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1From time to time, experimental features may be added to Exim.
2While a feature is experimental, there will be a build-time
3option whose name starts "EXPERIMENTAL_" that must be set in
4order to include the feature. This file contains information
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5about experimental features, all of which are unstable and
6liable to incompatible change.
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4c04137d 9Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) support
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11
12Brightmail AntiSpam is a commercial package. Please see
13http://www.brightmail.com for more information on
14the product. For the sake of clarity, we'll refer to it as
15"BMI" from now on.
16
17
180) BMI concept and implementation overview
19
20In contrast to how spam-scanning with SpamAssassin is
21implemented in exiscan-acl, BMI is more suited for per
22-recipient scanning of messages. However, each messages is
23scanned only once, but multiple "verdicts" for multiple
24recipients can be returned from the BMI server. The exiscan
25implementation passes the message to the BMI server just
26before accepting it. It then adds the retrieved verdicts to
27the messages header file in the spool. These verdicts can then
28be queried in routers, where operation is per-recipient
29instead of per-message. To use BMI, you need to take the
30following steps:
31
32 1) Compile Exim with BMI support
3ec3e3bb 33 2) Set up main BMI options (top section of Exim config file)
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34 3) Set up ACL control statement (ACL section of the config
35 file)
36 4) Set up your routers to use BMI verdicts (routers section
37 of the config file).
38 5) (Optional) Set up per-recipient opt-in information.
39
8ff3788c 40These four steps are explained in more details below.
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41
421) Adding support for BMI at compile time
43
44 To compile with BMI support, you need to link Exim against
4c04137d 45 the Brightmail client SDK, consisting of a library
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46 (libbmiclient_single.so) and a header file (bmi_api.h).
47 You'll also need to explicitly set a flag in the Makefile to
48 include BMI support in the Exim binary. Both can be achieved
49 with these lines in Local/Makefile:
50
51 EXPERIMENTAL_BRIGHTMAIL=yes
47bbda99 52 CFLAGS=-I/path/to/the/dir/with/the/includefile
ee161e8f 53 EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/path/to/the/dir/with/the/library -lbmiclient_single
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55 If you use other CFLAGS or EXTRALIBS_EXIM settings then
56 merge the content of these lines with them.
57
7c0c8547 58 Note for BMI6.x users: You'll also have to add -lxml2_single
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59 to the EXTRALIBS_EXIM line. Users of 5.5x do not need to do
60 this.
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62 You should also include the location of
63 libbmiclient_single.so in your dynamic linker configuration
64 file (usually /etc/ld.so.conf) and run "ldconfig"
65 afterwards, or else the produced Exim binary will not be
66 able to find the library file.
67
68
3ec3e3bb 692) Setting up BMI support in the Exim main configuration
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3ec3e3bb 71 To enable BMI support in the main Exim configuration, you
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72 should set the path to the main BMI configuration file with
73 the "bmi_config_file" option, like this:
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ee161e8f 75 bmi_config_file = /opt/brightmail/etc/brightmail.cfg
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3ec3e3bb 77 This must go into section 1 of Exim's configuration file (You
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78 can put it right on top). If you omit this option, it
79 defaults to /opt/brightmail/etc/brightmail.cfg.
80
81 Note for BMI6.x users: This file is in XML format in V6.xx
82 and its name is /opt/brightmail/etc/bmiconfig.xml. So BMI
83 6.x users MUST set the bmi_config_file option.
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863) Set up ACL control statement
87
88 To optimize performance, it makes sense only to process
89 messages coming from remote, untrusted sources with the BMI
90 server. To set up a messages for processing by the BMI
91 server, you MUST set the "bmi_run" control statement in any
92 ACL for an incoming message. You will typically do this in
93 an "accept" block in the "acl_check_rcpt" ACL. You should
94 use the "accept" block(s) that accept messages from remote
95 servers for your own domain(s). Here is an example that uses
3ec3e3bb 96 the "accept" blocks from Exim's default configuration file:
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99 accept domains = +local_domains
100 endpass
101 verify = recipient
102 control = bmi_run
103
104 accept domains = +relay_to_domains
105 endpass
106 verify = recipient
107 control = bmi_run
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109 If bmi_run is not set in any ACL during reception of the
110 message, it will NOT be passed to the BMI server.
111
112
1134) Setting up routers to use BMI verdicts
114
115 When a message has been run through the BMI server, one or
116 more "verdicts" are present. Different recipients can have
117 different verdicts. Each recipient is treated individually
118 during routing, so you can query the verdicts by recipient
3ec3e3bb 119 at that stage. From Exim's view, a verdict can have the
ee161e8f 120 following outcomes:
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122 o deliver the message normally
123 o deliver the message to an alternate location
124 o do not deliver the message
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126 To query the verdict for a recipient, the implementation
127 offers the following tools:
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129
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130 - Boolean router preconditions. These can be used in any
131 router. For a simple implementation of BMI, these may be
132 all that you need. The following preconditions are
133 available:
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ee161e8f 135 o bmi_deliver_default
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137 This precondition is TRUE if the verdict for the
138 recipient is to deliver the message normally. If the
139 message has not been processed by the BMI server, this
140 variable defaults to TRUE.
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ee161e8f 142 o bmi_deliver_alternate
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144 This precondition is TRUE if the verdict for the
145 recipient is to deliver the message to an alternate
146 location. You can get the location string from the
147 $bmi_alt_location expansion variable if you need it. See
148 further below. If the message has not been processed by
149 the BMI server, this variable defaults to FALSE.
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ee161e8f 151 o bmi_dont_deliver
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153 This precondition is TRUE if the verdict for the
154 recipient is NOT to deliver the message to the
155 recipient. You will typically use this precondition in a
156 top-level blackhole router, like this:
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158 # don't deliver messages handled by the BMI server
159 bmi_blackhole:
160 driver = redirect
161 bmi_dont_deliver
162 data = :blackhole:
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164 This router should be on top of all others, so messages
165 that should not be delivered do not reach other routers
166 at all. If the message has not been processed by
167 the BMI server, this variable defaults to FALSE.
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169
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170 - A list router precondition to query if rules "fired" on
171 the message for the recipient. Its name is "bmi_rule". You
172 use it by passing it a colon-separated list of rule
173 numbers. You can use this condition to route messages that
174 matched specific rules. Here is an example:
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176 # special router for BMI rule #5, #8 and #11
177 bmi_rule_redirect:
178 driver = redirect
179 bmi_rule = 5:8:11
180 data = postmaster@mydomain.com
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182
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183 - Expansion variables. Several expansion variables are set
184 during routing. You can use them in custom router
185 conditions, for example. The following variables are
186 available:
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ee161e8f 188 o $bmi_base64_verdict
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190 This variable will contain the BASE64 encoded verdict
191 for the recipient being routed. You can use it to add a
192 header to messages for tracking purposes, for example:
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194 localuser:
195 driver = accept
196 check_local_user
197 headers_add = X-Brightmail-Verdict: $bmi_base64_verdict
198 transport = local_delivery
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200 If there is no verdict available for the recipient being
201 routed, this variable contains the empty string.
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ee161e8f 203 o $bmi_base64_tracker_verdict
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205 This variable will contain a BASE64 encoded subset of
206 the verdict information concerning the "rules" that
207 fired on the message. You can add this string to a
208 header, commonly named "X-Brightmail-Tracker". Example:
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210 localuser:
211 driver = accept
212 check_local_user
213 headers_add = X-Brightmail-Tracker: $bmi_base64_tracker_verdict
214 transport = local_delivery
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216 If there is no verdict available for the recipient being
217 routed, this variable contains the empty string.
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ee161e8f 219 o $bmi_alt_location
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221 If the verdict is to redirect the message to an
222 alternate location, this variable will contain the
223 alternate location string returned by the BMI server. In
224 its default configuration, this is a header-like string
225 that can be added to the message with "headers_add". If
226 there is no verdict available for the recipient being
227 routed, or if the message is to be delivered normally,
228 this variable contains the empty string.
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ee161e8f 230 o $bmi_deliver
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232 This is an additional integer variable that can be used
233 to query if the message should be delivered at all. You
234 should use router preconditions instead if possible.
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236 $bmi_deliver is '0': the message should NOT be delivered.
237 $bmi_deliver is '1': the message should be delivered.
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239
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240 IMPORTANT NOTE: Verdict inheritance.
241 The message is passed to the BMI server during message
242 reception, using the target addresses from the RCPT TO:
243 commands in the SMTP transaction. If recipients get expanded
244 or re-written (for example by aliasing), the new address(es)
245 inherit the verdict from the original address. This means
246 that verdicts also apply to all "child" addresses generated
247 from top-level addresses that were sent to the BMI server.
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249
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2505) Using per-recipient opt-in information (Optional)
251
252 The BMI server features multiple scanning "profiles" for
253 individual recipients. These are usually stored in a LDAP
254 server and are queried by the BMI server itself. However,
255 you can also pass opt-in data for each recipient from the
256 MTA to the BMI server. This is particularly useful if you
3ec3e3bb 257 already look up recipient data in Exim anyway (which can
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258 also be stored in a SQL database or other source). This
259 implementation enables you to pass opt-in data to the BMI
260 server in the RCPT ACL. This works by setting the
261 'bmi_optin' modifier in a block of that ACL. If should be
262 set to a list of comma-separated strings that identify the
263 features which the BMI server should use for that particular
264 recipient. Ideally, you would use the 'bmi_optin' modifier
265 in the same ACL block where you set the 'bmi_run' control
266 flag. Here is an example that will pull opt-in data for each
267 recipient from a flat file called
268 '/etc/exim/bmi_optin_data'.
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ee161e8f 270 The file format:
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272 user1@mydomain.com: <OPTIN STRING1>:<OPTIN STRING2>
273 user2@thatdomain.com: <OPTIN STRING3>
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ee161e8f 276 The example:
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278 accept domains = +relay_to_domains
279 endpass
280 verify = recipient
281 bmi_optin = ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}lsearch{/etc/exim/bmi_optin_data}}
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282 control = bmi_run
283
ee161e8f 284 Of course, you can also use any other lookup method that
3ec3e3bb 285 Exim supports, including LDAP, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle etc.,
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286 as long as the result is a list of colon-separated opt-in
287 strings.
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289 For a list of available opt-in strings, please contact your
290 Brightmail representative.
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0b23848a 295SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support
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296--------------------------------------------------------------
297
298Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's
8ff3788c 299libsrs_alt library. The current version of the supported
f413521a 300library is 0.5, there are reports of 1.0 working.
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302In order to use SRS, you must get a copy of libsrs_alt from
303
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304https://opsec.eu/src/srs/
305
306(not the original source, which has disappeared.)
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308Unpack the tarball, then refer to MTAs/README.EXIM
309to proceed. You need to set
310
311EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes
312
313in your Local/Makefile.
314
315
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317DCC Support
318--------------------------------------------------------------
d36254f2 319Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse; http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
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320
321*) Building exim
322
323In order to build exim with DCC support add
324
325EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes
326
327to your Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
328EXPERIMENTAL_DCC under "Support for".
329
330
331*) Configuration
332
333In the main section of exim.cf add at least
334 dccifd_address = /usr/local/dcc/var/dccifd
335or
336 dccifd_address = <ip> <port>
337
338In the DATA ACL you can use the new condition
339 dcc = *
340
341After that "$dcc_header" contains the X-DCC-Header.
342
d36a0501 343Return values are:
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344 fail for overall "R", "G" from dccifd
345 defer for overall "T" from dccifd
346 accept for overall "A", "S" from dccifd
347
348dcc = */defer_ok works as for spamd.
349
350The "$dcc_result" variable contains the overall result from DCC
351answer. There will an X-DCC: header added to the mail.
352
353Usually you'll use
354 defer !dcc = *
355to greylist with DCC.
356
357If you set, in the main section,
358 dcc_direct_add_header = true
359then the dcc header will be added "in deep" and if the spool
360file was already written it gets removed. This forces Exim to
361write it again if needed. This helps to get the DCC Header
362through to eg. SpamAssassin.
363
364If you want to pass even more headers in the middle of the
365DATA stage you can set
366 $acl_m_dcc_add_header
05c39afa 367to tell the DCC routines to add more information; eg, you might set
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368this to some results from ClamAV. Be careful. Header syntax is
369not checked and is added "as is".
370
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371In case you've troubles with sites sending the same queue items from several
372hosts and fail to get through greylisting you can use
373$acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip
374
375Setting $acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip to an IP address overrides the default
376of $sender_host_address. eg. use the following ACL in DATA stage:
377
378 warn set acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip = \
379 ${lookup{$sender_helo_name}nwildlsearch{/etc/mail/multipleip_sites}{$value}{}}
380 condition = ${if def:acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip}
381 log_message = dbg: acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip set to \
382 $acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip
383
384Then set something like
385# cat /etc/mail/multipleip_sites
386mout-xforward.gmx.net 82.165.159.12
387mout.gmx.net 212.227.15.16
388
4c04137d 389Use a reasonable IP. eg. one the sending cluster actually uses.
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391DMARC Support
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393
394DMARC combines feedback from SPF, DKIM, and header From: in order
395to attempt to provide better indicators of the authenticity of an
396email. This document does not explain the fundamentals, you
397should read and understand how it works by visiting the website at
398http://www.dmarc.org/.
399
400DMARC support is added via the libopendmarc library. Visit:
401
402 http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendmarc/
403
404to obtain a copy, or find it in your favorite rpm package
405repository. If building from source, this description assumes
406that headers will be in /usr/local/include, and that the libraries
407are in /usr/local/lib.
408
4091. To compile Exim with DMARC support, you must first enable SPF.
410Please read the above section on enabling the EXPERIMENTAL_SPF
411feature. You must also have DKIM support, so you cannot set the
412DISABLE_DKIM feature. Once both of those conditions have been met
413you can enable DMARC in Local/Makefile:
414
415EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC=yes
416LDFLAGS += -lopendmarc
417# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
418# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
419
420The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
421the second line says to link the libopendmarc libraries into the
422exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
423built opendmarc from source and installed in the default location.
424Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
425need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
426package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
427
428
4292. Use the following global settings to configure DMARC:
430
9f765fee 431Optional:
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432dmarc_tld_file Defines the location of a text file of valid
433 top level domains the opendmarc library uses
434 during domain parsing. Maintained by Mozilla,
435 the most current version can be downloaded
436 from a link at http://publicsuffix.org/list/.
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437 If unset, "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" (hardcoded)
438 is used.
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440Optional:
441dmarc_history_file Defines the location of a file to log results
442 of dmarc verification on inbound emails. The
443 contents are importable by the opendmarc tools
444 which will manage the data, send out DMARC
445 reports, and expire the data. Make sure the
446 directory of this file is writable by the user
447 exim runs as.
448
449dmarc_forensic_sender The email address to use when sending a
450 forensic report detailing alignment failures
451 if a sender domain's dmarc record specifies it
452 and you have configured Exim to send them.
453 Default: do-not-reply@$default_hostname
454
455
4563. By default, the DMARC processing will run for any remote,
457non-authenticated user. It makes sense to only verify DMARC
458status of messages coming from remote, untrusted sources. You can
459use standard conditions such as hosts, senders, etc, to decide that
460DMARC verification should *not* be performed for them and disable
461DMARC with a control setting:
462
12d0043d 463 control = dmarc_disable_verify
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465A DMARC record can also specify a "forensic address", which gives
466exim an email address to submit reports about failed alignment.
467Exim does not do this by default because in certain conditions it
468results in unintended information leakage (what lists a user might
469be subscribed to, etc). You must configure exim to submit forensic
470reports to the owner of the domain. If the DMARC record contains a
471forensic address and you specify the control statement below, then
472exim will send these forensic emails. It's also advised that you
473configure a dmarc_forensic_sender because the default sender address
474construction might be inadequate.
475
7b2f71c1 476 control = dmarc_enable_forensic
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478(AGAIN: You can choose not to send these forensic reports by simply
7b2f71c1 479not putting the dmarc_enable_forensic control line at any point in
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480your exim config. If you don't tell it to send them, it will not
481send them.)
482
483There are no options to either control. Both must appear before
484the DATA acl.
485
486
4874. You can now run DMARC checks in incoming SMTP by using the
488"dmarc_status" ACL condition in the DATA ACL. You are required to
489call the spf condition first in the ACLs, then the "dmarc_status"
490condition. Putting this condition in the ACLs is required in order
491for a DMARC check to actually occur. All of the variables are set
492up before the DATA ACL, but there is no actual DMARC check that
493occurs until a "dmarc_status" condition is encountered in the ACLs.
494
495The dmarc_status condition takes a list of strings on its
496right-hand side. These strings describe recommended action based
497on the DMARC check. To understand what the policy recommendations
498mean, refer to the DMARC website above. Valid strings are:
499
500 o accept The DMARC check passed and the library recommends
501 accepting the email.
502 o reject The DMARC check failed and the library recommends
503 rejecting the email.
504 o quarantine The DMARC check failed and the library recommends
505 keeping it for further inspection.
7a8678e6 506 o none The DMARC check passed and the library recommends
507 no specific action, neutral.
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508 o norecord No policy section in the DMARC record for this
509 sender domain.
510 o nofrom Unable to determine the domain of the sender.
7a8678e6 511 o temperror Library error or dns error.
05070e30 512 o off The DMARC check was disabled for this email.
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514You can prefix each string with an exclamation mark to invert its
515meaning, for example "!accept" will match all results but
516"accept". The string list is evaluated left-to-right in a
517short-circuit fashion. When a string matches the outcome of the
518DMARC check, the condition succeeds. If none of the listed
519strings matches the outcome of the DMARC check, the condition
520fails.
521
522Of course, you can also use any other lookup method that Exim
523supports, including LDAP, Postgres, MySQL, etc, as long as the
8c8b8274 524result is a list of colon-separated strings.
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525
526Several expansion variables are set before the DATA ACL is
527processed, and you can use them in this ACL. The following
528expansion variables are available:
529
530 o $dmarc_status
531 This is a one word status indicating what the DMARC library
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532 thinks of the email. It is a combination of the results of
533 DMARC record lookup and the SPF/DKIM/DMARC processing results
534 (if a DMARC record was found). The actual policy declared
535 in the DMARC record is in a separate expansion variable.
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537 o $dmarc_status_text
538 This is a slightly longer, human readable status.
539
540 o $dmarc_used_domain
541 This is the domain which DMARC used to look up the DMARC
542 policy record.
543
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544 o $dmarc_domain_policy
545 This is the policy declared in the DMARC record. Valid values
546 are "none", "reject" and "quarantine". It is blank when there
547 is any error, including no DMARC record.
548
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549 o $dmarc_ar_header
550 This is the entire Authentication-Results header which you can
551 add using an add_header modifier.
552
553
5545. How to enable DMARC advanced operation:
555By default, Exim's DMARC configuration is intended to be
556non-intrusive and conservative. To facilitate this, Exim will not
557create any type of logging files without explicit configuration by
558you, the admin. Nor will Exim send out any emails/reports about
559DMARC issues without explicit configuration by you, the admin (other
560than typical bounce messages that may come about due to ACL
561processing or failure delivery issues).
562
563In order to log statistics suitable to be imported by the opendmarc
564tools, you need to:
565a. Configure the global setting dmarc_history_file.
566b. Configure cron jobs to call the appropriate opendmarc history
567 import scripts and truncating the dmarc_history_file.
568
569In order to send forensic reports, you need to:
570a. Configure the global setting dmarc_forensic_sender.
571b. Configure, somewhere before the DATA ACL, the control option to
572 enable sending DMARC forensic reports.
573
574
5756. Example usage:
576(RCPT ACL)
577 warn domains = +local_domains
578 hosts = +local_hosts
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581 warn !domains = +screwed_up_dmarc_records
582 control = dmarc_enable_forensic
583
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584 warn condition = (lookup if destined to mailing list)
585 set acl_m_mailing_list = 1
586
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587(DATA ACL)
588 warn dmarc_status = accept : none : off
589 !authenticated = *
590 log_message = DMARC DEBUG: $dmarc_status $dmarc_used_domain
591 add_header = $dmarc_ar_header
592
593 warn dmarc_status = !accept
594 !authenticated = *
595 log_message = DMARC DEBUG: '$dmarc_status' for $dmarc_used_domain
596
597 warn dmarc_status = quarantine
598 !authenticated = *
599 set $acl_m_quarantine = 1
600 # Do something in a transport with this flag variable
601
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602 deny condition = ${if eq{$dmarc_domain_policy}{reject}}
603 condition = ${if eq{$acl_m_mailing_list}{1}}
604 message = Messages from $dmarc_used_domain break mailing lists
605
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607 !authenticated = *
7b2f71c1 608 message = Message from $dmarc_used_domain failed sender's DMARC policy, REJECT
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610
611
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612DANE
613------------------------------------------------------------
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614DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, as applied
615to SMTP over TLS, provides assurance to a client that
616it is actually talking to the server it wants to rather
617than some attacker operating a Man In The Middle (MITM)
618operation. The latter can terminate the TLS connection
619you make, and make another one to the server (so both
620you and the server still think you have an encrypted
621connection) and, if one of the "well known" set of
622Certificate Authorities has been suborned - something
623which *has* been seen already (2014), a verifiable
624certificate (if you're using normal root CAs, eg. the
625Mozilla set, as your trust anchors).
626
627What DANE does is replace the CAs with the DNS as the
628trust anchor. The assurance is limited to a) the possibility
629that the DNS has been suborned, b) mistakes made by the
630admins of the target server. The attack surface presented
631by (a) is thought to be smaller than that of the set
632of root CAs.
633
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634It also allows the server to declare (implicitly) that
635connections to it should use TLS. An MITM could simply
636fail to pass on a server's STARTTLS.
637
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638DANE scales better than having to maintain (and
639side-channel communicate) copies of server certificates
640for every possible target server. It also scales
641(slightly) better than having to maintain on an SMTP
642client a copy of the standard CAs bundle. It also
643means not having to pay a CA for certificates.
644
645DANE requires a server operator to do three things:
6461) run DNSSEC. This provides assurance to clients
647that DNS lookups they do for the server have not
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648been tampered with. The domain MX record applying
649to this server, its A record, its TLSA record and
650any associated CNAME records must all be covered by
651DNSSEC.
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6522) add TLSA DNS records. These say what the server
653certificate for a TLS connection should be.
6543) offer a server certificate, or certificate chain,
655in TLS connections which is traceable to the one
656defined by (one of?) the TSLA records
657
658There are no changes to Exim specific to server-side
659operation of DANE.
660
661The TLSA record for the server may have "certificate
0e66b3b6 662usage" of DANE-TA(2) or DANE-EE(3). The latter specifies
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663the End Entity directly, i.e. the certificate involved
664is that of the server (and should be the sole one transmitted
665during the TLS handshake); this is appropriate for a
666single system, using a self-signed certificate.
0e66b3b6 667 DANE-TA usage is effectively declaring a specific CA
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668to be used; this might be a private CA or a public,
669well-known one. A private CA at simplest is just
670a self-signed certificate which is used to sign
671cerver certificates, but running one securely does
672require careful arrangement. If a private CA is used
673then either all clients must be primed with it, or
674(probably simpler) the server TLS handshake must transmit
675the entire certificate chain from CA to server-certificate.
676If a public CA is used then all clients must be primed with it
677(losing one advantage of DANE) - but the attack surface is
678reduced from all public CAs to that single CA.
0e66b3b6 679DANE-TA is commonly used for several services and/or
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680servers, each having a TLSA query-domain CNAME record,
681all of which point to a single TLSA record.
682
683The TLSA record should have a Selector field of SPKI(1)
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684and a Matching Type field of SHA2-512(2).
685
686At the time of writing, https://www.huque.com/bin/gen_tlsa
687is useful for quickly generating TLSA records; and commands like
688
689 openssl x509 -in -pubkey -noout <certificate.pem \
690 | openssl rsa -outform der -pubin 2>/dev/null \
691 | openssl sha512 \
692 | awk '{print $2}'
693
694are workable for 4th-field hashes.
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0e66b3b6 696For use with the DANE-TA model, server certificates
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697must have a correct name (SubjectName or SubjectAltName).
698
699The use of OCSP-stapling should be considered, allowing
700for fast revocation of certificates (which would otherwise
eeb9276b 701be limited by the DNS TTL on the TLSA records). However,
0e66b3b6 702this is likely to only be usable with DANE-TA. NOTE: the
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703default of requesting OCSP for all hosts is modified iff
704DANE is in use, to:
705
706 hosts_request_ocsp = ${if or { {= {0}{$tls_out_tlsa_usage}} \
707 {= {4}{$tls_out_tlsa_usage}} } \
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710The (new) variable $tls_out_tlsa_usage is a bitfield with
711numbered bits set for TLSA record usage codes.
712The zero above means DANE was not in use,
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713the four means that only DANE-TA usage TLSA records were
714found. If the definition of hosts_request_ocsp includes the
715string "tls_out_tlsa_usage", they are re-expanded in time to
716control the OCSP request.
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fca41d5a 718This modification of hosts_request_ocsp is only done if
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720those who use hosts_require_ocsp, should consider the interaction
721with DANE in their OCSP settings.
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723
7a31d643 724For client-side DANE there are two new smtp transport options,
4b0fe319 725hosts_try_dane and hosts_require_dane.
7a31d643 726[ should they be domain-based rather than host-based? ]
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728Hosts_require_dane will result in failure if the target host
729is not DNSSEC-secured.
730
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731DANE will only be usable if the target host has DNSSEC-secured
732MX, A and TLSA records.
733
0e66b3b6 734A TLSA lookup will be done if either of the above options match
4c04137d 735and the host-lookup succeeded using dnssec.
3750d68d 736If a TLSA lookup is done and succeeds, a DANE-verified TLS connection
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737will be required for the host. If it does not, the host will not
738be used; there is no fallback to non-DANE or non-TLS.
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740If DANE is requested and useable (see above) the following transport
741options are ignored:
0e66b3b6 742 hosts_require_tls
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743 tls_verify_hosts
744 tls_try_verify_hosts
745 tls_verify_certificates
746 tls_crl
747 tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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750verification evaluation is wanted, the above variables should be set
751appropriately.
752
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753Currently dnssec_request_domains must be active (need to think about that)
754and dnssec_require_domains is ignored.
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756If verification was successful using DANE then the "CV" item
757in the delivery log line will show as "CV=dane".
758
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759There is a new variable $tls_out_dane which will have "yes" if
760verification succeeded using DANE and "no" otherwise (only useful
8d692470 761in combination with EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT), and a new variable
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762$tls_out_tlsa_usage (detailed above).
763
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765
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768DSN extra information
769---------------------
770If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO extra information will be added
771to DSN fail messages ("bounces"), when available. The intent is to aid
772tracing of specific failing messages, when presented with a "bounce"
773complaint and needing to search logs.
774
775
776The remote MTA IP address, with port number if nonstandard.
777Example:
778 Remote-MTA: X-ip; [127.0.0.1]:587
779Rationale:
780 Several addresses may correspond to the (already available)
781 dns name for the remote MTA.
782
783The remote MTA connect-time greeting.
784Example:
785 X-Remote-MTA-smtp-greeting: X-str; 220 the.local.host.name ESMTP Exim x.yz Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:44:33 +0000
786Rationale:
787 This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's idea of its
788 own name, and sometimes identifies the MTA software.
789
790The remote MTA response to HELO or EHLO.
791Example:
792 X-Remote-MTA-helo-response: X-str; 250-the.local.host.name Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
793Limitations:
794 Only the first line of a multiline response is recorded.
795Rationale:
796 This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's view of
797 the peer IP connecting to it.
798
799The reporting MTA detailed diagnostic.
800Example:
801 X-Exim-Diagnostic: X-str; SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<d3@myhost.test.ex>: 550 hard error
802Rationale:
4c04137d 803 This string sometimes give extra information over the
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804 existing (already available) Diagnostic-Code field.
805
806
807Note that non-RFC-documented field names and data types are used.
808
809
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810LMDB Lookup support
811-------------------
812LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store.
4c04137d 813It is modeled loosely on the BerkeleyDB API. You should read about the feature
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814set as well as operation modes at https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/
815
816LMDB single key lookup support is provided by linking to the LMDB C library.
817The current implementation does not support writing to the LMDB database.
818
819Visit https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb to download the library or find it in your
820operating systems package repository.
821
822If building from source, this description assumes that headers will be in
823/usr/local/include, and that the libraries are in /usr/local/lib.
824
8251. In order to build exim with LMDB lookup support add or uncomment
826
827EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
828
829to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
830Experimental_LMDB in the line "Support for:".
831
832EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
833LDFLAGS += -llmdb
834# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
835# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
836
837The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
838the second line says to link the LMDB libraries into the
839exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
840built LMDB from source and installed in the default location.
841Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
842need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
843package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
844
8452. Create your LMDB files, you can use the mdb_load utility which is
846part of the LMDB distribution our your favourite language bindings.
847
8483. Add the single key lookups to your exim.conf file, example lookups
849are below.
850
851${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}}
852${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}fail}
853${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}}
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856Queuefile transport
857-------------------
858Queuefile is a pseudo transport which does not perform final delivery.
859It simply copies the exim spool files out of the spool directory into
860an external directory retaining the exim spool format.
861
862The spool files can then be processed by external processes and then
863requeued into exim spool directories for final delivery.
864
865The motivation/inspiration for the transport is to allow external
866processes to access email queued by exim and have access to all the
867information which would not be available if the messages were delivered
868to the process in the standard email formats.
869
870The mailscanner package is one of the processes that can take advantage
871of this transport to filter email.
872
873The transport can be used in the same way as the other existing transports,
874i.e by configuring a router to route mail to a transport configured with
875the queuefile driver.
876
877The transport only takes one option:
878
879* directory - This is used to specify the directory messages should be
880copied to
881
882The generic transport options (body_only, current_directory, disable_logging,
883debug_print, delivery_date_add, envelope_to_add, event_action, group,
884headers_add, headers_only, headers_remove, headers_rewrite, home_directory,
885initgroups, max_parallel, message_size_limit, rcpt_include_affixes,
886retry_use_local_part, return_path, return_path_add, shadow_condition,
887shadow_transport, transport_filter, transport_filter_timeout, user) are
888ignored.
889
890Sample configuration:
891
892(Router)
893
894scan:
895 driver = accept
896 transport = scan
897
898(Transport)
899
900scan:
901 driver = queuefile
902 directory = /var/spool/baruwa-scanner/input
903
904
905In order to build exim with Queuefile transport support add or uncomment
906
907EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE=yes
908
909to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
910Experimental_QUEUEFILE in the line "Support for:".
911
912
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