., without respecting any definitions in an OSTYPE setting. 1136 1137bestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that 1138 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates 1139 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to 1140 medium traffic hosts. The argument may be a set of 1141 domains, which will limit the feature to only apply to 1142 these domains -- this will reduce unnecessary DNS 1143 traffic. THIS FEATURE IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH 1144 WILDCARD MX RECORDS!!! If you have a wildcard MX record 1145 that matches your domain, you cannot use this feature. 1146 1147smrsh Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided 1148 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing 1149 to programs. This improves the ability of the local 1150 system administrator to control what gets run via 1151 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the 1152 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, the path defined by 1153 confEBINDIR is used for the smrsh binary -- by default, 1154 /usr/libexec/smrsh is assumed. 1155 1156promiscuous_relay 1157 By default, the sendmail configuration files do not permit 1158 mail relaying (that is, accepting mail from outside your 1159 local host (class {w}) and sending it to another host than 1160 your local host). This option sets your site to allow 1161 mail relaying from any site to any site. In almost all 1162 cases, it is better to control relaying more carefully 1163 with the access map, class {R}, or authentication. Domains 1164 can be added to class {R} by the macros RELAY_DOMAIN or 1165 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 1166 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 1167 1168relay_entire_domain 1169 This option allows any host in your domain as defined by 1170 class {m} to use your server for relaying. Notice: make 1171 sure that your domain is not just a top level domain, 1172 e.g., com. This can happen if you give your host a name 1173 like example.com instead of host.example.com. 1174 1175relay_hosts_only 1176 By default, names that are listed as RELAY in the access 1177 db and class {R} are treated as domain names, not host names. 1178 For example, if you specify ``foo.com'', then mail to or 1179 from foo.com, abc.foo.com, or a.very.deep.domain.foo.com 1180 will all be accepted for relaying. This feature changes 1181 the behaviour to look up individual host names only. 1182 1183relay_based_on_MX 1184 Turns on the ability to allow relaying based on the MX 1185 records of the host portion of an incoming recipient; that 1186 is, if an MX record for host foo.com points to your site, 1187 you will accept and relay mail addressed to foo.com. See 1188 description below for more information before using this 1189 feature. Also, see the KNOWNBUGS entry regarding bestmx 1190 map lookups. 1191 1192 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') does not necessarily allow 1193 routing of these messages which you expect to be allowed, 1194 if route address syntax (or %-hack syntax) is used. If 1195 this is a problem, add entries to the access-table or use 1196 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check'). 1197 1198relay_mail_from 1199 Allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in 1200 the access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this 1201 is the literal word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, 1202 relaying can be allowed just based on the domain portion 1203 of the sender address. This feature should only be used if 1204 absolutely necessary as the sender address can be easily 1205 forged. Use of this feature requires the "From:" tag to 1206 be used for the key in the access map; see the discussion 1207 of tags and FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') in the section on 1208 anti-spam configuration control. 1209 1210relay_local_from 1211 Allows relaying if the domain portion of the mail sender 1212 is a local host. This should only be used if absolutely 1213 necessary as it opens a window for spammers. Specifically, 1214 they can send mail to your mail server that claims to be 1215 from your domain (either directly or via a routed address), 1216 and you will go ahead and relay it out to arbitrary hosts 1217 on the Internet. 1218 1219accept_unqualified_senders 1220 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1221 refused if the connection is a network connection and the 1222 sender address does not include a domain name. If your 1223 setup sends local mail unqualified (i.e., MAIL FROM:<joe>), 1224 you will need to use this feature to accept unqualified 1225 sender addresses. Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1226 'u' overrides the default behavior, i.e., unqualified 1227 addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. 1228 If this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1229 'f' can be used to enforce fully qualified addresses. 1230 1231accept_unresolvable_domains 1232 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1233 refused if the host part of the argument to MAIL FROM: 1234 cannot be located in the host name service (e.g., an A or 1235 MX record in DNS). If you are inside a firewall that has 1236 only a limited view of the Internet host name space, this 1237 could cause problems. In this case you probably want to 1238 use this feature to accept all domains on input, even if 1239 they are unresolvable. 1240 1241access_db Turns on the access database feature. The access db gives 1242 you the ability to allow or refuse to accept mail from 1243 specified domains for administrative reasons. Moreover, 1244 it can control the behavior of sendmail in various situations. 1245 By default, the access database specification is: 1246 1247 hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access 1248 1249 See the anti-spam configuration control section for further 1250 important information about this feature. Notice: 1251 "-T<TMPF>" is meant literal, do not replace it by anything. 1252 1253blocklist_recipients 1254 Turns on the ability to block incoming mail for certain 1255 recipient usernames, hostnames, or addresses. For 1256 example, you can block incoming mail to user nobody, 1257 host foo.mydomain.com, or guest@bar.mydomain.com. 1258 These specifications are put in the access db as 1259 described in the anti-spam configuration control section 1260 later in this document. 1261 1262delay_checks The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will not be called 1263 when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, respectively. 1264 Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 1265 ruleset; they will be skipped under certain circumstances. 1266 See "Delay all checks" in the anti-spam configuration control 1267 section. Note: this feature is incompatible to the versions 1268 in 8.10 and 8.11. 1269 1270use_client_ptr If this feature is enabled then check_relay will override 1271 its first argument with $&{client_ptr}. This is useful for 1272 rejections based on the unverified hostname of client, 1273 which turns on the same behavior as in earlier sendmail 1274 versions when delay_checks was not in use. See doc/op/op.* 1275 about check_relay, {client_name}, and {client_ptr}. 1276 1277dnsbl Turns on rejection, discarding, or quarantining of hosts 1278 found in a DNS based list. The first argument is used as 1279 the domain in which blocked hosts are listed. A second 1280 argument can be used to change the default error message, 1281 or select one of the operations `discard' and `quarantine'. 1282 Without that second argument, the error message will be 1283 1284 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 1285 1286 where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 1287 information. By default, temporary lookup failures are 1288 ignored. This behavior can be changed by specifying a 1289 third argument, which must be either `t' or a full error 1290 message. See the anti-spam configuration control section for 1291 an example. The dnsbl feature can be included several times 1292 to query different DNS based rejection lists. See also 1293 enhdnsbl for an enhanced version. 1294 1295 Set the DNSBL_MAP mc option to change the default map 1296 definition from `host'. Set the DNSBL_MAP_OPT mc option 1297 to add additional options to the map specification used. 1298 1299 Some DNS based rejection lists cause failures if asked 1300 for AAAA records. If your sendmail version is compiled 1301 with IPv6 support (NETINET6) and you experience this 1302 problem, add 1303 1304 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A') 1305 1306 before the first use of this feature. Alternatively you 1307 can use enhdnsbl instead (see below). Moreover, this 1308 statement can be used to reduce the number of DNS retries, 1309 e.g., 1310 1311 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A -r2') 1312 1313 See below (EDNSBL_TO) for an explanation. 1314 1315enhdnsbl Enhanced version of dnsbl (see above). Further arguments 1316 (up to 5) can be used to specify specific return values 1317 from lookups. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless 1318 a third argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1319 error message. By default, any successful lookup will 1320 generate an error. Otherwise the result of the lookup is 1321 compared with the supplied argument(s), and only if a match 1322 occurs an error is generated. For example, 1323 1324 FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', `t', `127.0.0.2.') 1325 1326 will reject the e-mail if the lookup returns the value 1327 ``127.0.0.2.'', or generate a 451 response if the lookup 1328 temporarily failed. The arguments can contain metasymbols 1329 as they are allowed in the LHS of rules. As the example 1330 shows, the default values are also used if an empty argument, 1331 i.e., `', is specified. This feature requires that sendmail 1332 has been compiled with the flag DNSMAP (see sendmail/README). 1333 1334 Set the EDNSBL_TO mc option to change the DNS retry count 1335 from the default value of 5, this can be very useful when 1336 a DNS server is not responding, which in turn may cause 1337 clients to time out (an entry stating 1338 1339 did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN 1340 1341 will be logged). 1342 1343ratecontrol Enable simple ruleset to do connection rate control 1344 checking. This requires entries in access_db of the form 1345 1346 ClientRate:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1347 1348 The RHS specifies the maximum number of connections 1349 (an integer number) over the time interval defined 1350 by ConnectionRateWindowSize, where 0 means unlimited. 1351 1352 Take the following example: 1353 1354 ClientRate:10.1.2.3 4 1355 ClientRate:127.0.0.1 0 1356 ClientRate: 10 1357 1358 10.1.2.3 can only make up to 4 connections, the 1359 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 can make an unlimited 1360 number of connections per ConnectionRateWindowSize. 1361 1362 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1363 1364conncontrol Enable a simple check of the number of incoming SMTP 1365 connections. This requires entries in access_db of the 1366 form 1367 1368 ClientConn:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1369 1370 The RHS specifies the maximum number of open connections 1371 (an integer number). 1372 1373 Take the following example: 1374 1375 ClientConn:10.1.2.3 4 1376 ClientConn:127.0.0.1 0 1377 ClientConn: 10 1378 1379 10.1.2.3 can only have up to 4 open connections, the 1380 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 does not have any 1381 explicit limit. 1382 1383 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1384 1385mtamark Experimental support for "Marking Mail Transfer Agents in 1386 Reverse DNS with TXT RRs" (MTAMark), see 1387 draft-stumpf-dns-mtamark-01. Optional arguments are: 1388 1389 1. Error message, default: 1390 1391 550 Rejected: $&{client_addr} not listed as MTA 1392 1393 2. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless a second 1394 argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1395 error message. 1396 1397 3. Lookup prefix, default: _perm._smtp._srv. This should 1398 not be changed unless the draft changes it. 1399 1400 Example: 1401 1402 FEATURE(`mtamark', `', `t') 1403 1404lookupdotdomain Look up also .domain in the access map. This allows to 1405 match only subdomains. It does not work well with 1406 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only'), because most lookups for 1407 subdomains are suppressed by the latter feature. 1408 1409loose_relay_check 1410 Normally, if % addressing is used for a recipient, e.g. 1411 user%site@othersite, and othersite is in class {R}, the 1412 check_rcpt ruleset will strip @othersite and recheck 1413 user@site for relaying. This feature changes that 1414 behavior. It should not be needed for most installations. 1415 1416authinfo Provide a separate map for client side authentication 1417 information. See SMTP AUTHENTICATION for details. 1418 By default, the authinfo database specification is: 1419 1420 hash /etc/mail/authinfo 1421 1422preserve_luser_host 1423 Preserve the name of the recipient host if LUSER_RELAY is 1424 used. Without this option, the domain part of the 1425 recipient address will be replaced by the host specified as 1426 LUSER_RELAY. This feature only works if the hostname is 1427 passed to the mailer (see mailer triple in op.me). Note 1428 that in the default configuration the local mailer does not 1429 receive the hostname, i.e., the mailer triple has an empty 1430 hostname. 1431 1432preserve_local_plus_detail 1433 Preserve the +detail portion of the address when passing 1434 address to local delivery agent. Disables alias and 1435 .forward +detail stripping (e.g., given user+detail, only 1436 that address will be looked up in the alias file; user+* and 1437 user will not be looked up). Only use if the local 1438 delivery agent in use supports +detail addressing. 1439 Moreover, this will most likely not work if the 'w' flag 1440 for the local mailer is set as the entire local address 1441 including +detail is passed to the user lookup function. 1442 1443compat_check Enable ruleset check_compat to look up pairs of addresses 1444 with the Compat: tag -- Compat:sender<@>recipient -- in the 1445 access map. Valid values for the RHS include 1446 DISCARD silently discard recipient 1447 TEMP: return a temporary error 1448 ERROR: return a permanent error 1449 In the last two cases, a 4xy/5xy SMTP reply code should 1450 follow the colon. 1451 1452no_default_msa Don't generate the default MSA daemon, i.e., 1453 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587,Name=MSA,M=E') 1454 To define a MSA daemon with other parameters, use this 1455 FEATURE and introduce new settings via DAEMON_OPTIONS(). 1456 1457msp Defines config file for Message Submission Program. 1458 See sendmail/SECURITY for details and cf/cf/submit.mc how 1459 to use it. An optional argument can be used to override 1460 the default of `[localhost]' to use as host to send all 1461 e-mails to. Note that MX records will be used if the 1462 specified hostname is not in square brackets (e.g., 1463 [hostname]). If `MSA' is specified as second argument then 1464 port 587 is used to contact the server. Example: 1465 1466 FEATURE(`msp', `', `MSA') 1467 1468 Some more hints about possible changes can be found below 1469 in the section MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM. 1470 1471 Note: Due to many problems, submit.mc uses 1472 1473 FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]') 1474 1475 by default. If you have a machine with IPv6 only, 1476 change it to 1477 1478 FEATURE(`msp', `[IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]') 1479 1480 If you want to continue using '[localhost]', (the behavior 1481 up to 8.12.6), use 1482 1483 FEATURE(`msp') 1484 1485queuegroup A simple example how to select a queue group based 1486 on the full e-mail address or the domain of the 1487 recipient. Selection is done via entries in the 1488 access map using the tag QGRP:, for example: 1489 1490 QGRP:example.com main 1491 QGRP:friend@some.org others 1492 QGRP:my.domain local 1493 1494 where "main", "others", and "local" are names of 1495 queue groups. If an argument is specified, it is used 1496 as default queue group. 1497 1498 Note: please read the warning in doc/op/op.me about 1499 queue groups and possible queue manipulations. 1500 1501greet_pause Adds the greet_pause ruleset which enables open proxy 1502 and SMTP slamming protection. The feature can take an 1503 argument specifying the milliseconds to wait: 1504 1505 FEATURE(`greet_pause', `5000') dnl 5 seconds 1506 1507 If FEATURE(`access_db') is enabled, an access database 1508 lookup with the GreetPause tag is done using client 1509 hostname, domain, IP address, or subnet to determine the 1510 pause time: 1511 1512 GreetPause:my.domain 0 1513 GreetPause:example.com 5000 1514 GreetPause:10.1.2 2000 1515 GreetPause:127.0.0.1 0 1516 1517 When using FEATURE(`access_db'), the optional 1518 FEATURE(`greet_pause') argument becomes the default if 1519 nothing is found in the access database. A ruleset called 1520 Local_greet_pause can be used for local modifications, e.g., 1521 1522 LOCAL_RULESETS 1523 SLocal_greet_pause 1524 R$* $: $&{daemon_flags} 1525 R$* a $* $# 0 1526 1527block_bad_helo Reject messages from SMTP clients which provide a HELO/EHLO 1528 argument which is either unqualified, or is one of our own 1529 names (i.e., the server name instead of the client name). 1530 This check is performed at RCPT stage and disabled for the 1531 following cases: 1532 - authenticated sessions, 1533 - connections from IP addresses in class $={R}. 1534 Currently access_db lookups can not be used to 1535 (selectively) disable this test, moreover, 1536 1537 FEATURE(`delay_checks') 1538 1539 is required. Note, the block_bad_helo feature automatically 1540 adds the IPv6 and IPv4 localhost IP addresses to $={w} (local 1541 host names) and $={R} (relay permitted). 1542 1543require_rdns Reject mail from connecting SMTP clients without proper 1544 rDNS (reverse DNS), functional gethostbyaddr() resolution. 1545 Note: this feature will cause false positives, i.e., there 1546 are legitimate MTAs that do not have proper DNS entries. 1547 Rejecting mails from those MTAs is a local policy decision. 1548 1549 The basic policy is to reject message with a 5xx error if 1550 the IP address fails to resolve. However, if this is a 1551 temporary failure, a 4xx temporary failure is returned. 1552 If the look-up succeeds, but returns an apparently forged 1553 value, this is treated as a temporary failure with a 4xx 1554 error code. 1555 1556 EXCEPTIONS: 1557 1558 Exceptions based on access entries are discussed below. 1559 Any IP address matched using $=R (the "relay-domains" file) 1560 is excepted from the rules. Since we have explicitly 1561 allowed relaying for this host, based on IP address, we 1562 ignore the rDNS failure. 1563 1564 The philosophical assumption here is that most users do 1565 not control their rDNS. They should be able to send mail 1566 through their ISP, whether or not they have valid rDNS. 1567 The class $=R, roughly speaking, contains those IP addresses 1568 and address ranges for which we are the ISP, or are acting 1569 as if the ISP. 1570 1571 If `delay_checks' is in effect (recommended), then any 1572 sender who has authenticated is also excepted from the 1573 restrictions. This happens because the rules produced by 1574 this FEATURE() will not be applied to authenticated senders 1575 (assuming `delay_checks'). 1576 1577 ACCESS MAP ENTRIES: 1578 1579 Entries such as 1580 Connect:1.2.3.4 OK 1581 Connect:1.2 RELAY 1582 will allowlist IP address 1.2.3.4, so that the rDNS 1583 blocking does apply to that IP address 1584 1585 Entries such as 1586 Connect:1.2.3.4 REJECT 1587 will have the effect of forcing a temporary failure for 1588 that address to be treated as a permanent failure. 1589 1590badmx Reject envelope sender addresses (MAIL) whose domain part 1591 resolves to a "bad" MX record. By default these are 1592 MX records which resolve to A records that match the 1593 regular expression: 1594 1595 ^(127\.|10\.|0\.0\.0\.0) 1596 1597 This default regular expression can be overridden by 1598 specifying an argument, e.g., 1599 1600 FEATURE(`badmx', `^127\.0\.0\.1') 1601 1602 Note: this feature requires that the sendmail binary 1603 has been compiled with the options MAP_REGEX and 1604 DNSMAP. 1605 1606+-------+ 1607| HACKS | 1608+-------+ 1609 1610Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear, 1611they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK 1612macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release 1613includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes 1614sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU; 1615this is intended as a short-term aid while moving hosts into 1616subdomains. 1617 1618 1619+--------------------+ 1620| SITE CONFIGURATION | 1621+--------------------+ 1622 1623 ***************************************************** 1624 * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved * 1625 * only for back compatibility. You should plan on * 1626 * using mailertables for new installations. In * 1627 * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms * 1628 * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. * 1629 ***************************************************** 1630 1631Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as 1632lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more 1633tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc. 1634 1635The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent 1636configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For 1637example, the line 1638 1639 SITECONFIG(`uucp.ucbvax', `ucbvax', `U') 1640 1641reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The 1642second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since 1643it is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname). The third 1644parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in 1645this case, {U}) and the name of the class (e.g., {U}) in which to store 1646the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads 1647 1648 SITECONFIG(`uucp.ucbarpa', `ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU', `W') 1649 1650This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites 1651connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. Class {W} will be used to 1652store this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that 1653is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa 1654are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but this 1655out-of-date configuration file has been left around to demonstrate 1656how you might do this.] 1657 1658Note that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is 1659special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the 1660local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name 1661is entered into class {w} (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP. 1662 1663The siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing 1664more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For 1665example: 1666 1667 SITE(`cnmat') 1668 SITE(`sgi olympus') 1669 1670The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the 1671same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at 1672least in the same company). 1673 1674The macro LOCAL_UUCP can be used to add rules into the generated 1675cf file at the place where MAILER(`uucp') inserts its rules. This 1676should only be used if really necessary. 1677 1678+--------------------+ 1679| USING UUCP MAILERS | 1680+--------------------+ 1681 1682It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc 1683nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed 1684for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites. 1685 1686There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to 1687use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at 1688the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that 1689define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you 1690should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have 1691to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages 1692people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid 1693UUCP, please do. 1694 1695The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a 1696non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other 1697end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the 1698other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses 1699don't work entirely properly. 1700 1701The four mailers are: 1702 1703 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp") 1704 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of 1705 sending messages across UUCP connections. It does bangify 1706 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's 1707 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can 1708 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of 1709 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all 1710 possible. 1711 1712 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp") 1713 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail 1714 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a 1715 lot of other problems. 1716 1717 uucp-dom 1718 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses. 1719 Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules. This mailer 1720 is only included if MAILER(`smtp') is specified before 1721 MAILER(`uucp'). 1722 1723 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require 1724 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use 1725 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope 1726 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So.... 1727 1728 uucp-uudom 1729 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses) 1730 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the 1731 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the 1732 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address 1733 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name 1734 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of 1735 "some.dom.ain!wolf"). This is also included only if MAILER(`smtp') 1736 is also specified earlier. 1737 1738Examples: 1739 1740On host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"), the following 1741summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers. 1742 1743Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope 1744------ ------ ------------------------- 1745uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf 1746uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1747uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf 1748 1749uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf 1750uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net 1751uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf 1752 1753uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf 1754uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1755uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf 1756 1757If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want 1758to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will 1759do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example, 1760if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo), 1761the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to 1762this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it 1763will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain 1764feature. 1765 1766 1767+-------------------+ 1768| TWEAKING RULESETS | 1769+-------------------+ 1770 1771For more complex configurations, you can define special rules. 1772The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing 1773the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header. 1774 1775A common use is to convert old UUCP addresses to SMTP addresses using 1776the UUCPSMTP macro. For example: 1777 1778 LOCAL_RULE_3 1779 UUCPSMTP(`decvax', `decvax.dec.com') 1780 UUCPSMTP(`research', `research.att.com') 1781 1782will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user" 1783to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com" 1784respectively. 1785 1786This could also be used to look up hosts in a database map: 1787 1788 LOCAL_RULE_3 1789 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3 1790 1791This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below. 1792 1793Similarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules. 1794For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept 1795via MX records. For example, you might have: 1796 1797 LOCAL_RULE_0 1798 R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.> 1799 1800You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU 1801pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on 1802using UUCP. 1803 1804You can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2. 1805These rulesets are normally empty. 1806 1807A similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the 1808boilerplate option setting but before rulesets. Do not declare rulesets in 1809the LOCAL_CONFIG section. It can be used to declare local database maps or 1810whatever. For example: 1811 1812 LOCAL_CONFIG 1813 Khostmap hash /etc/mail/hostmap 1814 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname 1815 1816 1817+---------------------------+ 1818| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING | 1819+---------------------------+ 1820 1821You can have your host masquerade as another using 1822 1823 MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain') 1824 1825This causes mail being sent to be labeled as coming from the 1826indicated host.domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as 1827one of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that 1828Berkeley would choose to masquerade as an MIT site). This 1829behaviour is modified by a plethora of FEATUREs; in particular, see 1830masquerade_envelope, allmasquerade, limited_masquerade, and 1831masquerade_entire_domain. 1832 1833The masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important 1834that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a 1835CNAME. However, if you use a CNAME, the receiving side may canonify 1836it for you, so don't think you can cheat CNAME mapping this way. 1837 1838Normally the only addresses that are masqueraded are those that come 1839from this host (that is, are either unqualified or in class {w}, the list 1840of local domain names). You can augment this list, which is realized 1841by class {M} using 1842 1843 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`otherhost.domain') 1844 1845The effect of this is that although mail to user@otherhost.domain 1846will not be delivered locally, any mail including any user@otherhost.domain 1847will, when relayed, be rewritten to have the MASQUERADE_AS address. 1848This can be a space-separated list of names. 1849 1850If these names are in a file, you can use 1851 1852 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(`filename') 1853 1854to read the list of names from the indicated file (i.e., to add 1855elements to class {M}). 1856 1857To exempt hosts or subdomains from being masqueraded, you can use 1858 1859 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION(`host.domain') 1860 1861This can come handy if you want to masquerade a whole domain 1862except for one (or a few) host(s). If these names are in a file, 1863you can use 1864 1865 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE(`filename') 1866 1867Normally only header addresses are masqueraded. If you want to 1868masquerade the envelope as well, use 1869 1870 FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') 1871 1872There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their 1873internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. 1874Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior to 8.10). 1875You can add users to this list using 1876 1877 EXPOSED_USER(`usernames') 1878 1879This adds users to class {E}; you could also use 1880 1881 EXPOSED_USER_FILE(`filename') 1882 1883You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names 1884without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central 1885email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have 1886to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using 1887 1888 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `mailer:hostname') 1889 1890The ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to 1891"relay". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps 1892because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be 1893locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using 1894 1895 LOCAL_USER(`usernames') 1896 1897This adds users to class {L}; you could also use 1898 1899 LOCAL_USER_FILE(`filename') 1900 1901If you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a 1902shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use 1903 1904 define(`MAIL_HUB', `mailer:hostname') 1905 1906Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY 1907and MAIL_HUB _AND_ you have FEATURE(`stickyhost'), unqualified names will 1908be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. 1909Note: there is a (long standing) bug which keeps this combination from 1910working for addresses of the form user+detail. 1911Names in class {L} will be delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or 1912.forward files for them. 1913 1914For example, if you are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU and you have 1915FEATURE(`stickyhost'), the following combinations of settings will have the 1916indicated effects: 1917 1918email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1919 1920LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally) 1921mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1922 1923MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1924mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU (aliasing done) (aliasing done) 1925 1926Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1927MAIL_HUB set as above (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1928 1929If you do not have FEATURE(`stickyhost') set, then LOCAL_RELAY and 1930MAIL_HUB act identically, with MAIL_HUB taking precedence. 1931 1932If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define 1933SMART_HOST as well. Briefly: 1934 1935 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualified names (e.g., "eric"). 1936 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the 1937 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU"). 1938 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts or 1939 bracketed addresses (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU" 1940 or "eric@[127.0.0.1]"). 1941 1942However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, 1943DECNET_RELAY, and FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you 1944really want absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will 1945need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a 1946minimal config file that does this. 1947 1948For duplicate suppression to work properly, the host name is best 1949specified with a terminal dot: 1950 1951 define(`MAIL_HUB', `host.domain.') 1952 note the trailing dot ---^ 1953 1954 1955+-------------------------------------------+ 1956| USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES | 1957+-------------------------------------------+ 1958 1959LDAP can be used for aliases, maps, and classes by either specifying your 1960own LDAP map specification or using the built-in default LDAP map 1961specification. The built-in default specifications all provide lookups 1962which match against either the machine's fully qualified hostname (${j}) or 1963a "cluster". The cluster allows you to share LDAP entries among a large 1964number of machines without having to enter each of the machine names into 1965each LDAP entry. To set the LDAP cluster name to use for a particular 1966machine or set of machines, set the confLDAP_CLUSTER m4 variable to a 1967unique name. For example: 1968 1969 define(`confLDAP_CLUSTER', `Servers') 1970 1971Here, the word `Servers' will be the cluster name. As an example, assume 1972that smtp.sendmail.org, etrn.sendmail.org, and mx.sendmail.org all belong 1973to the Servers cluster. 1974 1975Some of the LDAP LDIF examples below show use of the Servers cluster. 1976Every entry must have either a sendmailMTAHost or sendmailMTACluster 1977attribute or it will be ignored. Be careful as mixing clusters and 1978individual host records can have surprising results (see the CAUTION 1979sections below). 1980 1981See the file cf/sendmail.schema for the actual LDAP schemas. Note that 1982this schema (and therefore the lookups and examples below) is experimental 1983at this point as it has had little public review. Therefore, it may change 1984in future versions. Feedback via sendmail-YYYY@support.sendmail.org is 1985encouraged (replace YYYY with the current year, e.g., 2005). 1986 1987------- 1988Aliases 1989------- 1990 1991The ALIAS_FILE (O AliasFile) option can be set to use LDAP for alias 1992lookups. To use the default schema, simply use: 1993 1994 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:') 1995 1996By doing so, you will use the default schema which expands to a map 1997declared as follows: 1998 1999 ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAAliasObject) 2000 (sendmailMTAAliasGrouping=aliases) 2001 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2002 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 2003 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 2004 -v sendmailMTAAliasValue,sendmailMTAAliasSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAAliasObject,sendmailMTAAliasURL:URL:sendmailMTAAliasObject 2005 2006 2007NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 2008used when the binary expands the `ldap:' token as the AliasFile option is 2009not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 2010 2011Example LDAP LDIF entries might be: 2012 2013 dn: sendmailMTAKey=sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2014 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2015 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2016 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2017 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2018 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2019 sendmailMTAKey: sendmail-list 2020 sendmailMTAAliasValue: ca@example.org 2021 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2022 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro@example.com 2023 2024 dn: sendmailMTAKey=owner-sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2025 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2026 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2027 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2028 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2029 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2030 sendmailMTAKey: owner-sendmail-list 2031 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2032 2033 dn: sendmailMTAKey=postmaster, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2034 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2035 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2036 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2037 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2038 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2039 sendmailMTAKey: postmaster 2040 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2041 2042Here, the aliases sendmail-list and owner-sendmail-list will be available 2043only on etrn.sendmail.org but the postmaster alias will be available on 2044every machine in the Servers cluster (including etrn.sendmail.org). 2045 2046CAUTION: aliases are additive so that entries like these: 2047 2048 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bob, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2049 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2050 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2051 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2052 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2053 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2054 sendmailMTAKey: bob 2055 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 2056 2057 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bobetrn, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2058 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2059 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 2060 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 2061 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 2062 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2063 sendmailMTAKey: bob 2064 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro 2065 2066would mean that on all of the hosts in the cluster, mail to bob would go to 2067eric EXCEPT on etrn.sendmail.org in which case it would go to BOTH eric and 2068gshapiro. 2069 2070If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your aliases, you can 2071specify the map parameters when setting ALIAS_FILE. For example: 2072 2073 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:-k (&(objectClass=mailGroup)(mail=%0)) -v mgrpRFC822MailMember') 2074 2075---- 2076Maps 2077---- 2078 2079FEATURE()'s which take an optional map definition argument (e.g., access, 2080mailertable, virtusertable, etc.) can instead take the special keyword 2081`LDAP', e.g.: 2082 2083 FEATURE(`access_db', `LDAP') 2084 FEATURE(`virtusertable', `LDAP') 2085 2086When this keyword is given, that map will use LDAP lookups consisting of 2087the objectClass sendmailMTAClassObject, the attribute sendmailMTAMapName 2088with the map name, a search attribute of sendmailMTAKey, and the value 2089attribute sendmailMTAMapValue. 2090 2091The values for sendmailMTAMapName are: 2092 2093 FEATURE() sendmailMTAMapName 2094 --------- ------------------ 2095 access_db access 2096 authinfo authinfo 2097 bitdomain bitdomain 2098 domaintable domain 2099 genericstable generics 2100 mailertable mailer 2101 uucpdomain uucpdomain 2102 virtusertable virtuser 2103 2104For example, FEATURE(`mailertable', `LDAP') would use the map definition: 2105 2106 Kmailertable ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAMapObject) 2107 (sendmailMTAMapName=mailer) 2108 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2109 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 2110 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 2111 -1 -v sendmailMTAMapValue,sendmailMTAMapSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAMapObject,sendmailMTAMapURL:URL:sendmailMTAMapObject 2112 2113An example LDAP LDIF entry using this map might be: 2114 2115 dn: sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2116 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2117 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2118 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2119 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2120 2121 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2122 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2123 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2124 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 2125 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2126 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2127 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 2128 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[smtp.example.com] 2129 2130CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 2131specific record such as: 2132 2133 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com@etrn, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2134 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2135 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 2136 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 2137 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 2138 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2139 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 2140 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[mx.example.com] 2141 2142then these entries will give unexpected results. When the lookup is done 2143on etrn.sendmail.org, the effect is that there is *NO* match at all as maps 2144require a single match. Since the host etrn.sendmail.org is also in the 2145Servers cluster, LDAP would return two answers for the example.com map key 2146in which case sendmail would treat this as no match at all. 2147 2148If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your maps, you can 2149specify the map parameters when using the FEATURE(). For example: 2150 2151 FEATURE(`access_db', `ldap:-1 -k (&(objectClass=mapDatabase)(key=%0)) -v value') 2152 2153------- 2154Classes 2155------- 2156 2157Normally, classes can be filled via files or programs. As of 8.12, they 2158can also be filled via map lookups using a new syntax: 2159 2160 F{ClassName}mapkey@mapclass:mapspec 2161 2162mapkey is optional and if not provided the map key will be empty. This can 2163be used with LDAP to read classes from LDAP. Note that the lookup is only 2164done when sendmail is initially started. Use the special value `@LDAP' to 2165use the default LDAP schema. For example: 2166 2167 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(`@LDAP') 2168 2169would put all of the attribute sendmailMTAClassValue values of LDAP records 2170with objectClass sendmailMTAClass and an attribute sendmailMTAClassName of 2171'R' into class $={R}. In other words, it is equivalent to the LDAP map 2172specification: 2173 2174 F{R}@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAClass) 2175 (sendmailMTAClassName=R) 2176 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 2177 (sendmailMTAHost=$j))) 2178 -v sendmailMTAClassValue,sendmailMTAClassSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAClass,sendmailMTAClassURL:URL:sendmailMTAClass 2179 2180NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 2181used when the binary expands the `@LDAP' token as class declarations are 2182not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 2183 2184This can be used with class related commands such as RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(), 2185MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(), etc: 2186 2187 Command sendmailMTAClassName 2188 ------- -------------------- 2189 CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE() Canonify 2190 EXPOSED_USER_FILE() E 2191 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE() G 2192 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN_FILE() LDAPRoute 2193 LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE() LDAPRouteEquiv 2194 LOCAL_USER_FILE() L 2195 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE() M 2196 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE() N 2197 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() R 2198 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE() VirtHost 2199 2200You can also add your own as any 'F'ile class of the form: 2201 2202 F{ClassName}@LDAP 2203 ^^^^^^^^^ 2204will use "ClassName" for the sendmailMTAClassName. 2205 2206An example LDAP LDIF entry would look like: 2207 2208 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2209 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2210 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 2211 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 2212 sendmailMTAClassName: R 2213 sendmailMTAClassValue: sendmail.org 2214 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 2215 sendmailMTAClassValue: 10.56.23 2216 2217CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 2218specific record such as: 2219 2220 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R@etrn.sendmail.org, dc=sendmail, dc=org 2221 objectClass: sendmailMTA 2222 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 2223 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 2224 sendmailMTAClassName: R 2225 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 2226 2227the result will be similar to the aliases caution above. When the lookup 2228is done on etrn.sendmail.org, $={R} would contain all of the entries (from 2229both the cluster match and the host match). In other words, the effective 2230is additive. 2231 2232If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your classes, you can 2233specify the map parameters when using the class command. For example: 2234 2235 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE(`@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=virtHosts)(host=*)) -v host') 2236 2237Remember, macros can not be used in a class declaration as the binary does 2238not expand them. 2239 2240 2241+--------------+ 2242| LDAP ROUTING | 2243+--------------+ 2244 2245FEATURE(`ldap_routing') can be used to implement the IETF Internet Draft 2246LDAP Schema for Intranet Mail Routing 2247(draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-01). This feature enables 2248LDAP-based rerouting of a particular address to either a different host 2249or a different address. The LDAP lookup is first attempted on the full 2250address (e.g., user@example.com) and then on the domain portion 2251(e.g., @example.com). Be sure to setup your domain for LDAP routing using 2252LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(), e.g.: 2253 2254 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(`example.com') 2255 2256Additionally, you can specify equivalent domains for LDAP routing using 2257LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT() and LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE(). 'Equivalent' 2258hostnames are mapped to $M (the masqueraded hostname for the server) before 2259the LDAP query. For example, if the mail is addressed to 2260user@host1.example.com, normally the LDAP lookup would only be done for 2261'user@host1.example.com' and '@host1.example.com'. However, if 2262LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT(`host1.example.com') is used, the lookups would also be 2263done on 'user@example.com' and '@example.com' after attempting the 2264host1.example.com lookups. 2265 2266By default, the feature will use the schemas as specified in the draft 2267and will not reject addresses not found by the LDAP lookup. However, 2268this behavior can be changed by giving additional arguments to the FEATURE() 2269command: 2270 2271 FEATURE(`ldap_routing', <mailHost>, <mailRoutingAddress>, <bounce>, 2272 <detail>, <nodomain>, <tempfail>) 2273 2274where <mailHost> is a map definition describing how to look up an alternative 2275mail host for a particular address; <mailRoutingAddress> is a map definition 2276describing how to look up an alternative address for a particular address; 2277the <bounce> argument, if present and not the word "passthru", dictates 2278that mail should be bounced if neither a mailHost nor mailRoutingAddress 2279is found, if set to "sendertoo", the sender will be rejected if not 2280found in LDAP; and <detail> indicates what actions to take if the address 2281contains +detail information -- `strip' tries the lookup with the +detail 2282and if no matches are found, strips the +detail and tries the lookup again; 2283`preserve', does the same as `strip' but if a mailRoutingAddress match is 2284found, the +detail information is copied to the new address; the <nodomain> 2285argument, if present, will prevent the @domain lookup if the full 2286address is not found in LDAP; the <tempfail> argument, if set to 2287"tempfail", instructs the rules to give an SMTP 4XX temporary 2288error if the LDAP server gives the MTA a temporary failure, or if set to 2289"queue" (the default), the MTA will locally queue the mail. 2290 2291The default <mailHost> map definition is: 2292 2293 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailHost -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2294 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2295 2296The default <mailRoutingAddress> map definition is: 2297 2298 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailRoutingAddress 2299 -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2300 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2301 2302Note that neither includes the LDAP server hostname (-h server) or base DN 2303(-b o=org,c=COUNTRY), both necessary for LDAP queries. It is presumed that 2304your .mc file contains a setting for the confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC option with 2305these settings. If this is not the case, the map definitions should be 2306changed as described above. The "-T<TMPF>" is required in any user 2307specified map definition to catch temporary errors. 2308 2309The following possibilities exist as a result of an LDAP lookup on an 2310address: 2311 2312 mailHost is mailRoutingAddress is Results in 2313 ----------- --------------------- ---------- 2314 set to a set mail delivered to 2315 "local" host mailRoutingAddress 2316 2317 set to a not set delivered to 2318 "local" host original address 2319 2320 set to a set mailRoutingAddress 2321 remote host relayed to mailHost 2322 2323 set to a not set original address 2324 remote host relayed to mailHost 2325 2326 not set set mail delivered to 2327 mailRoutingAddress 2328 2329 not set not set delivered to 2330 original address *OR* 2331 bounced as unknown user 2332 2333The term "local" host above means the host specified is in class {w}. If 2334the result would mean sending the mail to a different host, that host is 2335looked up in the mailertable before delivery. 2336 2337Note that the last case depends on whether the third argument is given 2338to the FEATURE() command. The default is to deliver the message to the 2339original address. 2340 2341The LDAP entries should be set up with an objectClass of 2342inetLocalMailRecipient and the address be listed in a mailLocalAddress 2343attribute. If present, there must be only one mailHost attribute and it 2344must contain a fully qualified host name as its value. Similarly, if 2345present, there must be only one mailRoutingAddress attribute and it must 2346contain an RFC 822 compliant address. Some example LDAP records (in LDIF 2347format): 2348 2349 dn: uid=tom, o=example.com, c=US 2350 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2351 mailLocalAddress: tom@example.com 2352 mailRoutingAddress: thomas@mailhost.example.com 2353 2354This would deliver mail for tom@example.com to thomas@mailhost.example.com. 2355 2356 dn: uid=dick, o=example.com, c=US 2357 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2358 mailLocalAddress: dick@example.com 2359 mailHost: eng.example.com 2360 2361This would relay mail for dick@example.com to the same address but redirect 2362the mail to MX records listed for the host eng.example.com (unless the 2363mailertable overrides). 2364 2365 dn: uid=harry, o=example.com, c=US 2366 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2367 mailLocalAddress: harry@example.com 2368 mailHost: mktmail.example.com 2369 mailRoutingAddress: harry@mkt.example.com 2370 2371This would relay mail for harry@example.com to the MX records listed for 2372the host mktmail.example.com using the new address harry@mkt.example.com 2373when talking to that host. 2374 2375 dn: uid=virtual.example.com, o=example.com, c=US 2376 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2377 mailLocalAddress: @virtual.example.com 2378 mailHost: server.example.com 2379 mailRoutingAddress: virtual@example.com 2380 2381This would send all mail destined for any username @virtual.example.com to 2382the machine server.example.com's MX servers and deliver to the address 2383virtual@example.com on that relay machine. 2384 2385 2386+---------------------------------+ 2387| ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL | 2388+---------------------------------+ 2389 2390The primary anti-spam features available in sendmail are: 2391 2392* Relaying is denied by default. 2393* Better checking on sender information. 2394* Access database. 2395* Header checks. 2396 2397Relaying (transmission of messages from a site outside your host (class 2398{w}) to another site except yours) is denied by default. Note that this 2399changed in sendmail 8.9; previous versions allowed relaying by default. 2400If you really want to revert to the old behaviour, you will need to use 2401FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay'). You can allow certain domains to relay 2402through your server by adding their domain name or IP address to class 2403{R} using RELAY_DOMAIN() and RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() or via the access database 2404(described below). Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2405The file consists (like any other file based class) of entries listed on 2406separate lines, e.g., 2407 2408 sendmail.org 2409 128.32 2410 IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 2411 IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 2412 host.mydomain.com 2413 [UNIX:localhost] 2414 2415Notice: the last entry allows relaying for connections via a UNIX 2416socket to the MTA/MSP. This might be necessary if your configuration 2417doesn't allow relaying by other means in that case, e.g., by having 2418localhost.$m in class {R} (make sure $m is not just a top level 2419domain). 2420 2421If you use 2422 2423 FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') 2424 2425then any host in any of your local domains (that is, class {m}) 2426will be relayed (that is, you will accept mail either to or from any 2427host in your domain). 2428 2429You can also allow relaying based on the MX records of the host 2430portion of an incoming recipient address by using 2431 2432 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') 2433 2434For example, if your server receives a recipient of user@domain.com 2435and domain.com lists your server in its MX records, the mail will be 2436accepted for relay to domain.com. This feature may cause problems 2437if MX lookups for the recipient domain are slow or time out. In that 2438case, mail will be temporarily rejected. It is usually better to 2439maintain a list of hosts/domains for which the server acts as relay. 2440Note also that this feature will stop spammers from using your host 2441to relay spam but it will not stop outsiders from using your server 2442as a relay for their site (that is, they set up an MX record pointing 2443to your mail server, and you will relay mail addressed to them 2444without any prior arrangement). Along the same lines, 2445 2446 FEATURE(`relay_local_from') 2447 2448will allow relaying if the sender specifies a return path (i.e. 2449MAIL FROM:<user@domain>) domain which is a local domain. This is a 2450dangerous feature as it will allow spammers to spam using your mail 2451server by simply specifying a return address of user@your.domain.com. 2452It should not be used unless absolutely necessary. 2453A slightly better solution is 2454 2455 FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') 2456 2457which allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in the 2458access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this is the literal 2459word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, the domain portion of 2460the mail sender is also checked to allowing relaying. This option 2461only works together with the tag From: for the LHS of the access 2462map entries. This feature allows spammers to abuse your mail server 2463by specifying a return address that you enabled in your access file. 2464This may be harder to figure out for spammers, but it should not 2465be used unless necessary. Instead use SMTP AUTH or STARTTLS to 2466allow relaying for roaming users. 2467 2468 2469If source routing is used in the recipient address (e.g., 2470RCPT TO:<user%site.com@othersite.com>), sendmail will check 2471user@site.com for relaying if othersite.com is an allowed relay host 2472in either class {R}, class {m} if FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') is used, 2473or the access database if FEATURE(`access_db') is used. To prevent 2474the address from being stripped down, use: 2475 2476 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check') 2477 2478If you think you need to use this feature, you probably do not. This 2479should only be used for sites which have no control over the addresses 2480that they provide a gateway for. Use this FEATURE with caution as it 2481can allow spammers to relay through your server if not setup properly. 2482 2483NOTICE: It is possible to relay mail through a system which the 2484anti-relay rules do not prevent: the case of a system that does use 2485FEATURE(`nouucp', `nospecial') / FEATURE(`nopercenthack', `nospecial') 2486(system A) and relays local messages to a mail hub (e.g., via 2487LOCAL_RELAY or LUSER_RELAY) (system B). If system B doesn't use the 2488same feature (nouucp / nopercenthack) at all, addresses of the form 2489<example.net!user@local.host> / <user%example.net@local.host> 2490would be relayed to <user@example.net>. 2491System A doesn't recognize `!' / `%' as an address separator and 2492therefore forwards it to the mail hub which in turns relays it 2493because it came from a trusted local host. So if a mailserver 2494allows UUCP (bang-format) / %-hack addresses, all systems from which 2495it allows relaying should do the same or reject those addresses. 2496 2497As of 8.9, sendmail will refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter has 2498an unresolvable domain (i.e., one that DNS, your local name service, 2499or special case rules in ruleset 3 cannot locate). This also applies 2500to addresses that use domain literals, e.g., <user@[1.2.3.4]>, if the 2501IP address can't be mapped to a host name. If you want to continue 2502to accept such domains, e.g., because you are inside a firewall that 2503has only a limited view of the Internet host name space (note that you 2504will not be able to return mail to them unless you have some "smart 2505host" forwarder), use 2506 2507 FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') 2508 2509Alternatively, you can allow specific addresses by adding them to 2510the access map, e.g., 2511 2512 From:unresolvable.domain OK 2513 From:[1.2.3.4] OK 2514 From:[1.2.4] OK 2515 2516Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily) 2517rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted 2518(which is discouraged) then you can use 2519 2520 LOCAL_CONFIG 2521 C{ResOk}TEMP 2522 2523sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not 2524fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you 2525want to continue to accept such senders, use 2526 2527 FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders') 2528 2529Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'u' overrides the default behavior, 2530i.e., unqualified addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. If 2531this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'f' can be used 2532to enforce fully qualified domain names. 2533 2534An ``access'' database can be created to accept or reject mail from 2535selected domains. For example, you may choose to reject all mail 2536originating from known spammers. To enable such a database, use 2537 2538 FEATURE(`access_db') 2539 2540Notice: the access database is applied to the envelope addresses 2541and the connection information, not to the header. 2542 2543The FEATURE macro can accept as second parameter the key file 2544definition for the database; for example 2545 2546 FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access_map') 2547 2548Notice: If a second argument is specified it must contain the option 2549`-T<TMPF>' as shown above. The optional parameters may be 2550 2551 `skip' enables SKIP as value part (see below). 2552 `lookupdotdomain' another way to enable the feature of the 2553 same name (see above). 2554 `relaytofulladdress' enable entries of the form 2555 To:user@example.com RELAY 2556 to allow relaying to just a specific 2557 e-mail address instead of an entire domain. 2558 2559Remember, since /etc/mail/access is a database, after creating the text 2560file as described below, you must use makemap to create the database 2561map. For example: 2562 2563 makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access 2564 2565The table itself uses e-mail addresses, domain names, and network 2566numbers as keys. Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2567For example, 2568 2569 From:spammer@aol.com REJECT 2570 From:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2571 Connect:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2572 Connect:TLD REJECT 2573 Connect:192.168.212 REJECT 2574 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 RELAY 2575 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 REJECT 2576 2577would refuse mail from spammer@aol.com, any user from cyberspammer.com 2578(or any host within the cyberspammer.com domain), any host in the entire 2579top level domain TLD, 192.168.212.* network, and the IPv6 address 25802002:c0a8:51d2::23f4. It would allow relay for the IPv6 network 25812002:c0a8:02c7::/48. 2582 2583Entries in the access map should be tagged according to their type. 2584Three tags are available: 2585 2586 Connect: connection information (${client_addr}, ${client_name}) 2587 From: envelope sender 2588 To: envelope recipient 2589 2590Notice: untagged entries are deprecated. 2591 2592If the required item is looked up in a map, it will be tried first 2593with the corresponding tag in front, then (as fallback to enable 2594backward compatibility) without any tag, unless the specific feature 2595requires a tag. For example, 2596 2597 From:spammer@some.dom REJECT 2598 To:friend.domain RELAY 2599 Connect:friend.domain OK 2600 Connect:from.domain RELAY 2601 From:good@another.dom OK 2602 From:another.dom REJECT 2603 2604This would deny mails from spammer@some.dom but you could still 2605send mail to that address even if FEATURE(`blocklist_recipients') 2606is enabled. Your system will allow relaying to friend.domain, but 2607not from it (unless enabled by other means). Connections from that 2608domain will be allowed even if it ends up in one of the DNS based 2609rejection lists. Relaying is enabled from from.domain but not to 2610it (since relaying is based on the connection information for 2611outgoing relaying, the tag Connect: must be used; for incoming 2612relaying, which is based on the recipient address, To: must be 2613used). The last two entries allow mails from good@another.dom but 2614reject mail from all other addresses with another.dom as domain 2615part. 2616 2617 2618The value part of the map can contain: 2619 2620 OK Accept mail even if other rules in the running 2621 ruleset would reject it, for example, if the domain 2622 name is unresolvable. "Accept" does not mean 2623 "relay", but at most acceptance for local 2624 recipients. That is, OK allows less than RELAY. 2625 RELAY Accept mail addressed to the indicated domain 2626 (or address if `relaytofulladdress' is set) or 2627 received from the indicated domain for relaying 2628 through your SMTP server. RELAY also serves as 2629 an implicit OK for the other checks. 2630 REJECT Reject the sender or recipient with a general 2631 purpose message. 2632 DISCARD Discard the message completely using the 2633 $#discard mailer. If it is used in check_compat, 2634 it affects only the designated recipient, not 2635 the whole message as it does in all other cases. 2636 This should only be used if really necessary. 2637 SKIP This can only be used for host/domain names 2638 and IP addresses/nets. It will abort the current 2639 search for this entry without accepting or rejecting 2640 it but causing the default action. 2641 ### any text where ### is an RFC 821 compliant error code and 2642 "any text" is a message to return for the command. 2643 The entire string should be quoted to avoid 2644 surprises: 2645 2646 "### any text" 2647 2648 Otherwise sendmail formats the text as email 2649 addresses, e.g., it may remove spaces. 2650 This type is deprecated, use one of the two 2651 ERROR: entries below instead. 2652 ERROR:### any text 2653 as above, but useful to mark error messages as such. 2654 If quotes need to be used to avoid modifications 2655 (see above), they should be placed like this: 2656 2657 ERROR:"### any text" 2658 2659 ERROR:D.S.N:### any text 2660 where D.S.N is an RFC 1893 compliant error code 2661 and the rest as above. If quotes need to be used 2662 to avoid modifications, they should be placed 2663 like this: 2664 2665 ERROR:D.S.N:"### any text" 2666 2667 QUARANTINE:any text 2668 Quarantine the message using the given text as the 2669 quarantining reason. 2670 2671For example: 2672 2673 From:cyberspammer.com ERROR:"550 We don't accept mail from spammers" 2674 From:okay.cyberspammer.com OK 2675 Connect:sendmail.org RELAY 2676 To:sendmail.org RELAY 2677 Connect:128.32 RELAY 2678 Connect:128.32.2 SKIP 2679 Connect:IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7 RELAY 2680 Connect:suspicious.example.com QUARANTINE:Mail from suspicious host 2681 Connect:[127.0.0.3] OK 2682 Connect:[IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8] OK 2683 2684would accept mail from okay.cyberspammer.com, but would reject mail 2685from all other hosts at cyberspammer.com with the indicated message. 2686It would allow relaying mail from and to any hosts in the sendmail.org 2687domain, and allow relaying from the IPv6 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:* network 2688and from the 128.32.*.* network except for the 128.32.2.* network, 2689which shows how SKIP is useful to exempt subnets/subdomains. The 2690last two entries are for checks against ${client_name} if the IP 2691address doesn't resolve to a hostname (or is considered as "may be 2692forged"). That is, using square brackets means these are host 2693names, not network numbers. 2694 2695Warning: if you change the RFC 821 compliant error code from the default 2696value of 550, then you should probably also change the RFC 1893 compliant 2697error code to match it. For example, if you use 2698 2699 To:user@example.com ERROR:450 mailbox full 2700 2701the error returned would be "450 5.0.0 mailbox full" which is wrong. 2702Use "ERROR:4.2.2:450 mailbox full" instead. 2703 2704Note, UUCP users may need to add hostname.UUCP to the access database 2705or class {R}. 2706 2707If you also use: 2708 2709 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only') 2710 2711then the above example will allow relaying for sendmail.org, but not 2712hosts within the sendmail.org domain. Note that this will also require 2713hosts listed in class {R} to be fully qualified host names. 2714 2715You can also use the access database to block sender addresses based on 2716the username portion of the address. For example: 2717 2718 From:FREE.STEALTH.MAILER@ ERROR:550 Spam not accepted 2719 2720Note that you must include the @ after the username to signify that 2721this database entry is for checking only the username portion of the 2722sender address. 2723 2724If you use: 2725 2726 FEATURE(`blocklist_recipients') 2727 2728then you can add entries to the map for local users, hosts in your 2729domains, or addresses in your domain which should not receive mail: 2730 2731 To:badlocaluser@ ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for badlocaluser 2732 To:host.my.TLD ERROR:550 That host does not accept mail 2733 To:user@other.my.TLD ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for this recipient 2734 2735This would prevent a recipient of badlocaluser in any of the local 2736domains (class {w}), any user at host.my.TLD, and the single address 2737user@other.my.TLD from receiving mail. Please note: a local username 2738must be now tagged with an @ (this is consistent with the check of 2739the sender address, and hence it is possible to distinguish between 2740hostnames and usernames). Enabling this feature will keep you from 2741sending mails to all addresses that have an error message or REJECT 2742as value part in the access map. Taking the example from above: 2743 2744 spammer@aol.com REJECT 2745 cyberspammer.com REJECT 2746 2747Mail can't be sent to spammer@aol.com or anyone at cyberspammer.com. 2748That's why tagged entries should be used. 2749 2750There are several DNS based blocklists which can be found by 2751querying a search engine. These are databases of spammers 2752maintained in DNS. To use such a database, specify 2753 2754 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com') 2755 2756This will cause sendmail to reject mail from any site listed in the 2757DNS based blocklist. You must select a DNS based blocklist domain 2758to check by specifying an argument to the FEATURE. The default 2759error message is 2760 2761 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 2762 2763where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2764information. A second argument can be used to specify a different 2765text or action. For example, 2766 2767 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `quarantine') 2768 2769would quarantine the message if the client IP address is listed 2770at `dnsbl.example.com'. 2771 2772By default, temporary lookup failures are ignored 2773and hence cause the connection not to be rejected by the DNS based 2774rejection list. This behavior can be changed by specifying a third 2775argument, which must be either `t' or a full error message. For 2776example: 2777 2778 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', 2779 `"451 Temporary lookup failure for " $&{client_addr} " in dnsbl.example.com"') 2780 2781If `t' is used, the error message is: 2782 2783 451 Temporary lookup failure of IP-ADDRESS at SERVER 2784 2785where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2786information. 2787 2788This FEATURE can be included several times to query different 2789DNS based rejection lists. 2790 2791Notice: to avoid checking your own local domains against those 2792blocklists, use the access_db feature and add: 2793 2794 Connect:10.1 OK 2795 Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY 2796 2797to the access map, where 10.1 is your local network. You may 2798want to use "RELAY" instead of "OK" to allow also relaying 2799instead of just disabling the DNS lookups in the blocklists. 2800 2801 2802The features described above make use of the check_relay, check_mail, 2803and check_rcpt rulesets. Note that check_relay checks the SMTP 2804client hostname and IP address when the connection is made to your 2805server. It does not check if a mail message is being relayed to 2806another server. That check is done in check_rcpt. If you wish to 2807include your own checks, you can put your checks in the rulesets 2808Local_check_relay, Local_check_mail, and Local_check_rcpt. For 2809example if you wanted to block senders with all numeric usernames 2810(i.e. 2312343@bigisp.com), you would use Local_check_mail and the 2811regex map: 2812 2813 LOCAL_CONFIG 2814 Kallnumbers regex -a@MATCH ^[0-9]+$ 2815 2816 LOCAL_RULESETS 2817 SLocal_check_mail 2818 # check address against various regex checks 2819 R$* $: $>Parse0 $>3 $1 2820 R$+ < @ bigisp.com. > $* $: $(allnumbers $1 $) 2821 R@MATCH $#error $: 553 Header Error 2822 2823These rules are called with the original arguments of the corresponding 2824check_* ruleset. If the local ruleset returns $#OK, no further checking 2825is done by the features described above and the mail is accepted. If 2826the local ruleset resolves to a mailer (such as $#error or $#discard), 2827the appropriate action is taken. Other results starting with $# are 2828interpreted by sendmail and may lead to unspecified behavior. Note: do 2829NOT create a mailer with the name OK. Return values that do not start 2830with $# are ignored, i.e., normal processing continues. 2831 2832Delay all checks 2833---------------- 2834 2835By using FEATURE(`delay_checks') the rulesets check_mail and check_relay 2836will not be called when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, 2837respectively. Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 2838ruleset; they will be skipped if a sender has been authenticated using 2839a "trusted" mechanism, i.e., one that is defined via TRUST_AUTH_MECH(). 2840If check_mail returns an error then the RCPT TO command will be rejected 2841with that error. If it returns some other result starting with $# then 2842check_relay will be skipped. If the sender address (or a part of it) is 2843listed in the access map and it has a RHS of OK or RELAY, then check_relay 2844will be skipped. This has an interesting side effect: if your domain is 2845my.domain and you have 2846 2847 my.domain RELAY 2848 2849in the access map, then any e-mail with a sender address of 2850<user@my.domain> will not be rejected by check_relay even though 2851it would match the hostname or IP address. This allows spammers 2852to get around DNS based blocklist by faking the sender address. To 2853avoid this problem you have to use tagged entries: 2854 2855 To:my.domain RELAY 2856 Connect:my.domain RELAY 2857 2858if you need those entries at all (class {R} may take care of them). 2859 2860FEATURE(`delay_checks') can take an optional argument: 2861 2862 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend') 2863 enables spamfriend test 2864 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `hater') 2865 enables spamhater test 2866 2867If such an argument is given, the recipient will be looked up in the 2868access map (using the tag Spam:). If the argument is `friend', then 2869the default behavior is to apply the other rulesets and make a SPAM 2870friend the exception. The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will be 2871skipped only if the recipient address is found and has RHS FRIEND. If 2872the argument is `hater', then the default behavior is to skip the rulesets 2873check_mail and check_relay and make a SPAM hater the exception. The 2874other two rulesets will be applied only if the recipient address is 2875found and has RHS HATER. 2876 2877This allows for simple exceptions from the tests, e.g., by activating 2878the friend option and having 2879 2880 Spam:abuse@ FRIEND 2881 2882in the access map, mail to abuse@localdomain will get through (where 2883"localdomain" is any domain in class {w}). It is also possible to 2884specify a full address or an address with +detail: 2885 2886 Spam:abuse@my.domain FRIEND 2887 Spam:me+abuse@ FRIEND 2888 Spam:spam.domain FRIEND 2889 2890Note: The required tag has been changed in 8.12 from To: to Spam:. 2891This change is incompatible to previous versions. However, you can 2892(for now) simply add the new entries to the access map, the old 2893ones will be ignored. As soon as you removed the old entries from 2894the access map, specify a third parameter (`n') to this feature and 2895the backward compatibility rules will not be in the generated .cf 2896file. 2897 2898Header Checks 2899------------- 2900 2901You can also reject mail on the basis of the contents of headers. 2902This is done by adding a ruleset call to the 'H' header definition command 2903in sendmail.cf. For example, this can be used to check the validity of 2904a Message-ID: header: 2905 2906 LOCAL_CONFIG 2907 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2908 2909 LOCAL_RULESETS 2910 SCheckMessageId 2911 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2912 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2913 2914The alternative format: 2915 2916 HSubject: $>+CheckSubject 2917 2918that is, $>+ instead of $>, gives the full Subject: header including 2919comments to the ruleset (comments in parentheses () are stripped 2920by default). 2921 2922A default ruleset for headers which don't have a specific ruleset 2923defined for them can be given by: 2924 2925 H*: $>CheckHdr 2926 2927Notice: 29281. All rules act on tokens as explained in doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 2929That may cause problems with simple header checks due to the 2930tokenization. It might be simpler to use a regex map and apply it 2931to $&{currHeader}. 29322. There are no default rulesets coming with this distribution of 2933sendmail. You can write your own, can search the WWW for examples, 2934or take a look at cf/cf/knecht.mc. 29353. When using a default ruleset for headers, the name of the header 2936currently being checked can be found in the $&{hdr_name} macro. 2937 2938After all of the headers are read, the check_eoh ruleset will be called for 2939any final header-related checks. The ruleset is called with the number of 2940headers and the size of all of the headers in bytes separated by $|. One 2941example usage is to reject messages which do not have a Message-Id: 2942header. However, the Message-Id: header is *NOT* a required header and is 2943not a guaranteed spam indicator. This ruleset is an example and should 2944probably not be used in production. 2945 2946 LOCAL_CONFIG 2947 Kstorage macro 2948 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2949 2950 LOCAL_RULESETS 2951 SCheckMessageId 2952 # Record the presence of the header 2953 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $@ OK $) $1 2954 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2955 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2956 2957 Scheck_eoh 2958 # Check the macro 2959 R$* $: < $&{MessageIdCheck} > 2960 # Clear the macro for the next message 2961 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $) $1 2962 # Has a Message-Id: header 2963 R< $+ > $@ OK 2964 # Allow missing Message-Id: from local mail 2965 R$* $: < $&{client_name} > 2966 R< > $@ OK 2967 R< $=w > $@ OK 2968 # Otherwise, reject the mail 2969 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2970 2971 2972+--------------------+ 2973| CONNECTION CONTROL | 2974+--------------------+ 2975 2976The features ratecontrol and conncontrol allow to establish connection 2977limits per client IP address or net. These features can limit the 2978rate of connections (connections per time unit) or the number of 2979incoming SMTP connections, respectively. If enabled, appropriate 2980rulesets are called at the end of check_relay, i.e., after DNS 2981blocklists and generic access_db operations. The features require 2982FEATURE(`access_db') to be listed earlier in the mc file. 2983 2984Note: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays those connection control checks 2985after a recipient address has been received, hence making these 2986connection control features less useful. To run the checks as early 2987as possible, specify the parameter `nodelay', e.g., 2988 2989 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay') 2990 2991In that case, FEATURE(`delay_checks') has no effect on connection 2992control (and it must be specified earlier in the mc file). 2993 2994An optional second argument `terminate' specifies whether the 2995rulesets should return the error code 421 which will cause 2996sendmail to terminate the session with that error if it is 2997returned from check_relay, i.e., not delayed as explained in 2998the previous paragraph. Example: 2999 3000 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay', `terminate') 3001 3002 3003+----------+ 3004| STARTTLS | 3005+----------+ 3006 3007In this text, cert will be used as an abbreviation for X.509 certificate, 3008DN (CN) is the distinguished (common) name of a cert, and CA is a 3009certification authority, which signs (issues) certs. 3010 3011For STARTTLS to be offered by sendmail you need to set at least 3012these variables (the file names and paths are just examples): 3013 3014 define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/mail/certs/') 3015 define(`confCACERT', `/etc/mail/certs/CA.cert.pem') 3016 define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/my.cert.pem') 3017 define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/my.key.pem') 3018 3019On systems which do not have the compile flag HASURANDOM set (see 3020sendmail/README) you also must set confRAND_FILE. 3021 3022See doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt} for more information about these options, 3023especially the sections ``Certificates for STARTTLS'' and ``PRNG for 3024STARTTLS''. 3025 3026Macros related to STARTTLS are: 3027 3028${cert_issuer} holds the DN of the CA (the cert issuer). 3029${cert_subject} holds the DN of the cert (called the cert subject). 3030${cn_issuer} holds the CN of the CA (the cert issuer). 3031${cn_subject} holds the CN of the cert (called the cert subject). 3032${tls_version} the TLS/SSL version used for the connection, e.g., TLSv1, 3033 TLSv1/SSLv3, SSLv3, SSLv2. 3034${cipher} the cipher used for the connection, e.g., EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA, 3035 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA, DES-CBC-MD5, DES-CBC3-SHA. 3036${cipher_bits} the keylength (in bits) of the symmetric encryption algorithm 3037 used for the connection. 3038${verify} holds the result of the verification of the presented cert. 3039 Possible values are: 3040 OK verification succeeded. 3041 NO no cert presented. 3042 NOT no cert requested. 3043 FAIL cert presented but could not be verified, 3044 e.g., the cert of the signing CA is missing. 3045 NONE STARTTLS has not been performed. 3046 TEMP temporary error occurred. 3047 PROTOCOL protocol error occurred (SMTP level). 3048 SOFTWARE STARTTLS handshake failed. 3049${server_name} the name of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 3050 connection. 3051${server_addr} the address of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 3052 connection. 3053 3054Relaying 3055-------- 3056 3057SMTP STARTTLS can allow relaying for remote SMTP clients which have 3058successfully authenticated themselves. If the verification of the cert 3059failed (${verify} != OK), relaying is subject to the usual rules. 3060Otherwise the DN of the issuer is looked up in the access map using the 3061tag CERTISSUER. If the resulting value is RELAY, relaying is allowed. 3062If it is SUBJECT, the DN of the cert subject is looked up next in the 3063access map using the tag CERTSUBJECT. If the value is RELAY, relaying 3064is allowed. 3065 3066To make things a bit more flexible (or complicated), the values for 3067${cert_issuer} and ${cert_subject} can be optionally modified by regular 3068expressions defined in the m4 variables _CERT_REGEX_ISSUER_ and 3069_CERT_REGEX_SUBJECT_, respectively. To avoid problems with those macros in 3070rulesets and map lookups, they are modified as follows: each non-printable 3071character and the characters '<', '>', '(', ')', '"', '+', ' ' are replaced 3072by their HEX value with a leading '+'. For example: 3073 3074/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN=Darth Mail (Cert)/emailAddress= 3075darth+cert@endmail.org 3076 3077is encoded as: 3078 3079/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3080Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3081 3082(line breaks have been inserted for readability). 3083 3084The macros which are subject to this encoding are ${cert_subject}, 3085${cert_issuer}, ${cn_subject}, and ${cn_issuer}. 3086 3087Examples: 3088 3089To allow relaying for everyone who can present a cert signed by 3090 3091/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3092Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3093 3094simply use: 3095 3096CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3097Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org RELAY 3098 3099To allow relaying only for a subset of machines that have a cert signed by 3100 3101/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3102Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 3103 3104use: 3105 3106CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3107Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/emailAddress=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org SUBJECT 3108CertSubject:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 3109DeathStar/emailAddress=deathstar@endmail.org RELAY 3110 3111Note: line breaks have been inserted after "CN=" for readability, 3112each tagged entry must be one (long) line in the access map. 3113 3114Of course it is also possible to write a simple ruleset that allows 3115relaying for everyone who can present a cert that can be verified, e.g., 3116 3117LOCAL_RULESETS 3118SLocal_check_rcpt 3119R$* $: $&{verify} 3120ROK $# OK 3121 3122Allowing Connections 3123-------------------- 3124 3125The rulesets tls_server, tls_client, and tls_rcpt are used to decide whether 3126an SMTP connection is accepted (or should continue). 3127 3128tls_server is called when sendmail acts as client after a STARTTLS command 3129(should) have been issued. The parameter is the value of ${verify}. 3130 3131tls_client is called when sendmail acts as server, after a STARTTLS command 3132has been issued, and from check_mail. The parameter is the value of 3133${verify} and STARTTLS or MAIL, respectively. 3134 3135Both rulesets behave the same. If no access map is in use, the connection 3136will be accepted unless ${verify} is SOFTWARE, in which case the connection 3137is always aborted. For tls_server/tls_client, ${client_name}/${server_name} 3138is looked up in the access map using the tag TLS_Srv/TLS_Clt, which is done 3139with the ruleset LookUpDomain. If no entry is found, ${client_addr} 3140(${server_addr}) is looked up in the access map (same tag, ruleset 3141LookUpAddr). If this doesn't result in an entry either, just the tag is 3142looked up in the access map (included the trailing colon). Notice: 3143requiring that e-mail is sent to a server only encrypted, e.g., via 3144 3145TLS_Srv:secure.domain ENCR:112 3146 3147doesn't necessarily mean that e-mail sent to that domain is encrypted. 3148If the domain has multiple MX servers, e.g., 3149 3150secure.domain. IN MX 10 mail.secure.domain. 3151secure.domain. IN MX 50 mail.other.domain. 3152 3153then mail to user@secure.domain may go unencrypted to mail.other.domain. 3154tls_rcpt can be used to address this problem. 3155 3156tls_rcpt is called before a RCPT TO: command is sent. The parameter is the 3157current recipient. This ruleset is only defined if FEATURE(`access_db') 3158is selected. A recipient address user@domain is looked up in the access 3159map in four formats: TLS_Rcpt:user@domain, TLS_Rcpt:user@, TLS_Rcpt:domain, 3160and TLS_Rcpt:; the first match is taken. 3161 3162The result of the lookups is then used to call the ruleset TLS_connection, 3163which checks the requirement specified by the RHS in the access map against 3164the actual parameters of the current TLS connection, esp. ${verify} and 3165${cipher_bits}. Legal RHSs in the access map are: 3166 3167VERIFY verification must have succeeded 3168VERIFY:bits verification must have succeeded and ${cipher_bits} must 3169 be greater than or equal bits. 3170ENCR:bits ${cipher_bits} must be greater than or equal bits. 3171 3172The RHS can optionally be prefixed by TEMP+ or PERM+ to select a temporary 3173or permanent error. The default is a temporary error code (403 4.7.0) 3174unless the macro TLS_PERM_ERR is set during generation of the .cf file. 3175 3176If a certain level of encryption is required, then it might also be 3177possible that this level is provided by the security layer from a SASL 3178algorithm, e.g., DIGEST-MD5. 3179 3180Furthermore, there can be a list of extensions added. Such a list 3181starts with '+' and the items are separated by '++'. Allowed 3182extensions are: 3183 3184CN:name name must match ${cn_subject} 3185CN ${client_name}/${server_name} must match ${cn_subject} 3186CS:name name must match ${cert_subject} 3187CI:name name must match ${cert_issuer} 3188CITag:MYTag look up MYTag:${cert_issuer} in access map; the check 3189 only succeeds if it is found with a RHS of OK. 3190 3191Example: e-mail sent to secure.example.com should only use an encrypted 3192connection. E-mail received from hosts within the laptop.example.com domain 3193should only be accepted if they have been authenticated. The host which 3194receives e-mail for darth@endmail.org must present a cert that uses the 3195CN smtp.endmail.org. E-mail sent to safe.example.com must be verified, 3196have a matching CN, and must present a cert signed by a CA with one of 3197the listed DNs. 3198 3199TLS_Srv:secure.example.com ENCR:112 3200TLS_Clt:laptop.example.com PERM+VERIFY:112 3201TLS_Rcpt:darth@endmail.org ENCR:112+CN:smtp.endmail.org 3202TLS_Srv:safe.example.net VERIFY+CN++CITag:MyCA 3203MyCA:/C=US/ST=CA/O=safe/CN=example.net/ OK 3204MyCA:/C=US/ST=CA/O=secure/CN=example.net/ OK 3205 3206 3207TLS Options per Session 3208----------------------- 3209 3210By default STARTTLS is used whenever possible. However, there are 3211MTAs with STARTTLS interoperability issues. To be able to send to 3212(or receive from) those MTAs several features are available: 3213 32141) Various TLS options be be set per IP/domain. 32152) STARTTLS can be turned off for specific IP addresses/domains. 3216 3217About 1): the rulesets tls_srv_features and tls_clt_features can 3218be used to return a (semicolon separated) list of TLS related 3219options: 3220 3221- Options: compare {Server,Client}SSLOptions. 3222- CipherList: same as the global option. 3223- CertFile, KeyFile: {Server,Client}{Cert,Key}File 3224- Flags: see doc/op/op.me for details. 3225 3226If FEATURE(`tls_session_features') is used, then default rulesets 3227are activated which look up entries in the access map with the tags 3228TLS_Srv_features and TLS_Clt_features, respectively. 3229For example, these entries: 3230 3231 TLS_Srv_features:10.0.2.4 CipherList=MEDIUM+aRSA; 3232 TLS_Clt_features:10.1.0.1 Options=SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_2; CipherList=ALL:-EXPORT 3233 3234specify a cipherlist with MEDIUM strength ciphers that use RSA 3235certificates only for the client with the IP address 10.0.2.4, 3236and turn off TLSv1.2 when connecting to the server with the IP 3237address 10.1.0.1 as well as setting a specific cipherlist. 3238If FEATURE(`tls_session_features') is not used the user can provide 3239their own rulesets which must return the appropriate data. 3240If the rulesets are not defined or do not return a value, the 3241default TLS options are not modified. 3242 3243About 2): the ruleset try_tls (srv_features) can be used together 3244with the access map. Entries for the access map must be tagged 3245with Try_TLS (Srv_Features) and refer to the hostname or IP address 3246of the connecting system. A default case can be specified by using 3247just the tag. For example, the following entries in the access map: 3248 3249 Try_TLS:broken.server NO 3250 Srv_Features:my.domain v 3251 Srv_Features: V 3252 3253will turn off STARTTLS when sending to broken.server (or any host 3254in that domain), and request a client certificate during the TLS 3255handshake only for hosts in my.domain. The valid entries on the RHS 3256for Srv_Features are listed in the Sendmail Installation and 3257Operations Guide. 3258 3259 3260Received: Header 3261---------------- 3262 3263The Received: header reveals whether STARTTLS has been used. It contains an 3264extra line: 3265 3266(version=${tls_version} cipher=${cipher} bits=${cipher_bits} verify=${verify}) 3267 3268 3269+---------------------+ 3270| SMTP AUTHENTICATION | 3271+---------------------+ 3272 3273The macros ${auth_authen}, ${auth_author}, and ${auth_type} can be 3274used in anti-relay rulesets to allow relaying for those users that 3275authenticated themselves. A very simple example is: 3276 3277SLocal_check_rcpt 3278R$* $: $&{auth_type} 3279R$+ $# OK 3280 3281which checks whether a user has successfully authenticated using 3282any available mechanism. Depending on the setup of the Cyrus SASL 3283library, more sophisticated rulesets might be required, e.g., 3284 3285SLocal_check_rcpt 3286R$* $: $&{auth_type} $| $&{auth_authen} 3287RDIGEST-MD5 $| $+@$=w $# OK 3288 3289to allow relaying for users that authenticated using DIGEST-MD5 3290and have an identity in the local domains. 3291 3292The ruleset trust_auth is used to determine whether a given AUTH= 3293parameter (that is passed to this ruleset) should be trusted. This 3294ruleset may make use of the other ${auth_*} macros. Only if the 3295ruleset resolves to the error mailer, the AUTH= parameter is not 3296trusted. A user supplied ruleset Local_trust_auth can be written 3297to modify the default behavior, which only trust the AUTH= 3298parameter if it is identical to the authenticated user. 3299 3300Per default, relaying is allowed for any user who authenticated 3301via a "trusted" mechanism, i.e., one that is defined via 3302TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`list of mechanisms') 3303For example: 3304TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5') 3305 3306If the selected mechanism provides a security layer the number of 3307bits used for the key of the symmetric cipher is stored in the 3308macro ${auth_ssf}. 3309 3310Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client 3311----------------------------------------------------- 3312 3313If sendmail acts as client, it needs some information how to 3314authenticate against another MTA. This information can be provided 3315by the ruleset authinfo or by the option DefaultAuthInfo. The 3316authinfo ruleset looks up {server_name} using the tag AuthInfo: in 3317the access map. If no entry is found, {server_addr} is looked up 3318in the same way and finally just the tag AuthInfo: to provide 3319default values. Note: searches for domain parts or IP nets are 3320only performed if the access map is used; if the authinfo feature 3321is used then only up to three lookups are performed (two exact 3322matches, one default). 3323 3324Note: If your daemon does client authentication when sending, and 3325if it uses either PLAIN or LOGIN authentication, then you *must* 3326prevent ordinary users from seeing verbose output. Do NOT install 3327sendmail set-user-ID. Use PrivacyOptions to turn off verbose output 3328("goaway" works for this). 3329 3330Notice: the default configuration file causes the option DefaultAuthInfo 3331to fail since the ruleset authinfo is in the .cf file. If you really 3332want to use DefaultAuthInfo (it is deprecated) then you have to 3333remove the ruleset. 3334 3335The RHS for an AuthInfo: entry in the access map should consists of a 3336list of tokens, each of which has the form: "TDstring" (including 3337the quotes). T is a tag which describes the item, D is a delimiter, 3338either ':' for simple text or '=' for a base64 encoded string. 3339Valid values for the tag are: 3340 3341 U user (authorization) id 3342 I authentication id 3343 P password 3344 R realm 3345 M list of mechanisms delimited by spaces 3346 3347Example entries are: 3348 3349AuthInfo:other.dom "U:user" "I:user" "P:secret" "R:other.dom" "M:DIGEST-MD5" 3350AuthInfo:host.more.dom "U:user" "P=c2VjcmV0" 3351 3352User id or authentication id must exist as well as the password. All 3353other entries have default values. If one of user or authentication 3354id is missing, the existing value is used for the missing item. 3355If "R:" is not specified, realm defaults to $j. The list of mechanisms 3356defaults to those specified by AuthMechanisms. 3357 3358Since this map contains sensitive information, either the access 3359map must be unreadable by everyone but root (or the trusted user) 3360or FEATURE(`authinfo') must be used which provides a separate map. 3361Notice: It is not checked whether the map is actually 3362group/world-unreadable, this is left to the user. 3363 3364+--------------------------------+ 3365| ADDING NEW MAILERS OR RULESETS | 3366+--------------------------------+ 3367 3368Sometimes you may need to add entirely new mailers or rulesets. They 3369should be introduced with the constructs MAILER_DEFINITIONS and 3370LOCAL_RULESETS respectively. For example: 3371 3372 MAILER_DEFINITIONS 3373 Mmymailer, ... 3374 ... 3375 3376 LOCAL_RULESETS 3377 Smyruleset 3378 ... 3379 3380Local additions for the rulesets srv_features, try_tls, tls_rcpt, 3381tls_client, and tls_server can be made using LOCAL_SRV_FEATURES, 3382LOCAL_TRY_TLS, LOCAL_TLS_RCPT, LOCAL_TLS_CLIENT, and LOCAL_TLS_SERVER, 3383respectively. For example, to add a local ruleset that decides 3384whether to try STARTTLS in a sendmail client, use: 3385 3386 LOCAL_TRY_TLS 3387 R... 3388 3389Note: you don't need to add a name for the ruleset, it is implicitly 3390defined by using the appropriate macro. 3391 3392 3393+-------------------------+ 3394| ADDING NEW MAIL FILTERS | 3395+-------------------------+ 3396 3397Sendmail supports mail filters to filter incoming SMTP messages according 3398to the "Sendmail Mail Filter API" documentation. These filters can be 3399configured in your mc file using the two commands: 3400 3401 MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3402 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3403 3404The first command, MAIL_FILTER(), simply defines a filter with the given 3405name and equates. For example: 3406 3407 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3408 3409This creates the equivalent sendmail.cf entry: 3410 3411 Xarchive, S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R 3412 3413The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command performs the same actions as MAIL_FILTER 3414but also populates the m4 variable `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' with the name 3415of the filter such that the filter will actually be called by sendmail. 3416 3417For example, the two commands: 3418 3419 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3420 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3421 3422are equivalent to the three commands: 3423 3424 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3425 MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3426 define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `archive, spamcheck') 3427 3428In general, INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() should be used unless you need to define 3429more filters than you want to use for `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS'. 3430 3431Note that setting `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' after any INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3432commands will clear the list created by the prior INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3433commands. 3434 3435 3436+-------------------------+ 3437| QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS | 3438+-------------------------+ 3439 3440In addition to the queue directory (which is the default queue group 3441called "mqueue"), sendmail can deal with multiple queue groups, which 3442are collections of queue directories with the same behaviour. Queue 3443groups can be defined using the command: 3444 3445 QUEUE_GROUP(`name', `equates') 3446 3447For details about queue groups, please see doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 3448 3449+-------------------------------+ 3450| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS | 3451+-------------------------------+ 3452 3453These configuration files are designed primarily for use by 3454SMTP-based sites. They may not be well tuned for UUCP-only or 3455UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net 3456connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is 3457one hook to handle some special cases. 3458 3459You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax 3460using: 3461 3462 define(`SMART_HOST', `mailer:hostname') 3463 3464In this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that 3465can't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host. 3466 3467If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside 3468world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules. 3469For example: 3470 3471 define(`SMART_HOST', `uucp-new:uunet') 3472 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3473 R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3 3474 3475This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) to be sent 3476via SMTP; anything else will be sent via uucp-new (smart UUCP) to uunet. 3477If you have FEATURE(`nocanonify'), you may need to omit the dots after 3478the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is 3479not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to 3480use: 3481 3482 define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:fire.wall.com') 3483 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3484 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3 3485 3486That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup; 3487anything else goes through SMART_HOST. 3488 3489You may need to turn off the anti-spam rules in order to accept 3490UUCP mail with FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') and 3491FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'). 3492 3493 3494+-----------+ 3495| WHO AM I? | 3496+-----------+ 3497 3498Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully 3499qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your 3500host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the 3501result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns 3502only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is 3503supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare) 3504cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case 3505you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain 3506name. This is usually done using: 3507 3508 Dmbar.com 3509 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl 3510 3511 3512+-----------------------------------+ 3513| ACCEPTING MAIL FOR MULTIPLE NAMES | 3514+-----------------------------------+ 3515 3516If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment 3517class {w}. This is a list of names by which your host is known, and 3518anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be 3519treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create the 3520file /etc/mail/local-host-names containing a list of your aliases (one per 3521line), and use ``FEATURE(`use_cw_file')'' in the .mc file, or add 3522``LOCAL_DOMAIN(`alias.host.name')''. Be sure you use the fully-qualified 3523name of the host, rather than a short name. 3524 3525If you want to have different address in different domains, take 3526a look at the virtusertable feature, which is also explained at 3527http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html 3528 3529 3530+--------------------+ 3531| USING MAILERTABLES | 3532+--------------------+ 3533 3534To use FEATURE(`mailertable'), you will have to create an external 3535database containing the routing information for various domains. 3536For example, a mailertable file in text format might be: 3537 3538 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain 3539 uuhost1.my.domain uucp-new:uuhost1 3540 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net 3541 3542This should normally be stored in /etc/mail/mailertable. The actual 3543database version of the mailertable is built using: 3544 3545 makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable 3546 3547The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with 3548a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning 3549with a dot match anything ending with that domain name (including 3550the leading dot) -- that is, they can be thought of as having a 3551leading ".+" regular expression pattern for a non-empty sequence of 3552characters. Matching is done in order of most-to-least qualified 3553-- for example, even though ".my.domain" is listed first in the 3554above example, an entry of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second 3555entry since it is more explicit. Note: e-mail to "user@my.domain" 3556does not match any entry in the above table. You need to have 3557something like: 3558 3559 my.domain esmtp:host.my.domain 3560 3561The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the 3562configuration name of a mailer (that is, an M line in the 3563sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to 3564that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading 3565dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of 3566the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything 3567addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using 3568the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer. 3569 3570In some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records, 3571particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX 3572everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it 3573directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration: 3574 3575 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine 3576 3577and on relay.machine use the mailertable: 3578 3579 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain] 3580 3581The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only. 3582If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record 3583again, which would give you an MX loop. Note that the use of 3584wildcard MX records is almost always a bad idea. Please avoid 3585using them if possible. 3586 3587 3588+--------------------------------+ 3589| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES | 3590+--------------------------------+ 3591 3592The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names 3593to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using 3594it that way. (it is recommended that you set up aliases for this 3595purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this 3596is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at 3597a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host. 3598 3599If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is 3600imperative that you not use FEATURE(`stickyhost') -- otherwise, 3601e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected. 3602 3603To build the internal form of the user database, use: 3604 3605 makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb < /etc/mail/userdb.txt 3606 3607As a general rule, it is an extremely bad idea to using full names 3608as e-mail addresses, since they are not in any sense unique. For 3609example, the UNIX software-development community has at least two 3610well-known Peter Deutsches, and at one time Bell Labs had two 3611Stephen R. Bournes with offices along the same hallway. Which one 3612will be forced to suffer the indignity of being Stephen_R_Bourne_2? 3613The less famous of the two, or the one that was hired later? 3614 3615Finger should handle full names (and be fuzzy). Mail should use 3616handles, and not be fuzzy. 3617 3618 3619+--------------------------------+ 3620| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES | 3621+--------------------------------+ 3622 3623Plussed users 3624 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a 3625 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all 3626 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be 3627 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class 3628 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this 3629 using plussed users. For example, a client might include 3630 the alias: 3631 3632 root: root+client1@server 3633 3634 On the server, this will match an alias for "root+client1". 3635 If that is not found, the alias "root+*" will be tried, 3636 then "root". 3637 3638 3639+----------------+ 3640| SECURITY NOTES | 3641+----------------+ 3642 3643A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much 3644more careful about checking for security problems than previous 3645versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch 3646for. In particular: 3647 3648* Make sure the aliases file is not writable except by trusted 3649 system personnel. This includes both the text and database 3650 version. 3651 3652* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the 3653 mailertable, are only writable by trusted system personnel. 3654 3655* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY 3656 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root 3657 user can chown any file they own to any other user). 3658 3659* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publicly 3660 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone 3661 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that 3662 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a 3663 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory). 3664 3665* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that 3666 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in 3667 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in 3668 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before 3669 files and programs listed in them will be honored). 3670 3671In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them 3672off, do so. 3673 3674 3675+--------------------------------+ 3676| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS | 3677+--------------------------------+ 3678 3679There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally 3680need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, 3681you can define the following M4 variables. Note that some of these 3682variables require formats that are defined in RFC 2821 or RFC 2822. 3683Before changing them you need to make sure you do not violate those 3684(and other relevant) RFCs. 3685 3686This list is shown in four columns: the name you define, the default 3687value for that definition, the option or macro that is affected 3688(either Ox for an option or Dx for a macro), and a brief description. 3689Greater detail of the semantics can be found in the Installation 3690and Operations Guide. 3691 3692Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is, 3693the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are 3694marked with "*". 3695 3696Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to 3697be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to 3698be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma 3699confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for 3700the read timeout. 3701 3702M4 Variable Name Configuration [Default] & Description 3703================ ============= ======================= 3704confMAILER_NAME $n macro [MAILER-DAEMON] The sender name used 3705 for internally generated outgoing 3706 messages. 3707confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should 3708 only be done if your system cannot 3709 determine your local domain name, 3710 and then it should be set to 3711 $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your 3712 domain name. 3713confCF_VERSION $Z macro If defined, this is appended to the 3714 configuration version name. 3715confLDAP_CLUSTER ${sendmailMTACluster} macro 3716 If defined, this is the LDAP 3717 cluster to use for LDAP searches 3718 as described above in ``USING LDAP 3719 FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES''. 3720confFROM_HEADER From: [$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.] The format of an 3721 internally generated From: address. 3722confRECEIVED_HEADER Received: 3723 [$?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) 3724 $.$?{auth_type}(authenticated) 3725 $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u 3726 for $u; $|; 3727 $.$b] 3728 The format of the Received: header 3729 in messages passed through this host. 3730 It is unwise to try to change this. 3731confMESSAGEID_HEADER Message-Id: [<$t.$i@$j>] The format of an 3732 internally generated Message-Id: 3733 header. 3734confCW_FILE Fw class [/etc/mail/local-host-names] Name 3735 of file used to get the local 3736 additions to class {w} (local host 3737 names). 3738confCT_FILE Ft class [/etc/mail/trusted-users] Name of 3739 file used to get the local additions 3740 to class {t} (trusted users). 3741confCR_FILE FR class [/etc/mail/relay-domains] Name of 3742 file used to get the local additions 3743 to class {R} (hosts allowed to relay). 3744confTRUSTED_USERS Ct class [no default] Names of users to add to 3745 the list of trusted users. This list 3746 always includes root, uucp, and daemon. 3747 See also FEATURE(`use_ct_file'). 3748confTRUSTED_USER TrustedUser [no default] Trusted user for file 3749 ownership and starting the daemon. 3750 Not to be confused with 3751 confTRUSTED_USERS (see above). 3752confSMTP_MAILER - [esmtp] The mailer name used when 3753 SMTP connectivity is required. 3754 One of "smtp", "smtp8", 3755 "esmtp", or "dsmtp". 3756confUUCP_MAILER - [uucp-old] The mailer to be used by 3757 default for bang-format recipient 3758 addresses. See also discussion of 3759 class {U}, class {Y}, and class {Z} 3760 in the MAILER(`uucp') section. 3761confLOCAL_MAILER - [local] The mailer name used when 3762 local connectivity is required. 3763 Almost always "local". 3764confRELAY_MAILER - [relay] The default mailer name used 3765 for relaying any mail (e.g., to a 3766 BITNET_RELAY, a SMART_HOST, or 3767 whatever). This can reasonably be 3768 "uucp-new" if you are on a 3769 UUCP-connected site. 3770confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT SevenBitInput [False] Force input to seven bits? 3771confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING EightBitMode [pass8] 8-bit data handling 3772confALIAS_WAIT AliasWait [10m] Time to wait for alias file 3773 rebuild until you get bored and 3774 decide that the apparently pending 3775 rebuild failed. 3776confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS MinFreeBlocks [100] Minimum number of free blocks on 3777 queue filesystem to accept SMTP mail. 3778 (Prior to 8.7 this was minfree/maxsize, 3779 where minfree was the number of free 3780 blocks and maxsize was the maximum 3781 message size. Use confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE 3782 for the second value now.) 3783confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE MaxMessageSize [infinite] The maximum size of messages 3784 that will be accepted (in bytes). 3785confBLANK_SUB BlankSub [.] Blank (space) substitution 3786 character. 3787confCON_EXPENSIVE HoldExpensive [False] Avoid connecting immediately 3788 to mailers marked expensive. 3789confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL CheckpointInterval 3790 [10] Checkpoint queue files every N 3791 recipients. 3792confDELIVERY_MODE DeliveryMode [background] Default delivery mode. 3793confERROR_MODE ErrorMode [print] Error message mode. 3794confERROR_MESSAGE ErrorHeader [undefined] Error message header/file. 3795confSAVE_FROM_LINES SaveFromLine Save extra leading From_ lines. 3796confTEMP_FILE_MODE TempFileMode [0600] Temporary file mode. 3797confMATCH_GECOS MatchGECOS [False] Match GECOS field. 3798confMAX_HOP MaxHopCount [25] Maximum hop count. 3799confIGNORE_DOTS* IgnoreDots [False; always False in -bs or -bd 3800 mode] Ignore dot as terminator for 3801 incoming messages? 3802confBIND_OPTS ResolverOptions [undefined] Default options for DNS 3803 resolver. 3804confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS* SendMimeErrors [True] Send error messages as MIME- 3805 encapsulated messages per RFC 1344. 3806confFORWARD_PATH ForwardPath [$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward] 3807 The colon-separated list of places to 3808 search for .forward files. N.B.: see 3809 the Security Notes section. 3810confMCI_CACHE_SIZE ConnectionCacheSize 3811 [2] Size of open connection cache. 3812confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT ConnectionCacheTimeout 3813 [5m] Open connection cache timeout. 3814confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY HostStatusDirectory 3815 [undefined] If set, host status is kept 3816 on disk between sendmail runs in the 3817 named directory tree. This need not be 3818 a full pathname, in which case it is 3819 interpreted relative to the queue 3820 directory. 3821confSINGLE_THREAD_DELIVERY SingleThreadDelivery 3822 [False] If this option and the 3823 HostStatusDirectory option are both 3824 set, single thread deliveries to other 3825 hosts. That is, don't allow any two 3826 sendmails on this host to connect 3827 simultaneously to any other single 3828 host. This can slow down delivery in 3829 some cases, in particular since a 3830 cached but otherwise idle connection 3831 to a host will prevent other sendmails 3832 from connecting to the other host. 3833confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES 3834 UseCompressedIPv6Addresses 3835 [undefined] If set, use the compressed 3836 form of IPv6 addresses, such as 3837 IPV6:::1, instead of the uncompressed 3838 form, such as IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. 3839confUSE_ERRORS_TO* UseErrorsTo [False] Use the Errors-To: header to 3840 deliver error messages. This should 3841 not be necessary because of general 3842 acceptance of the envelope/header 3843 distinction. 3844confLOG_LEVEL LogLevel [9] Log level. 3845confME_TOO MeToo [True] Include sender in group 3846 expansions. This option is 3847 deprecated and will be removed from 3848 a future version. 3849confCHECK_ALIASES CheckAliases [False] Check RHS of aliases when 3850 running newaliases. Since this does 3851 DNS lookups on every address, it can 3852 slow down the alias rebuild process 3853 considerably on large alias files. 3854confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS* OldStyleHeaders [True] Assume that headers without 3855 special chars are old style. 3856confPRIVACY_FLAGS PrivacyOptions [authwarnings] Privacy flags. 3857confCOPY_ERRORS_TO PostmasterCopy [undefined] Address for additional 3858 copies of all error messages. 3859confQUEUE_FACTOR QueueFactor [600000] Slope of queue-only function. 3860confQUEUE_FILE_MODE QueueFileMode [undefined] Default permissions for 3861 queue files (octal). If not set, 3862 sendmail uses 0600 unless its real 3863 and effective uid are different in 3864 which case it uses 0644. 3865confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES DontPruneRoutes [False] Don't prune down route-addr 3866 syntax addresses to the minimum 3867 possible. 3868confSAFE_QUEUE* SuperSafe [True] Commit all messages to disk 3869 before forking. 3870confTO_INITIAL Timeout.initial [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3871 on the initial connect. 3872confTO_CONNECT Timeout.connect [0] The timeout waiting for an initial 3873 connect() to complete. This can only 3874 shorten connection timeouts; the kernel 3875 silently enforces an absolute maximum 3876 (which varies depending on the system). 3877confTO_ICONNECT Timeout.iconnect 3878 [undefined] Like Timeout.connect, but 3879 applies only to the very first attempt 3880 to connect to a host in a message. 3881 This allows a single very fast pass 3882 followed by more careful delivery 3883 attempts in the future. 3884confTO_ACONNECT Timeout.aconnect 3885 [0] The overall timeout waiting for 3886 all connection for a single delivery 3887 attempt to succeed. If 0, no overall 3888 limit is applied. 3889confTO_HELO Timeout.helo [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3890 to a HELO or EHLO command. 3891confTO_MAIL Timeout.mail [10m] The timeout waiting for a 3892 response to the MAIL command. 3893confTO_RCPT Timeout.rcpt [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3894 to the RCPT command. 3895confTO_DATAINIT Timeout.datainit 3896 [5m] The timeout waiting for a 354 3897 response from the DATA command. 3898confTO_DATABLOCK Timeout.datablock 3899 [1h] The timeout waiting for a block 3900 during DATA phase. 3901confTO_DATAFINAL Timeout.datafinal 3902 [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3903 to the final "." that terminates a 3904 message. 3905confTO_RSET Timeout.rset [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3906 to the RSET command. 3907confTO_QUIT Timeout.quit [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3908 to the QUIT command. 3909confTO_MISC Timeout.misc [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3910 to other SMTP commands. 3911confTO_COMMAND Timeout.command [1h] In server SMTP, the timeout 3912 waiting for a command to be issued. 3913confTO_IDENT Timeout.ident [5s] The timeout waiting for a 3914 response to an IDENT query. 3915confTO_FILEOPEN Timeout.fileopen 3916 [60s] The timeout waiting for a file 3917 (e.g., :include: file) to be opened. 3918confTO_LHLO Timeout.lhlo [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3919 to an LMTP LHLO command. 3920confTO_AUTH Timeout.auth [10m] The timeout waiting for a 3921 response in an AUTH dialogue. 3922confTO_STARTTLS Timeout.starttls 3923 [1h] The timeout waiting for a 3924 response to an SMTP STARTTLS command. 3925confTO_CONTROL Timeout.control 3926 [2m] The timeout for a complete 3927 control socket transaction to complete. 3928confTO_QUEUERETURN Timeout.queuereturn 3929 [5d] The timeout before a message is 3930 returned as undeliverable. 3931confTO_QUEUERETURN_NORMAL 3932 Timeout.queuereturn.normal 3933 [undefined] As above, for normal 3934 priority messages. 3935confTO_QUEUERETURN_URGENT 3936 Timeout.queuereturn.urgent 3937 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3938 priority messages. 3939confTO_QUEUERETURN_NONURGENT 3940 Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent 3941 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3942 (low) priority messages. 3943confTO_QUEUERETURN_DSN 3944 Timeout.queuereturn.dsn 3945 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3946 status notification messages. 3947confTO_QUEUEWARN Timeout.queuewarn 3948 [4h] The timeout before a warning 3949 message is sent to the sender telling 3950 them that the message has been 3951 deferred. 3952confTO_QUEUEWARN_NORMAL Timeout.queuewarn.normal 3953 [undefined] As above, for normal 3954 priority messages. 3955confTO_QUEUEWARN_URGENT Timeout.queuewarn.urgent 3956 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3957 priority messages. 3958confTO_QUEUEWARN_NONURGENT 3959 Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent 3960 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3961 (low) priority messages. 3962confTO_QUEUEWARN_DSN 3963 Timeout.queuewarn.dsn 3964 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3965 status notification messages. 3966confTO_HOSTSTATUS Timeout.hoststatus 3967 [30m] How long information about host 3968 statuses will be maintained before it 3969 is considered stale and the host should 3970 be retried. This applies both within 3971 a single queue run and to persistent 3972 information (see below). 3973confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS Timeout.resolver.retrans 3974 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3975 retransmission time interval (in 3976 seconds). Sets both 3977 Timeout.resolver.retrans.first and 3978 Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal. 3979confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retrans.first 3980 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3981 retransmission time interval (in 3982 seconds) for the first attempt to 3983 deliver a message. 3984confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal 3985 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3986 retransmission time interval (in 3987 seconds) for all resolver lookups 3988 except the first delivery attempt. 3989confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY Timeout.resolver.retry 3990 [varies] Sets the number of times 3991 to retransmit a resolver query. 3992 Sets both 3993 Timeout.resolver.retry.first and 3994 Timeout.resolver.retry.normal. 3995confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retry.first 3996 [varies] Sets the number of times 3997 to retransmit a resolver query for 3998 the first attempt to deliver a 3999 message. 4000confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retry.normal 4001 [varies] Sets the number of times 4002 to retransmit a resolver query for 4003 all resolver lookups except the 4004 first delivery attempt. 4005confTIME_ZONE TimeZoneSpec [USE_SYSTEM] Time zone info -- can be 4006 USE_SYSTEM to use the system's idea, 4007 USE_TZ to use the user's TZ envariable, 4008 or something else to force that value. 4009confDEF_USER_ID DefaultUser [1:1] Default user id. 4010confUSERDB_SPEC UserDatabaseSpec 4011 [undefined] User database 4012 specification. 4013confFALLBACK_MX FallbackMXhost [undefined] Fallback MX host. 4014confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST FallbackSmartHost 4015 [undefined] Fallback smart host. 4016confTLS_FALLBACK_TO_CLEAR TLSFallbacktoClear 4017 [undefined] If set, immediately try 4018 a connection again without STARTTLS 4019 after a TLS handshake failure. 4020confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST TryNullMXList [False] If this host is the best MX 4021 for a host and other arrangements 4022 haven't been made, try connecting 4023 to the host directly; normally this 4024 would be a config error. 4025confQUEUE_LA QueueLA [varies] Load average at which 4026 queue-only function kicks in. 4027 Default values is (8 * numproc) 4028 where numproc is the number of 4029 processors online (if that can be 4030 determined). 4031confREFUSE_LA RefuseLA [varies] Load average at which 4032 incoming SMTP connections are 4033 refused. Default values is (12 * 4034 numproc) where numproc is the 4035 number of processors online (if 4036 that can be determined). 4037confREJECT_LOG_INTERVAL RejectLogInterval [3h] Log interval when 4038 refusing connections for this long. 4039confDELAY_LA DelayLA [0] Load average at which sendmail 4040 will sleep for one second on most 4041 SMTP commands and before accepting 4042 connections. 0 means no limit. 4043confMAX_ALIAS_RECURSION MaxAliasRecursion 4044 [10] Maximum depth of alias recursion. 4045confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN MaxDaemonChildren 4046 [undefined] The maximum number of 4047 children the daemon will permit. After 4048 this number, connections will be 4049 rejected. If not set or <= 0, there is 4050 no limit. 4051confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH MaxHeadersLength 4052 [32768] Maximum length of the sum 4053 of all headers. 4054confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH MaxMimeHeaderLength 4055 [undefined] Maximum length of 4056 certain MIME header field values. 4057confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE ConnectionRateThrottle 4058 [undefined] The maximum number of 4059 connections permitted per second per 4060 daemon. After this many connections 4061 are accepted, further connections 4062 will be delayed. If not set or <= 0, 4063 there is no limit. 4064confCONNECTION_RATE_WINDOW_SIZE ConnectionRateWindowSize 4065 [60s] Define the length of the 4066 interval for which the number of 4067 incoming connections is maintained. 4068confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR 4069 RecipientFactor [30000] Cost of each recipient. 4070confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob [False] Run all deliveries in a 4071 separate process. 4072confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR ClassFactor [1800] Priority multiplier for class. 4073confWORK_TIME_FACTOR RetryFactor [90000] Cost of each delivery attempt. 4074confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER QueueSortOrder [Priority] Queue sort algorithm: 4075 Priority, Host, Filename, Random, 4076 Modification, or Time. 4077confMAX_QUEUE_AGE MaxQueueAge [undefined] If set to a value greater 4078 than zero, entries in the queue 4079 will be retried during a queue run 4080 only if the individual retry time 4081 has been reached which is doubled 4082 for each attempt. The maximum retry 4083 time is limited by the specified value. 4084confMIN_QUEUE_AGE MinQueueAge [0] The minimum amount of time a job 4085 must sit in the queue between queue 4086 runs. This allows you to set the 4087 queue run interval low for better 4088 responsiveness without trying all 4089 jobs in each run. 4090confDEF_CHAR_SET DefaultCharSet [unknown-8bit] When converting 4091 unlabeled 8 bit input to MIME, the 4092 character set to use by default. 4093confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE ServiceSwitchFile 4094 [/etc/mail/service.switch] The file 4095 to use for the service switch on 4096 systems that do not have a 4097 system-defined switch. 4098confHOSTS_FILE HostsFile [/etc/hosts] The file to use when doing 4099 "file" type access of hosts names. 4100confDIAL_DELAY DialDelay [0s] If a connection fails, wait this 4101 long and try again. Zero means "don't 4102 retry". This is to allow "dial on 4103 demand" connections to have enough time 4104 to complete a connection. 4105confNO_RCPT_ACTION NoRecipientAction 4106 [none] What to do if there are no legal 4107 recipient fields (To:, Cc: or Bcc:) 4108 in the message. Legal values can 4109 be "none" to just leave the 4110 nonconforming message as is, "add-to" 4111 to add a To: header with all the 4112 known recipients (which may expose 4113 blind recipients), "add-apparently-to" 4114 to do the same but use Apparently-To: 4115 instead of To: (strongly discouraged 4116 in accordance with IETF standards), 4117 "add-bcc" to add an empty Bcc: 4118 header, or "add-to-undisclosed" to 4119 add the header 4120 ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;''. 4121confSAFE_FILE_ENV SafeFileEnvironment 4122 [undefined] If set, sendmail will do a 4123 chroot() into this directory before 4124 writing files. 4125confCOLON_OK_IN_ADDR ColonOkInAddr [True unless Configuration Level > 6] 4126 If set, colons are treated as a regular 4127 character in addresses. If not set, 4128 they are treated as the introducer to 4129 the RFC 822 "group" syntax. Colons are 4130 handled properly in route-addrs. This 4131 option defaults on for V5 and lower 4132 configuration files. 4133confMAX_QUEUE_RUN_SIZE MaxQueueRunSize [0] If set, limit the maximum size of 4134 any given queue run to this number of 4135 entries. Essentially, this will stop 4136 reading each queue directory after this 4137 number of entries are reached; it does 4138 _not_ pick the highest priority jobs, 4139 so this should be as large as your 4140 system can tolerate. If not set, there 4141 is no limit. 4142confMAX_QUEUE_CHILDREN MaxQueueChildren 4143 [undefined] Limits the maximum number 4144 of concurrent queue runners active. 4145 This is to keep system resources used 4146 within a reasonable limit. Relates to 4147 Queue Groups and ForkEachJob. 4148confMAX_RUNNERS_PER_QUEUE MaxRunnersPerQueue 4149 [1] Only active when MaxQueueChildren 4150 defined. Controls the maximum number 4151 of queue runners (aka queue children) 4152 active at the same time in a work 4153 group. See also MaxQueueChildren. 4154confDONT_EXPAND_CNAMES DontExpandCnames 4155 [False] If set, $[ ... $] lookups that 4156 do DNS based lookups do not expand 4157 CNAME records. This currently violates 4158 the published standards, but the IETF 4159 seems to be moving toward legalizing 4160 this. For example, if "FTP.Foo.ORG" 4161 is a CNAME for "Cruft.Foo.ORG", then 4162 with this option set a lookup of 4163 "FTP" will return "FTP.Foo.ORG"; if 4164 clear it returns "Cruft.FOO.ORG". N.B. 4165 you may not see any effect until your 4166 downstream neighbors stop doing CNAME 4167 lookups as well. 4168confFROM_LINE UnixFromLine [From $g $d] The From_ line used 4169 when sending to files or programs. 4170confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER SingleLineFromHeader 4171 [False] From: lines that have 4172 embedded newlines are unwrapped 4173 onto one line. 4174confALLOW_BOGUS_HELO AllowBogusHELO [False] Allow HELO SMTP command that 4175 does not include a host name. 4176confMUST_QUOTE_CHARS MustQuoteChars [.'] Characters to be quoted in a full 4177 name phrase (@,;:\()[] are automatic). 4178confOPERATORS OperatorChars [.:%@!^/[]+] Address operator 4179 characters. 4180confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG SmtpGreetingMessage 4181 [$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b] 4182 The initial (spontaneous) SMTP 4183 greeting message. The word "ESMTP" 4184 will be inserted between the first and 4185 second words to convince other 4186 sendmails to try to speak ESMTP. 4187confDONT_INIT_GROUPS DontInitGroups [False] If set, the initgroups(3) 4188 routine will never be invoked. You 4189 might want to do this if you are 4190 running NIS and you have a large group 4191 map, since this call does a sequential 4192 scan of the map; in a large site this 4193 can cause your ypserv to run 4194 essentially full time. If you set 4195 this, agents run on behalf of users 4196 will only have their primary 4197 (/etc/passwd) group permissions. 4198confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES UnsafeGroupWrites 4199 [True] If set, group-writable 4200 :include: and .forward files are 4201 considered "unsafe", that is, programs 4202 and files cannot be directly referenced 4203 from such files. World-writable files 4204 are always considered unsafe. 4205 Notice: this option is deprecated and 4206 will be removed in future versions; 4207 Set GroupWritableForwardFileSafe 4208 and GroupWritableIncludeFileSafe in 4209 DontBlameSendmail if required. 4210confCONNECT_ONLY_TO ConnectOnlyTo [undefined] override connection 4211 address (for testing). 4212confCONTROL_SOCKET_NAME ControlSocketName 4213 [undefined] Control socket for daemon 4214 management. 4215confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS DoubleBounceAddress 4216 [postmaster] If an error occurs when 4217 sending an error message, send that 4218 "double bounce" error message to this 4219 address. If it expands to an empty 4220 string, double bounces are dropped. 4221confSOFT_BOUNCE SoftBounce [False] If set, issue temporary errors 4222 (4xy) instead of permanent errors 4223 (5xy). This can be useful during 4224 testing of a new configuration to 4225 avoid erroneous bouncing of mails. 4226confDEAD_LETTER_DROP DeadLetterDrop [undefined] Filename to save bounce 4227 messages which could not be returned 4228 to the user or sent to postmaster. 4229 If not set, the queue file will 4230 be renamed. 4231confRRT_IMPLIES_DSN RrtImpliesDsn [False] Return-Receipt-To: header 4232 implies DSN request. 4233confRUN_AS_USER RunAsUser [undefined] If set, become this user 4234 when reading and delivering mail. 4235 Causes all file reads (e.g., .forward 4236 and :include: files) to be done as 4237 this user. Also, all programs will 4238 be run as this user, and all output 4239 files will be written as this user. 4240confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE MaxRecipientsPerMessage 4241 [infinite] If set, allow no more than 4242 the specified number of recipients in 4243 an SMTP envelope. Further recipients 4244 receive a 452 error code (i.e., they 4245 are deferred for the next delivery 4246 attempt). 4247confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE BadRcptThrottle [infinite] If set and the specified 4248 number of recipients in a single SMTP 4249 transaction have been rejected, sleep 4250 for one second after each subsequent 4251 RCPT command in that transaction. 4252confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES DontProbeInterfaces 4253 [False] If set, sendmail will _not_ 4254 insert the names and addresses of any 4255 local interfaces into class {w} 4256 (list of known "equivalent" addresses). 4257 If you set this, you must also include 4258 some support for these addresses (e.g., 4259 in a mailertable entry) -- otherwise, 4260 mail to addresses in this list will 4261 bounce with a configuration error. 4262 If set to "loopback" (without 4263 quotes), sendmail will skip 4264 loopback interfaces (e.g., "lo0"). 4265confPID_FILE PidFile [system dependent] Location of pid 4266 file. 4267confPROCESS_TITLE_PREFIX ProcessTitlePrefix 4268 [undefined] Prefix string for the 4269 process title shown on 'ps' listings. 4270confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL DontBlameSendmail 4271 [safe] Override sendmail's file 4272 safety checks. This will definitely 4273 compromise system security and should 4274 not be used unless absolutely 4275 necessary. 4276confREJECT_MSG - [550 Access denied] The message 4277 given if the access database contains 4278 REJECT in the value portion. 4279confRELAY_MSG - [550 Relaying denied] The message 4280 given if an unauthorized relaying 4281 attempt is rejected. 4282confDF_BUFFER_SIZE DataFileBufferSize 4283 [4096] The maximum size of a 4284 memory-buffered data (df) file 4285 before a disk-based file is used. 4286confXF_BUFFER_SIZE XScriptFileBufferSize 4287 [4096] The maximum size of a 4288 memory-buffered transcript (xf) 4289 file before a disk-based file is 4290 used. 4291confAUTH_MECHANISMS AuthMechanisms [GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 4292 CRAM-MD5] List of authentication 4293 mechanisms for AUTH (separated by 4294 spaces). The advertised list of 4295 authentication mechanisms will be the 4296 intersection of this list and the list 4297 of available mechanisms as determined 4298 by the Cyrus SASL library. 4299confAUTH_REALM AuthRealm [undefined] The authentication realm 4300 that is passed to the Cyrus SASL 4301 library. If no realm is specified, 4302 $j is used. See KNOWNBUGS. 4303confDEF_AUTH_INFO DefaultAuthInfo [undefined] Name of file that contains 4304 authentication information for 4305 outgoing connections. This file must 4306 contain the user id, the authorization 4307 id, the password (plain text), the 4308 realm to use, and the list of 4309 mechanisms to try, each on a separate 4310 line and must be readable by root (or 4311 the trusted user) only. If no realm 4312 is specified, $j is used. If no 4313 mechanisms are given in the file, 4314 AuthMechanisms is used. Notice: this 4315 option is deprecated and will be 4316 removed in future versions; it doesn't 4317 work for the MSP since it can't read 4318 the file. Use the authinfo ruleset 4319 instead. See also the section SMTP 4320 AUTHENTICATION. 4321confAUTH_OPTIONS AuthOptions [undefined] If this option is 'A' 4322 then the AUTH= parameter for the 4323 MAIL FROM command is only issued 4324 when authentication succeeded. 4325 See doc/op/op.me for more options 4326 and details. 4327confAUTH_MAX_BITS AuthMaxBits [INT_MAX] Limit the maximum encryption 4328 strength for the security layer in 4329 SMTP AUTH (SASL). Default is 4330 essentially unlimited. 4331confTLS_SRV_OPTIONS TLSSrvOptions If this option is 'V' no client 4332 verification is performed, i.e., 4333 the server doesn't ask for a 4334 certificate. 4335confSERVER_SSL_OPTIONS ServerSSLOptions [undefined] SSL related 4336 options for server side. See 4337 SSL_CTX_set_options(3) for a list. 4338confCLIENT_SSL_OPTIONS ClientSSLOptions [undefined] SSL related 4339 options for client side. See 4340 SSL_CTX_set_options(3) for a list. 4341confCIPHER_LIST CipherList [undefined] Cipher list for TLS. 4342 See ciphers(1) for possible values. 4343confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC LDAPDefaultSpec [undefined] Default map 4344 specification for LDAP maps. The 4345 value should only contain LDAP 4346 specific settings such as "-h host 4347 -p port -d bindDN", etc. The 4348 settings will be used for all LDAP 4349 maps unless they are specified in 4350 the individual map specification 4351 ('K' command). 4352confCACERT_PATH CACertPath [undefined] Path to directory with 4353 certificates of CAs which must contain 4354 their hashes as filenames or links. 4355confCACERT CACertFile [undefined] File containing at least 4356 one CA certificate. 4357confSERVER_CERT ServerCertFile [undefined] File containing the 4358 cert of the server, i.e., this cert 4359 is used when sendmail acts as 4360 server. 4361confSERVER_KEY ServerKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 4362 private key belonging to the server 4363 cert. 4364confCLIENT_CERT ClientCertFile [undefined] File containing the 4365 cert of the client, i.e., this cert 4366 is used when sendmail acts as 4367 client. 4368confCLIENT_KEY ClientKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 4369 private key belonging to the client 4370 cert. 4371confCRL CRLFile [undefined] File containing certificate 4372 revocation status, useful for X.509v3 4373 authentication. 4374confCRL_PATH CRLPath [undefined] Directory containing 4375 hashes pointing to certificate 4376 revocation status files. 4377confDH_PARAMETERS DHParameters [undefined] File containing the 4378 DH parameters. 4379confDANE DANE [false] Enable DANE support. 4380confRAND_FILE RandFile [undefined] File containing random 4381 data (use prefix file:) or the 4382 name of the UNIX socket if EGD is 4383 used (use prefix egd:). STARTTLS 4384 requires this option if the compile 4385 flag HASURANDOM is not set (see 4386 sendmail/README). 4387confCERT_FINGERPRINT_ALGORITHM CertFingerprintAlgorithm 4388 [undefined] The fingerprint algorithm 4389 (digest) to use for the presented 4390 cert. 4391confSSL_ENGINE SSLEngine [undefined] Name of SSLEngine. 4392confSSL_ENGINE_PATH SSLEnginePath [undefined] Path to dynamic library 4393 for SSLEngine. 4394confNICE_QUEUE_RUN NiceQueueRun [undefined] If set, the priority of 4395 queue runners is set the given value 4396 (nice(3)). 4397confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS DirectSubmissionModifiers 4398 [undefined] Defines {daemon_flags} 4399 for direct submissions. 4400confUSE_MSP UseMSP [undefined] Use as mail submission 4401 program, see sendmail/SECURITY. 4402confDELIVER_BY_MIN DeliverByMin [0] Minimum time for Deliver By 4403 SMTP Service Extension (RFC 2852). 4404confREQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC RequiresDirfsync [true] RequiresDirfsync can 4405 be used to turn off the compile time 4406 flag REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC at runtime. 4407 See sendmail/README for details. 4408confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY SharedMemoryKey [0] Key for shared memory. 4409confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY_FILE 4410 SharedMemoryKeyFile 4411 [undefined] File where the 4412 automatically selected key for 4413 shared memory is stored. 4414confFAST_SPLIT FastSplit [1] If set to a value greater than 4415 zero, the initial MX lookups on 4416 addresses is suppressed when they 4417 are sorted which may result in 4418 faster envelope splitting. If the 4419 mail is submitted directly from the 4420 command line, then the value also 4421 limits the number of processes to 4422 deliver the envelopes. 4423confMAILBOX_DATABASE MailboxDatabase [pw] Type of lookup to find 4424 information about local mailboxes. 4425confDEQUOTE_OPTS - [empty] Additional options for the 4426 dequote map. 4427confMAX_NOOP_COMMANDS MaxNOOPCommands [20] Maximum number of "useless" 4428 commands before the SMTP server 4429 will slow down responding. 4430confHELO_NAME HeloName If defined, use as name for EHLO/HELO 4431 command (instead of $j). 4432confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS InputMailFilters 4433 A comma separated list of filters 4434 which determines which filters and 4435 the invocation sequence are 4436 contacted for incoming SMTP 4437 messages. If none are set, no 4438 filters will be contacted. 4439confMILTER_LOG_LEVEL Milter.LogLevel [9] Log level for input mail filter 4440 actions, defaults to LogLevel. 4441confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT Milter.macros.connect 4442 [j, _, {daemon_name}, {if_name}, 4443 {if_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4444 milters when a session connection 4445 starts. 4446confMILTER_MACROS_HELO Milter.macros.helo 4447 [{tls_version}, {cipher}, 4448 {cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, 4449 {cert_issuer}] Macros to transmit to 4450 milters after HELO/EHLO command. 4451confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM Milter.macros.envfrom 4452 [i, {auth_type}, {auth_authen}, 4453 {auth_ssf}, {auth_author}, 4454 {mail_mailer}, {mail_host}, 4455 {mail_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4456 milters after MAIL FROM command. 4457confMILTER_MACROS_ENVRCPT Milter.macros.envrcpt 4458 [{rcpt_mailer}, {rcpt_host}, 4459 {rcpt_addr}] Macros to transmit to 4460 milters after RCPT TO command. 4461confMILTER_MACROS_EOM Milter.macros.eom 4462 [{msg_id}] Macros to transmit to 4463 milters after the terminating 4464 DATA '.' is received. 4465confMILTER_MACROS_EOH Milter.macros.eoh 4466 Macros to transmit to milters 4467 after the end of headers. 4468confMILTER_MACROS_DATA Milter.macros.data 4469 Macros to transmit to milters 4470 after DATA command is received. 4471 4472 4473See also the description of OSTYPE for some parameters that can be 4474tweaked (generally pathnames to mailers). 4475 4476ClientPortOptions and DaemonPortOptions are special cases since multiple 4477clients/daemons can be defined. This can be done via 4478 4479 CLIENT_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4480 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4481 4482Note that multiple CLIENT_OPTIONS() commands (and therefore multiple 4483ClientPortOptions settings) are allowed in order to give settings for each 4484protocol family (e.g., one for Family=inet and one for Family=inet6). A 4485restriction placed on one family only affects outgoing connections on that 4486particular family. 4487 4488If DAEMON_OPTIONS is not used, then the default is 4489 4490 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') 4491 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E') 4492 4493If you use one DAEMON_OPTIONS macro, it will alter the parameters 4494of the first of these. The second will still be defaulted; it 4495represents a "Message Submission Agent" (MSA) as defined by RFC 44962476 (see below). To turn off the default definition for the MSA, 4497use FEATURE(`no_default_msa') (see also FEATURES). If you use 4498additional DAEMON_OPTIONS macros, they will add additional daemons. 4499 4500Example 1: To change the port for the SMTP listener, while 4501still using the MSA default, use 4502 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=925, Name=MTA') 4503 4504Example 2: To change the port for the MSA daemon, while still 4505using the default SMTP port, use 4506 FEATURE(`no_default_msa') 4507 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA') 4508 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=987, Name=MSA, M=E') 4509 4510Note that if the first of those DAEMON_OPTIONS lines were omitted, then 4511there would be no listener on the standard SMTP port. 4512 4513Example 3: To listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, use 4514 4515 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v4, Family=inet') 4516 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6') 4517 4518A "Message Submission Agent" still uses all of the same rulesets for 4519processing the message (and therefore still allows message rejection via 4520the check_* rulesets). In accordance with the RFC, the MSA will ensure 4521that all domains in envelope addresses are fully qualified if the message 4522is relayed to another MTA. It will also enforce the normal address syntax 4523rules and log error messages. Additionally, by using the M=a modifier you 4524can require authentication before messages are accepted by the MSA. 4525Notice: Do NOT use the 'a' modifier on a public accessible MTA! Finally, 4526the M=E modifier shown above disables ETRN as required by RFC 2476. 4527 4528Mail filters can be defined using the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() and MAIL_FILTER() 4529commands: 4530 4531 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sample', `S=local:/var/run/f1.sock') 4532 MAIL_FILTER(`myfilter', `S=inet:3333@localhost') 4533 4534The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command causes the filter(s) to be called in the 4535same order they were specified by also setting confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS. A 4536filter can be defined without adding it to the input filter list by using 4537MAIL_FILTER() instead of INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() in your .mc file. 4538Alternatively, you can reset the list of filters and their order by setting 4539confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS option after all INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() commands in 4540your .mc file. 4541 4542 4543+----------------------------+ 4544| MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM | 4545+----------------------------+ 4546 4547The purpose of the message submission program (MSP) is explained 4548in sendmail/SECURITY. This section contains a list of caveats and 4549a few hints how for those who want to tweak the default configuration 4550for it (which is installed as submit.cf). 4551 4552Notice: do not add options/features to submit.mc unless you are 4553absolutely sure you need them. Options you may want to change 4554include: 4555 4556- confTRUSTED_USERS, FEATURE(`use_ct_file'), and confCT_FILE for 4557 avoiding X-Authentication warnings. 4558- confTIME_ZONE to change it from the default `USE_TZ'. 4559- confDELIVERY_MODE is set to interactive in msp.m4 instead 4560 of the default background mode. 4561- FEATURE(stickyhost) and LOCAL_RELAY to send unqualified addresses 4562 to the LOCAL_RELAY instead of the default relay. 4563- confRAND_FILE if you use STARTTLS and sendmail is not compiled with 4564 the flag HASURANDOM. 4565 4566The MSP performs hostname canonicalization by default. As also 4567explained in sendmail/SECURITY, mail may end up for various DNS 4568related reasons in the MSP queue. This problem can be minimized by 4569using 4570 4571 FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts') 4572 define(`confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS', `C') 4573 4574See the discussion about nocanonify for possible side effects. 4575 4576Some things are not intended to work with the MSP. These include 4577features that influence the delivery process (e.g., mailertable, 4578aliases), or those that are only important for a SMTP server (e.g., 4579virtusertable, DaemonPortOptions, multiple queues). Moreover, 4580relaxing certain restrictions (RestrictQueueRun, permissions on 4581queue directory) or adding features (e.g., enabling prog/file mailer) 4582can cause security problems. 4583 4584Other things don't work well with the MSP and require tweaking or 4585workarounds. For example, to allow for client authentication it 4586is not just sufficient to provide a client certificate and the 4587corresponding key, but it is also necessary to make the key group 4588(smmsp) readable and tell sendmail not to complain about that, i.e., 4589 4590 define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupReadableKeyFile') 4591 4592If the MSP should actually use AUTH then the necessary data 4593should be placed in a map as explained in SMTP AUTHENTICATION: 4594 4595FEATURE(`authinfo', `DATABASE_MAP_TYPE /etc/mail/msp-authinfo') 4596 4597/etc/mail/msp-authinfo should contain an entry like: 4598 4599 AuthInfo:127.0.0.1 "U:smmsp" "P:secret" "M:DIGEST-MD5" 4600 4601The file and the map created by makemap should be owned by smmsp, 4602its group should be smmsp, and it should have mode 640. The database 4603used by the MTA for AUTH must have a corresponding entry. 4604Additionally the MTA must trust this authentication data so the AUTH= 4605part will be relayed on to the next hop. This can be achieved by 4606adding the following to your sendmail.mc file: 4607 4608 LOCAL_RULESETS 4609 SLocal_trust_auth 4610 R$* $: $&{auth_authen} 4611 Rsmmsp $# OK 4612 4613Note: the authentication data can leak to local users who invoke 4614the MSP with debug options or even with -v. For that reason either 4615an authentication mechanism that does not show the password in the 4616AUTH dialogue (e.g., DIGEST-MD5) or a different authentication 4617method like STARTTLS should be used. 4618 4619feature/msp.m4 defines almost all settings for the MSP. Most of 4620those should not be changed at all. Some of the features and options 4621can be overridden if really necessary. It is a bit tricky to do 4622this, because it depends on the actual way the option is defined 4623in feature/msp.m4. If it is directly defined (i.e., define()) then 4624the modified value must be defined after 4625 4626 FEATURE(`msp') 4627 4628If it is conditionally defined (i.e., ifdef()) then the desired 4629value must be defined before the FEATURE line in the .mc file. 4630To see how the options are defined read feature/msp.m4. 4631 4632 4633+--------------------------+ 4634| FORMAT OF FILES AND MAPS | 4635+--------------------------+ 4636 4637Files that define classes, i.e., F{classname}, consist of lines 4638each of which contains a single element of the class. For example, 4639/etc/mail/local-host-names may have the following content: 4640 4641my.domain 4642another.domain 4643 4644Maps must be created using makemap(8) , e.g., 4645 4646 makemap hash MAP < MAP 4647 4648In general, a text file from which a map is created contains lines 4649of the form 4650 4651key value 4652 4653where 'key' and 'value' are also called LHS and RHS, respectively. 4654By default, the delimiter between LHS and RHS is a non-empty sequence 4655of white space characters. 4656 4657 4658+------------------+ 4659| DIRECTORY LAYOUT | 4660+------------------+ 4661 4662Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit: 4663 4664m4 General support routines. These are typically 4665 very important and should not be changed without 4666 very careful consideration. 4667 4668cf The configuration files themselves. They have 4669 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to 4670 become complete. The resulting output should 4671 have a ".cf" suffix. 4672 4673ostype Definitions describing a particular operating 4674 system type. These should always be referenced 4675 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples 4676 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and 4677 "sunos4.1". 4678 4679domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced 4680 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are 4681 site dependent; for example, "CS.Berkeley.EDU.m4" 4682 describes hosts in the CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain. 4683 4684mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using 4685 the MAILER macro in the .mc file. 4686 4687sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the 4688 .mc file in the cf subdirectory. 4689 4690feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might 4691 want to include. They should be referenced using 4692 the FEATURE macro. 4693 4694hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK 4695 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic 4696 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows? 4697 4698siteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected 4699 UUCP sites. 4700 4701 4702+------------------------+ 4703| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS | 4704+------------------------+ 4705 4706The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the 4707sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify 4708the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these 4709should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more). 4710 4711RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail) 4712 4713 0 * Parsing 4714 1 * Sender rewriting 4715 2 * Recipient rewriting 4716 3 * Canonicalization 4717 4 * Post cleanup 4718 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing) 4719 1x mailer rules (sender qualification) 4720 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification) 4721 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification) 4722 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification) 4723 5x mailer subroutines (general) 4724 6x mailer subroutines (general) 4725 7x mailer subroutines (general) 4726 8x reserved 4727 90 Mailertable host stripping 4728 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail) 4729 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail) 4730 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail) 4731 4732 4733MAILERS 4734 4735 0 local, prog local and program mailers 4736 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel 4737 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program 4738 3 netnews Network News delivery 4739 4 fax Sam Leffler's HylaFAX software 4740 5 mail11 DECnet mailer 4741 4742 4743MACROS 4744 4745 A 4746 B Bitnet Relay 4747 C DECnet Relay 4748 D The local domain -- usually not needed 4749 E reserved for X.400 Relay 4750 F FAX Relay 4751 G 4752 H mail Hub (for mail clusters) 4753 I 4754 J 4755 K 4756 L Luser Relay 4757 M Masquerade (who you claim to be) 4758 N 4759 O 4760 P 4761 Q 4762 R Relay (for unqualified names) 4763 S Smart Host 4764 T 4765 U my UUCP name (if you have a UUCP connection) 4766 V UUCP Relay (class {V} hosts) 4767 W UUCP Relay (class {W} hosts) 4768 X UUCP Relay (class {X} hosts) 4769 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts) 4770 Z Version number 4771 4772 4773CLASSES 4774 4775 A 4776 B domains that are candidates for bestmx lookup 4777 C 4778 D 4779 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M 4780 F hosts this system forward for 4781 G domains that should be looked up in genericstable 4782 H 4783 I 4784 J 4785 K 4786 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R 4787 M domains that should be mapped to $M 4788 N host/domains that should not be mapped to $M 4789 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names) 4790 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, DECNET, FAX, UUCP, etc. 4791 Q 4792 R domains this system is willing to relay (pass anti-spam filters) 4793 S 4794 T 4795 U locally connected UUCP hosts 4796 V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V 4797 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W 4798 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X 4799 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts 4800 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts 4801 . the class containing only a dot 4802 [ the class containing only a left bracket 4803 4804 4805M4 DIVERSIONS 4806 4807 1 Local host detection and resolution 4808 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions 4809 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions 4810 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions 4811 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R) 4812 6 local configuration (at top of file) 4813 7 mailer definitions 4814 8 DNS based blocklists 4815 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2) 4816 4817