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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
5about experimental features, all of which are unstable and
6liable to incompatible change.
7
8
9Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) support
10--------------------------------------------------------------
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
33 2) Set up main BMI options (top section of Exim config file)
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
40These four steps are explained in more details below.
41
421) Adding support for BMI at compile time
43
44 To compile with BMI support, you need to link Exim against
45 the Brightmail client SDK, consisting of a library
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
52 CFLAGS=-I/path/to/the/dir/with/the/includefile
53 EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/path/to/the/dir/with/the/library -lbmiclient_single
54
55 If you use other CFLAGS or EXTRALIBS_EXIM settings then
56 merge the content of these lines with them.
57
58 Note for BMI6.x users: You'll also have to add -lxml2_single
59 to the EXTRALIBS_EXIM line. Users of 5.5x do not need to do
60 this.
61
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
692) Setting up BMI support in the Exim main configuration
70
71 To enable BMI support in the main Exim configuration, you
72 should set the path to the main BMI configuration file with
73 the "bmi_config_file" option, like this:
74
75 bmi_config_file = /opt/brightmail/etc/brightmail.cfg
76
77 This must go into section 1 of Exim's configuration file (You
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.
84
85
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
96 the "accept" blocks from Exim's default configuration file:
97
98
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
108
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
119 at that stage. From Exim's view, a verdict can have the
120 following outcomes:
121
122 o deliver the message normally
123 o deliver the message to an alternate location
124 o do not deliver the message
125
126 To query the verdict for a recipient, the implementation
127 offers the following tools:
128
129
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:
134
135 o bmi_deliver_default
136
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.
141
142 o bmi_deliver_alternate
143
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.
150
151 o bmi_dont_deliver
152
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:
157
158 # don't deliver messages handled by the BMI server
159 bmi_blackhole:
160 driver = redirect
161 bmi_dont_deliver
162 data = :blackhole:
163
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.
168
169
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:
175
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
181
182
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:
187
188 o $bmi_base64_verdict
189
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:
193
194 localuser:
195 driver = accept
196 check_local_user
197 headers_add = X-Brightmail-Verdict: $bmi_base64_verdict
198 transport = local_delivery
199
200 If there is no verdict available for the recipient being
201 routed, this variable contains the empty string.
202
203 o $bmi_base64_tracker_verdict
204
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:
209
210 localuser:
211 driver = accept
212 check_local_user
213 headers_add = X-Brightmail-Tracker: $bmi_base64_tracker_verdict
214 transport = local_delivery
215
216 If there is no verdict available for the recipient being
217 routed, this variable contains the empty string.
218
219 o $bmi_alt_location
220
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.
229
230 o $bmi_deliver
231
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.
235
236 $bmi_deliver is '0': the message should NOT be delivered.
237 $bmi_deliver is '1': the message should be delivered.
238
239
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.
248
249
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
257 already look up recipient data in Exim anyway (which can
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'.
269
270 The file format:
271
272 user1@mydomain.com: <OPTIN STRING1>:<OPTIN STRING2>
273 user2@thatdomain.com: <OPTIN STRING3>
274
275
276 The example:
277
278 accept domains = +relay_to_domains
279 endpass
280 verify = recipient
281 bmi_optin = ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}lsearch{/etc/exim/bmi_optin_data}}
282 control = bmi_run
283
284 Of course, you can also use any other lookup method that
285 Exim supports, including LDAP, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle etc.,
286 as long as the result is a list of colon-separated opt-in
287 strings.
288
289 For a list of available opt-in strings, please contact your
290 Brightmail representative.
291
292
293
294
295SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support
296--------------------------------------------------------------
297
298Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's
299libsrs_alt library. The current version of the supported
300library is 0.5, there are reports of 1.0 working.
301
302In order to use SRS, you must get a copy of libsrs_alt from
303
304https://opsec.eu/src/srs/
305
306(not the original source, which has disappeared.)
307
308Unpack the tarball, then refer to MTAs/README.EXIM
309to proceed. You need to set
310
311EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes
312
313in your Local/Makefile.
314
315
316
317DCC Support
318--------------------------------------------------------------
319Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse; http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
320
321*) Building exim
322
323In order to build exim with DCC support add
324
325EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes
326
327to your Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
328EXPERIMENTAL_DCC under "Support for".
329
330
331*) Configuration
332
333In the main section of exim.cf add at least
334 dccifd_address = /usr/local/dcc/var/dccifd
335or
336 dccifd_address = <ip> <port>
337
338In the DATA ACL you can use the new condition
339 dcc = *
340
341After that "$dcc_header" contains the X-DCC-Header.
342
343Return values are:
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 $acl_m_dcc_add_header
367to tell the DCC routines to add more information; eg, you might set
368this to some results from ClamAV. Be careful. Header syntax is
369not checked and is added "as is".
370
371In case you've troubles with sites sending the same queue items from several
372hosts and fail to get through greylisting you can use
373$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
389Use a reasonable IP. eg. one the sending cluster actually uses.
390
391
392
393DMARC Support
394--------------------------------------------------------------
395
396DMARC combines feedback from SPF, DKIM, and header From: in order
397to attempt to provide better indicators of the authenticity of an
398email. This document does not explain the fundamentals, you
399should read and understand how it works by visiting the website at
400http://www.dmarc.org/.
401
402DMARC support is added via the libopendmarc library. Visit:
403
404 http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendmarc/
405
406to obtain a copy, or find it in your favorite rpm package
407repository. If building from source, this description assumes
408that headers will be in /usr/local/include, and that the libraries
409are in /usr/local/lib.
410
4111. To compile Exim with DMARC support, you must first enable SPF.
412Please read the Local/Makefile comments on enabling the SUPPORT_SPF
413feature. You must also have DKIM support, so you cannot set the
414DISABLE_DKIM feature. Once both of those conditions have been met
415you can enable DMARC in Local/Makefile:
416
417EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC=yes
418LDFLAGS += -lopendmarc
419# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
420# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
421
422The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
423the second line says to link the libopendmarc libraries into the
424exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
425built opendmarc from source and installed in the default location.
426Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
427need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
428package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
429
430
4312. Use the following global settings to configure DMARC:
432
433Required:
434dmarc_tld_file Defines the location of a text file of valid
435 top level domains the opendmarc library uses
436 during domain parsing. Maintained by Mozilla,
437 the most current version can be downloaded
438 from a link at http://publicsuffix.org/list/.
439
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
463 control = dmarc_disable_verify
464
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
476 control = dmarc_enable_forensic
477
478(AGAIN: You can choose not to send these forensic reports by simply
479not putting the dmarc_enable_forensic control line at any point in
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.
506 o none The DMARC check passed and the library recommends
507 no specific action, neutral.
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.
511 o temperror Library error or dns error.
512 o off The DMARC check was disabled for this email.
513
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
524result is a list of colon-separated strings.
525
526Performing the check sets up information used by the
527${authresults } expansion item.
528
529Several expansion variables are set before the DATA ACL is
530processed, and you can use them in this ACL. The following
531expansion variables are available:
532
533 o $dmarc_status
534 This is a one word status indicating what the DMARC library
535 thinks of the email. It is a combination of the results of
536 DMARC record lookup and the SPF/DKIM/DMARC processing results
537 (if a DMARC record was found). The actual policy declared
538 in the DMARC record is in a separate expansion variable.
539
540 o $dmarc_status_text
541 This is a slightly longer, human readable status.
542
543 o $dmarc_used_domain
544 This is the domain which DMARC used to look up the DMARC
545 policy record.
546
547 o $dmarc_domain_policy
548 This is the policy declared in the DMARC record. Valid values
549 are "none", "reject" and "quarantine". It is blank when there
550 is any error, including no DMARC record.
551
552A now-redundant variable $dmarc_ar_header has now been withdrawn.
553Use the ${authresults } expansion instead.
554
555
5565. How to enable DMARC advanced operation:
557By default, Exim's DMARC configuration is intended to be
558non-intrusive and conservative. To facilitate this, Exim will not
559create any type of logging files without explicit configuration by
560you, the admin. Nor will Exim send out any emails/reports about
561DMARC issues without explicit configuration by you, the admin (other
562than typical bounce messages that may come about due to ACL
563processing or failure delivery issues).
564
565In order to log statistics suitable to be imported by the opendmarc
566tools, you need to:
567a. Configure the global setting dmarc_history_file.
568b. Configure cron jobs to call the appropriate opendmarc history
569 import scripts and truncating the dmarc_history_file.
570
571In order to send forensic reports, you need to:
572a. Configure the global setting dmarc_forensic_sender.
573b. Configure, somewhere before the DATA ACL, the control option to
574 enable sending DMARC forensic reports.
575
576
5776. Example usage:
578(RCPT ACL)
579 warn domains = +local_domains
580 hosts = +local_hosts
581 control = dmarc_disable_verify
582
583 warn !domains = +screwed_up_dmarc_records
584 control = dmarc_enable_forensic
585
586 warn condition = (lookup if destined to mailing list)
587 set acl_m_mailing_list = 1
588
589(DATA ACL)
590 warn dmarc_status = accept : none : off
591 !authenticated = *
592 log_message = DMARC DEBUG: $dmarc_status $dmarc_used_domain
593
594 warn dmarc_status = !accept
595 !authenticated = *
596 log_message = DMARC DEBUG: '$dmarc_status' for $dmarc_used_domain
597
598 warn dmarc_status = quarantine
599 !authenticated = *
600 set $acl_m_quarantine = 1
601 # Do something in a transport with this flag variable
602
603 deny condition = ${if eq{$dmarc_domain_policy}{reject}}
604 condition = ${if eq{$acl_m_mailing_list}{1}}
605 message = Messages from $dmarc_used_domain break mailing lists
606
607 deny dmarc_status = reject
608 !authenticated = *
609 message = Message from $dmarc_used_domain failed sender's DMARC policy, REJECT
610
611 warn add_header = :at_start:${authresults {$primary_hostname}}
612
613
614
615DSN extra information
616---------------------
617If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO extra information will be added
618to DSN fail messages ("bounces"), when available. The intent is to aid
619tracing of specific failing messages, when presented with a "bounce"
620complaint and needing to search logs.
621
622
623The remote MTA IP address, with port number if nonstandard.
624Example:
625 Remote-MTA: X-ip; [127.0.0.1]:587
626Rationale:
627 Several addresses may correspond to the (already available)
628 dns name for the remote MTA.
629
630The remote MTA connect-time greeting.
631Example:
632 X-Remote-MTA-smtp-greeting: X-str; 220 the.local.host.name ESMTP Exim x.yz Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:44:33 +0000
633Rationale:
634 This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's idea of its
635 own name, and sometimes identifies the MTA software.
636
637The remote MTA response to HELO or EHLO.
638Example:
639 X-Remote-MTA-helo-response: X-str; 250-the.local.host.name Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
640Limitations:
641 Only the first line of a multiline response is recorded.
642Rationale:
643 This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's view of
644 the peer IP connecting to it.
645
646The reporting MTA detailed diagnostic.
647Example:
648 X-Exim-Diagnostic: X-str; SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<d3@myhost.test.ex>: 550 hard error
649Rationale:
650 This string sometimes give extra information over the
651 existing (already available) Diagnostic-Code field.
652
653
654Note that non-RFC-documented field names and data types are used.
655
656
657LMDB Lookup support
658-------------------
659LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store.
660It is modeled loosely on the BerkeleyDB API. You should read about the feature
661set as well as operation modes at https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/
662
663LMDB single key lookup support is provided by linking to the LMDB C library.
664The current implementation does not support writing to the LMDB database.
665
666Visit https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb to download the library or find it in your
667operating systems package repository.
668
669If building from source, this description assumes that headers will be in
670/usr/local/include, and that the libraries are in /usr/local/lib.
671
6721. In order to build exim with LMDB lookup support add or uncomment
673
674EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
675
676to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
677Experimental_LMDB in the line "Support for:".
678
679EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
680LDFLAGS += -llmdb
681# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
682# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
683
684The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
685the second line says to link the LMDB libraries into the
686exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
687built LMDB from source and installed in the default location.
688Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
689need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
690package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
691
6922. Create your LMDB files, you can use the mdb_load utility which is
693part of the LMDB distribution our your favourite language bindings.
694
6953. Add the single key lookups to your exim.conf file, example lookups
696are below.
697
698${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}}
699${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}fail}
700${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}}
701
702
703Queuefile transport
704-------------------
705Queuefile is a pseudo transport which does not perform final delivery.
706It simply copies the exim spool files out of the spool directory into
707an external directory retaining the exim spool format.
708
709The spool files can then be processed by external processes and then
710requeued into exim spool directories for final delivery.
711
712The motivation/inspiration for the transport is to allow external
713processes to access email queued by exim and have access to all the
714information which would not be available if the messages were delivered
715to the process in the standard email formats.
716
717The mailscanner package is one of the processes that can take advantage
718of this transport to filter email.
719
720The transport can be used in the same way as the other existing transports,
721i.e by configuring a router to route mail to a transport configured with
722the queuefile driver.
723
724The transport only takes one option:
725
726* directory - This is used to specify the directory messages should be
727copied to. Expanded.
728
729The generic transport options (body_only, current_directory, disable_logging,
730debug_print, delivery_date_add, envelope_to_add, event_action, group,
731headers_add, headers_only, headers_remove, headers_rewrite, home_directory,
732initgroups, max_parallel, message_size_limit, rcpt_include_affixes,
733retry_use_local_part, return_path, return_path_add, shadow_condition,
734shadow_transport, transport_filter, transport_filter_timeout, user) are
735ignored.
736
737Sample configuration:
738
739(Router)
740
741scan:
742 driver = accept
743 transport = scan
744
745(Transport)
746
747scan:
748 driver = queuefile
749 directory = /var/spool/baruwa-scanner/input
750
751
752In order to build exim with Queuefile transport support add or uncomment
753
754EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE=yes
755
756to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
757Experimental_QUEUEFILE in the line "Support for:".
758
759
760ARC support
761-----------
762Specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-11
763Note that this is not an RFC yet, so may change.
764
765ARC is intended to support the utility of SPF and DKIM in the presence of
766intermediaries in the transmission path - forwarders and mailinglists -
767by establishing a cryptographically-signed chain in headers.
768
769Normally one would only bother doing ARC-signing when functioning as
770an intermediary. One might do verify for local destinations.
771
772ARC uses the notion of a "ADministrative Management Domain" (ADMD).
773Described in RFC 5598 (section 2.3), this is essentially the set of
774mail-handling systems that the mail transits. A label should be chosen to
775identify the ADMD. Messages should be ARC-verified on entry to the ADMD,
776and ARC-signed on exit from it.
777
778
779Verification
780--
781An ACL condition is provided to perform the "verifier actions" detailed
782in section 6 of the above specification. It may be called from the DATA ACL
783and succeeds if the result matches any of a given list.
784It also records the highest ARC instance number (the chain size)
785and verification result for later use in creating an Authentication-Results:
786standard header.
787
788 verify = arc/<acceptable_list> none:fail:pass
789
790 add_header = :at_start:${authresults {<admd-identifier>}}
791
792 Note that it would be wise to strip incoming messages of A-R headers
793 that claim to be from our own <admd-identifier>.
794
795There are two new variables: $arc_state and $arc_state_reason.
796
797Receive log lines for an ARC pass will be tagged "ARC".
798
799
800Signing
801--
802arc_sign = <admd-identifier> : <selector> : <privkey>
803An option on the smtp transport, which constructs and prepends to the message
804an ARC set of headers. The textually-first Authentication-Results: header
805is used as a basis (you must have added one on entry to the ADMD).
806Expanded as a whole; if unset, empty or forced-failure then no signing is done.
807If it is set, all three elements must be non-empty.
808
809Caveats:
810 * There must be an Authentication-Results header, presumably added by an ACL
811 while receiving the message, for the same ADMD, for arc_sign to succeed.
812 This requires careful coordination between inbound and outbound logic.
813 * If passing a message to another system, such as a mailing-list manager
814 (MLM), between receipt and sending, be wary of manipulations to headers made
815 by the MLM.
816 + For instance, Mailman with REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS==3 might improve
817 deliverability in a pre-ARC world, but that option also renames the
818 Authentication-Results header, which breaks signing.
819 * Even if you use multiple DKIM keys for different domains, the ARC concept
820 should try to stick to one ADMD, so pick a primary domain and use that for
821 AR headers and outbound signing.
822
823
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