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, which can be found 8on-line at http://www.sendmail.org/%7Eca/email/doc8.12/op.html . 9Recall this URL throughout this document when references to 10doc/op/op.* are made. 11 12Table of Content: 13 14INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE 15A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO M4 16FILE LOCATIONS 17OSTYPE 18DOMAINS 19MAILERS 20FEATURES 21HACKS 22SITE CONFIGURATION 23USING UUCP MAILERS 24TWEAKING RULESETS 25MASQUERADING AND RELAYING 26USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES 27LDAP ROUTING 28ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL 29CONNECTION CONTROL 30STARTTLS 31ADDING NEW MAILERS OR RULESETS 32ADDING NEW MAIL FILTERS 33QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS 34NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS 35WHO AM I? 36ACCEPTING MAIL FOR MULTIPLE NAMES 37USING MAILERTABLES 38USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES 39MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES 40SECURITY NOTES 41TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 42MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM 43FORMAT OF FILES AND MAPS 44DIRECTORY LAYOUT 45ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS 46 47 48+--------------------------+ 49| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE | 50+--------------------------+ 51 52Configuration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a 53suffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file. 54You must pre-load "cf.m4": 55 56 m4 ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4 config.mc > config.cf 57 58Alternatively, you can simply: 59 60 cd ${CFDIR}/cf 61 /usr/ccs/bin/make config.cf 62 63where ${CFDIR} is the root of the cf directory and config.mc is the 64name of your configuration file. If you are running a version of M4 65that understands the __file__ builtin (versions of GNU m4 >= 0.75 do 66this, but the versions distributed with 4.4BSD and derivatives do not) 67or the -I flag (ditto), then ${CFDIR} can be in an arbitrary directory. 68For "traditional" versions, ${CFDIR} ***MUST*** be "..", or you MUST 69use -D_CF_DIR_=/path/to/cf/dir/ -- note the trailing slash! For example: 70 71 m4 -D_CF_DIR_=${CFDIR}/ ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4 config.mc > config.cf 72 73Let's examine a typical .mc file: 74 75 divert(-1) 76 # 77 # Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers. 78 # All rights reserved. 79 # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. 80 # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 81 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 82 # 83 # By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set 84 # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of 85 # the sendmail distribution. 86 # 87 88 # 89 # This is a Berkeley-specific configuration file for HP-UX 9.x. 90 # It applies only to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley, 91 # and should not be used elsewhere. It is provided on the sendmail 92 # distribution as a sample only. To create your own configuration 93 # file, create an appropriate domain file in ../domain, change the 94 # `DOMAIN' macro below to reference that file, and copy the result 95 # to a name of your own choosing. 96 # 97 divert(0) 98 99The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file. 100The copyright notice can be replaced by whatever your lawyers require; 101our lawyers require the one that is included in these files. A copyleft 102is a copyright by another name. The divert(0) restores regular output. 103 104 VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>') 105 106VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the 107resulting file. You could use SCCS, RCS, CVS, something else, or 108omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included 109in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4. 110 111 OSTYPE(`hpux9')dnl 112 113You must specify an OSTYPE to properly configure things such as the 114pathname of the help and status files, the flags needed for the local 115mailer, and other important things. If you omit it, you will get an 116error when you try to build the configuration. Look at the ostype 117directory for the list of known operating system types. 118 119 DOMAIN(`CS.Berkeley.EDU')dnl 120 121This example is specific to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley. 122You can use "DOMAIN(`generic')" to get a sufficiently bland definition 123that may well work for you, or you can create a customized domain 124definition appropriate for your environment. 125 126 MAILER(`local') 127 MAILER(`smtp') 128 129These describe the mailers used at the default CS site. The local 130mailer is always included automatically. Beware: MAILER declarations 131should only be followed by LOCAL_* sections. The general rules are 132that the order should be: 133 134 VERSIONID 135 OSTYPE 136 DOMAIN 137 FEATURE 138 local macro definitions 139 MAILER 140 LOCAL_CONFIG 141 LOCAL_RULE_* 142 LOCAL_RULESETS 143 144There are a few exceptions to this rule. Local macro definitions which 145influence a FEATURE() should be done before that feature. For example, 146a define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', ...) should be done before 147FEATURE(`local_procmail'). 148 149 150+----------------------------+ 151| A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO M4 | 152+----------------------------+ 153 154Sendmail uses the M4 macro processor to ``compile'' the configuration 155files. The most important thing to know is that M4 is stream-based, 156that is, it doesn't understand about lines. For this reason, in some 157places you may see the word ``dnl'', which stands for ``delete 158through newline''; essentially, it deletes all characters starting 159at the ``dnl'' up to and including the next newline character. In 160most cases sendmail uses this only to avoid lots of unnecessary 161blank lines in the output. 162 163Other important directives are define(A, B) which defines the macro 164``A'' to have value ``B''. Macros are expanded as they are read, so 165one normally quotes both values to prevent expansion. For example, 166 167 define(`SMART_HOST', `smart.foo.com') 168 169One word of warning: M4 macros are expanded even in lines that appear 170to be comments. For example, if you have 171 172 # See FEATURE(`foo') above 173 174it will not do what you expect, because the FEATURE(`foo') will be 175expanded. This also applies to 176 177 # And then define the $X macro to be the return address 178 179because ``define'' is an M4 keyword. If you want to use them, surround 180them with directed quotes, `like this'. 181 182Since m4 uses single quotes (opening "`" and closing "'") to quote 183arguments, those quotes can't be used in arguments. For example, 184it is not possible to define a rejection message containing a single 185quote. Usually there are simple workarounds by changing those 186messages; in the worst case it might be ok to change the value 187directly in the generated .cf file, which however is not advised. 188 189+----------------+ 190| FILE LOCATIONS | 191+----------------+ 192 193sendmail 8.9 has introduced a new configuration directory for sendmail 194related files, /etc/mail. The new files available for sendmail 8.9 -- 195the class {R} /etc/mail/relay-domains and the access database 196/etc/mail/access -- take advantage of this new directory. Beginning with 1978.10, all files will use this directory by default (some options may be 198set by OSTYPE() files). This new directory should help to restore 199uniformity to sendmail's file locations. 200 201Below is a table of some of the common changes: 202 203Old filename New filename 204------------ ------------ 205/etc/bitdomain /etc/mail/bitdomain 206/etc/domaintable /etc/mail/domaintable 207/etc/genericstable /etc/mail/genericstable 208/etc/uudomain /etc/mail/uudomain 209/etc/virtusertable /etc/mail/virtusertable 210/etc/userdb /etc/mail/userdb 211 212/etc/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 213/etc/sendmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 214/etc/ucbmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 215/usr/adm/sendmail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 216/usr/lib/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 217/usr/lib/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 218/usr/ucblib/aliases /etc/mail/aliases 219 220/etc/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 221/etc/mail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 222/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 223 224/etc/sendmail.ct /etc/mail/trusted-users 225 226/etc/sendmail.oE /etc/mail/error-header 227 228/etc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 229/etc/mail/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 230/usr/ucblib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 231/etc/ucbmail/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 232/usr/lib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 233/usr/share/lib/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 234/usr/share/misc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 235/share/misc/sendmail.hf /etc/mail/helpfile 236 237/etc/service.switch /etc/mail/service.switch 238 239/etc/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 240/etc/mail/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 241/etc/mailer/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 242/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 243/usr/lib/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 244/usr/ucblib/sendmail.st /etc/mail/statistics 245 246Note that all of these paths actually use a new m4 macro MAIL_SETTINGS_DIR 247to create the pathnames. The default value of this variable is 248`/etc/mail/'. If you set this macro to a different value, you MUST include 249a trailing slash. 250 251Notice: all filenames used in a .mc (or .cf) file should be absolute 252(starting at the root, i.e., with '/'). Relative filenames most 253likely cause surprises during operations (unless otherwise noted). 254 255 256+--------+ 257| OSTYPE | 258+--------+ 259 260You MUST define an operating system environment, or the configuration 261file build will puke. There are several environments available; look 262at the "ostype" directory for the current list. This macro changes 263things like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some 264of these files are identical to one another. 265 266It is IMPERATIVE that the OSTYPE occur before any MAILER definitions. 267In general, the OSTYPE macro should go immediately after any version 268information, and MAILER definitions should always go last. 269 270Operating system definitions are usually easy to write. They may define 271the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file may be 272empty). Unfortunately, the list of configuration-supported systems is 273not as broad as the list of source-supported systems, since many of 274the source contributors do not include corresponding ostype files. 275 276ALIAS_FILE [/etc/mail/aliases] The location of the text version 277 of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated 278 list of names (but be sure you quote values with 279 commas in them -- for example, use 280 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b') 281 to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files; 282 otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a"). 283HELP_FILE [/etc/mail/helpfile] The name of the file 284 containing information printed in response to 285 the SMTP HELP command. 286QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing 287 queue files. To use multiple queues, supply 288 a value ending with an asterisk. For 289 example, /var/spool/mqueue/qd* will use all of the 290 directories or symbolic links to directories 291 beginning with 'qd' in /var/spool/mqueue as queue 292 directories. The names 'qf', 'df', and 'xf' are 293 reserved as specific subdirectories for the 294 corresponding queue file types as explained in 295 doc/op/op.me. See also QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS. 296MSP_QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/clientmqueue] The directory containing 297 queue files for the MSP (Mail Submission Program). 298STATUS_FILE [/etc/mail/statistics] The file containing status 299 information. 300LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail. 301LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [Prmn9] The flags used by the local mailer. The 302 flags lsDFMAw5:/|@q are always included. 303LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local 304 mail. 305LOCAL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If defined, the maximum size of local 306 mail that you are willing to accept. 307LOCAL_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 308 messages to deliver in a single connection. Only 309 useful for LMTP local mailers. 310LOCAL_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 311 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to the 312 local mailer and which are converted to MIME will be 313 labeled with this character set. 314LOCAL_MAILER_EOL [undefined] If defined, the string to use as the 315 end of line for the local mailer. 316LOCAL_MAILER_DSN_DIAGNOSTIC_CODE 317 [X-Unix] The DSN Diagnostic-Code value for the 318 local mailer. This should be changed with care. 319LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email. 320LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu9] The flags used by the shell mailer. The 321 flags lsDFM are always included. 322LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog" 323 mail. 324LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the 325 shell should run. 326LOCAL_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the local mailer. 327SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default 328 flags are `mDFMuX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the 329 "esmtp" mailer adds `a'; "smtp8" adds `8'; and 330 "dsmtp" adds `%'. 331RELAY_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to the relay mailer. Default 332 flags are `mDFMuX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the 333 relay mailer adds `a8'. If this is not defined, 334 then SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS is used. 335SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will 336 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp 337 mailers. 338SMTP_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 339 messages to deliver in a single connection for the 340 smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp mailers. 341SMTP_MAILER_MAXRCPTS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 342 recipients to deliver in a single connection for the 343 smtp, smtp8, esmtp, or dsmtp mailers. 344SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer. 345 About the only reason you would want to change this 346 would be to change the default port. 347ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer. 348SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer. 349DSMTP_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the dsmtp mailer. 350RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [TCP $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer. 351SMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the smtp mailer. 352ESMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the esmtp mailer. 353SMTP8_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the smtp8 mailer. 354DSMTP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the dsmtp mailer. 355RELAY_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the relay mailer. 356RELAY_MAILER_MAXMSGS [undefined] If defined, the maximum number of 357 messages to deliver in a single connection for the 358 relay mailer. 359SMTP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 360 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of 361 the SMTP mailers and which are converted to MIME will 362 be labeled with this character set. 363SMTP_MAILER_LL [990] The maximum line length for SMTP mailers 364 (except the relay mailer). 365RELAY_MAILER_LL [2040] The maximum line length for the relay mailer. 366UUCP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/bin/uux] The program used to send UUCP mail. 367UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default 368 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for uucp-new mailer, 369 minus `U' for uucp-dom mailer). 370UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments 371 passed to the UUCP mailer. 372UUCP_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for 373 transmission by the UUCP mailers. 374UUCP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data 375 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of 376 the UUCP mailers and which are converted to MIME will 377 be labeled with this character set. 378UUCP_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the UUCP mailers. 379PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/bin/procmail] The path to the procmail 380 program. This is also used by 381 FEATURE(`local_procmail'). 382PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [SPhnu9] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags 383 DFM are always set. This is NOT used by 384 FEATURE(`local_procmail'); tweak LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS 385 instead. 386PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -Y -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to 387 the Procmail mailer. This is NOT used by 388 FEATURE(`local_procmail'); tweak LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS 389 instead. 390PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that 391 will be accepted by the procmail mailer. 392PROCMAIL_MAILER_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the procmail mailer. 393confEBINDIR [/usr/libexec] The directory for executables. 394 Currently used for FEATURE(`local_lmtp') and 395 FEATURE(`smrsh'). 396LOCAL_PROG_QGRP [undefined] The queue group for the prog mailer. 397 398Note: to tweak Name_MAILER_FLAGS use the macro MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS: 399MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`Name', `change') where Name is the first part 400of the macro Name_MAILER_FLAGS (note: that means Name is entirely in 401upper case) and change can be: flags that should be used directly 402(thus overriding the default value), or if it starts with `+' (`-') 403then those flags are added to (removed from) the default value. 404Example: 405 406 MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+e') 407 408will add the flag `e' to LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS. Notice: there are 409several smtp mailers all of which are manipulated individually. 410See the section MAILERS for the available mailer names. 411WARNING: The FEATUREs local_lmtp and local_procmail set LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS 412unconditionally, i.e., without respecting any definitions in an 413OSTYPE setting. 414 415 416+---------+ 417| DOMAINS | 418+---------+ 419 420You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one 421file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, the Berkeley 422domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished 423hosts: 424 425UUCP_RELAY The host that will accept UUCP-addressed email. 426 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly 427 connected. 428BITNET_RELAY The host that will accept BITNET-addressed email. 429 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work. 430DECNET_RELAY The host that will accept DECNET-addressed email. 431 If not defined, the .DECNET pseudo-domain and addresses 432 of the form node::user will not work. 433FAX_RELAY The host that will accept mail to the .FAX pseudo-domain. 434 The "fax" mailer overrides this value. 435LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that 436 is, names without an @domain extension. 437 Normally MAIL_HUB is preferred for this function. 438 LOCAL_RELAY is mostly useful in conjunction with 439 FEATURE(`stickyhost') -- see the discussion of 440 stickyhost below. If not set, they are assumed to 441 belong on this machine. This allows you to have a 442 central site to store a company- or department-wide 443 alias database. This only works at small sites, 444 and only with some user agents. 445LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently 446 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases. To 447 specify a local user instead of a site, set this to 448 ``local:username''. 449 450Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the 451mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``uucp-new'' and the hostname 452is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a 453``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'', 454a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX 455record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to 456have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back 457to yourself. 458 459The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed 460(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts 461at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use 462MASQUERADE_AS here. 463 464You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a 465single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than 466it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent 467knowledge" into one place. 468 469 470+---------+ 471| MAILERS | 472+---------+ 473 474There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous 475version, owing mostly to a simpler world. As a general rule, put the 476MAILER definitions last in your .mc file. 477 478local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always 479 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL 480 your mail to another site. This mailer is included 481 automatically. 482 483smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does 484 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other 485 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is 486 running the name server. This file actually defines 487 five mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to 488 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other 489 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without 490 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is 491 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit 492 clean even if it doesn't say so), "dsmtp" to do on 493 demand delivery, and "relay" for transmission to the 494 RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or MAIL_HUB. 495 496uucp The UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program mailer. Actually, this 497 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and 498 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you 499 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle 500 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer 501 is included in your configuration, two other mailers 502 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined [warning: you 503 MUST specify MAILER(`smtp') before MAILER(`uucp')]. When you 504 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in 505 class {U} and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all 506 names in class {Y} are sent to uucp-new; and all 507 names in class {Z} are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that 508 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on 509 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control. 510 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more 511 detail. 512 513procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail). 514 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example, 515 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given 516 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer 517 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading: 518 519 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com 520 521 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading: 522 523 :0 # forward mail for host.com 524 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host 525 526 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent 527 to person@other.host. In a procmail script, $1 is the 528 name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient. 529 If you use this with FEATURE(`local_procmail'), the FEATURE 530 should be listed first. 531 532 Of course there are other ways to solve this particular 533 problem, e.g., a catch-all entry in a virtusertable. 534 535The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where 536the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available 537to certain local mail programs (in particular, see 538FEATURE(`local_procmail')). For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and 539"eric+sww" all indicate the same user, but additional arguments <null>, 540"sendmail", and "sww" may be provided for use in sorting mail. 541 542 543+----------+ 544| FEATURES | 545+----------+ 546 547Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For 548example, the .mc line: 549 550 FEATURE(`use_cw_file') 551 552tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/mail/local-host-names 553file to get values for class {w}. A FEATURE may contain up to 9 554optional parameters -- for example: 555 556 FEATURE(`mailertable', `dbm /usr/lib/mailertable') 557 558The default database map type for the table features can be set with 559 560 define(`DATABASE_MAP_TYPE', `dbm') 561 562which would set it to use ndbm databases. The default is the Berkeley DB 563hash database format. Note that you must still declare a database map type 564if you specify an argument to a FEATURE. DATABASE_MAP_TYPE is only used 565if no argument is given for the FEATURE. It must be specified before any 566feature that uses a map. 567 568Also, features which can take a map definition as an argument can also take 569the special keyword `LDAP'. If that keyword is used, the map will use the 570LDAP definition described in the ``USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND 571CLASSES'' section below. 572 573Available features are: 574 575use_cw_file Read the file /etc/mail/local-host-names file to get 576 alternate names for this host. This might be used if you 577 were on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other hosts. 578 If the set is static, just including the line "Cw<name1> 579 <name2> ..." (where the names are fully qualified domain 580 names) is probably superior. The actual filename can be 581 overridden by redefining confCW_FILE. 582 583use_ct_file Read the file /etc/mail/trusted-users file to get the 584 names of users that will be ``trusted'', that is, able to 585 set their envelope from address using -f without generating 586 a warning message. The actual filename can be overridden 587 by redefining confCT_FILE. 588 589redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with 590 a ``551 User has moved; please try <address>'' message. 591 If this is set, you can alias people who have left 592 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended. 593 594nouucp Don't route UUCP addresses. This feature takes one 595 parameter: 596 `reject': reject addresses which have "!" in the local 597 part unless it originates from a system 598 that is allowed to relay. 599 `nospecial': don't do anything special with "!". 600 Warnings: 1. See the notice in the anti-spam section. 601 2. don't remove "!" from OperatorChars if `reject' is 602 given as parameter. 603 604nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification 605 by default, i.e., host/domain names are considered canonical, 606 except for unqualified names, which must not be used in this 607 mode (violation of the standard). It can be changed by 608 setting the DaemonPortOptions modifiers (M=). That is, 609 FEATURE(`nocanonify') will be overridden by setting the 610 'c' flag. Conversely, if FEATURE(`nocanonify') is not used, 611 it can be emulated by setting the 'C' flag 612 (DaemonPortOptions=Modifiers=C). This would generally only 613 be used by sites that only act as mail gateways or which have 614 user agents that do full canonification themselves. You may 615 also want to use 616 "define(`confBIND_OPTS', `-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to turn off 617 the usual resolver options that do a similar thing. 618 619 An exception list for FEATURE(`nocanonify') can be 620 specified with CANONIFY_DOMAIN or CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE, 621 i.e., a list of domains which are nevertheless passed to 622 $[ ... $] for canonification. This is useful to turn on 623 canonification for local domains, e.g., use 624 CANONIFY_DOMAIN(`my.domain my') to canonify addresses 625 which end in "my.domain" or "my". 626 Another way to require canonification in the local 627 domain is CANONIFY_DOMAIN(`$=m'). 628 629 A trailing dot is added to addresses with more than 630 one component in it such that other features which 631 expect a trailing dot (e.g., virtusertable) will 632 still work. 633 634 If `canonify_hosts' is specified as parameter, i.e., 635 FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts'), then 636 addresses which have only a hostname, e.g., 637 <user@host>, will be canonified (and hopefully fully 638 qualified), too. 639 640stickyhost This feature is sometimes used with LOCAL_RELAY, 641 although it can be used for a different effect with 642 MAIL_HUB. 643 644 When used without MAIL_HUB, email sent to 645 "user@local.host" are marked as "sticky" -- that 646 is, the local addresses aren't matched against UDB, 647 don't go through ruleset 5, and are not forwarded to 648 the LOCAL_RELAY (if defined). 649 650 With MAIL_HUB, mail addressed to "user@local.host" 651 is forwarded to the mail hub, with the envelope 652 address still remaining "user@local.host". 653 Without stickyhost, the envelope would be changed 654 to "user@mail_hub", in order to protect against 655 mailing loops. 656 657mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override 658 routing for particular domains (which are not in class {w}, 659 i.e. local host names). The argument of the FEATURE may be 660 the key definition. If none is specified, the definition 661 used is: 662 663 hash /etc/mail/mailertable 664 665 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names 666 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example, 667 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU". As a 668 special case of the latter, "." matches any domain not 669 covered by other keys. Values must be of the form: 670 mailer:domain 671 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain" 672 is where to send the message. These maps are not 673 reflected into the message header. As a special case, 674 the forms: 675 local:user 676 will forward to the indicated user using the local mailer, 677 local: 678 will forward to the original user in the e-mail address 679 using the local mailer, and 680 error:code message 681 error:D.S.N:code message 682 will give an error message with the indicated SMTP reply 683 code and message, where D.S.N is an RFC 1893 compliant 684 error code. 685 686domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide 687 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be 688 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you 689 change names (e.g., your company changes names from 690 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the 691 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified, 692 the definition used is: 693 694 hash /etc/mail/domaintable 695 696 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is 697 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the 698 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this 699 is done in ruleset 3. 700 701bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into 702 internet addresses. The table can be built using the 703 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers. 704 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if 705 none is specified, the definition used is: 706 707 hash /etc/mail/bitdomain 708 709 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding 710 internet hostname. 711 712uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition 713 is: 714 715 hash /etc/mail/uudomain 716 717 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this 718 database. 719 720always_add_domain 721 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered 722 mail. Normally it is not added on unqualified names. 723 However, if you use a shared message store but do not use 724 the same user name space everywhere, you may need the host 725 name on local names. An optional argument specifies 726 another domain to be added than the local. 727 728allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this 729 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade 730 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get 731 the local hostname. Although this may be right for 732 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example, 733 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will 734 find that alias and send to all members, but send the 735 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that 736 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this 737 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE 738 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the 739 local entries. 740 741limited_masquerade 742 Normally, any hosts listed in class {w} are masqueraded. If 743 this feature is given, only the hosts listed in class {M} (see 744 below: MASQUERADE_DOMAIN) are masqueraded. This is useful 745 if you have several domains with disjoint namespaces hosted 746 on the same machine. 747 748masquerade_entire_domain 749 If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS) and 750 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN (see below) is set, this feature will 751 cause addresses to be rewritten such that the masquerading 752 domains are actually entire domains to be hidden. All 753 hosts within the masquerading domains will be rewritten 754 to the masquerade name (used in MASQUERADE_AS). For example, 755 if you have: 756 757 MASQUERADE_AS(`masq.com') 758 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`foo.org') 759 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`bar.com') 760 761 then *foo.org and *bar.com are converted to masq.com. Without 762 this feature, only foo.org and bar.com are masqueraded. 763 764 NOTE: only domains within your jurisdiction and 765 current hierarchy should be masqueraded using this. 766 767local_no_masquerade 768 This feature prevents the local mailer from masquerading even 769 if MASQUERADE_AS is used. MASQUERADE_AS will only have effect 770 on addresses of mail going outside the local domain. 771 772masquerade_envelope 773 If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS) or the 774 genericstable is in use, this feature will cause envelope 775 addresses to also masquerade as being from the masquerade 776 host. Normally only the header addresses are masqueraded. 777 778genericstable This feature will cause unqualified addresses (i.e., without 779 a domain) and addresses with a domain listed in class {G} 780 to be looked up in a map and turned into another ("generic") 781 form, which can change both the domain name and the user name. 782 Notice: if you use an MSP (as it is default starting with 783 8.12), the MTA will only receive qualified addresses from the 784 MSP (as required by the RFCs). Hence you need to add your 785 domain to class {G}. This feature is similar to the userdb 786 functionality. The same types of addresses as for 787 masquerading are looked up, i.e., only header sender 788 addresses unless the allmasquerade and/or masquerade_envelope 789 features are given. Qualified addresses must have the domain 790 part in class {G}; entries can be added to this class by the 791 macros GENERICS_DOMAIN or GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously 792 to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 793 794 The argument of FEATURE(`genericstable') may be the map 795 definition; the default map definition is: 796 797 hash /etc/mail/genericstable 798 799 The key for this table is either the full address, the domain 800 (with a leading @; the localpart is passed as first argument) 801 or the unqualified username (tried in the order mentioned); 802 the value is the new user address. If the new user address 803 does not include a domain, it will be qualified in the standard 804 manner, i.e., using $j or the masquerade name. Note that the 805 address being looked up must be fully qualified. For local 806 mail, it is necessary to use FEATURE(`always_add_domain') 807 for the addresses to be qualified. 808 The "+detail" of an address is passed as %1, so entries like 809 810 old+*@foo.org new+%1@example.com 811 gen+*@foo.org %1@example.com 812 813 and other forms are possible. 814 815generics_entire_domain 816 If the genericstable is enabled and GENERICS_DOMAIN or 817 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE is used, this feature will cause 818 addresses to be searched in the map if their domain 819 parts are subdomains of elements in class {G}. 820 821virtusertable A domain-specific form of aliasing, allowing multiple 822 virtual domains to be hosted on one machine. For example, 823 if the virtuser table contains: 824 825 info@foo.com foo-info 826 info@bar.com bar-info 827 joe@bar.com error:nouser 550 No such user here 828 jax@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid 829 @baz.org jane@example.net 830 831 then mail addressed to info@foo.com will be sent to the 832 address foo-info, mail addressed to info@bar.com will be 833 delivered to bar-info, and mail addressed to anyone at baz.org 834 will be sent to jane@example.net, mail to joe@bar.com will 835 be rejected with the specified error message, and mail to 836 jax@bar.com will also have a RFC 1893 compliant error code 837 5.7.0. 838 839 The username from the original address is passed 840 as %1 allowing: 841 842 @foo.org %1@example.com 843 844 meaning someone@foo.org will be sent to someone@example.com. 845 Additionally, if the local part consists of "user+detail" 846 then "detail" is passed as %2 and "+detail" is passed as %3 847 when a match against user+* is attempted, so entries like 848 849 old+*@foo.org new+%2@example.com 850 gen+*@foo.org %2@example.com 851 +*@foo.org %1%3@example.com 852 X++@foo.org Z%3@example.com 853 @bar.org %1%3 854 855 and other forms are possible. Note: to preserve "+detail" 856 for a default case (@domain) %1%3 must be used as RHS. 857 There are two wildcards after "+": "+" matches only a non-empty 858 detail, "*" matches also empty details, e.g., user+@foo.org 859 matches +*@foo.org but not ++@foo.org. This can be used 860 to ensure that the parameters %2 and %3 are not empty. 861 862 All the host names on the left hand side (foo.com, bar.com, 863 and baz.org) must be in class {w} or class {VirtHost}. The 864 latter can be defined by the macros VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 865 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 866 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). If VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 867 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE is used, then the entries of class 868 {VirtHost} are added to class {R}, i.e., relaying is allowed 869 to (and from) those domains, which by default includes also 870 all subdomains (see relay_hosts_only). The default map 871 definition is: 872 873 hash /etc/mail/virtusertable 874 875 A new definition can be specified as the second argument of 876 the FEATURE macro, such as 877 878 FEATURE(`virtusertable', `dbm /etc/mail/virtusers') 879 880virtuser_entire_domain 881 If the virtusertable is enabled and VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or 882 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE is used, this feature will cause 883 addresses to be searched in the map if their domain 884 parts are subdomains of elements in class {VirtHost}. 885 886ldap_routing Implement LDAP-based e-mail recipient routing according to 887 the Internet Draft draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-01. 888 This provides a method to re-route addresses with a 889 domain portion in class {LDAPRoute} to either a 890 different mail host or a different address. Hosts can 891 be added to this class using LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN and 892 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 893 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 894 895 See the LDAP ROUTING section below for more information. 896 897nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a configuration file 898 containing nothing but support for forwarding all mail to a 899 central hub via a local SMTP-based network. The argument 900 is the name of that hub. 901 902 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction 903 with this one is FEATURE(`nocanonify'). No mailers 904 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done. 905 906local_lmtp Use an LMTP capable local mailer. The argument to this 907 feature is the pathname of an LMTP capable mailer. By 908 default, mail.local is used. This is expected to be the 909 mail.local which came with the 8.9 distribution which is 910 LMTP capable. The path to mail.local is set by the 911 confEBINDIR m4 variable -- making the default 912 LOCAL_MAILER_PATH /usr/libexec/mail.local. 913 If a different LMTP capable mailer is used, its pathname 914 can be specified as second parameter and the arguments 915 passed to it (A=) as third parameter, e.g., 916 917 FEATURE(`local_lmtp', `/usr/local/bin/lmtp', `lmtp') 918 919 WARNING: This feature sets LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS unconditionally, 920 i.e., without respecting any definitions in an OSTYPE setting. 921 922local_procmail Use procmail or another delivery agent as the local mailer. 923 The argument to this feature is the pathname of the 924 delivery agent, which defaults to PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH. 925 Note that this does NOT use PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS or 926 PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS for the local mailer; tweak 927 LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS and LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS instead, or 928 specify the appropriate parameters. When procmail is used, 929 the local mailer can make use of the 930 "user+indicator@local.host" syntax; normally the +indicator 931 is just tossed, but by default it is passed as the -a 932 argument to procmail. 933 934 This feature can take up to three arguments: 935 936 1. Path to the mailer program 937 [default: /usr/local/bin/procmail] 938 2. Argument vector including name of the program 939 [default: procmail -Y -a $h -d $u] 940 3. Flags for the mailer [default: SPfhn9] 941 942 Empty arguments cause the defaults to be taken. 943 Note that if you are on a system with a broken 944 setreuid() call, you may need to add -f $f to the procmail 945 argument vector to pass the proper sender to procmail. 946 947 For example, this allows it to use the maildrop 948 (http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/) mailer instead 949 by specifying: 950 951 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/maildrop', 952 `maildrop -d $u') 953 954 or scanmails using: 955 956 FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/bin/scanmails') 957 958 WARNING: This feature sets LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS unconditionally, 959 i.e., without respecting any definitions in an OSTYPE setting. 960 961bestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that 962 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates 963 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to 964 medium traffic hosts. The argument may be a set of 965 domains, which will limit the feature to only apply to 966 these domains -- this will reduce unnecessary DNS 967 traffic. THIS FEATURE IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH 968 WILDCARD MX RECORDS!!! If you have a wildcard MX record 969 that matches your domain, you cannot use this feature. 970 971smrsh Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided 972 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing 973 to programs. This improves the ability of the local 974 system administrator to control what gets run via 975 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the 976 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, the path defined by 977 confEBINDIR is used for the smrsh binary -- by default, 978 /usr/libexec/smrsh is assumed. 979 980promiscuous_relay 981 By default, the sendmail configuration files do not permit 982 mail relaying (that is, accepting mail from outside your 983 local host (class {w}) and sending it to another host than 984 your local host). This option sets your site to allow 985 mail relaying from any site to any site. In almost all 986 cases, it is better to control relaying more carefully 987 with the access map, class {R}, or authentication. Domains 988 can be added to class {R} by the macros RELAY_DOMAIN or 989 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and 990 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). 991 992relay_entire_domain 993 This option allows any host in your domain as defined by 994 class {m} to use your server for relaying. Notice: make 995 sure that your domain is not just a top level domain, 996 e.g., com. This can happen if you give your host a name 997 like example.com instead of host.example.com. 998 999relay_hosts_only 1000 By default, names that are listed as RELAY in the access 1001 db and class {R} are treated as domain names, not host names. 1002 For example, if you specify ``foo.com'', then mail to or 1003 from foo.com, abc.foo.com, or a.very.deep.domain.foo.com 1004 will all be accepted for relaying. This feature changes 1005 the behaviour to lookup individual host names only. 1006 1007relay_based_on_MX 1008 Turns on the ability to allow relaying based on the MX 1009 records of the host portion of an incoming recipient; that 1010 is, if an MX record for host foo.com points to your site, 1011 you will accept and relay mail addressed to foo.com. See 1012 description below for more information before using this 1013 feature. Also, see the KNOWNBUGS entry regarding bestmx 1014 map lookups. 1015 1016 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') does not necessarily allow 1017 routing of these messages which you expect to be allowed, 1018 if route address syntax (or %-hack syntax) is used. If 1019 this is a problem, add entries to the access-table or use 1020 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check'). 1021 1022relay_mail_from 1023 Allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in 1024 the access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this 1025 is the literal word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, 1026 relaying can be allowed just based on the domain portion 1027 of the sender address. This feature should only be used if 1028 absolutely necessary as the sender address can be easily 1029 forged. Use of this feature requires the "From:" tag to 1030 be used for the key in the access map; see the discussion 1031 of tags and FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') in the section on 1032 anti-spam configuration control. 1033 1034relay_local_from 1035 Allows relaying if the domain portion of the mail sender 1036 is a local host. This should only be used if absolutely 1037 necessary as it opens a window for spammers. Specifically, 1038 they can send mail to your mail server that claims to be 1039 from your domain (either directly or via a routed address), 1040 and you will go ahead and relay it out to arbitrary hosts 1041 on the Internet. 1042 1043accept_unqualified_senders 1044 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1045 refused if the connection is a network connection and the 1046 sender address does not include a domain name. If your 1047 setup sends local mail unqualified (i.e., MAIL FROM:<joe>), 1048 you will need to use this feature to accept unqualified 1049 sender addresses. Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1050 'u' overrides the default behavior, i.e., unqualified 1051 addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. 1052 If this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 1053 'f' can be used to enforce fully qualified addresses. 1054 1055accept_unresolvable_domains 1056 Normally, MAIL FROM: commands in the SMTP session will be 1057 refused if the host part of the argument to MAIL FROM: 1058 cannot be located in the host name service (e.g., an A or 1059 MX record in DNS). If you are inside a firewall that has 1060 only a limited view of the Internet host name space, this 1061 could cause problems. In this case you probably want to 1062 use this feature to accept all domains on input, even if 1063 they are unresolvable. 1064 1065access_db Turns on the access database feature. The access db gives 1066 you the ability to allow or refuse to accept mail from 1067 specified domains for administrative reasons. Moreover, 1068 it can control the behavior of sendmail in various situations. 1069 By default, the access database specification is: 1070 1071 hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access 1072 1073 See the anti-spam configuration control section for further 1074 important information about this feature. Notice: 1075 "-T<TMPF>" is meant literal, do not replace it by anything. 1076 1077blacklist_recipients 1078 Turns on the ability to block incoming mail for certain 1079 recipient usernames, hostnames, or addresses. For 1080 example, you can block incoming mail to user nobody, 1081 host foo.mydomain.com, or guest@bar.mydomain.com. 1082 These specifications are put in the access db as 1083 described in the anti-spam configuration control section 1084 later in this document. 1085 1086delay_checks The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will not be called 1087 when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, respectively. 1088 Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 1089 ruleset; they will be skipped under certain circumstances. 1090 See "Delay all checks" in the anti-spam configuration control 1091 section. Note: this feature is incompatible to the versions 1092 in 8.10 and 8.11. 1093 1094use_client_ptr If this feature is enabled then check_relay will override 1095 its first argument with $&{client_ptr}. This is useful for 1096 rejections based on the unverified hostname of client, 1097 which turns on the same behavior as in earlier sendmail 1098 versions when delay_checks was not in use. See doc/op/op.* 1099 about check_relay, {client_name}, and {client_ptr}. 1100 1101dnsbl Turns on rejection, discarding, or quarantining of hosts 1102 found in a DNS based list. The first argument is used as 1103 the domain in which blocked hosts are listed. A second 1104 argument can be used to change the default error message, 1105 or select one of the operations `discard' and `quarantine'. 1106 Without that second argument, the error message will be 1107 1108 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 1109 1110 where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 1111 information. By default, temporary lookup failures are 1112 ignored. This behavior can be changed by specifying a 1113 third argument, which must be either `t' or a full error 1114 message. See the anti-spam configuration control section for 1115 an example. The dnsbl feature can be included several times 1116 to query different DNS based rejection lists. See also 1117 enhdnsbl for an enhanced version. 1118 1119 Set the DNSBL_MAP mc option to change the default map 1120 definition from `host'. Set the DNSBL_MAP_OPT mc option 1121 to add additional options to the map specification used. 1122 1123 Some DNS based rejection lists cause failures if asked 1124 for AAAA records. If your sendmail version is compiled 1125 with IPv6 support (NETINET6) and you experience this 1126 problem, add 1127 1128 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A') 1129 1130 before the first use of this feature. Alternatively you 1131 can use enhdnsbl instead (see below). Moreover, this 1132 statement can be used to reduce the number of DNS retries, 1133 e.g., 1134 1135 define(`DNSBL_MAP', `dns -R A -r2') 1136 1137 See below (EDNSBL_TO) for an explanation. 1138 1139enhdnsbl Enhanced version of dnsbl (see above). Further arguments 1140 (up to 5) can be used to specify specific return values 1141 from lookups. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless 1142 a third argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1143 error message. By default, any successful lookup will 1144 generate an error. Otherwise the result of the lookup is 1145 compared with the supplied argument(s), and only if a match 1146 occurs an error is generated. For example, 1147 1148 FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', `t', `127.0.0.2.') 1149 1150 will reject the e-mail if the lookup returns the value 1151 ``127.0.0.2.'', or generate a 451 response if the lookup 1152 temporarily failed. The arguments can contain metasymbols 1153 as they are allowed in the LHS of rules. As the example 1154 shows, the default values are also used if an empty argument, 1155 i.e., `', is specified. This feature requires that sendmail 1156 has been compiled with the flag DNSMAP (see sendmail/README). 1157 1158 Set the EDNSBL_TO mc option to change the DNS retry count 1159 from the default value of 5, this can be very useful when 1160 a DNS server is not responding, which in turn may cause 1161 clients to time out (an entry stating 1162 1163 did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN 1164 1165 will be logged). 1166 1167ratecontrol Enable simple ruleset to do connection rate control 1168 checking. This requires entries in access_db of the form 1169 1170 ClientRate:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1171 1172 The RHS specifies the maximum number of connections 1173 (an integer number) over the time interval defined 1174 by ConnectionRateWindowSize, where 0 means unlimited. 1175 1176 Take the following example: 1177 1178 ClientRate:10.1.2.3 4 1179 ClientRate:127.0.0.1 0 1180 ClientRate: 10 1181 1182 10.1.2.3 can only make up to 4 connections, the 1183 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 can make an unlimited 1184 number of connections per ConnectionRateWindowSize. 1185 1186 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1187 1188conncontrol Enable a simple check of the number of incoming SMTP 1189 connections. This requires entries in access_db of the 1190 form 1191 1192 ClientConn:IP.ADD.RE.SS LIMIT 1193 1194 The RHS specifies the maximum number of open connections 1195 (an integer number). 1196 1197 Take the following example: 1198 1199 ClientConn:10.1.2.3 4 1200 ClientConn:127.0.0.1 0 1201 ClientConn: 10 1202 1203 10.1.2.3 can only have up to 4 open connections, the 1204 general limit it 10, and 127.0.0.1 does not have any 1205 explicit limit. 1206 1207 See also CONNECTION CONTROL. 1208 1209mtamark Experimental support for "Marking Mail Transfer Agents in 1210 Reverse DNS with TXT RRs" (MTAMark), see 1211 draft-stumpf-dns-mtamark-01. Optional arguments are: 1212 1213 1. Error message, default: 1214 1215 550 Rejected: $&{client_addr} not listed as MTA 1216 1217 2. Temporary lookup failures are ignored unless a second 1218 argument is given, which must be either `t' or a full 1219 error message. 1220 1221 3. Lookup prefix, default: _perm._smtp._srv. This should 1222 not be changed unless the draft changes it. 1223 1224 Example: 1225 1226 FEATURE(`mtamark', `', `t') 1227 1228lookupdotdomain Look up also .domain in the access map. This allows to 1229 match only subdomains. It does not work well with 1230 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only'), because most lookups for 1231 subdomains are suppressed by the latter feature. 1232 1233loose_relay_check 1234 Normally, if % addressing is used for a recipient, e.g. 1235 user%site@othersite, and othersite is in class {R}, the 1236 check_rcpt ruleset will strip @othersite and recheck 1237 user@site for relaying. This feature changes that 1238 behavior. It should not be needed for most installations. 1239 1240preserve_luser_host 1241 Preserve the name of the recipient host if LUSER_RELAY is 1242 used. Without this option, the domain part of the 1243 recipient address will be replaced by the host specified as 1244 LUSER_RELAY. This feature only works if the hostname is 1245 passed to the mailer (see mailer triple in op.me). Note 1246 that in the default configuration the local mailer does not 1247 receive the hostname, i.e., the mailer triple has an empty 1248 hostname. 1249 1250preserve_local_plus_detail 1251 Preserve the +detail portion of the address when passing 1252 address to local delivery agent. Disables alias and 1253 .forward +detail stripping (e.g., given user+detail, only 1254 that address will be looked up in the alias file; user+* and 1255 user will not be looked up). Only use if the local 1256 delivery agent in use supports +detail addressing. 1257 1258compat_check Enable ruleset check_compat to look up pairs of addresses 1259 with the Compat: tag -- Compat:sender<@>recipient -- in the 1260 access map. Valid values for the RHS include 1261 DISCARD silently discard recipient 1262 TEMP: return a temporary error 1263 ERROR: return a permanent error 1264 In the last two cases, a 4xy/5xy SMTP reply code should 1265 follow the colon. 1266 1267no_default_msa Don't generate the default MSA daemon, i.e., 1268 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587,Name=MSA,M=E') 1269 To define a MSA daemon with other parameters, use this 1270 FEATURE and introduce new settings via DAEMON_OPTIONS(). 1271 1272msp Defines config file for Message Submission Program. 1273 See cf/submit.mc for how 1274 to use it. An optional argument can be used to override 1275 the default of `[localhost]' to use as host to send all 1276 e-mails to. Note that MX records will be used if the 1277 specified hostname is not in square brackets (e.g., 1278 [hostname]). If `MSA' is specified as second argument then 1279 port 587 is used to contact the server. Example: 1280 1281 FEATURE(`msp', `', `MSA') 1282 1283 Some more hints about possible changes can be found below 1284 in the section MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM. 1285 1286 Note: Due to many problems, submit.mc uses 1287 1288 FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]') 1289 1290 by default. If you have a machine with IPv6 only, 1291 change it to 1292 1293 FEATURE(`msp', `[IPv6:::1]') 1294 1295 If you want to continue using '[localhost]', (the behavior 1296 up to 8.12.6), use 1297 1298 FEATURE(`msp') 1299 1300queuegroup A simple example how to select a queue group based 1301 on the full e-mail address or the domain of the 1302 recipient. Selection is done via entries in the 1303 access map using the tag QGRP:, for example: 1304 1305 QGRP:example.com main 1306 QGRP:friend@some.org others 1307 QGRP:my.domain local 1308 1309 where "main", "others", and "local" are names of 1310 queue groups. If an argument is specified, it is used 1311 as default queue group. 1312 1313 Note: please read the warning in doc/op/op.me about 1314 queue groups and possible queue manipulations. 1315 1316greet_pause Adds the greet_pause ruleset which enables open proxy 1317 and SMTP slamming protection. The feature can take an 1318 argument specifying the milliseconds to wait: 1319 1320 FEATURE(`greet_pause', `5000') dnl 5 seconds 1321 1322 If FEATURE(`access_db') is enabled, an access database 1323 lookup with the GreetPause tag is done using client 1324 hostname, domain, IP address, or subnet to determine the 1325 pause time: 1326 1327 GreetPause:my.domain 0 1328 GreetPause:example.com 5000 1329 GreetPause:10.1.2 2000 1330 GreetPause:127.0.0.1 0 1331 1332 When using FEATURE(`access_db'), the optional 1333 FEATURE(`greet_pause') argument becomes the default if 1334 nothing is found in the access database. A ruleset called 1335 Local_greet_pause can be used for local modifications, e.g., 1336 1337 LOCAL_RULESETS 1338 SLocal_greet_pause 1339 R$* $: $&{daemon_flags} 1340 R$* a $* $# 0 1341 1342block_bad_helo Reject messages from SMTP clients which provide a HELO/EHLO 1343 argument which is either unqualified, or is one of our own 1344 names (i.e., the server name instead of the client name). 1345 This check is performed at RCPT stage and disabled for the 1346 following cases: 1347 - authenticated sessions, 1348 - connections from IP addresses in class $={R}. 1349 Currently access_db lookups can not be used to 1350 (selectively) disable this test, moreover, 1351 FEATURE(`delay_checks') 1352 is required. 1353 1354require_rdns Reject mail from connecting SMTP clients without proper 1355 rDNS (reverse DNS), functional gethostbyaddr() resolution. 1356 Note: this feature will cause false positives, i.e., there 1357 are legitimate MTAs that do not have proper DNS entries. 1358 Rejecting mails from those MTAs is a local policy decision. 1359 1360 The basic policy is to reject message with a 5xx error if 1361 the IP address fails to resolve. However, if this is a 1362 temporary failure, a 4xx temporary failure is returned. 1363 If the look-up succeeds, but returns an apparently forged 1364 value, this is treated as a temporary failure with a 4xx 1365 error code. 1366 1367 EXCEPTIONS: 1368 1369 Exceptions based on access entries are discussed below. 1370 Any IP address matched using $=R (the "relay-domains" file) 1371 is excepted from the rules. Since we have explicitly 1372 allowed relaying for this host, based on IP address, we 1373 ignore the rDNS failure. 1374 1375 The philosophical assumption here is that most users do 1376 not control their rDNS. They should be able to send mail 1377 through their ISP, whether or not they have valid rDNS. 1378 The class $=R, roughly speaking, contains those IP addresses 1379 and address ranges for which we are the ISP, or are acting 1380 as if the ISP. 1381 1382 If `delay_checks' is in effect (recommended), then any 1383 sender who has authenticated is also excepted from the 1384 restrictions. This happens because the rules produced by 1385 this FEATURE() will not be applied to authenticated senders 1386 (assuming `delay_checks'). 1387 1388 ACCESS MAP ENTRIES: 1389 1390 Entries such as 1391 Connect:1.2.3.4 OK 1392 Connect:1.2 RELAY 1393 will whitelist IP address 1.2.3.4, so that the rDNS 1394 blocking does apply to that IP address 1395 1396 Entries such as 1397 Connect:1.2.3.4 REJECT 1398 will have the effect of forcing a temporary failure for 1399 that address to be treated as a permanent failure. 1400 1401badmx Reject envelope sender addresses (MAIL) whose domain part 1402 resolves to a "bad" MX record. By default these are 1403 MX records which resolve to A records that match the 1404 regular expression: 1405 1406 ^(127\.|10\.|0\.0\.0\.0) 1407 1408 This default regular expression can be overridden by 1409 specifying an argument, e.g., 1410 1411 FEATURE(`badmx', `^127\.0\.0\.1') 1412 1413 Note: this feature requires that the sendmail binary 1414 has been compiled with the options MAP_REGEX and 1415 DNSMAP. 1416 1417+--------------------+ 1418| USING UUCP MAILERS | 1419+--------------------+ 1420 1421It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc 1422nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed 1423for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites. 1424 1425There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to 1426use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at 1427the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that 1428define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you 1429should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have 1430to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages 1431people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid 1432UUCP, please do. 1433 1434The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a 1435non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other 1436end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the 1437other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses 1438don't work entirely properly. 1439 1440The four mailers are: 1441 1442 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp") 1443 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of 1444 sending messages across UUCP connections. It does bangify 1445 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's 1446 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can 1447 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of 1448 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all 1449 possible. 1450 1451 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp") 1452 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail 1453 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a 1454 lot of other problems. 1455 1456 uucp-dom 1457 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses. 1458 Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules. This mailer 1459 is only included if MAILER(`smtp') is specified before 1460 MAILER(`uucp'). 1461 1462 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require 1463 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use 1464 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope 1465 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So.... 1466 1467 uucp-uudom 1468 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses) 1469 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the 1470 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the 1471 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address 1472 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name 1473 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of 1474 "some.dom.ain!wolf"). This is also included only if MAILER(`smtp') 1475 is also specified earlier. 1476 1477Examples: 1478 1479On host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"), the following 1480summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers. 1481 1482Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope 1483------ ------ ------------------------- 1484uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf 1485uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1486uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf 1487 1488uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf 1489uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net 1490uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf 1491 1492uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf 1493uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 1494uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf 1495 1496If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want 1497to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will 1498do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example, 1499if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo), 1500the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to 1501this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it 1502will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain 1503feature. 1504 1505 1506+-------------------+ 1507| TWEAKING RULESETS | 1508+-------------------+ 1509 1510For more complex configurations, you can define special rules. 1511The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing 1512the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header. 1513 1514A common use is to convert old UUCP addresses to SMTP addresses using 1515the UUCPSMTP macro. For example: 1516 1517 LOCAL_RULE_3 1518 UUCPSMTP(`decvax', `decvax.dec.com') 1519 UUCPSMTP(`research', `research.att.com') 1520 1521will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user" 1522to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com" 1523respectively. 1524 1525This could also be used to look up hosts in a database map: 1526 1527 LOCAL_RULE_3 1528 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3 1529 1530This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below. 1531 1532Similarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules. 1533For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept 1534via MX records. For example, you might have: 1535 1536 LOCAL_RULE_0 1537 R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.> 1538 1539You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU 1540pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on 1541using UUCP. 1542 1543You can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2. 1544These rulesets are normally empty. 1545 1546A similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the 1547boilerplate option setting but before rulesets. Do not declare rulesets in 1548the LOCAL_CONFIG section. It can be used to declare local database maps or 1549whatever. For example: 1550 1551 LOCAL_CONFIG 1552 Khostmap hash /etc/mail/hostmap 1553 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname 1554 1555 1556+---------------------------+ 1557| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING | 1558+---------------------------+ 1559 1560You can have your host masquerade as another using 1561 1562 MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain') 1563 1564This causes mail being sent to be labeled as coming from the 1565indicated host.domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as 1566one of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that 1567Berkeley would choose to masquerade as an MIT site). This 1568behaviour is modified by a plethora of FEATUREs; in particular, see 1569masquerade_envelope, allmasquerade, limited_masquerade, and 1570masquerade_entire_domain. 1571 1572The masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important 1573that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a 1574CNAME. However, if you use a CNAME, the receiving side may canonify 1575it for you, so don't think you can cheat CNAME mapping this way. 1576 1577Normally the only addresses that are masqueraded are those that come 1578from this host (that is, are either unqualified or in class {w}, the list 1579of local domain names). You can augment this list, which is realized 1580by class {M} using 1581 1582 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`otherhost.domain') 1583 1584The effect of this is that although mail to user@otherhost.domain 1585will not be delivered locally, any mail including any user@otherhost.domain 1586will, when relayed, be rewritten to have the MASQUERADE_AS address. 1587This can be a space-separated list of names. 1588 1589If these names are in a file, you can use 1590 1591 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(`filename') 1592 1593to read the list of names from the indicated file (i.e., to add 1594elements to class {M}). 1595 1596To exempt hosts or subdomains from being masqueraded, you can use 1597 1598 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION(`host.domain') 1599 1600This can come handy if you want to masquerade a whole domain 1601except for one (or a few) host(s). If these names are in a file, 1602you can use 1603 1604 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE(`filename') 1605 1606Normally only header addresses are masqueraded. If you want to 1607masquerade the envelope as well, use 1608 1609 FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') 1610 1611There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their 1612internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. 1613Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior to 8.10). 1614You can add users to this list using 1615 1616 EXPOSED_USER(`usernames') 1617 1618This adds users to class {E}; you could also use 1619 1620 EXPOSED_USER_FILE(`filename') 1621 1622You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names 1623without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central 1624email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have 1625to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using 1626 1627 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `mailer:hostname') 1628 1629The ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to 1630"relay". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps 1631because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be 1632locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using 1633 1634 LOCAL_USER(`usernames') 1635 1636This adds users to class {L}; you could also use 1637 1638 LOCAL_USER_FILE(`filename') 1639 1640If you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a 1641shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use 1642 1643 define(`MAIL_HUB', `mailer:hostname') 1644 1645Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY 1646and MAIL_HUB _AND_ you have FEATURE(`stickyhost'), unqualified names will 1647be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. 1648Note: there is a (long standing) bug which keeps this combination from 1649working for addresses of the form user+detail. 1650Names in class {L} will be delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or 1651.forward files for them. 1652 1653For example, if you are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU and you have 1654FEATURE(`stickyhost'), the following combinations of settings will have the 1655indicated effects: 1656 1657email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1658 1659LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally) 1660mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1661 1662MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1663mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU (aliasing done) (aliasing done) 1664 1665Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 1666MAIL_HUB set as above (no local aliasing) (aliasing done) 1667 1668If you do not have FEATURE(`stickyhost') set, then LOCAL_RELAY and 1669MAIL_HUB act identically, with MAIL_HUB taking precedence. 1670 1671If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define 1672SMART_HOST as well. Briefly: 1673 1674 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualified names (e.g., "eric"). 1675 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the 1676 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU"). 1677 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts or 1678 bracketed addresses (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU" 1679 or "eric@[127.0.0.1]"). 1680 1681However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, 1682DECNET_RELAY, and FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you 1683really want absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will 1684need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a 1685minimal config file that does this. 1686 1687For duplicate suppression to work properly, the host name is best 1688specified with a terminal dot: 1689 1690 define(`MAIL_HUB', `host.domain.') 1691 note the trailing dot ---^ 1692 1693 1694+-------------------------------------------+ 1695| USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES | 1696+-------------------------------------------+ 1697 1698LDAP can be used for aliases, maps, and classes by either specifying your 1699own LDAP map specification or using the built-in default LDAP map 1700specification. The built-in default specifications all provide lookups 1701which match against either the machine's fully qualified hostname (${j}) or 1702a "cluster". The cluster allows you to share LDAP entries among a large 1703number of machines without having to enter each of the machine names into 1704each LDAP entry. To set the LDAP cluster name to use for a particular 1705machine or set of machines, set the confLDAP_CLUSTER m4 variable to a 1706unique name. For example: 1707 1708 define(`confLDAP_CLUSTER', `Servers') 1709 1710Here, the word `Servers' will be the cluster name. As an example, assume 1711that smtp.sendmail.org, etrn.sendmail.org, and mx.sendmail.org all belong 1712to the Servers cluster. 1713 1714Some of the LDAP LDIF examples below show use of the Servers cluster. 1715Every entry must have either a sendmailMTAHost or sendmailMTACluster 1716attribute or it will be ignored. Be careful as mixing clusters and 1717individual host records can have surprising results (see the CAUTION 1718sections below). 1719 1720See the file cf/sendmail.schema for the actual LDAP schemas. Note that 1721this schema (and therefore the lookups and examples below) is experimental 1722at this point as it has had little public review. Therefore, it may change 1723in future versions. Feedback via sendmail-YYYY@support.sendmail.org is 1724encouraged (replace YYYY with the current year, e.g., 2005). 1725 1726------- 1727Aliases 1728------- 1729 1730The ALIAS_FILE (O AliasFile) option can be set to use LDAP for alias 1731lookups. To use the default schema, simply use: 1732 1733 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:') 1734 1735By doing so, you will use the default schema which expands to a map 1736declared as follows: 1737 1738 ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAAliasObject) 1739 (sendmailMTAAliasGrouping=aliases) 1740 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 1741 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 1742 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 1743 -v sendmailMTAAliasValue,sendmailMTAAliasSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAAliasObject,sendmailMTAAliasURL:URL:sendmailMTAAliasObject 1744 1745 1746NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 1747used when the binary expands the `ldap:' token as the AliasFile option is 1748not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 1749 1750Example LDAP LDIF entries might be: 1751 1752 dn: sendmailMTAKey=sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1753 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1754 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 1755 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 1756 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 1757 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 1758 sendmailMTAKey: sendmail-list 1759 sendmailMTAAliasValue: ca@example.org 1760 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 1761 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro@example.com 1762 1763 dn: sendmailMTAKey=owner-sendmail-list, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1764 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1765 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 1766 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 1767 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 1768 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 1769 sendmailMTAKey: owner-sendmail-list 1770 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 1771 1772 dn: sendmailMTAKey=postmaster, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1773 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1774 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 1775 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 1776 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 1777 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 1778 sendmailMTAKey: postmaster 1779 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 1780 1781Here, the aliases sendmail-list and owner-sendmail-list will be available 1782only on etrn.sendmail.org but the postmaster alias will be available on 1783every machine in the Servers cluster (including etrn.sendmail.org). 1784 1785CAUTION: aliases are additive so that entries like these: 1786 1787 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bob, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1788 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1789 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 1790 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 1791 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 1792 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 1793 sendmailMTAKey: bob 1794 sendmailMTAAliasValue: eric 1795 1796 dn: sendmailMTAKey=bobetrn, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1797 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1798 objectClass: sendmailMTAAlias 1799 objectClass: sendmailMTAAliasObject 1800 sendmailMTAAliasGrouping: aliases 1801 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 1802 sendmailMTAKey: bob 1803 sendmailMTAAliasValue: gshapiro 1804 1805would mean that on all of the hosts in the cluster, mail to bob would go to 1806eric EXCEPT on etrn.sendmail.org in which case it would go to BOTH eric and 1807gshapiro. 1808 1809If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your aliases, you can 1810specify the map parameters when setting ALIAS_FILE. For example: 1811 1812 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `ldap:-k (&(objectClass=mailGroup)(mail=%0)) -v mgrpRFC822MailMember') 1813 1814---- 1815Maps 1816---- 1817 1818FEATURE()'s which take an optional map definition argument (e.g., access, 1819mailertable, virtusertable, etc.) can instead take the special keyword 1820`LDAP', e.g.: 1821 1822 FEATURE(`access_db', `LDAP') 1823 FEATURE(`virtusertable', `LDAP') 1824 1825When this keyword is given, that map will use LDAP lookups consisting of 1826the objectClass sendmailMTAClassObject, the attribute sendmailMTAMapName 1827with the map name, a search attribute of sendmailMTAKey, and the value 1828attribute sendmailMTAMapValue. 1829 1830The values for sendmailMTAMapName are: 1831 1832 FEATURE() sendmailMTAMapName 1833 --------- ------------------ 1834 access_db access 1835 authinfo authinfo 1836 bitdomain bitdomain 1837 domaintable domain 1838 genericstable generics 1839 mailertable mailer 1840 uucpdomain uucpdomain 1841 virtusertable virtuser 1842 1843For example, FEATURE(`mailertable', `LDAP') would use the map definition: 1844 1845 Kmailertable ldap -k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAMapObject) 1846 (sendmailMTAMapName=mailer) 1847 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 1848 (sendmailMTAHost=$j)) 1849 (sendmailMTAKey=%0)) 1850 -1 -v sendmailMTAMapValue,sendmailMTAMapSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAMapObject,sendmailMTAMapURL:URL:sendmailMTAMapObject 1851 1852An example LDAP LDIF entry using this map might be: 1853 1854 dn: sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1855 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1856 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 1857 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 1858 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 1859 1860 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1861 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1862 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 1863 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 1864 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 1865 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 1866 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 1867 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[smtp.example.com] 1868 1869CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 1870specific record such as: 1871 1872 dn: sendmailMTAKey=example.com@etrn, sendmailMTAMapName=mailer, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1873 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1874 objectClass: sendmailMTAMap 1875 objectClass: sendmailMTAMapObject 1876 sendmailMTAMapName: mailer 1877 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 1878 sendmailMTAKey: example.com 1879 sendmailMTAMapValue: relay:[mx.example.com] 1880 1881then these entries will give unexpected results. When the lookup is done 1882on etrn.sendmail.org, the effect is that there is *NO* match at all as maps 1883require a single match. Since the host etrn.sendmail.org is also in the 1884Servers cluster, LDAP would return two answers for the example.com map key 1885in which case sendmail would treat this as no match at all. 1886 1887If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your maps, you can 1888specify the map parameters when using the FEATURE(). For example: 1889 1890 FEATURE(`access_db', `ldap:-1 -k (&(objectClass=mapDatabase)(key=%0)) -v value') 1891 1892------- 1893Classes 1894------- 1895 1896Normally, classes can be filled via files or programs. As of 8.12, they 1897can also be filled via map lookups using a new syntax: 1898 1899 F{ClassName}mapkey@mapclass:mapspec 1900 1901mapkey is optional and if not provided the map key will be empty. This can 1902be used with LDAP to read classes from LDAP. Note that the lookup is only 1903done when sendmail is initially started. Use the special value `@LDAP' to 1904use the default LDAP schema. For example: 1905 1906 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(`@LDAP') 1907 1908would put all of the attribute sendmailMTAClassValue values of LDAP records 1909with objectClass sendmailMTAClass and an attribute sendmailMTAClassName of 1910'R' into class $={R}. In other words, it is equivalent to the LDAP map 1911specification: 1912 1913 F{R}@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=sendmailMTAClass) 1914 (sendmailMTAClassName=R) 1915 (|(sendmailMTACluster=${sendmailMTACluster}) 1916 (sendmailMTAHost=$j))) 1917 -v sendmailMTAClassValue,sendmailMTAClassSearch:FILTER:sendmailMTAClass,sendmailMTAClassURL:URL:sendmailMTAClass 1918 1919NOTE: The macros shown above ${sendmailMTACluster} and $j are not actually 1920used when the binary expands the `@LDAP' token as class declarations are 1921not actually macro-expanded when read from the sendmail.cf file. 1922 1923This can be used with class related commands such as RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE(), 1924MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(), etc: 1925 1926 Command sendmailMTAClassName 1927 ------- -------------------- 1928 CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE() Canonify 1929 EXPOSED_USER_FILE() E 1930 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE() G 1931 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN_FILE() LDAPRoute 1932 LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE() LDAPRouteEquiv 1933 LOCAL_USER_FILE() L 1934 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE() M 1935 MASQUERADE_EXCEPTION_FILE() N 1936 RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() R 1937 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE() VirtHost 1938 1939You can also add your own as any 'F'ile class of the form: 1940 1941 F{ClassName}@LDAP 1942 ^^^^^^^^^ 1943will use "ClassName" for the sendmailMTAClassName. 1944 1945An example LDAP LDIF entry would look like: 1946 1947 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1948 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1949 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 1950 sendmailMTACluster: Servers 1951 sendmailMTAClassName: R 1952 sendmailMTAClassValue: sendmail.org 1953 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 1954 sendmailMTAClassValue: 10.56.23 1955 1956CAUTION: If your LDAP database contains the record above and *ALSO* a host 1957specific record such as: 1958 1959 dn: sendmailMTAClassName=R@etrn.sendmail.org, dc=sendmail, dc=org 1960 objectClass: sendmailMTA 1961 objectClass: sendmailMTAClass 1962 sendmailMTAHost: etrn.sendmail.org 1963 sendmailMTAClassName: R 1964 sendmailMTAClassValue: example.com 1965 1966the result will be similar to the aliases caution above. When the lookup 1967is done on etrn.sendmail.org, $={R} would contain all of the entries (from 1968both the cluster match and the host match). In other words, the effective 1969is additive. 1970 1971If you prefer not to use the default LDAP schema for your classes, you can 1972specify the map parameters when using the class command. For example: 1973 1974 VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE(`@ldap:-k (&(objectClass=virtHosts)(host=*)) -v host') 1975 1976Remember, macros can not be used in a class declaration as the binary does 1977not expand them. 1978 1979 1980+--------------+ 1981| LDAP ROUTING | 1982+--------------+ 1983 1984FEATURE(`ldap_routing') can be used to implement the IETF Internet Draft 1985LDAP Schema for Intranet Mail Routing 1986(draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-01). This feature enables 1987LDAP-based rerouting of a particular address to either a different host 1988or a different address. The LDAP lookup is first attempted on the full 1989address (e.g., user@example.com) and then on the domain portion 1990(e.g., @example.com). Be sure to setup your domain for LDAP routing using 1991LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(), e.g.: 1992 1993 LDAPROUTE_DOMAIN(`example.com') 1994 1995Additionally, you can specify equivalent domains for LDAP routing using 1996LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT() and LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT_FILE(). 'Equivalent' 1997hostnames are mapped to $M (the masqueraded hostname for the server) before 1998the LDAP query. For example, if the mail is addressed to 1999user@host1.example.com, normally the LDAP lookup would only be done for 2000'user@host1.example.com' and '@host1.example.com'. However, if 2001LDAPROUTE_EQUIVALENT(`host1.example.com') is used, the lookups would also be 2002done on 'user@example.com' and '@example.com' after attempting the 2003host1.example.com lookups. 2004 2005By default, the feature will use the schemas as specified in the draft 2006and will not reject addresses not found by the LDAP lookup. However, 2007this behavior can be changed by giving additional arguments to the FEATURE() 2008command: 2009 2010 FEATURE(`ldap_routing', <mailHost>, <mailRoutingAddress>, <bounce>, 2011 <detail>, <nodomain>, <tempfail>) 2012 2013where <mailHost> is a map definition describing how to lookup an alternative 2014mail host for a particular address; <mailRoutingAddress> is a map definition 2015describing how to lookup an alternative address for a particular address; 2016the <bounce> argument, if present and not the word "passthru", dictates 2017that mail should be bounced if neither a mailHost nor mailRoutingAddress 2018is found, if set to "sendertoo", the sender will be rejected if not 2019found in LDAP; and <detail> indicates what actions to take if the address 2020contains +detail information -- `strip' tries the lookup with the +detail 2021and if no matches are found, strips the +detail and tries the lookup again; 2022`preserve', does the same as `strip' but if a mailRoutingAddress match is 2023found, the +detail information is copied to the new address; the <nodomain> 2024argument, if present, will prevent the @domain lookup if the full 2025address is not found in LDAP; the <tempfail> argument, if set to 2026"tempfail", instructs the rules to give an SMTP 4XX temporary 2027error if the LDAP server gives the MTA a temporary failure, or if set to 2028"queue" (the default), the MTA will locally queue the mail. 2029 2030The default <mailHost> map definition is: 2031 2032 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailHost -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2033 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2034 2035The default <mailRoutingAddress> map definition is: 2036 2037 ldap -1 -T<TMPF> -v mailRoutingAddress 2038 -k (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient) 2039 (mailLocalAddress=%0)) 2040 2041Note that neither includes the LDAP server hostname (-h server) or base DN 2042(-b o=org,c=COUNTRY), both necessary for LDAP queries. It is presumed that 2043your .mc file contains a setting for the confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC option with 2044these settings. If this is not the case, the map definitions should be 2045changed as described above. The "-T<TMPF>" is required in any user 2046specified map definition to catch temporary errors. 2047 2048The following possibilities exist as a result of an LDAP lookup on an 2049address: 2050 2051 mailHost is mailRoutingAddress is Results in 2052 ----------- --------------------- ---------- 2053 set to a set mail delivered to 2054 "local" host mailRoutingAddress 2055 2056 set to a not set delivered to 2057 "local" host original address 2058 2059 set to a set mailRoutingAddress 2060 remote host relayed to mailHost 2061 2062 set to a not set original address 2063 remote host relayed to mailHost 2064 2065 not set set mail delivered to 2066 mailRoutingAddress 2067 2068 not set not set delivered to 2069 original address *OR* 2070 bounced as unknown user 2071 2072The term "local" host above means the host specified is in class {w}. If 2073the result would mean sending the mail to a different host, that host is 2074looked up in the mailertable before delivery. 2075 2076Note that the last case depends on whether the third argument is given 2077to the FEATURE() command. The default is to deliver the message to the 2078original address. 2079 2080The LDAP entries should be set up with an objectClass of 2081inetLocalMailRecipient and the address be listed in a mailLocalAddress 2082attribute. If present, there must be only one mailHost attribute and it 2083must contain a fully qualified host name as its value. Similarly, if 2084present, there must be only one mailRoutingAddress attribute and it must 2085contain an RFC 822 compliant address. Some example LDAP records (in LDIF 2086format): 2087 2088 dn: uid=tom, o=example.com, c=US 2089 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2090 mailLocalAddress: tom@example.com 2091 mailRoutingAddress: thomas@mailhost.example.com 2092 2093This would deliver mail for tom@example.com to thomas@mailhost.example.com. 2094 2095 dn: uid=dick, o=example.com, c=US 2096 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2097 mailLocalAddress: dick@example.com 2098 mailHost: eng.example.com 2099 2100This would relay mail for dick@example.com to the same address but redirect 2101the mail to MX records listed for the host eng.example.com (unless the 2102mailertable overrides). 2103 2104 dn: uid=harry, o=example.com, c=US 2105 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2106 mailLocalAddress: harry@example.com 2107 mailHost: mktmail.example.com 2108 mailRoutingAddress: harry@mkt.example.com 2109 2110This would relay mail for harry@example.com to the MX records listed for 2111the host mktmail.example.com using the new address harry@mkt.example.com 2112when talking to that host. 2113 2114 dn: uid=virtual.example.com, o=example.com, c=US 2115 objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient 2116 mailLocalAddress: @virtual.example.com 2117 mailHost: server.example.com 2118 mailRoutingAddress: virtual@example.com 2119 2120This would send all mail destined for any username @virtual.example.com to 2121the machine server.example.com's MX servers and deliver to the address 2122virtual@example.com on that relay machine. 2123 2124 2125+---------------------------------+ 2126| ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL | 2127+---------------------------------+ 2128 2129The primary anti-spam features available in sendmail are: 2130 2131* Relaying is denied by default. 2132* Better checking on sender information. 2133* Access database. 2134* Header checks. 2135 2136Relaying (transmission of messages from a site outside your host (class 2137{w}) to another site except yours) is denied by default. Note that this 2138changed in sendmail 8.9; previous versions allowed relaying by default. 2139If you really want to revert to the old behaviour, you will need to use 2140FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay'). You can allow certain domains to relay 2141through your server by adding their domain name or IP address to class 2142{R} using RELAY_DOMAIN() and RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE() or via the access database 2143(described below). Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2144The file consists (like any other file based class) of entries listed on 2145separate lines, e.g., 2146 2147 sendmail.org 2148 128.32 2149 IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 2150 IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 2151 host.mydomain.com 2152 [UNIX:localhost] 2153 2154Notice: the last entry allows relaying for connections via a UNIX 2155socket to the MTA/MSP. This might be necessary if your configuration 2156doesn't allow relaying by other means in that case, e.g., by having 2157localhost.$m in class {R} (make sure $m is not just a top level 2158domain). 2159 2160If you use 2161 2162 FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') 2163 2164then any host in any of your local domains (that is, class {m}) 2165will be relayed (that is, you will accept mail either to or from any 2166host in your domain). 2167 2168You can also allow relaying based on the MX records of the host 2169portion of an incoming recipient address by using 2170 2171 FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') 2172 2173For example, if your server receives a recipient of user@domain.com 2174and domain.com lists your server in its MX records, the mail will be 2175accepted for relay to domain.com. This feature may cause problems 2176if MX lookups for the recipient domain are slow or time out. In that 2177case, mail will be temporarily rejected. It is usually better to 2178maintain a list of hosts/domains for which the server acts as relay. 2179Note also that this feature will stop spammers from using your host 2180to relay spam but it will not stop outsiders from using your server 2181as a relay for their site (that is, they set up an MX record pointing 2182to your mail server, and you will relay mail addressed to them 2183without any prior arrangement). Along the same lines, 2184 2185 FEATURE(`relay_local_from') 2186 2187will allow relaying if the sender specifies a return path (i.e. 2188MAIL FROM:<user@domain>) domain which is a local domain. This is a 2189dangerous feature as it will allow spammers to spam using your mail 2190server by simply specifying a return address of user@your.domain.com. 2191It should not be used unless absolutely necessary. 2192A slightly better solution is 2193 2194 FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') 2195 2196which allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in the 2197access map. If an optional argument `domain' (this is the literal 2198word `domain', not a placeholder) is given, the domain portion of 2199the mail sender is also checked to allowing relaying. This option 2200only works together with the tag From: for the LHS of the access 2201map entries. This feature allows spammers to abuse your mail server 2202by specifying a return address that you enabled in your access file. 2203This may be harder to figure out for spammers, but it should not 2204be used unless necessary. Instead use STARTTLS to 2205allow relaying for roaming users. 2206 2207 2208If source routing is used in the recipient address (e.g., 2209RCPT TO:<user%site.com@othersite.com>), sendmail will check 2210user@site.com for relaying if othersite.com is an allowed relay host 2211in either class {R}, class {m} if FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain') is used, 2212or the access database if FEATURE(`access_db') is used. To prevent 2213the address from being stripped down, use: 2214 2215 FEATURE(`loose_relay_check') 2216 2217If you think you need to use this feature, you probably do not. This 2218should only be used for sites which have no control over the addresses 2219that they provide a gateway for. Use this FEATURE with caution as it 2220can allow spammers to relay through your server if not setup properly. 2221 2222NOTICE: It is possible to relay mail through a system which the anti-relay 2223rules do not prevent: the case of a system that does use FEATURE(`nouucp', 2224`nospecial') (system A) and relays local messages to a mail hub (e.g., via 2225LOCAL_RELAY or LUSER_RELAY) (system B). If system B doesn't use 2226FEATURE(`nouucp') at all, addresses of the form 2227<example.net!user@local.host> would be relayed to <user@example.net>. 2228System A doesn't recognize `!' as an address separator and therefore 2229forwards it to the mail hub which in turns relays it because it came from 2230a trusted local host. So if a mailserver allows UUCP (bang-format) 2231addresses, all systems from which it allows relaying should do the same 2232or reject those addresses. 2233 2234As of 8.9, sendmail will refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter has 2235an unresolvable domain (i.e., one that DNS, your local name service, 2236or special case rules in ruleset 3 cannot locate). This also applies 2237to addresses that use domain literals, e.g., <user@[1.2.3.4]>, if the 2238IP address can't be mapped to a host name. If you want to continue 2239to accept such domains, e.g., because you are inside a firewall that 2240has only a limited view of the Internet host name space (note that you 2241will not be able to return mail to them unless you have some "smart 2242host" forwarder), use 2243 2244 FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') 2245 2246Alternatively, you can allow specific addresses by adding them to 2247the access map, e.g., 2248 2249 From:unresolvable.domain OK 2250 From:[1.2.3.4] OK 2251 From:[1.2.4] OK 2252 2253Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily) 2254rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted 2255(which is discouraged) then you can use 2256 2257 LOCAL_CONFIG 2258 C{ResOk}TEMP 2259 2260sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not 2261fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you 2262want to continue to accept such senders, use 2263 2264 FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders') 2265 2266Setting the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'u' overrides the default behavior, 2267i.e., unqualified addresses are accepted even without this FEATURE. If 2268this FEATURE is not used, the DaemonPortOptions modifier 'f' can be used 2269to enforce fully qualified domain names. 2270 2271An ``access'' database can be created to accept or reject mail from 2272selected domains. For example, you may choose to reject all mail 2273originating from known spammers. To enable such a database, use 2274 2275 FEATURE(`access_db') 2276 2277Notice: the access database is applied to the envelope addresses 2278and the connection information, not to the header. 2279 2280The FEATURE macro can accept as second parameter the key file 2281definition for the database; for example 2282 2283 FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access_map') 2284 2285Notice: If a second argument is specified it must contain the option 2286`-T<TMPF>' as shown above. The optional parameters may be 2287 2288 `skip' enables SKIP as value part (see below). 2289 `lookupdotdomain' another way to enable the feature of the 2290 same name (see above). 2291 `relaytofulladdress' enable entries of the form 2292 To:user@example.com RELAY 2293 to allow relaying to just a specific 2294 e-mail address instead of an entire domain. 2295 2296Remember, since /etc/mail/access is a database, after creating the text 2297file as described below, you must use makemap to create the database 2298map. For example: 2299 2300 makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access 2301 2302The table itself uses e-mail addresses, domain names, and network 2303numbers as keys. Note that IPv6 addresses must be prefaced with "IPv6:". 2304For example, 2305 2306 From:spammer@aol.com REJECT 2307 From:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2308 Connect:cyberspammer.com REJECT 2309 Connect:TLD REJECT 2310 Connect:192.168.212 REJECT 2311 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:02c7 RELAY 2312 Connect:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 REJECT 2313 2314would refuse mail from spammer@aol.com, any user from cyberspammer.com 2315(or any host within the cyberspammer.com domain), any host in the entire 2316top level domain TLD, 192.168.212.* network, and the IPv6 address 23172002:c0a8:51d2::23f4. It would allow relay for the IPv6 network 23182002:c0a8:02c7::/48. 2319 2320Entries in the access map should be tagged according to their type. 2321Three tags are available: 2322 2323 Connect: connection information (${client_addr}, ${client_name}) 2324 From: envelope sender 2325 To: envelope recipient 2326 2327Notice: untagged entries are deprecated. 2328 2329If the required item is looked up in a map, it will be tried first 2330with the corresponding tag in front, then (as fallback to enable 2331backward compatibility) without any tag, unless the specific feature 2332requires a tag. For example, 2333 2334 From:spammer@some.dom REJECT 2335 To:friend.domain RELAY 2336 Connect:friend.domain OK 2337 Connect:from.domain RELAY 2338 From:good@another.dom OK 2339 From:another.dom REJECT 2340 2341This would deny mails from spammer@some.dom but you could still 2342send mail to that address even if FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') 2343is enabled. Your system will allow relaying to friend.domain, but 2344not from it (unless enabled by other means). Connections from that 2345domain will be allowed even if it ends up in one of the DNS based 2346rejection lists. Relaying is enabled from from.domain but not to 2347it (since relaying is based on the connection information for 2348outgoing relaying, the tag Connect: must be used; for incoming 2349relaying, which is based on the recipient address, To: must be 2350used). The last two entries allow mails from good@another.dom but 2351reject mail from all other addresses with another.dom as domain 2352part. 2353 2354 2355The value part of the map can contain: 2356 2357 OK Accept mail even if other rules in the running 2358 ruleset would reject it, for example, if the domain 2359 name is unresolvable. "Accept" does not mean 2360 "relay", but at most acceptance for local 2361 recipients. That is, OK allows less than RELAY. 2362 RELAY Accept mail addressed to the indicated domain 2363 (or address if `relaytofulladdress' is set) or 2364 received from the indicated domain for relaying 2365 through your SMTP server. RELAY also serves as 2366 an implicit OK for the other checks. 2367 REJECT Reject the sender or recipient with a general 2368 purpose message. 2369 DISCARD Discard the message completely using the 2370 $#discard mailer. If it is used in check_compat, 2371 it affects only the designated recipient, not 2372 the whole message as it does in all other cases. 2373 This should only be used if really necessary. 2374 SKIP This can only be used for host/domain names 2375 and IP addresses/nets. It will abort the current 2376 search for this entry without accepting or rejecting 2377 it but causing the default action. 2378 ### any text where ### is an RFC 821 compliant error code and 2379 "any text" is a message to return for the command. 2380 The entire string should be quoted to avoid 2381 surprises: 2382 2383 "### any text" 2384 2385 Otherwise sendmail formats the text as email 2386 addresses, e.g., it may remove spaces. 2387 This type is deprecated, use one of the two 2388 ERROR: entries below instead. 2389 ERROR:### any text 2390 as above, but useful to mark error messages as such. 2391 If quotes need to be used to avoid modifications 2392 (see above), they should be placed like this: 2393 2394 ERROR:"### any text" 2395 2396 ERROR:D.S.N:### any text 2397 where D.S.N is an RFC 1893 compliant error code 2398 and the rest as above. If quotes need to be used 2399 to avoid modifications, they should be placed 2400 like this: 2401 2402 ERROR:D.S.N:"### any text" 2403 2404 QUARANTINE:any text 2405 Quarantine the message using the given text as the 2406 quarantining reason. 2407 2408For example: 2409 2410 From:cyberspammer.com ERROR:"550 We don't accept mail from spammers" 2411 From:okay.cyberspammer.com OK 2412 Connect:sendmail.org RELAY 2413 To:sendmail.org RELAY 2414 Connect:128.32 RELAY 2415 Connect:128.32.2 SKIP 2416 Connect:IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7 RELAY 2417 Connect:suspicious.example.com QUARANTINE:Mail from suspicious host 2418 Connect:[127.0.0.3] OK 2419 Connect:[IPv6:1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8] OK 2420 2421would accept mail from okay.cyberspammer.com, but would reject mail 2422from all other hosts at cyberspammer.com with the indicated message. 2423It would allow relaying mail from and to any hosts in the sendmail.org 2424domain, and allow relaying from the IPv6 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:* network 2425and from the 128.32.*.* network except for the 128.32.2.* network, 2426which shows how SKIP is useful to exempt subnets/subdomains. The 2427last two entries are for checks against ${client_name} if the IP 2428address doesn't resolve to a hostname (or is considered as "may be 2429forged"). That is, using square brackets means these are host 2430names, not network numbers. 2431 2432Warning: if you change the RFC 821 compliant error code from the default 2433value of 550, then you should probably also change the RFC 1893 compliant 2434error code to match it. For example, if you use 2435 2436 To:user@example.com ERROR:450 mailbox full 2437 2438the error returned would be "450 5.0.0 mailbox full" which is wrong. 2439Use "ERROR:4.2.2:450 mailbox full" instead. 2440 2441Note, UUCP users may need to add hostname.UUCP to the access database 2442or class {R}. 2443 2444If you also use: 2445 2446 FEATURE(`relay_hosts_only') 2447 2448then the above example will allow relaying for sendmail.org, but not 2449hosts within the sendmail.org domain. Note that this will also require 2450hosts listed in class {R} to be fully qualified host names. 2451 2452You can also use the access database to block sender addresses based on 2453the username portion of the address. For example: 2454 2455 From:FREE.STEALTH.MAILER@ ERROR:550 Spam not accepted 2456 2457Note that you must include the @ after the username to signify that 2458this database entry is for checking only the username portion of the 2459sender address. 2460 2461If you use: 2462 2463 FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') 2464 2465then you can add entries to the map for local users, hosts in your 2466domains, or addresses in your domain which should not receive mail: 2467 2468 To:badlocaluser@ ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for badlocaluser 2469 To:host.my.TLD ERROR:550 That host does not accept mail 2470 To:user@other.my.TLD ERROR:550 Mailbox disabled for this recipient 2471 2472This would prevent a recipient of badlocaluser in any of the local 2473domains (class {w}), any user at host.my.TLD, and the single address 2474user@other.my.TLD from receiving mail. Please note: a local username 2475must be now tagged with an @ (this is consistent with the check of 2476the sender address, and hence it is possible to distinguish between 2477hostnames and usernames). Enabling this feature will keep you from 2478sending mails to all addresses that have an error message or REJECT 2479as value part in the access map. Taking the example from above: 2480 2481 spammer@aol.com REJECT 2482 cyberspammer.com REJECT 2483 2484Mail can't be sent to spammer@aol.com or anyone at cyberspammer.com. 2485That's why tagged entries should be used. 2486 2487There are several DNS based blacklists which can be found by 2488querying a search engine. These are databases of spammers 2489maintained in DNS. To use such a database, specify 2490 2491 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com') 2492 2493This will cause sendmail to reject mail from any site listed in the 2494DNS based blacklist. You must select a DNS based blacklist domain 2495to check by specifying an argument to the FEATURE. The default 2496error message is 2497 2498 Rejected: IP-ADDRESS listed at SERVER 2499 2500where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2501information. A second argument can be used to specify a different 2502text or action. For example, 2503 2504 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `quarantine') 2505 2506would quarantine the message if the client IP address is listed 2507at `dnsbl.example.com'. 2508 2509By default, temporary lookup failures are ignored 2510and hence cause the connection not to be rejected by the DNS based 2511rejection list. This behavior can be changed by specifying a third 2512argument, which must be either `t' or a full error message. For 2513example: 2514 2515 FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.example.com', `', 2516 `"451 Temporary lookup failure for " $&{client_addr} " in dnsbl.example.com"') 2517 2518If `t' is used, the error message is: 2519 2520 451 Temporary lookup failure of IP-ADDRESS at SERVER 2521 2522where IP-ADDRESS and SERVER are replaced by the appropriate 2523information. 2524 2525This FEATURE can be included several times to query different 2526DNS based rejection lists. 2527 2528Notice: to avoid checking your own local domains against those 2529blacklists, use the access_db feature and add: 2530 2531 Connect:10.1 OK 2532 Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY 2533 2534to the access map, where 10.1 is your local network. You may 2535want to use "RELAY" instead of "OK" to allow also relaying 2536instead of just disabling the DNS lookups in the blacklists. 2537 2538 2539The features described above make use of the check_relay, check_mail, 2540and check_rcpt rulesets. Note that check_relay checks the SMTP 2541client hostname and IP address when the connection is made to your 2542server. It does not check if a mail message is being relayed to 2543another server. That check is done in check_rcpt. If you wish to 2544include your own checks, you can put your checks in the rulesets 2545Local_check_relay, Local_check_mail, and Local_check_rcpt. For 2546example if you wanted to block senders with all numeric usernames 2547(i.e. 2312343@bigisp.com), you would use Local_check_mail and the 2548regex map: 2549 2550 LOCAL_CONFIG 2551 Kallnumbers regex -a@MATCH ^[0-9]+$ 2552 2553 LOCAL_RULESETS 2554 SLocal_check_mail 2555 # check address against various regex checks 2556 R$* $: $>Parse0 $>3 $1 2557 R$+ < @ bigisp.com. > $* $: $(allnumbers $1 $) 2558 R@MATCH $#error $: 553 Header Error 2559 2560These rules are called with the original arguments of the corresponding 2561check_* ruleset. If the local ruleset returns $#OK, no further checking 2562is done by the features described above and the mail is accepted. If 2563the local ruleset resolves to a mailer (such as $#error or $#discard), 2564the appropriate action is taken. Other results starting with $# are 2565interpreted by sendmail and may lead to unspecified behavior. Note: do 2566NOT create a mailer with the name OK. Return values that do not start 2567with $# are ignored, i.e., normal processing continues. 2568 2569Delay all checks 2570---------------- 2571 2572By using FEATURE(`delay_checks') the rulesets check_mail and check_relay 2573will not be called when a client connects or issues a MAIL command, 2574respectively. Instead, those rulesets will be called by the check_rcpt 2575ruleset; they will be skipped if a sender has been authenticated using 2576a "trusted" mechanism, i.e., one that is defined via TRUST_AUTH_MECH(). 2577If check_mail returns an error then the RCPT TO command will be rejected 2578with that error. If it returns some other result starting with $# then 2579check_relay will be skipped. If the sender address (or a part of it) is 2580listed in the access map and it has a RHS of OK or RELAY, then check_relay 2581will be skipped. This has an interesting side effect: if your domain is 2582my.domain and you have 2583 2584 my.domain RELAY 2585 2586in the access map, then any e-mail with a sender address of 2587<user@my.domain> will not be rejected by check_relay even though 2588it would match the hostname or IP address. This allows spammers 2589to get around DNS based blacklist by faking the sender address. To 2590avoid this problem you have to use tagged entries: 2591 2592 To:my.domain RELAY 2593 Connect:my.domain RELAY 2594 2595if you need those entries at all (class {R} may take care of them). 2596 2597FEATURE(`delay_checks') can take an optional argument: 2598 2599 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend') 2600 enables spamfriend test 2601 FEATURE(`delay_checks', `hater') 2602 enables spamhater test 2603 2604If such an argument is given, the recipient will be looked up in the 2605access map (using the tag Spam:). If the argument is `friend', then 2606the default behavior is to apply the other rulesets and make a SPAM 2607friend the exception. The rulesets check_mail and check_relay will be 2608skipped only if the recipient address is found and has RHS FRIEND. If 2609the argument is `hater', then the default behavior is to skip the rulesets 2610check_mail and check_relay and make a SPAM hater the exception. The 2611other two rulesets will be applied only if the recipient address is 2612found and has RHS HATER. 2613 2614This allows for simple exceptions from the tests, e.g., by activating 2615the friend option and having 2616 2617 Spam:abuse@ FRIEND 2618 2619in the access map, mail to abuse@localdomain will get through (where 2620"localdomain" is any domain in class {w}). It is also possible to 2621specify a full address or an address with +detail: 2622 2623 Spam:abuse@my.domain FRIEND 2624 Spam:me+abuse@ FRIEND 2625 Spam:spam.domain FRIEND 2626 2627Note: The required tag has been changed in 8.12 from To: to Spam:. 2628This change is incompatible to previous versions. However, you can 2629(for now) simply add the new entries to the access map, the old 2630ones will be ignored. As soon as you removed the old entries from 2631the access map, specify a third parameter (`n') to this feature and 2632the backward compatibility rules will not be in the generated .cf 2633file. 2634 2635Header Checks 2636------------- 2637 2638You can also reject mail on the basis of the contents of headers. 2639This is done by adding a ruleset call to the 'H' header definition command 2640in sendmail.cf. For example, this can be used to check the validity of 2641a Message-ID: header: 2642 2643 LOCAL_CONFIG 2644 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2645 2646 LOCAL_RULESETS 2647 SCheckMessageId 2648 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2649 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2650 2651The alternative format: 2652 2653 HSubject: $>+CheckSubject 2654 2655that is, $>+ instead of $>, gives the full Subject: header including 2656comments to the ruleset (comments in parentheses () are stripped 2657by default). 2658 2659A default ruleset for headers which don't have a specific ruleset 2660defined for them can be given by: 2661 2662 H*: $>CheckHdr 2663 2664Notice: 26651. All rules act on tokens as explained in doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 2666That may cause problems with simple header checks due to the 2667tokenization. It might be simpler to use a regex map and apply it 2668to $&{currHeader}. 26692. There are no default rulesets coming with this distribution of 2670sendmail. You can write your own or search the WWW for examples. 26713. When using a default ruleset for headers, the name of the header 2672currently being checked can be found in the $&{hdr_name} macro. 2673 2674After all of the headers are read, the check_eoh ruleset will be called for 2675any final header-related checks. The ruleset is called with the number of 2676headers and the size of all of the headers in bytes separated by $|. One 2677example usage is to reject messages which do not have a Message-Id: 2678header. However, the Message-Id: header is *NOT* a required header and is 2679not a guaranteed spam indicator. This ruleset is an example and should 2680probably not be used in production. 2681 2682 LOCAL_CONFIG 2683 Kstorage macro 2684 HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId 2685 2686 LOCAL_RULESETS 2687 SCheckMessageId 2688 # Record the presence of the header 2689 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $@ OK $) $1 2690 R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK 2691 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2692 2693 Scheck_eoh 2694 # Check the macro 2695 R$* $: < $&{MessageIdCheck} > 2696 # Clear the macro for the next message 2697 R$* $: $(storage {MessageIdCheck} $) $1 2698 # Has a Message-Id: header 2699 R< $+ > $@ OK 2700 # Allow missing Message-Id: from local mail 2701 R$* $: < $&{client_name} > 2702 R< > $@ OK 2703 R< $=w > $@ OK 2704 # Otherwise, reject the mail 2705 R$* $#error $: 553 Header Error 2706 2707 2708+--------------------+ 2709| CONNECTION CONTROL | 2710+--------------------+ 2711 2712The features ratecontrol and conncontrol allow to establish connection 2713limits per client IP address or net. These features can limit the 2714rate of connections (connections per time unit) or the number of 2715incoming SMTP connections, respectively. If enabled, appropriate 2716rulesets are called at the end of check_relay, i.e., after DNS 2717blacklists and generic access_db operations. The features require 2718FEATURE(`access_db') to be listed earlier in the mc file. 2719 2720Note: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays those connection control checks 2721after a recipient address has been received, hence making these 2722connection control features less useful. To run the checks as early 2723as possible, specify the parameter `nodelay', e.g., 2724 2725 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay') 2726 2727In that case, FEATURE(`delay_checks') has no effect on connection 2728control (and it must be specified earlier in the mc file). 2729 2730An optional second argument `terminate' specifies whether the 2731rulesets should return the error code 421 which will cause 2732sendmail to terminate the session with that error if it is 2733returned from check_relay, i.e., not delayed as explained in 2734the previous paragraph. Example: 2735 2736 FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay', `terminate') 2737 2738 2739+----------+ 2740| STARTTLS | 2741+----------+ 2742 2743In this text, cert will be used as an abbreviation for X.509 certificate, 2744DN (CN) is the distinguished (common) name of a cert, and CA is a 2745certification authority, which signs (issues) certs. 2746 2747For STARTTLS to be offered by sendmail you need to set at least 2748these variables (the file names and paths are just examples): 2749 2750 define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/mail/certs/') 2751 define(`confCACERT', `/etc/mail/certs/CA.cert.pem') 2752 define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/my.cert.pem') 2753 define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/my.key.pem') 2754 2755On systems which do not have the compile flag HASURANDOM set (see 2756sendmail/README) you also must set confRAND_FILE. 2757 2758See doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt} for more information about these options, 2759especially the sections ``Certificates for STARTTLS'' and ``PRNG for 2760STARTTLS''. 2761 2762Macros related to STARTTLS are: 2763 2764${cert_issuer} holds the DN of the CA (the cert issuer). 2765${cert_subject} holds the DN of the cert (called the cert subject). 2766${cn_issuer} holds the CN of the CA (the cert issuer). 2767${cn_subject} holds the CN of the cert (called the cert subject). 2768${tls_version} the TLS/SSL version used for the connection, e.g., TLSv1, 2769 TLSv1/SSLv3, SSLv3, SSLv2. 2770${cipher} the cipher used for the connection, e.g., EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA, 2771 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA, DES-CBC-MD5, DES-CBC3-SHA. 2772${cipher_bits} the keylength (in bits) of the symmetric encryption algorithm 2773 used for the connection. 2774${verify} holds the result of the verification of the presented cert. 2775 Possible values are: 2776 OK verification succeeded. 2777 NO no cert presented. 2778 NOT no cert requested. 2779 FAIL cert presented but could not be verified, 2780 e.g., the cert of the signing CA is missing. 2781 NONE STARTTLS has not been performed. 2782 TEMP temporary error occurred. 2783 PROTOCOL protocol error occurred (SMTP level). 2784 SOFTWARE STARTTLS handshake failed. 2785${server_name} the name of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 2786 connection. 2787${server_addr} the address of the server of the current outgoing SMTP 2788 connection. 2789 2790Relaying 2791-------- 2792 2793SMTP STARTTLS can allow relaying for remote SMTP clients which have 2794successfully authenticated themselves. If the verification of the cert 2795failed (${verify} != OK), relaying is subject to the usual rules. 2796Otherwise the DN of the issuer is looked up in the access map using the 2797tag CERTISSUER. If the resulting value is RELAY, relaying is allowed. 2798If it is SUBJECT, the DN of the cert subject is looked up next in the 2799access map using the tag CERTSUBJECT. If the value is RELAY, relaying 2800is allowed. 2801 2802To make things a bit more flexible (or complicated), the values for 2803${cert_issuer} and ${cert_subject} can be optionally modified by regular 2804expressions defined in the m4 variables _CERT_REGEX_ISSUER_ and 2805_CERT_REGEX_SUBJECT_, respectively. To avoid problems with those macros in 2806rulesets and map lookups, they are modified as follows: each non-printable 2807character and the characters '<', '>', '(', ')', '"', '+', ' ' are replaced 2808by their HEX value with a leading '+'. For example: 2809 2810/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN=Darth Mail (Cert)/Email= 2811darth+cert@endmail.org 2812 2813is encoded as: 2814 2815/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2816Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/Email=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 2817 2818(line breaks have been inserted for readability). 2819 2820The macros which are subject to this encoding are ${cert_subject}, 2821${cert_issuer}, ${cn_subject}, and ${cn_issuer}. 2822 2823Examples: 2824 2825To allow relaying for everyone who can present a cert signed by 2826 2827/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2828Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/Email=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 2829 2830simply use: 2831 2832CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2833Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/Email=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org RELAY 2834 2835To allow relaying only for a subset of machines that have a cert signed by 2836 2837/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2838Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/Email=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org 2839 2840use: 2841 2842CertIssuer:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2843Darth+20Mail+20+28Cert+29/Email=darth+2Bcert@endmail.org SUBJECT 2844CertSubject:/C=US/ST=California/O=endmail.org/OU=private/CN= 2845DeathStar/Email=deathstar@endmail.org RELAY 2846 2847Notes: 2848- line breaks have been inserted after "CN=" for readability, 2849 each tagged entry must be one (long) line in the access map. 2850- if OpenSSL 0.9.7 or newer is used then the "Email=" part of a DN 2851 is replaced by "emailAddress=". 2852 2853Of course it is also possible to write a simple ruleset that allows 2854relaying for everyone who can present a cert that can be verified, e.g., 2855 2856LOCAL_RULESETS 2857SLocal_check_rcpt 2858R$* $: $&{verify} 2859ROK $# OK 2860 2861Allowing Connections 2862-------------------- 2863 2864The rulesets tls_server, tls_client, and tls_rcpt are used to decide whether 2865an SMTP connection is accepted (or should continue). 2866 2867tls_server is called when sendmail acts as client after a STARTTLS command 2868(should) have been issued. The parameter is the value of ${verify}. 2869 2870tls_client is called when sendmail acts as server, after a STARTTLS command 2871has been issued, and from check_mail. The parameter is the value of 2872${verify} and STARTTLS or MAIL, respectively. 2873 2874Both rulesets behave the same. If no access map is in use, the connection 2875will be accepted unless ${verify} is SOFTWARE, in which case the connection 2876is always aborted. For tls_server/tls_client, ${client_name}/${server_name} 2877is looked up in the access map using the tag TLS_Srv/TLS_Clt, which is done 2878with the ruleset LookUpDomain. If no entry is found, ${client_addr} 2879(${server_addr}) is looked up in the access map (same tag, ruleset 2880LookUpAddr). If this doesn't result in an entry either, just the tag is 2881looked up in the access map (included the trailing colon). Notice: 2882requiring that e-mail is sent to a server only encrypted, e.g., via 2883 2884TLS_Srv:secure.domain ENCR:112 2885 2886doesn't necessarily mean that e-mail sent to that domain is encrypted. 2887If the domain has multiple MX servers, e.g., 2888 2889secure.domain. IN MX 10 mail.secure.domain. 2890secure.domain. IN MX 50 mail.other.domain. 2891 2892then mail to user@secure.domain may go unencrypted to mail.other.domain. 2893tls_rcpt can be used to address this problem. 2894 2895tls_rcpt is called before a RCPT TO: command is sent. The parameter is the 2896current recipient. This ruleset is only defined if FEATURE(`access_db') 2897is selected. A recipient address user@domain is looked up in the access 2898map in four formats: TLS_Rcpt:user@domain, TLS_Rcpt:user@, TLS_Rcpt:domain, 2899and TLS_Rcpt:; the first match is taken. 2900 2901The result of the lookups is then used to call the ruleset TLS_connection, 2902which checks the requirement specified by the RHS in the access map against 2903the actual parameters of the current TLS connection, esp. ${verify} and 2904${cipher_bits}. Legal RHSs in the access map are: 2905 2906VERIFY verification must have succeeded 2907VERIFY:bits verification must have succeeded and ${cipher_bits} must 2908 be greater than or equal bits. 2909ENCR:bits ${cipher_bits} must be greater than or equal bits. 2910 2911The RHS can optionally be prefixed by TEMP+ or PERM+ to select a temporary 2912or permanent error. The default is a temporary error code (403 4.7.0) 2913unless the macro TLS_PERM_ERR is set during generation of the .cf file. 2914 2915If a certain level of encryption is required, then it might also be 2916possible that this level is provided by the security layer from a SASL 2917algorithm, e.g., DIGEST-MD5. 2918 2919Furthermore, there can be a list of extensions added. Such a list 2920starts with '+' and the items are separated by '++'. Allowed 2921extensions are: 2922 2923CN:name name must match ${cn_subject} 2924CN ${client_name}/${server_name} must match ${cn_subject} 2925CS:name name must match ${cert_subject} 2926CI:name name must match ${cert_issuer} 2927 2928Example: e-mail sent to secure.example.com should only use an encrypted 2929connection. E-mail received from hosts within the laptop.example.com domain 2930should only be accepted if they have been authenticated. The host which 2931receives e-mail for darth@endmail.org must present a cert that uses the 2932CN smtp.endmail.org. 2933 2934TLS_Srv:secure.example.com ENCR:112 2935TLS_Clt:laptop.example.com PERM+VERIFY:112 2936TLS_Rcpt:darth@endmail.org ENCR:112+CN:smtp.endmail.org 2937 2938 2939Disabling STARTTLS And Setting SMTP Server Features 2940--------------------------------------------------- 2941 2942By default STARTTLS is used whenever possible. However, there are 2943some broken MTAs that don't properly implement STARTTLS. To be able 2944to send to (or receive from) those MTAs, the ruleset try_tls 2945(srv_features) can be used that work together with the access map. 2946Entries for the access map must be tagged with Try_TLS (Srv_Features) 2947and refer to the hostname or IP address of the connecting system. 2948A default case can be specified by using just the tag. For example, 2949the following entries in the access map: 2950 2951 Try_TLS:broken.server NO 2952 Srv_Features:my.domain v 2953 Srv_Features: V 2954 2955will turn off STARTTLS when sending to broken.server (or any host 2956in that domain), and request a client certificate during the TLS 2957handshake only for hosts in my.domain. The valid entries on the RHS 2958for Srv_Features are listed in the Sendmail Installation and 2959Operations Guide. 2960 2961 2962Received: Header 2963---------------- 2964 2965The Received: header reveals whether STARTTLS has been used. It contains an 2966extra line: 2967 2968(version=${tls_version} cipher=${cipher} bits=${cipher_bits} verify=${verify}) 2969 2970 2971+--------------------------------+ 2972| ADDING NEW MAILERS OR RULESETS | 2973+--------------------------------+ 2974 2975Sometimes you may need to add entirely new mailers or rulesets. They 2976should be introduced with the constructs MAILER_DEFINITIONS and 2977LOCAL_RULESETS respectively. For example: 2978 2979 MAILER_DEFINITIONS 2980 Mmymailer, ... 2981 ... 2982 2983 LOCAL_RULESETS 2984 Smyruleset 2985 ... 2986 2987Local additions for the rulesets srv_features, try_tls, tls_rcpt, 2988tls_client, and tls_server can be made using LOCAL_SRV_FEATURES, 2989LOCAL_TRY_TLS, LOCAL_TLS_RCPT, LOCAL_TLS_CLIENT, and LOCAL_TLS_SERVER, 2990respectively. For example, to add a local ruleset that decides 2991whether to try STARTTLS in a sendmail client, use: 2992 2993 LOCAL_TRY_TLS 2994 R... 2995 2996Note: you don't need to add a name for the ruleset, it is implicitly 2997defined by using the appropriate macro. 2998 2999 3000+-------------------------+ 3001| ADDING NEW MAIL FILTERS | 3002+-------------------------+ 3003 3004Sendmail supports mail filters to filter incoming SMTP messages according 3005to the "Sendmail Mail Filter API" documentation. These filters can be 3006configured in your mc file using the two commands: 3007 3008 MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3009 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`name', `equates') 3010 3011The first command, MAIL_FILTER(), simply defines a filter with the given 3012name and equates. For example: 3013 3014 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3015 3016This creates the equivalent sendmail.cf entry: 3017 3018 Xarchive, S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R 3019 3020The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command performs the same actions as MAIL_FILTER 3021but also populates the m4 variable `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' with the name 3022of the filter such that the filter will actually be called by sendmail. 3023 3024For example, the two commands: 3025 3026 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3027 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3028 3029are equivalent to the three commands: 3030 3031 MAIL_FILTER(`archive', `S=local:/var/run/archivesock, F=R') 3032 MAIL_FILTER(`spamcheck', `S=inet:2525@localhost, F=T') 3033 define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `archive, spamcheck') 3034 3035In general, INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() should be used unless you need to define 3036more filters than you want to use for `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS'. 3037 3038Note that setting `confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS' after any INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3039commands will clear the list created by the prior INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() 3040commands. 3041 3042 3043+-------------------------+ 3044| QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS | 3045+-------------------------+ 3046 3047In addition to the queue directory (which is the default queue group 3048called "mqueue"), sendmail can deal with multiple queue groups, which 3049are collections of queue directories with the same behaviour. Queue 3050groups can be defined using the command: 3051 3052 QUEUE_GROUP(`name', `equates') 3053 3054For details about queue groups, please see doc/op/op.{me,ps,txt}. 3055 3056+-------------------------------+ 3057| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS | 3058+-------------------------------+ 3059 3060These configuration files are designed primarily for use by 3061SMTP-based sites. They may not be well tuned for UUCP-only or 3062UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net 3063connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is 3064one hook to handle some special cases. 3065 3066You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax 3067using: 3068 3069 define(`SMART_HOST', `mailer:hostname') 3070 3071In this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that 3072can't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host. 3073 3074If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside 3075world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules. 3076For example: 3077 3078 define(`SMART_HOST', `uucp-new:uunet') 3079 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3080 R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3 3081 3082This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) to be sent 3083via SMTP; anything else will be sent via uucp-new (smart UUCP) to uunet. 3084If you have FEATURE(`nocanonify'), you may need to omit the dots after 3085the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is 3086not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to 3087use: 3088 3089 define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:fire.wall.com') 3090 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 3091 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3 3092 3093That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup; 3094anything else goes through SMART_HOST. 3095 3096You may need to turn off the anti-spam rules in order to accept 3097UUCP mail with FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') and 3098FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'). 3099 3100 3101+-----------+ 3102| WHO AM I? | 3103+-----------+ 3104 3105Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully 3106qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your 3107host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the 3108result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns 3109only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is 3110supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare) 3111cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case 3112you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain 3113name. This is usually done using: 3114 3115 Dmbar.com 3116 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl 3117 3118 3119+-----------------------------------+ 3120| ACCEPTING MAIL FOR MULTIPLE NAMES | 3121+-----------------------------------+ 3122 3123If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment 3124class {w}. This is a list of names by which your host is known, and 3125anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be 3126treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create the 3127file /etc/mail/local-host-names containing a list of your aliases (one per 3128line), and use ``FEATURE(`use_cw_file')'' in the .mc file, or add 3129``LOCAL_DOMAIN(`alias.host.name')''. Be sure you use the fully-qualified 3130name of the host, rather than a short name. 3131 3132If you want to have different address in different domains, take 3133a look at the virtusertable feature, which is also explained at 3134http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html 3135 3136 3137+--------------------+ 3138| USING MAILERTABLES | 3139+--------------------+ 3140 3141To use FEATURE(`mailertable'), you will have to create an external 3142database containing the routing information for various domains. 3143For example, a mailertable file in text format might be: 3144 3145 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain 3146 uuhost1.my.domain uucp-new:uuhost1 3147 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net 3148 3149This should normally be stored in /etc/mail/mailertable. The actual 3150database version of the mailertable is built using: 3151 3152 makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable 3153 3154The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with 3155a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning 3156with a dot match anything ending with that domain name (including 3157the leading dot) -- that is, they can be thought of as having a 3158leading ".+" regular expression pattern for a non-empty sequence of 3159characters. Matching is done in order of most-to-least qualified 3160-- for example, even though ".my.domain" is listed first in the 3161above example, an entry of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second 3162entry since it is more explicit. Note: e-mail to "user@my.domain" 3163does not match any entry in the above table. You need to have 3164something like: 3165 3166 my.domain esmtp:host.my.domain 3167 3168The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the 3169configuration name of a mailer (that is, an M line in the 3170sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to 3171that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading 3172dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of 3173the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything 3174addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using 3175the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer. 3176 3177In some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records, 3178particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX 3179everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it 3180directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration: 3181 3182 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine 3183 3184and on relay.machine use the mailertable: 3185 3186 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain] 3187 3188The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only. 3189If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record 3190again, which would give you an MX loop. Note that the use of 3191wildcard MX records is almost always a bad idea. Please avoid 3192using them if possible. 3193 3194 3195+--------------------------------+ 3196| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES | 3197+--------------------------------+ 3198 3199The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names 3200to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using 3201it that way. (it is recommended that you set up aliases for this 3202purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this 3203is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at 3204a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host. 3205 3206If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is 3207imperative that you not use FEATURE(`stickyhost') -- otherwise, 3208e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected. 3209 3210To build the internal form of the user database, use: 3211 3212 makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb < /etc/mail/userdb.txt 3213 3214As a general rule, it is an extremely bad idea to using full names 3215as e-mail addresses, since they are not in any sense unique. For 3216example, the UNIX software-development community has at least two 3217well-known Peter Deutsches, and at one time Bell Labs had two 3218Stephen R. Bournes with offices along the same hallway. Which one 3219will be forced to suffer the indignity of being Stephen_R_Bourne_2? 3220The less famous of the two, or the one that was hired later? 3221 3222Finger should handle full names (and be fuzzy). Mail should use 3223handles, and not be fuzzy. 3224 3225 3226+--------------------------------+ 3227| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES | 3228+--------------------------------+ 3229 3230Plussed users 3231 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a 3232 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all 3233 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be 3234 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class 3235 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this 3236 using plussed users. For example, a client might include 3237 the alias: 3238 3239 root: root+client1@server 3240 3241 On the server, this will match an alias for "root+client1". 3242 If that is not found, the alias "root+*" will be tried, 3243 then "root". 3244 3245 3246+----------------+ 3247| SECURITY NOTES | 3248+----------------+ 3249 3250A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much 3251more careful about checking for security problems than previous 3252versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch 3253for. In particular: 3254 3255* Make sure the aliases file is not writable except by trusted 3256 system personnel. This includes both the text and database 3257 version. 3258 3259* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the 3260 mailertable, are only writable by trusted system personnel. 3261 3262* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY 3263 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root 3264 user can chown any file they own to any other user). 3265 3266* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically 3267 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone 3268 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that 3269 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a 3270 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory). 3271 3272* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that 3273 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in 3274 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in 3275 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before 3276 files and programs listed in them will be honored). 3277 3278In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them 3279off, do so. 3280 3281 3282+--------------------------------+ 3283| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS | 3284+--------------------------------+ 3285 3286There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally 3287need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, 3288you can define the following M4 variables. Note that some of these 3289variables require formats that are defined in RFC 2821 or RFC 2822. 3290Before changing them you need to make sure you do not violate those 3291(and other relevant) RFCs. 3292 3293This list is shown in four columns: the name you define, the default 3294value for that definition, the option or macro that is affected 3295(either Ox for an option or Dx for a macro), and a brief description. 3296 3297Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is, 3298the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are 3299marked with "*". 3300 3301Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to 3302be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to 3303be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma 3304confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for 3305the read timeout. 3306 3307M4 Variable Name Configuration [Default] & Description 3308================ ============= ======================= 3309confMAILER_NAME $n macro [MAILER-DAEMON] The sender name used 3310 for internally generated outgoing 3311 messages. 3312confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should 3313 only be done if your system cannot 3314 determine your local domain name, 3315 and then it should be set to 3316 $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your 3317 domain name. 3318confCF_VERSION $Z macro If defined, this is appended to the 3319 configuration version name. 3320confLDAP_CLUSTER ${sendmailMTACluster} macro 3321 If defined, this is the LDAP 3322 cluster to use for LDAP searches 3323 as described above in ``USING LDAP 3324 FOR ALIASES, MAPS, AND CLASSES''. 3325confFROM_HEADER From: [$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.] The format of an 3326 internally generated From: address. 3327confRECEIVED_HEADER Received: 3328 [$?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) 3329 $.$?{auth_type}(authenticated) 3330 $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u 3331 for $u; $|; 3332 $.$b] 3333 The format of the Received: header 3334 in messages passed through this host. 3335 It is unwise to try to change this. 3336confMESSAGEID_HEADER Message-Id: [<$t.$i@$j>] The format of an 3337 internally generated Message-Id: 3338 header. 3339confCW_FILE Fw class [/etc/mail/local-host-names] Name 3340 of file used to get the local 3341 additions to class {w} (local host 3342 names). 3343confCT_FILE Ft class [/etc/mail/trusted-users] Name of 3344 file used to get the local additions 3345 to class {t} (trusted users). 3346confCR_FILE FR class [/etc/mail/relay-domains] Name of 3347 file used to get the local additions 3348 to class {R} (hosts allowed to relay). 3349confTRUSTED_USERS Ct class [no default] Names of users to add to 3350 the list of trusted users. This list 3351 always includes root, uucp, and daemon. 3352 See also FEATURE(`use_ct_file'). 3353confTRUSTED_USER TrustedUser [no default] Trusted user for file 3354 ownership and starting the daemon. 3355 Not to be confused with 3356 confTRUSTED_USERS (see above). 3357confSMTP_MAILER - [esmtp] The mailer name used when 3358 SMTP connectivity is required. 3359 One of "smtp", "smtp8", 3360 "esmtp", or "dsmtp". 3361confUUCP_MAILER - [uucp-old] The mailer to be used by 3362 default for bang-format recipient 3363 addresses. See also discussion of 3364 class {U}, class {Y}, and class {Z} 3365 in the MAILER(`uucp') section. 3366confLOCAL_MAILER - [local] The mailer name used when 3367 local connectivity is required. 3368 Almost always "local". 3369confRELAY_MAILER - [relay] The default mailer name used 3370 for relaying any mail (e.g., to a 3371 BITNET_RELAY, a SMART_HOST, or 3372 whatever). This can reasonably be 3373 "uucp-new" if you are on a 3374 UUCP-connected site. 3375confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT SevenBitInput [False] Force input to seven bits? 3376confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING EightBitMode [pass8] 8-bit data handling 3377confALIAS_WAIT AliasWait [10m] Time to wait for alias file 3378 rebuild until you get bored and 3379 decide that the apparently pending 3380 rebuild failed. 3381confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS MinFreeBlocks [100] Minimum number of free blocks on 3382 queue filesystem to accept SMTP mail. 3383 (Prior to 8.7 this was minfree/maxsize, 3384 where minfree was the number of free 3385 blocks and maxsize was the maximum 3386 message size. Use confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE 3387 for the second value now.) 3388confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE MaxMessageSize [infinite] The maximum size of messages 3389 that will be accepted (in bytes). 3390confBLANK_SUB BlankSub [.] Blank (space) substitution 3391 character. 3392confCON_EXPENSIVE HoldExpensive [False] Avoid connecting immediately 3393 to mailers marked expensive. 3394confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL CheckpointInterval 3395 [10] Checkpoint queue files every N 3396 recipients. 3397confDELIVERY_MODE DeliveryMode [background] Default delivery mode. 3398confERROR_MODE ErrorMode [print] Error message mode. 3399confERROR_MESSAGE ErrorHeader [undefined] Error message header/file. 3400confSAVE_FROM_LINES SaveFromLine Save extra leading From_ lines. 3401confTEMP_FILE_MODE TempFileMode [0600] Temporary file mode. 3402confMATCH_GECOS MatchGECOS [False] Match GECOS field. 3403confMAX_HOP MaxHopCount [25] Maximum hop count. 3404confIGNORE_DOTS* IgnoreDots [False; always False in -bs or -bd 3405 mode] Ignore dot as terminator for 3406 incoming messages? 3407confBIND_OPTS ResolverOptions [undefined] Default options for DNS 3408 resolver. 3409confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS* SendMimeErrors [True] Send error messages as MIME- 3410 encapsulated messages per RFC 1344. 3411confFORWARD_PATH ForwardPath [$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward] 3412 The colon-separated list of places to 3413 search for .forward files. N.B.: see 3414 the Security Notes section. 3415confMCI_CACHE_SIZE ConnectionCacheSize 3416 [2] Size of open connection cache. 3417confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT ConnectionCacheTimeout 3418 [5m] Open connection cache timeout. 3419confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY HostStatusDirectory 3420 [undefined] If set, host status is kept 3421 on disk between sendmail runs in the 3422 named directory tree. This need not be 3423 a full pathname, in which case it is 3424 interpreted relative to the queue 3425 directory. 3426confSINGLE_THREAD_DELIVERY SingleThreadDelivery 3427 [False] If this option and the 3428 HostStatusDirectory option are both 3429 set, single thread deliveries to other 3430 hosts. That is, don't allow any two 3431 sendmails on this host to connect 3432 simultaneously to any other single 3433 host. This can slow down delivery in 3434 some cases, in particular since a 3435 cached but otherwise idle connection 3436 to a host will prevent other sendmails 3437 from connecting to the other host. 3438confUSE_ERRORS_TO* UseErrorsTo [False] Use the Errors-To: header to 3439 deliver error messages. This should 3440 not be necessary because of general 3441 acceptance of the envelope/header 3442 distinction. 3443confLOG_LEVEL LogLevel [9] Log level. 3444confME_TOO MeToo [True] Include sender in group 3445 expansions. This option is 3446 deprecated and will be removed from 3447 a future version. 3448confCHECK_ALIASES CheckAliases [False] Check RHS of aliases when 3449 running newaliases. Since this does 3450 DNS lookups on every address, it can 3451 slow down the alias rebuild process 3452 considerably on large alias files. 3453confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS* OldStyleHeaders [True] Assume that headers without 3454 special chars are old style. 3455confPRIVACY_FLAGS PrivacyOptions [authwarnings] Privacy flags. 3456confCOPY_ERRORS_TO PostmasterCopy [undefined] Address for additional 3457 copies of all error messages. 3458confQUEUE_FACTOR QueueFactor [600000] Slope of queue-only function. 3459confQUEUE_FILE_MODE QueueFileMode [undefined] Default permissions for 3460 queue files (octal). If not set, 3461 sendmail uses 0600 unless its real 3462 and effective uid are different in 3463 which case it uses 0644. 3464confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES DontPruneRoutes [False] Don't prune down route-addr 3465 syntax addresses to the minimum 3466 possible. 3467confSAFE_QUEUE* SuperSafe [True] Commit all messages to disk 3468 before forking. 3469confTO_INITIAL Timeout.initial [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3470 on the initial connect. 3471confTO_CONNECT Timeout.connect [0] The timeout waiting for an initial 3472 connect() to complete. This can only 3473 shorten connection timeouts; the kernel 3474 silently enforces an absolute maximum 3475 (which varies depending on the system). 3476confTO_ICONNECT Timeout.iconnect 3477 [undefined] Like Timeout.connect, but 3478 applies only to the very first attempt 3479 to connect to a host in a message. 3480 This allows a single very fast pass 3481 followed by more careful delivery 3482 attempts in the future. 3483confTO_ACONNECT Timeout.aconnect 3484 [0] The overall timeout waiting for 3485 all connection for a single delivery 3486 attempt to succeed. If 0, no overall 3487 limit is applied. 3488confTO_HELO Timeout.helo [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3489 to a HELO or EHLO command. 3490confTO_MAIL Timeout.mail [10m] The timeout waiting for a 3491 response to the MAIL command. 3492confTO_RCPT Timeout.rcpt [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3493 to the RCPT command. 3494confTO_DATAINIT Timeout.datainit 3495 [5m] The timeout waiting for a 354 3496 response from the DATA command. 3497confTO_DATABLOCK Timeout.datablock 3498 [1h] The timeout waiting for a block 3499 during DATA phase. 3500confTO_DATAFINAL Timeout.datafinal 3501 [1h] The timeout waiting for a response 3502 to the final "." that terminates a 3503 message. 3504confTO_RSET Timeout.rset [5m] The timeout waiting for a response 3505 to the RSET command. 3506confTO_QUIT Timeout.quit [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3507 to the QUIT command. 3508confTO_MISC Timeout.misc [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3509 to other SMTP commands. 3510confTO_COMMAND Timeout.command [1h] In server SMTP, the timeout 3511 waiting for a command to be issued. 3512confTO_IDENT Timeout.ident [5s] The timeout waiting for a 3513 response to an IDENT query. 3514confTO_FILEOPEN Timeout.fileopen 3515 [60s] The timeout waiting for a file 3516 (e.g., :include: file) to be opened. 3517confTO_LHLO Timeout.lhlo [2m] The timeout waiting for a response 3518 to an LMTP LHLO command. 3519confTO_STARTTLS Timeout.starttls 3520 [1h] The timeout waiting for a 3521 response to an SMTP STARTTLS command. 3522confTO_CONTROL Timeout.control 3523 [2m] The timeout for a complete 3524 control socket transaction to complete. 3525confTO_QUEUERETURN Timeout.queuereturn 3526 [5d] The timeout before a message is 3527 returned as undeliverable. 3528confTO_QUEUERETURN_NORMAL 3529 Timeout.queuereturn.normal 3530 [undefined] As above, for normal 3531 priority messages. 3532confTO_QUEUERETURN_URGENT 3533 Timeout.queuereturn.urgent 3534 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3535 priority messages. 3536confTO_QUEUERETURN_NONURGENT 3537 Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent 3538 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3539 (low) priority messages. 3540confTO_QUEUERETURN_DSN 3541 Timeout.queuereturn.dsn 3542 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3543 status notification messages. 3544confTO_QUEUEWARN Timeout.queuewarn 3545 [4h] The timeout before a warning 3546 message is sent to the sender telling 3547 them that the message has been 3548 deferred. 3549confTO_QUEUEWARN_NORMAL Timeout.queuewarn.normal 3550 [undefined] As above, for normal 3551 priority messages. 3552confTO_QUEUEWARN_URGENT Timeout.queuewarn.urgent 3553 [undefined] As above, for urgent 3554 priority messages. 3555confTO_QUEUEWARN_NONURGENT 3556 Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent 3557 [undefined] As above, for non-urgent 3558 (low) priority messages. 3559confTO_QUEUEWARN_DSN 3560 Timeout.queuewarn.dsn 3561 [undefined] As above, for delivery 3562 status notification messages. 3563confTO_HOSTSTATUS Timeout.hoststatus 3564 [30m] How long information about host 3565 statuses will be maintained before it 3566 is considered stale and the host should 3567 be retried. This applies both within 3568 a single queue run and to persistent 3569 information (see below). 3570confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS Timeout.resolver.retrans 3571 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3572 retransmission time interval (in 3573 seconds). Sets both 3574 Timeout.resolver.retrans.first and 3575 Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal. 3576confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retrans.first 3577 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3578 retransmission time interval (in 3579 seconds) for the first attempt to 3580 deliver a message. 3581confTO_RESOLVER_RETRANS_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal 3582 [varies] Sets the resolver's 3583 retransmission time interval (in 3584 seconds) for all resolver lookups 3585 except the first delivery attempt. 3586confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY Timeout.resolver.retry 3587 [varies] Sets the number of times 3588 to retransmit a resolver query. 3589 Sets both 3590 Timeout.resolver.retry.first and 3591 Timeout.resolver.retry.normal. 3592confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_FIRST Timeout.resolver.retry.first 3593 [varies] Sets the number of times 3594 to retransmit a resolver query for 3595 the first attempt to deliver a 3596 message. 3597confTO_RESOLVER_RETRY_NORMAL Timeout.resolver.retry.normal 3598 [varies] Sets the number of times 3599 to retransmit a resolver query for 3600 all resolver lookups except the 3601 first delivery attempt. 3602confTIME_ZONE TimeZoneSpec [USE_SYSTEM] Time zone info -- can be 3603 USE_SYSTEM to use the system's idea, 3604 USE_TZ to use the user's TZ envariable, 3605 or something else to force that value. 3606confDEF_USER_ID DefaultUser [1:1] Default user id. 3607confUSERDB_SPEC UserDatabaseSpec 3608 [undefined] User database 3609 specification. 3610confFALLBACK_MX FallbackMXhost [undefined] Fallback MX host. 3611confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST FallbackSmartHost 3612 [undefined] Fallback smart host. 3613confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST TryNullMXList [False] If this host is the best MX 3614 for a host and other arrangements 3615 haven't been made, try connecting 3616 to the host directly; normally this 3617 would be a config error. 3618confQUEUE_LA QueueLA [varies] Load average at which 3619 queue-only function kicks in. 3620 Default values is (8 * numproc) 3621 where numproc is the number of 3622 processors online (if that can be 3623 determined). 3624confREFUSE_LA RefuseLA [varies] Load average at which 3625 incoming SMTP connections are 3626 refused. Default values is (12 * 3627 numproc) where numproc is the 3628 number of processors online (if 3629 that can be determined). 3630confREJECT_LOG_INTERVAL RejectLogInterval [3h] Log interval when 3631 refusing connections for this long. 3632confDELAY_LA DelayLA [0] Load average at which sendmail 3633 will sleep for one second on most 3634 SMTP commands and before accepting 3635 connections. 0 means no limit. 3636confMAX_ALIAS_RECURSION MaxAliasRecursion 3637 [10] Maximum depth of alias recursion. 3638confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN MaxDaemonChildren 3639 [undefined] The maximum number of 3640 children the daemon will permit. After 3641 this number, connections will be 3642 rejected. If not set or <= 0, there is 3643 no limit. 3644confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH MaxHeadersLength 3645 [32768] Maximum length of the sum 3646 of all headers. 3647confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH MaxMimeHeaderLength 3648 [undefined] Maximum length of 3649 certain MIME header field values. 3650confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE ConnectionRateThrottle 3651 [undefined] The maximum number of 3652 connections permitted per second per 3653 daemon. After this many connections 3654 are accepted, further connections 3655 will be delayed. If not set or <= 0, 3656 there is no limit. 3657confCONNECTION_RATE_WINDOW_SIZE ConnectionRateWindowSize 3658 [60s] Define the length of the 3659 interval for which the number of 3660 incoming connections is maintained. 3661confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR 3662 RecipientFactor [30000] Cost of each recipient. 3663confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob [False] Run all deliveries in a 3664 separate process. 3665confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR ClassFactor [1800] Priority multiplier for class. 3666confWORK_TIME_FACTOR RetryFactor [90000] Cost of each delivery attempt. 3667confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER QueueSortOrder [Priority] Queue sort algorithm: 3668 Priority, Host, Filename, Random, 3669 Modification, or Time. 3670confMIN_QUEUE_AGE MinQueueAge [0] The minimum amount of time a job 3671 must sit in the queue between queue 3672 runs. This allows you to set the 3673 queue run interval low for better 3674 responsiveness without trying all 3675 jobs in each run. 3676confDEF_CHAR_SET DefaultCharSet [unknown-8bit] When converting 3677 unlabeled 8 bit input to MIME, the 3678 character set to use by default. 3679confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE ServiceSwitchFile 3680 [/etc/mail/service.switch] The file 3681 to use for the service switch on 3682 systems that do not have a 3683 system-defined switch. 3684confHOSTS_FILE HostsFile [/etc/hosts] The file to use when doing 3685 "file" type access of hosts names. 3686confDIAL_DELAY DialDelay [0s] If a connection fails, wait this 3687 long and try again. Zero means "don't 3688 retry". This is to allow "dial on 3689 demand" connections to have enough time 3690 to complete a connection. 3691confNO_RCPT_ACTION NoRecipientAction 3692 [none] What to do if there are no legal 3693 recipient fields (To:, Cc: or Bcc:) 3694 in the message. Legal values can 3695 be "none" to just leave the 3696 nonconforming message as is, "add-to" 3697 to add a To: header with all the 3698 known recipients (which may expose 3699 blind recipients), "add-apparently-to" 3700 to do the same but use Apparently-To: 3701 instead of To: (strongly discouraged 3702 in accordance with IETF standards), 3703 "add-bcc" to add an empty Bcc: 3704 header, or "add-to-undisclosed" to 3705 add the header 3706 ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;''. 3707confSAFE_FILE_ENV SafeFileEnvironment 3708 [undefined] If set, sendmail will do a 3709 chroot() into this directory before 3710 writing files. 3711confCOLON_OK_IN_ADDR ColonOkInAddr [True unless Configuration Level > 6] 3712 If set, colons are treated as a regular 3713 character in addresses. If not set, 3714 they are treated as the introducer to 3715 the RFC 822 "group" syntax. Colons are 3716 handled properly in route-addrs. This 3717 option defaults on for V5 and lower 3718 configuration files. 3719confMAX_QUEUE_RUN_SIZE MaxQueueRunSize [0] If set, limit the maximum size of 3720 any given queue run to this number of 3721 entries. Essentially, this will stop 3722 reading each queue directory after this 3723 number of entries are reached; it does 3724 _not_ pick the highest priority jobs, 3725 so this should be as large as your 3726 system can tolerate. If not set, there 3727 is no limit. 3728confMAX_QUEUE_CHILDREN MaxQueueChildren 3729 [undefined] Limits the maximum number 3730 of concurrent queue runners active. 3731 This is to keep system resources used 3732 within a reasonable limit. Relates to 3733 Queue Groups and ForkEachJob. 3734confMAX_RUNNERS_PER_QUEUE MaxRunnersPerQueue 3735 [1] Only active when MaxQueueChildren 3736 defined. Controls the maximum number 3737 of queue runners (aka queue children) 3738 active at the same time in a work 3739 group. See also MaxQueueChildren. 3740confDONT_EXPAND_CNAMES DontExpandCnames 3741 [False] If set, $[ ... $] lookups that 3742 do DNS based lookups do not expand 3743 CNAME records. This currently violates 3744 the published standards, but the IETF 3745 seems to be moving toward legalizing 3746 this. For example, if "FTP.Foo.ORG" 3747 is a CNAME for "Cruft.Foo.ORG", then 3748 with this option set a lookup of 3749 "FTP" will return "FTP.Foo.ORG"; if 3750 clear it returns "Cruft.FOO.ORG". N.B. 3751 you may not see any effect until your 3752 downstream neighbors stop doing CNAME 3753 lookups as well. 3754confFROM_LINE UnixFromLine [From $g $d] The From_ line used 3755 when sending to files or programs. 3756confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER SingleLineFromHeader 3757 [False] From: lines that have 3758 embedded newlines are unwrapped 3759 onto one line. 3760confALLOW_BOGUS_HELO AllowBogusHELO [False] Allow HELO SMTP command that 3761 does not include a host name. 3762confMUST_QUOTE_CHARS MustQuoteChars [.'] Characters to be quoted in a full 3763 name phrase (@,;:\()[] are automatic). 3764confOPERATORS OperatorChars [.:%@!^/[]+] Address operator 3765 characters. 3766confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG SmtpGreetingMessage 3767 [$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b] 3768 The initial (spontaneous) SMTP 3769 greeting message. The word "ESMTP" 3770 will be inserted between the first and 3771 second words to convince other 3772 sendmails to try to speak ESMTP. 3773confDONT_INIT_GROUPS DontInitGroups [False] If set, the initgroups(3) 3774 routine will never be invoked. You 3775 might want to do this if you are 3776 running NIS and you have a large group 3777 map, since this call does a sequential 3778 scan of the map; in a large site this 3779 can cause your ypserv to run 3780 essentially full time. If you set 3781 this, agents run on behalf of users 3782 will only have their primary 3783 (/etc/passwd) group permissions. 3784confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES UnsafeGroupWrites 3785 [True] If set, group-writable 3786 :include: and .forward files are 3787 considered "unsafe", that is, programs 3788 and files cannot be directly referenced 3789 from such files. World-writable files 3790 are always considered unsafe. 3791 Notice: this option is deprecated and 3792 will be removed in future versions; 3793 Set GroupWritableForwardFileSafe 3794 and GroupWritableIncludeFileSafe in 3795 DontBlameSendmail if required. 3796confCONNECT_ONLY_TO ConnectOnlyTo [undefined] override connection 3797 address (for testing). 3798confCONTROL_SOCKET_NAME ControlSocketName 3799 [undefined] Control socket for daemon 3800 management. 3801confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS DoubleBounceAddress 3802 [postmaster] If an error occurs when 3803 sending an error message, send that 3804 "double bounce" error message to this 3805 address. If it expands to an empty 3806 string, double bounces are dropped. 3807confSOFT_BOUNCE SoftBounce [False] If set, issue temporary errors 3808 (4xy) instead of permanent errors 3809 (5xy). This can be useful during 3810 testing of a new configuration to 3811 avoid erroneous bouncing of mails. 3812confDEAD_LETTER_DROP DeadLetterDrop [undefined] Filename to save bounce 3813 messages which could not be returned 3814 to the user or sent to postmaster. 3815 If not set, the queue file will 3816 be renamed. 3817confRRT_IMPLIES_DSN RrtImpliesDsn [False] Return-Receipt-To: header 3818 implies DSN request. 3819confRUN_AS_USER RunAsUser [undefined] If set, become this user 3820 when reading and delivering mail. 3821 Causes all file reads (e.g., .forward 3822 and :include: files) to be done as 3823 this user. Also, all programs will 3824 be run as this user, and all output 3825 files will be written as this user. 3826confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE MaxRecipientsPerMessage 3827 [infinite] If set, allow no more than 3828 the specified number of recipients in 3829 an SMTP envelope. Further recipients 3830 receive a 452 error code (i.e., they 3831 are deferred for the next delivery 3832 attempt). 3833confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE BadRcptThrottle [infinite] If set and the specified 3834 number of recipients in a single SMTP 3835 transaction have been rejected, sleep 3836 for one second after each subsequent 3837 RCPT command in that transaction. 3838confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES DontProbeInterfaces 3839 [False] If set, sendmail will _not_ 3840 insert the names and addresses of any 3841 local interfaces into class {w} 3842 (list of known "equivalent" addresses). 3843 If you set this, you must also include 3844 some support for these addresses (e.g., 3845 in a mailertable entry) -- otherwise, 3846 mail to addresses in this list will 3847 bounce with a configuration error. 3848 If set to "loopback" (without 3849 quotes), sendmail will skip 3850 loopback interfaces (e.g., "lo0"). 3851confPID_FILE PidFile [system dependent] Location of pid 3852 file. 3853confPROCESS_TITLE_PREFIX ProcessTitlePrefix 3854 [undefined] Prefix string for the 3855 process title shown on 'ps' listings. 3856confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL DontBlameSendmail 3857 [safe] Override sendmail's file 3858 safety checks. This will definitely 3859 compromise system security and should 3860 not be used unless absolutely 3861 necessary. 3862confREJECT_MSG - [550 Access denied] The message 3863 given if the access database contains 3864 REJECT in the value portion. 3865confRELAY_MSG - [550 Relaying denied] The message 3866 given if an unauthorized relaying 3867 attempt is rejected. 3868confDF_BUFFER_SIZE DataFileBufferSize 3869 [4096] The maximum size of a 3870 memory-buffered data (df) file 3871 before a disk-based file is used. 3872confXF_BUFFER_SIZE XScriptFileBufferSize 3873 [4096] The maximum size of a 3874 memory-buffered transcript (xf) 3875 file before a disk-based file is 3876 used. 3877confTLS_SRV_OPTIONS TLSSrvOptions If this option is 'V' no client 3878 verification is performed, i.e., 3879 the server doesn't ask for a 3880 certificate. 3881confLDAP_DEFAULT_SPEC LDAPDefaultSpec [undefined] Default map 3882 specification for LDAP maps. The 3883 value should only contain LDAP 3884 specific settings such as "-h host 3885 -p port -d bindDN", etc. The 3886 settings will be used for all LDAP 3887 maps unless they are specified in 3888 the individual map specification 3889 ('K' command). 3890confCACERT_PATH CACertPath [undefined] Path to directory 3891 with certs of CAs. 3892confCACERT CACertFile [undefined] File containing one CA 3893 cert. 3894confSERVER_CERT ServerCertFile [undefined] File containing the 3895 cert of the server, i.e., this cert 3896 is used when sendmail acts as 3897 server. 3898confSERVER_KEY ServerKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 3899 private key belonging to the server 3900 cert. 3901confCLIENT_CERT ClientCertFile [undefined] File containing the 3902 cert of the client, i.e., this cert 3903 is used when sendmail acts as 3904 client. 3905confCLIENT_KEY ClientKeyFile [undefined] File containing the 3906 private key belonging to the client 3907 cert. 3908confCRL CRLFile [undefined] File containing certificate 3909 revocation status, useful for X.509v3 3910 authentication. Note that CRL requires 3911 at least OpenSSL version 0.9.7. 3912confDH_PARAMETERS DHParameters [undefined] File containing the 3913 DH parameters. 3914confRAND_FILE RandFile [undefined] File containing random 3915 data (use prefix file:) or the 3916 name of the UNIX socket if EGD is 3917 used (use prefix egd:). STARTTLS 3918 requires this option if the compile 3919 flag HASURANDOM is not set (see 3920 sendmail/README). 3921confNICE_QUEUE_RUN NiceQueueRun [undefined] If set, the priority of 3922 queue runners is set the given value 3923 (nice(3)). 3924confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS DirectSubmissionModifiers 3925 [undefined] Defines {daemon_flags} 3926 for direct submissions. 3927confUSE_MSP UseMSP [undefined] Use as mail submission 3928 program. 3929confDELIVER_BY_MIN DeliverByMin [0] Minimum time for Deliver By 3930 SMTP Service Extension (RFC 2852). 3931confREQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC RequiresDirfsync [true] RequiresDirfsync can 3932 be used to turn off the compile time 3933 flag REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC at runtime. 3934 See sendmail/README for details. 3935confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY SharedMemoryKey [0] Key for shared memory. 3936confSHARED_MEMORY_KEY_FILE 3937 SharedMemoryKeyFile 3938 [undefined] File where the 3939 automatically selected key for 3940 shared memory is stored. 3941confFAST_SPLIT FastSplit [1] If set to a value greater than 3942 zero, the initial MX lookups on 3943 addresses is suppressed when they 3944 are sorted which may result in 3945 faster envelope splitting. If the 3946 mail is submitted directly from the 3947 command line, then the value also 3948 limits the number of processes to 3949 deliver the envelopes. 3950confMAILBOX_DATABASE MailboxDatabase [pw] Type of lookup to find 3951 information about local mailboxes. 3952confDEQUOTE_OPTS - [empty] Additional options for the 3953 dequote map. 3954confMAX_NOOP_COMMANDS MaxNOOPCommands [20] Maximum number of "useless" 3955 commands before the SMTP server 3956 will slow down responding. 3957confHELO_NAME HeloName If defined, use as name for EHLO/HELO 3958 command (instead of $j). 3959confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS InputMailFilters 3960 A comma separated list of filters 3961 which determines which filters and 3962 the invocation sequence are 3963 contacted for incoming SMTP 3964 messages. If none are set, no 3965 filters will be contacted. 3966confMILTER_LOG_LEVEL Milter.LogLevel [9] Log level for input mail filter 3967 actions, defaults to LogLevel. 3968confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT Milter.macros.connect 3969 [j, _, {daemon_name}, {if_name}, 3970 {if_addr}] Macros to transmit to 3971 milters when a session connection 3972 starts. 3973confMILTER_MACROS_HELO Milter.macros.helo 3974 [{tls_version}, {cipher}, 3975 {cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, 3976 {cert_issuer}] Macros to transmit to 3977 milters after HELO/EHLO command. 3978confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM Milter.macros.envfrom 3979 [i, {auth_type}, {auth_authen}, 3980 {auth_ssf}, {auth_author}, 3981 {mail_mailer}, {mail_host}, 3982 {mail_addr}] Macros to transmit to 3983 milters after MAIL FROM command. 3984confMILTER_MACROS_ENVRCPT Milter.macros.envrcpt 3985 [{rcpt_mailer}, {rcpt_host}, 3986 {rcpt_addr}] Macros to transmit to 3987 milters after RCPT TO command. 3988confMILTER_MACROS_EOM Milter.macros.eom 3989 [{msg_id}] Macros to transmit to 3990 milters after the terminating 3991 DATA '.' is received. 3992confMILTER_MACROS_EOH Milter.macros.eoh 3993 Macros to transmit to milters 3994 after the end of headers. 3995confMILTER_MACROS_DATA Milter.macros.data 3996 Macros to transmit to milters 3997 after DATA command is received. 3998 3999 4000See also the description of OSTYPE for some parameters that can be 4001tweaked (generally pathnames to mailers). 4002 4003ClientPortOptions and DaemonPortOptions are special cases since multiple 4004clients/daemons can be defined. This can be done via 4005 4006 CLIENT_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4007 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...') 4008 4009Note that multiple CLIENT_OPTIONS() commands (and therefore multiple 4010ClientPortOptions settings) are allowed in order to give settings for each 4011protocol family (e.g., one for Family=inet and one for Family=inet6). A 4012restriction placed on one family only affects outgoing connections on that 4013particular family. 4014 4015If DAEMON_OPTIONS is not used, then the default is 4016 4017 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') 4018 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E') 4019 4020If you use one DAEMON_OPTIONS macro, it will alter the parameters 4021of the first of these. The second will still be defaulted; it 4022represents a "Message Submission Agent" (MSA) as defined by RFC 40232476 (see below). To turn off the default definition for the MSA, 4024use FEATURE(`no_default_msa') (see also FEATURES). If you use 4025additional DAEMON_OPTIONS macros, they will add additional daemons. 4026 4027Example 1: To change the port for the SMTP listener, while 4028still using the MSA default, use 4029 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=925, Name=MTA') 4030 4031Example 2: To change the port for the MSA daemon, while still 4032using the default SMTP port, use 4033 FEATURE(`no_default_msa') 4034 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA') 4035 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=987, Name=MSA, M=E') 4036 4037Note that if the first of those DAEMON_OPTIONS lines were omitted, then 4038there would be no listener on the standard SMTP port. 4039 4040Example 3: To listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, use 4041 4042 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v4, Family=inet') 4043 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6') 4044 4045A "Message Submission Agent" still uses all of the same rulesets for 4046processing the message (and therefore still allows message rejection via 4047the check_* rulesets). In accordance with the RFC, the MSA will ensure 4048that all domains in envelope addresses are fully qualified if the message 4049is relayed to another MTA. It will also enforce the normal address syntax 4050rules and log error messages. Additionally, by using the M=a modifier you 4051can require authentication before messages are accepted by the MSA. 4052Notice: Do NOT use the 'a' modifier on a public accessible MTA! Finally, 4053the M=E modifier shown above disables ETRN as required by RFC 2476. 4054 4055Mail filters can be defined using the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() and MAIL_FILTER() 4056commands: 4057 4058 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`sample', `S=local:/var/run/f1.sock') 4059 MAIL_FILTER(`myfilter', `S=inet:3333@localhost') 4060 4061The INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() command causes the filter(s) to be called in the 4062same order they were specified by also setting confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS. A 4063filter can be defined without adding it to the input filter list by using 4064MAIL_FILTER() instead of INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() in your .mc file. 4065Alternatively, you can reset the list of filters and their order by setting 4066confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS option after all INPUT_MAIL_FILTER() commands in 4067your .mc file. 4068 4069 4070+----------------------------+ 4071| MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM | 4072+----------------------------+ 4073 4074This section contains a list of caveats and 4075a few hints how for those who want to tweak the default configuration 4076for it (which is installed as submit.cf). 4077 4078Notice: do not add options/features to submit.mc unless you are 4079absolutely sure you need them. Options you may want to change 4080include: 4081 4082- confTRUSTED_USERS, FEATURE(`use_ct_file'), and confCT_FILE for 4083 avoiding X-Authentication warnings. 4084- confTIME_ZONE to change it from the default `USE_TZ'. 4085- confDELIVERY_MODE is set to interactive in msp.m4 instead 4086 of the default background mode. 4087- FEATURE(stickyhost) and LOCAL_RELAY to send unqualified addresses 4088 to the LOCAL_RELAY instead of the default relay. 4089 4090The MSP performs hostname canonicalization by default. Mail may end 4091up for various DNS related reasons in the MSP queue. This problem 4092can be minimized by using 4093 4094 FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts') 4095 define(`confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS', `C') 4096 4097See the discussion about nocanonify for possible side effects. 4098 4099Some things are not intended to work with the MSP. These include 4100features that influence the delivery process (e.g., mailertable, 4101aliases), or those that are only important for a SMTP server (e.g., 4102virtusertable, DaemonPortOptions, multiple queues). Moreover, 4103relaxing certain restrictions (RestrictQueueRun, permissions on 4104queue directory) or adding features (e.g., enabling prog/file mailer) 4105can cause security problems. 4106 4107Other things don't work well with the MSP and require tweaking or 4108workarounds. 4109 4110The file and the map created by makemap should be owned by smmsp, 4111its group should be smmsp, and it should have mode 640. 4112 4113feature/msp.m4 defines almost all settings for the MSP. Most of 4114those should not be changed at all. Some of the features and options 4115can be overridden if really necessary. It is a bit tricky to do 4116this, because it depends on the actual way the option is defined 4117in feature/msp.m4. If it is directly defined (i.e., define()) then 4118the modified value must be defined after 4119 4120 FEATURE(`msp') 4121 4122If it is conditionally defined (i.e., ifdef()) then the desired 4123value must be defined before the FEATURE line in the .mc file. 4124To see how the options are defined read feature/msp.m4. 4125 4126 4127+--------------------------+ 4128| FORMAT OF FILES AND MAPS | 4129+--------------------------+ 4130 4131Files that define classes, i.e., F{classname}, consist of lines 4132each of which contains a single element of the class. For example, 4133/etc/mail/local-host-names may have the following content: 4134 4135my.domain 4136another.domain 4137 4138Maps must be created using makemap(8) , e.g., 4139 4140 makemap hash MAP < MAP 4141 4142In general, a text file from which a map is created contains lines 4143of the form 4144 4145key value 4146 4147where 'key' and 'value' are also called LHS and RHS, respectively. 4148By default, the delimiter between LHS and RHS is a non-empty sequence 4149of white space characters. 4150 4151 4152+------------------+ 4153| DIRECTORY LAYOUT | 4154+------------------+ 4155 4156Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit: 4157 4158m4 General support routines. These are typically 4159 very important and should not be changed without 4160 very careful consideration. 4161 4162cf The configuration files themselves. They have 4163 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to 4164 become complete. The resulting output should 4165 have a ".cf" suffix. 4166 4167ostype Definitions describing a particular operating 4168 system type. These should always be referenced 4169 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples 4170 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and 4171 "sunos4.1". 4172 4173domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced 4174 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are 4175 site dependent; for example, "CS.Berkeley.EDU.m4" 4176 describes hosts in the CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain. 4177 4178mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using 4179 the MAILER macro in the .mc file. 4180 4181sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the 4182 .mc file in the cf subdirectory. 4183 4184feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might 4185 want to include. They should be referenced using 4186 the FEATURE macro. 4187 4188hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK 4189 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic 4190 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows? 4191 4192siteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected 4193 UUCP sites. 4194 4195 4196+------------------------+ 4197| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS | 4198+------------------------+ 4199 4200The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the 4201sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify 4202the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these 4203should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more). 4204 4205RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail) 4206 4207 0 * Parsing 4208 1 * Sender rewriting 4209 2 * Recipient rewriting 4210 3 * Canonicalization 4211 4 * Post cleanup 4212 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing) 4213 1x mailer rules (sender qualification) 4214 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification) 4215 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification) 4216 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification) 4217 5x mailer subroutines (general) 4218 6x mailer subroutines (general) 4219 7x mailer subroutines (general) 4220 8x reserved 4221 90 Mailertable host stripping 4222 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail) 4223 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail) 4224 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail) 4225 4226 4227MAILERS 4228 4229 0 local, prog local and program mailers 4230 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel 4231 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program 4232 3 netnews Network News delivery 4233 4 fax Sam Leffler's HylaFAX software 4234 5 mail11 DECnet mailer 4235 4236 4237MACROS 4238 4239 A 4240 B Bitnet Relay 4241 C DECnet Relay 4242 D The local domain -- usually not needed 4243 E reserved for X.400 Relay 4244 F FAX Relay 4245 G 4246 H mail Hub (for mail clusters) 4247 I 4248 J 4249 K 4250 L Luser Relay 4251 M Masquerade (who you claim to be) 4252 N 4253 O 4254 P 4255 Q 4256 R Relay (for unqualified names) 4257 S Smart Host 4258 T 4259 U my UUCP name (if you have a UUCP connection) 4260 V UUCP Relay (class {V} hosts) 4261 W UUCP Relay (class {W} hosts) 4262 X UUCP Relay (class {X} hosts) 4263 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts) 4264 Z Version number 4265 4266 4267CLASSES 4268 4269 A 4270 B domains that are candidates for bestmx lookup 4271 C 4272 D 4273 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M 4274 F hosts this system forward for 4275 G domains that should be looked up in genericstable 4276 H 4277 I 4278 J 4279 K 4280 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R 4281 M domains that should be mapped to $M 4282 N host/domains that should not be mapped to $M 4283 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names) 4284 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, DECNET, FAX, UUCP, etc. 4285 Q 4286 R domains this system is willing to relay (pass anti-spam filters) 4287 S 4288 T 4289 U locally connected UUCP hosts 4290 V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V 4291 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W 4292 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X 4293 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts 4294 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts 4295 . the class containing only a dot 4296 [ the class containing only a left bracket 4297 4298 4299M4 DIVERSIONS 4300 4301 1 Local host detection and resolution 4302 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions 4303 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions 4304 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions 4305 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R) 4306 6 local configuration (at top of file) 4307 7 mailer definitions 4308 8 DNS based blacklists 4309 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2) 4310 4311$Revision: 8.727 $, Last updated $Date: 2009/05/07 23:46:17 $ 4312