-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt,v 1.8 2007/09/28 12:58:41 tom Exp $
-
From time to time, experimental features may be added to Exim.
While a feature is experimental, there will be a build-time
option whose name starts "EXPERIMENTAL_" that must be set in
order to include the feature. This file contains information
-about experimenatal features, all of which are unstable and
-liable to incompatibile change.
-
-
-0. DKIM support
---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-DKIM support is implemented via libdkim. A compatible version
-is available here:
-
-http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/libdkim-1.0.15-tk.tar.gz
-
-Build the lib according to the instructions in the enclosed
-INSTALL file.
-
-To build Exim with DKIM support, specify this in Local/Makefile:
-
-EXPERIMENTAL_DKIM=yes
-CFLAGS += -I/home/tom/libdkim/include
-LDFLAGS += -ldkim -lssl -lstdc++ -L/home/tom/libdkim/lib
-
-Remember to tweak the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS lines to match the
-location of the libdomainkeys includes and lib on your system.
-
-The current experimental implementation supports two independent
-functions:
-
-o Validate incoming DKIM-signed email.
-o Sign outgoing email with DKIM.
-
-The former is implemented in the ACLs for SMTP, the latter as
-an extension to the SMTP transport. That means both facilities
-are limited to SMTP I/O.
-
-
-1) Validate incoming email
-
-Incoming messages are fed to the DKIM validation process as they
-are received "on the wire". This happens synchronously to Exim's
-buffering of the message in the spool.
-
-You must set "control = dkim_verify" in one of the ACLs preceding
-DATA (you will typically use acl_smtp_rcpt), at a point where
-non-local, non-relay, non-submission mail is processed. If that
-control flag is not set, the message will NOT be verified.
-
-Example:
-
-warn log_message = Feeding message to DKIM validator.
- control = dk_verify
-
-You can then check for DKIM signatures in the ACL after data
-(acl_smtp_data), using the 'dkim' query-style lookup type. The
-query string should be a domain or DKIM identity:
-
-${lookup dkim{domain.example}}
-
-Such a lookup will yield one of the following strings:
-
-unverified: Exim did not (yet) verify the eventual DKIM
- signatures in this message. This may happen
- if a) You did not use control=dkim_verify
- or b) You are using the lookup before
- the DATA ACL.
-
-unsigned: The message does not have a signature from
- the specified domain.
-
-good: The message has a signature from the specified
- domain, and it verified successfully.
-
-bad: The message has a signature from the specified
- domain, but it did not verify.
-
-defer: A temporary DNS problem was encountered while
- trying to verify the signature.
-
-
-
-2) Sign outgoing email with DKIM
-
-Outgoing messages are signed just before Exim puts them "on
-the wire". The only thing that happens after DKIM signing is
-eventual TLS encryption.
-
-Signing is implemented by setting private options on the SMTP
-transport. These options take (expandable) strings as
-arguments.
-
- dkim_domain = <expanded string> [MANDATORY]
-
- The domain you want to sign with. Should optimally match
- the domain in the "From:" header of the message, but
- does not necessarily have to. The result of this expanded
- option is put into the $dkim_domain expansion variable.
-
- dkim_selector = <expanded string> [MANDATORY]
-
- This sets the key selector string. You can use the
- $dkim_domain expansion variable to look up a matching
- selector. The result is put in the expansion variable
- $dkim_selector which should be used in the dkim_private_key
- option along with $dkim_domain.
-
- dkim_private_key = <expanded string> [MANDATORY]
-
- This sets the private key to use. You can use the
- $dkim_domain and $dkim_selector expansion variables to
- determine the private key to use. The result can either
-
- o be a valid RSA private key in ASCII armor, including
- line breaks.
- o start with a slash, in which case it is treated as
- a file that contains the private key.
- o be "0", "false" or the empty string, in which case
- the message will not be signed. This case will not
- result in an error, even if dkim_strict is set.
-
- dkim_canon = <expanded string> [OPTIONAL]
-
- This option sets the canonicalization method used when
- signing a message. The DKIM RFC currently supports two
- methods: "simple" and "relaxed". The option defaults to
- "relaxed" when unset. Note: the current implementation
- only support using the same canonicalization method for
- both headers and body.
-
- dkim_strict = <expanded string> [OPTIONAL]
-
- This option defines how Exim behaves when signing a
- message that should be signed fails for some reason. When
- the expansion evaluates to either "1" or "true", Exim will
- defer. Otherwise Exim will send the message unsigned. You
- can use the $dkim_domain and $dkim_selector expansion
- variables here.
-
-
-
-
-
-1. Yahoo DomainKeys support
---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-DomainKeys (DK) support is built into Exim using the
-"libdomainkeys" reference library implementation. It is
-available at
-
-http://domainkeys.sf.net
-
-You must build this library on your system and compile Exim
-against it. To build Exim with DK support, add these lines to
-your Local/Makefile:
-
-EXPERIMENTAL_DOMAINKEYS=yes
-CFLAGS += -I/home/tom/exim-cvs/extra/libdomainkeys
-LDFLAGS += -ldomainkeys -L/home/tom/exim-cvs/extra/libdomainkeys
-
-Remember to tweak the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS lines to match the
-location of the libdomainkeys includes and lib on your system.
-
-The current experimental implementation supports two
-independent functions:
-
-o Validate incoming DK-signed email.
-o Sign outgoing email with DK.
-
-The former is implemented in the ACLs for SMTP, the latter as
-an extension to the SMTP transport. That means both facilities
-are limited to SMTP I/O.
-
-
-
-1) Validate incoming email
-
-Incoming messages are fed to the DK validation process as they
-are received "on the wire". This happens synchronously to
-Exim's buffering of the message in the spool.
-
-You must set "control = dk_verify" in one of the ACLs
-preceding DATA (you will typically use acl_smtp_rcpt), at a
-point where non-local, non-relay, non-submission mail is
-processed. If that control flag is not set, the message will
-NOT be verified.
-
-Example:
-
-warn log_message = Feeding message to DK validator.
- control = dk_verify
-
-You can check for the outcome of the DK check in the ACL after
-data (acl_smtp_data), using a number of ACL conditions and/or
-expansion variables.
-
-
-
-1.1.) DK ACL conditions
-
- dk_sender_domains = <domain list>
-
- This condition takes a domainlist as argument and
- succeeds if the domain that DK has been verifying for is
- found in the list.
-
-
- dk_senders = <address list>
-
- This condition takes an addresslist as argument and
- succeeds if the address that DK has been verifying for
- is found in the list.
-
-
- dk_sender_local_parts = <local part list>
-
- This condition takes a local_part list as argument
- and succeeds if the domain that DK has been
- verifying for is found in the list.
-
-
- dk_status = <colon separated list of keywords>
-
- This condition takes a list of keywords as argument, and
- succeeds if one of the listed keywords matches the outcome
- of the DK check. The available keywords are:
-
- good DK check succeeded, mail is verified.
- bad DK check failed.
- no signature Mail is not signed with DK.
- no key Public key missing in target domain DNS.
- bad format Public key available, but unuseable.
- non-participant Target domain states not to participate in DK.
- revoked The signing key has been revoked by the domain.
-
-
- dk_policy = <colon separated list of keywords>
-
- This condition takes a list of keywords as argument, and
- succeeds if one of the listed keywords matches the policy
- announced by the target domain. The available keywords
- are:
-
- signsall The target domain signs all outgoing email.
- testing The target domain is currently testing DK.
-
-
- dk_domain_source = <colon separated list of keywords>
-
- This condition takes a list of keywords as argument, and
- succeeds if one of the listed keywords matches the
- location where DK found the sender domain it verified for.
- The available keywords are:
-
- from The domain came from the "From:" header.
- sender The domain came from the "Sender:" header.
- none DK was unable to find the responsible domain.
-
-
-
-1.2.) DK verification expansion variables
-
- $dk_sender_domain
-
- Contains the domain that DK has verified for.
-
-
- $dk_sender
-
- Contains the address that DK has verified for.
-
-
- $dk_sender_local_part
-
- Contains the local part that DK has verified for.
-
-
- $dk_sender_source
-
- Contains the "source" of the above three variables, one of
-
- "from" The address came from the "From:" header.
- "sender" The address came from the "Sender:" header.
-
- When DK was unable to find a valid address, this variable
- is "0".
-
-
- $dk_signsall
-
- Is "1" if the target domain signs all outgoing email,
- "0" otherwise.
+about experimental features, all of which are unstable and
+liable to incompatible change.
- $dk_testing
-
- Is "1" if the target domain is testing DK, "0" otherwise.
-
-
- $dk_is_signed
-
- Is "1" if the message is signed, "0" otherwise.
-
-
- $dk_status
-
- Contains the outcome of the DK check as a string, commonly
- used to add a "DomainKey-Status:" header to messages. Will
- contain one of:
-
- good DK check succeeded, mail is verified.
- bad DK check failed.
- no signature Mail is not signed with DK.
- no key Public key missing in target domain DNS.
- bad format Public key available, but unuseable.
- non-participant Target domain states not to participate in DK.
- revoked The signing key has been revoked by the domain.
-
-
- $dk_result
-
- Contains a human-readable result of the DK check, more
- verbose than $dk_status. Useful for logging purposes.
-
-
-
-2) Sign outgoing email with DK
-
-Outgoing messages are signed just before Exim puts them "on
-the wire". The only thing that happens after DK signing is
-eventual TLS encryption.
-
-Signing is implemented by setting private options on the SMTP
-transport. These options take (expandable) strings as
-arguments. The most important variable to use in these
-expansions is $dk_domain. It contains the domain that DK wants
-to sign for.
-
-
- dk_selector = <expanded string> [MANDATORY]
-
- This sets the key selector string. You can use the
- $dk_domain expansion variable to look up a matching
- selector. The result is put in the expansion variable
- $dk_selector which should be used in the dk_private_key
- option along with $dk_domain.
-
-
- dk_private_key = <expanded string> [MANDATORY]
-
- This sets the private key to use. You SHOULD use the
- $dk_domain and $dk_selector expansion variables to
- determine the private key to use. The result can either
-
- o be a valid RSA private key in ASCII armor, including
- line breaks.
- o start with a slash, in which case it is treated as
- a file that contains the private key.
- o be "0", "false" or the empty string, in which case
- the message will not be signed. This case will not
- result in an error, even if dk_strict is set.
-
-
- dk_canon = <expanded string> [OPTIONAL]
-
- This option sets the canonicalization method used when
- signing a message. The DK draft currently supports two
- methods: "simple" and "nofws". The option defaults to
- "simple" when unset.
-
-
- dk_strict = <expanded string> [OPTIONAL]
-
- This option defines how Exim behaves when signing a
- message that should be signed fails for some reason. When
- the expansion evaluates to either "1" or "true", Exim will
- defer. Otherwise Exim will send the message unsigned. You
- can and should use the $dk_domain and $dk_selector
- expansion variables here.
-
-
- dk_domain = <expanded string> [NOT RECOMMENDED]
-
- This option overrides DKs autodetection of the signing
- domain. You should only use this option if you know what
- you are doing. The result of the string expansion is also
- put in $dk_domain.
-
-
-
-
-2. Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) suppport
+Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) support
--------------------------------------------------------------
Brightmail AntiSpam is a commercial package. Please see
1) Adding support for BMI at compile time
To compile with BMI support, you need to link Exim against
- the Brighmail client SDK, consisting of a library
+ the Brightmail client SDK, consisting of a library
(libbmiclient_single.so) and a header file (bmi_api.h).
You'll also need to explicitly set a flag in the Makefile to
include BMI support in the Exim binary. Both can be achieved
-3. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) support
+SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support
--------------------------------------------------------------
-To learn more about SPF, visit http://spf.pobox.com. This
-document does not explain the SPF fundamentals, you should
-read and understand the implications of deploying SPF on your
-system before doing so.
-
-SPF support is added via the libspf2 library. Visit
-
- http://www.libspf2.org/
-
-to obtain a copy, then compile and install it. By default,
-this will put headers in /usr/local/include and the static
-library in /usr/local/lib.
-
-To compile Exim with SPF support, set these additional flags in
-Local/Makefile:
-
-EXPERIMENTAL_SPF=yes
-CFLAGS=-DSPF -I/usr/local/include
-EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/usr/local/lib -lspf2
-
-This assumes that the libspf2 files are installed in
-their default locations.
-
-You can now run SPF checks in incoming SMTP by using the "spf"
-ACL condition in either the MAIL, RCPT or DATA ACLs. When
-using it in the RCPT ACL, you can make the checks dependend on
-the RCPT address (or domain), so you can check SPF records
-only for certain target domains. This gives you the
-possibility to opt-out certain customers that do not want
-their mail to be subject to SPF checking.
-
-The spf condition takes a list of strings on its right-hand
-side. These strings describe the outcome of the SPF check for
-which the spf condition should succeed. Valid strings are:
-
- o pass The SPF check passed, the sending host
- is positively verified by SPF.
- o fail The SPF check failed, the sending host
- is NOT allowed to send mail for the domain
- in the envelope-from address.
- o softfail The SPF check failed, but the queried
- domain can't absolutely confirm that this
- is a forgery.
- o none The queried domain does not publish SPF
- records.
- o neutral The SPF check returned a "neutral" state.
- This means the queried domain has published
- a SPF record, but wants to allow outside
- servers to send mail under its domain as well.
- o err_perm This indicates a syntax error in the SPF
- record of the queried domain. This should be
- treated like "none".
- o err_temp This indicates a temporary error during all
- processing, including Exim's SPF processing.
- You may defer messages when this occurs.
-
-You can prefix each string with an exclamation mark to invert
-is meaning, for example "!fail" will match all results but
-"fail". The string list is evaluated left-to-right, in a
-short-circuit fashion. When a string matches the outcome of
-the SPF check, the condition succeeds. If none of the listed
-strings matches the outcome of the SPF check, the condition
-fails.
+Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's
+libsrs_alt library. The current version of the supported
+library is 0.5, there are reports of 1.0 working.
+
+In order to use SRS, you must get a copy of libsrs_alt from
+
+https://opsec.eu/src/srs/
+
+(not the original source, which has disappeared.)
+
+Unpack the tarball, then refer to MTAs/README.EXIM
+to proceed. You need to set
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes
+
+in your Local/Makefile.
+
+
+
+DCC Support
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse; http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
+
+*) Building exim
-Here is a simple example to fail forgery attempts from domains
-that publish SPF records:
+In order to build exim with DCC support add
-/* -----------------
-deny message = $sender_host_address is not allowed to send mail from $sender_address_domain
- spf = fail
---------------------- */
+EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes
-You can also give special treatment to specific domains:
+to your Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
+EXPERIMENTAL_DCC under "Support for".
-/* -----------------
-deny message = AOL sender, but not from AOL-approved relay.
- sender_domains = aol.com
- spf = fail:neutral
---------------------- */
-Explanation: AOL publishes SPF records, but is liberal and
-still allows non-approved relays to send mail from aol.com.
-This will result in a "neutral" state, while mail from genuine
-AOL servers will result in "pass". The example above takes
-this into account and treats "neutral" like "fail", but only
-for aol.com. Please note that this violates the SPF draft.
+*) Configuration
-When the spf condition has run, it sets up several expansion
-variables.
+In the main section of exim.cf add at least
+ dccifd_address = /usr/local/dcc/var/dccifd
+or
+ dccifd_address = <ip> <port>
- $spf_header_comment
- This contains a human-readable string describing the outcome
- of the SPF check. You can add it to a custom header or use
- it for logging purposes.
+In the DATA ACL you can use the new condition
+ dcc = *
- $spf_received
- This contains a complete Received-SPF: header that can be
- added to the message. Please note that according to the SPF
- draft, this header must be added at the top of the header
- list. Please see section 10 on how you can do this.
+After that "$dcc_header" contains the X-DCC-Header.
- $spf_result
- This contains the outcome of the SPF check in string form,
- one of pass, fail, softfail, none, neutral, err_perm or
- err_temp.
+Return values are:
+ fail for overall "R", "G" from dccifd
+ defer for overall "T" from dccifd
+ accept for overall "A", "S" from dccifd
- $spf_smtp_comment
- This contains a string that can be used in a SMTP response
- to the calling party. Useful for "fail".
+dcc = */defer_ok works as for spamd.
+The "$dcc_result" variable contains the overall result from DCC
+answer. There will an X-DCC: header added to the mail.
+Usually you'll use
+ defer !dcc = *
+to greylist with DCC.
-4. SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support
+If you set, in the main section,
+ dcc_direct_add_header = true
+then the dcc header will be added "in deep" and if the spool
+file was already written it gets removed. This forces Exim to
+write it again if needed. This helps to get the DCC Header
+through to eg. SpamAssassin.
+
+If you want to pass even more headers in the middle of the
+DATA stage you can set
+ $acl_m_dcc_add_header
+to tell the DCC routines to add more information; eg, you might set
+this to some results from ClamAV. Be careful. Header syntax is
+not checked and is added "as is".
+
+In case you've troubles with sites sending the same queue items from several
+hosts and fail to get through greylisting you can use
+$acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip
+
+Setting $acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip to an IP address overrides the default
+of $sender_host_address. eg. use the following ACL in DATA stage:
+
+ warn set acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip = \
+ ${lookup{$sender_helo_name}nwildlsearch{/etc/mail/multipleip_sites}{$value}{}}
+ condition = ${if def:acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip}
+ log_message = dbg: acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip set to \
+ $acl_m_dcc_override_client_ip
+
+Then set something like
+# cat /etc/mail/multipleip_sites
+mout-xforward.gmx.net 82.165.159.12
+mout.gmx.net 212.227.15.16
+
+Use a reasonable IP. eg. one the sending cluster actually uses.
+
+
+
+DMARC Support
--------------------------------------------------------------
-Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's
-libsrs_alt library. The current version of the supported
-library is 0.5.
+DMARC combines feedback from SPF, DKIM, and header From: in order
+to attempt to provide better indicators of the authenticity of an
+email. This document does not explain the fundamentals, you
+should read and understand how it works by visiting the website at
+http://www.dmarc.org/.
+
+DMARC support is added via the libopendmarc library. Visit:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendmarc/
+
+to obtain a copy, or find it in your favorite rpm package
+repository. If building from source, this description assumes
+that headers will be in /usr/local/include, and that the libraries
+are in /usr/local/lib.
+
+1. To compile Exim with DMARC support, you must first enable SPF.
+Please read the Local/Makefile comments on enabling the SUPPORT_SPF
+feature. You must also have DKIM support, so you cannot set the
+DISABLE_DKIM feature. Once both of those conditions have been met
+you can enable DMARC in Local/Makefile:
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC=yes
+LDFLAGS += -lopendmarc
+# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
+# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
+
+The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
+the second line says to link the libopendmarc libraries into the
+exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
+built opendmarc from source and installed in the default location.
+Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
+need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
+package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
+
+
+2. Use the following global settings to configure DMARC:
+
+Optional:
+dmarc_tld_file Defines the location of a text file of valid
+ top level domains the opendmarc library uses
+ during domain parsing. Maintained by Mozilla,
+ the most current version can be downloaded
+ from a link at http://publicsuffix.org/list/.
+ If unset, "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" (hardcoded)
+ is used.
+
+Optional:
+dmarc_history_file Defines the location of a file to log results
+ of dmarc verification on inbound emails. The
+ contents are importable by the opendmarc tools
+ which will manage the data, send out DMARC
+ reports, and expire the data. Make sure the
+ directory of this file is writable by the user
+ exim runs as.
+
+dmarc_forensic_sender The email address to use when sending a
+ forensic report detailing alignment failures
+ if a sender domain's dmarc record specifies it
+ and you have configured Exim to send them.
+ Default: do-not-reply@$default_hostname
+
+
+3. By default, the DMARC processing will run for any remote,
+non-authenticated user. It makes sense to only verify DMARC
+status of messages coming from remote, untrusted sources. You can
+use standard conditions such as hosts, senders, etc, to decide that
+DMARC verification should *not* be performed for them and disable
+DMARC with a control setting:
+
+ control = dmarc_disable_verify
+
+A DMARC record can also specify a "forensic address", which gives
+exim an email address to submit reports about failed alignment.
+Exim does not do this by default because in certain conditions it
+results in unintended information leakage (what lists a user might
+be subscribed to, etc). You must configure exim to submit forensic
+reports to the owner of the domain. If the DMARC record contains a
+forensic address and you specify the control statement below, then
+exim will send these forensic emails. It's also advised that you
+configure a dmarc_forensic_sender because the default sender address
+construction might be inadequate.
+
+ control = dmarc_enable_forensic
+
+(AGAIN: You can choose not to send these forensic reports by simply
+not putting the dmarc_enable_forensic control line at any point in
+your exim config. If you don't tell it to send them, it will not
+send them.)
+
+There are no options to either control. Both must appear before
+the DATA acl.
+
+
+4. You can now run DMARC checks in incoming SMTP by using the
+"dmarc_status" ACL condition in the DATA ACL. You are required to
+call the spf condition first in the ACLs, then the "dmarc_status"
+condition. Putting this condition in the ACLs is required in order
+for a DMARC check to actually occur. All of the variables are set
+up before the DATA ACL, but there is no actual DMARC check that
+occurs until a "dmarc_status" condition is encountered in the ACLs.
+
+The dmarc_status condition takes a list of strings on its
+right-hand side. These strings describe recommended action based
+on the DMARC check. To understand what the policy recommendations
+mean, refer to the DMARC website above. Valid strings are:
+
+ o accept The DMARC check passed and the library recommends
+ accepting the email.
+ o reject The DMARC check failed and the library recommends
+ rejecting the email.
+ o quarantine The DMARC check failed and the library recommends
+ keeping it for further inspection.
+ o none The DMARC check passed and the library recommends
+ no specific action, neutral.
+ o norecord No policy section in the DMARC record for this
+ sender domain.
+ o nofrom Unable to determine the domain of the sender.
+ o temperror Library error or dns error.
+ o off The DMARC check was disabled for this email.
+
+You can prefix each string with an exclamation mark to invert its
+meaning, for example "!accept" will match all results but
+"accept". The string list is evaluated left-to-right in a
+short-circuit fashion. When a string matches the outcome of the
+DMARC check, the condition succeeds. If none of the listed
+strings matches the outcome of the DMARC check, the condition
+fails.
-In order to use SRS, you must get a copy of libsrs_alt from
+Of course, you can also use any other lookup method that Exim
+supports, including LDAP, Postgres, MySQL, etc, as long as the
+result is a list of colon-separated strings.
+
+Several expansion variables are set before the DATA ACL is
+processed, and you can use them in this ACL. The following
+expansion variables are available:
+
+ o $dmarc_status
+ This is a one word status indicating what the DMARC library
+ thinks of the email. It is a combination of the results of
+ DMARC record lookup and the SPF/DKIM/DMARC processing results
+ (if a DMARC record was found). The actual policy declared
+ in the DMARC record is in a separate expansion variable.
+
+ o $dmarc_status_text
+ This is a slightly longer, human readable status.
+
+ o $dmarc_used_domain
+ This is the domain which DMARC used to look up the DMARC
+ policy record.
+
+ o $dmarc_domain_policy
+ This is the policy declared in the DMARC record. Valid values
+ are "none", "reject" and "quarantine". It is blank when there
+ is any error, including no DMARC record.
+
+ o $dmarc_ar_header
+ This is the entire Authentication-Results header which you can
+ add using an add_header modifier.
+
+
+5. How to enable DMARC advanced operation:
+By default, Exim's DMARC configuration is intended to be
+non-intrusive and conservative. To facilitate this, Exim will not
+create any type of logging files without explicit configuration by
+you, the admin. Nor will Exim send out any emails/reports about
+DMARC issues without explicit configuration by you, the admin (other
+than typical bounce messages that may come about due to ACL
+processing or failure delivery issues).
+
+In order to log statistics suitable to be imported by the opendmarc
+tools, you need to:
+a. Configure the global setting dmarc_history_file.
+b. Configure cron jobs to call the appropriate opendmarc history
+ import scripts and truncating the dmarc_history_file.
+
+In order to send forensic reports, you need to:
+a. Configure the global setting dmarc_forensic_sender.
+b. Configure, somewhere before the DATA ACL, the control option to
+ enable sending DMARC forensic reports.
+
+
+6. Example usage:
+(RCPT ACL)
+ warn domains = +local_domains
+ hosts = +local_hosts
+ control = dmarc_disable_verify
+
+ warn !domains = +screwed_up_dmarc_records
+ control = dmarc_enable_forensic
+
+ warn condition = (lookup if destined to mailing list)
+ set acl_m_mailing_list = 1
+
+(DATA ACL)
+ warn dmarc_status = accept : none : off
+ !authenticated = *
+ log_message = DMARC DEBUG: $dmarc_status $dmarc_used_domain
+ add_header = $dmarc_ar_header
+
+ warn dmarc_status = !accept
+ !authenticated = *
+ log_message = DMARC DEBUG: '$dmarc_status' for $dmarc_used_domain
+
+ warn dmarc_status = quarantine
+ !authenticated = *
+ set $acl_m_quarantine = 1
+ # Do something in a transport with this flag variable
+
+ deny condition = ${if eq{$dmarc_domain_policy}{reject}}
+ condition = ${if eq{$acl_m_mailing_list}{1}}
+ message = Messages from $dmarc_used_domain break mailing lists
+
+ deny dmarc_status = reject
+ !authenticated = *
+ message = Message from $dmarc_used_domain failed sender's DMARC policy, REJECT
+
+
+
+DANE
+------------------------------------------------------------
+DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, as applied
+to SMTP over TLS, provides assurance to a client that
+it is actually talking to the server it wants to rather
+than some attacker operating a Man In The Middle (MITM)
+operation. The latter can terminate the TLS connection
+you make, and make another one to the server (so both
+you and the server still think you have an encrypted
+connection) and, if one of the "well known" set of
+Certificate Authorities has been suborned - something
+which *has* been seen already (2014), a verifiable
+certificate (if you're using normal root CAs, eg. the
+Mozilla set, as your trust anchors).
+
+What DANE does is replace the CAs with the DNS as the
+trust anchor. The assurance is limited to a) the possibility
+that the DNS has been suborned, b) mistakes made by the
+admins of the target server. The attack surface presented
+by (a) is thought to be smaller than that of the set
+of root CAs.
+
+It also allows the server to declare (implicitly) that
+connections to it should use TLS. An MITM could simply
+fail to pass on a server's STARTTLS.
+
+DANE scales better than having to maintain (and
+side-channel communicate) copies of server certificates
+for every possible target server. It also scales
+(slightly) better than having to maintain on an SMTP
+client a copy of the standard CAs bundle. It also
+means not having to pay a CA for certificates.
+
+DANE requires a server operator to do three things:
+1) run DNSSEC. This provides assurance to clients
+that DNS lookups they do for the server have not
+been tampered with. The domain MX record applying
+to this server, its A record, its TLSA record and
+any associated CNAME records must all be covered by
+DNSSEC.
+2) add TLSA DNS records. These say what the server
+certificate for a TLS connection should be.
+3) offer a server certificate, or certificate chain,
+in TLS connections which is traceable to the one
+defined by (one of?) the TSLA records
+
+There are no changes to Exim specific to server-side
+operation of DANE.
+
+The TLSA record for the server may have "certificate
+usage" of DANE-TA(2) or DANE-EE(3). The latter specifies
+the End Entity directly, i.e. the certificate involved
+is that of the server (and should be the sole one transmitted
+during the TLS handshake); this is appropriate for a
+single system, using a self-signed certificate.
+ DANE-TA usage is effectively declaring a specific CA
+to be used; this might be a private CA or a public,
+well-known one. A private CA at simplest is just
+a self-signed certificate which is used to sign
+cerver certificates, but running one securely does
+require careful arrangement. If a private CA is used
+then either all clients must be primed with it, or
+(probably simpler) the server TLS handshake must transmit
+the entire certificate chain from CA to server-certificate.
+If a public CA is used then all clients must be primed with it
+(losing one advantage of DANE) - but the attack surface is
+reduced from all public CAs to that single CA.
+DANE-TA is commonly used for several services and/or
+servers, each having a TLSA query-domain CNAME record,
+all of which point to a single TLSA record.
+
+The TLSA record should have a Selector field of SPKI(1)
+and a Matching Type field of SHA2-512(2).
+
+At the time of writing, https://www.huque.com/bin/gen_tlsa
+is useful for quickly generating TLSA records; and commands like
+
+ openssl x509 -in -pubkey -noout <certificate.pem \
+ | openssl rsa -outform der -pubin 2>/dev/null \
+ | openssl sha512 \
+ | awk '{print $2}'
+
+are workable for 4th-field hashes.
+
+For use with the DANE-TA model, server certificates
+must have a correct name (SubjectName or SubjectAltName).
+
+The use of OCSP-stapling should be considered, allowing
+for fast revocation of certificates (which would otherwise
+be limited by the DNS TTL on the TLSA records). However,
+this is likely to only be usable with DANE-TA. NOTE: the
+default of requesting OCSP for all hosts is modified iff
+DANE is in use, to:
+
+ hosts_request_ocsp = ${if or { {= {0}{$tls_out_tlsa_usage}} \
+ {= {4}{$tls_out_tlsa_usage}} } \
+ {*}{}}
+
+The (new) variable $tls_out_tlsa_usage is a bitfield with
+numbered bits set for TLSA record usage codes.
+The zero above means DANE was not in use,
+the four means that only DANE-TA usage TLSA records were
+found. If the definition of hosts_request_ocsp includes the
+string "tls_out_tlsa_usage", they are re-expanded in time to
+control the OCSP request.
+
+This modification of hosts_request_ocsp is only done if
+it has the default value of "*". Admins who change it, and
+those who use hosts_require_ocsp, should consider the interaction
+with DANE in their OCSP settings.
+
+
+For client-side DANE there are two new smtp transport options,
+hosts_try_dane and hosts_require_dane.
+[ should they be domain-based rather than host-based? ]
+
+Hosts_require_dane will result in failure if the target host
+is not DNSSEC-secured.
+
+DANE will only be usable if the target host has DNSSEC-secured
+MX, A and TLSA records.
+
+A TLSA lookup will be done if either of the above options match
+and the host-lookup succeeded using dnssec.
+If a TLSA lookup is done and succeeds, a DANE-verified TLS connection
+will be required for the host. If it does not, the host will not
+be used; there is no fallback to non-DANE or non-TLS.
+
+If DANE is requested and useable (see above) the following transport
+options are ignored:
+ hosts_require_tls
+ tls_verify_hosts
+ tls_try_verify_hosts
+ tls_verify_certificates
+ tls_crl
+ tls_verify_cert_hostnames
+
+If DANE is not usable, whether requested or not, and CA-anchored
+verification evaluation is wanted, the above variables should be set
+appropriately.
+
+Currently dnssec_request_domains must be active (need to think about that)
+and dnssec_require_domains is ignored.
+
+If verification was successful using DANE then the "CV" item
+in the delivery log line will show as "CV=dane".
+
+There is a new variable $tls_out_dane which will have "yes" if
+verification succeeded using DANE and "no" otherwise (only useful
+in combination with EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT), and a new variable
+$tls_out_tlsa_usage (detailed above).
+
+Under GnuTLS, DANE is only supported from versin 3.0.0 onwards
+
+
+
+DSN extra information
+---------------------
+If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO extra information will be added
+to DSN fail messages ("bounces"), when available. The intent is to aid
+tracing of specific failing messages, when presented with a "bounce"
+complaint and needing to search logs.
-http://srs.mirtol.com/
-Unpack the tarball, then refer to MTAs/README.EXIM
-to proceed. You need to set
+The remote MTA IP address, with port number if nonstandard.
+Example:
+ Remote-MTA: X-ip; [127.0.0.1]:587
+Rationale:
+ Several addresses may correspond to the (already available)
+ dns name for the remote MTA.
-EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes
+The remote MTA connect-time greeting.
+Example:
+ X-Remote-MTA-smtp-greeting: X-str; 220 the.local.host.name ESMTP Exim x.yz Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:44:33 +0000
+Rationale:
+ This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's idea of its
+ own name, and sometimes identifies the MTA software.
-in your Local/Makefile.
+The remote MTA response to HELO or EHLO.
+Example:
+ X-Remote-MTA-helo-response: X-str; 250-the.local.host.name Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
+Limitations:
+ Only the first line of a multiline response is recorded.
+Rationale:
+ This string sometimes presents the remote MTA's view of
+ the peer IP connecting to it.
+
+The reporting MTA detailed diagnostic.
+Example:
+ X-Exim-Diagnostic: X-str; SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<d3@myhost.test.ex>: 550 hard error
+Rationale:
+ This string sometimes give extra information over the
+ existing (already available) Diagnostic-Code field.
+
+
+Note that non-RFC-documented field names and data types are used.
+
+
+LMDB Lookup support
+-------------------
+LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store.
+It is modeled loosely on the BerkeleyDB API. You should read about the feature
+set as well as operation modes at https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/
+
+LMDB single key lookup support is provided by linking to the LMDB C library.
+The current implementation does not support writing to the LMDB database.
+
+Visit https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb to download the library or find it in your
+operating systems package repository.
+
+If building from source, this description assumes that headers will be in
+/usr/local/include, and that the libraries are in /usr/local/lib.
+
+1. In order to build exim with LMDB lookup support add or uncomment
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
+
+to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
+Experimental_LMDB in the line "Support for:".
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes
+LDFLAGS += -llmdb
+# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
+# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib
+
+The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and
+the second line says to link the LMDB libraries into the
+exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you
+built LMDB from source and installed in the default location.
+Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not
+need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the
+package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib).
+
+2. Create your LMDB files, you can use the mdb_load utility which is
+part of the LMDB distribution our your favourite language bindings.
+
+3. Add the single key lookups to your exim.conf file, example lookups
+are below.
+
+${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}}
+${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}fail}
+${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}}
+
+
+Queuefile transport
+-------------------
+Queuefile is a pseudo transport which does not perform final delivery.
+It simply copies the exim spool files out of the spool directory into
+an external directory retaining the exim spool format.
+
+The spool files can then be processed by external processes and then
+requeued into exim spool directories for final delivery.
+
+The motivation/inspiration for the transport is to allow external
+processes to access email queued by exim and have access to all the
+information which would not be available if the messages were delivered
+to the process in the standard email formats.
+
+The mailscanner package is one of the processes that can take advantage
+of this transport to filter email.
+
+The transport can be used in the same way as the other existing transports,
+i.e by configuring a router to route mail to a transport configured with
+the queuefile driver.
+
+The transport only takes one option:
+
+* directory - This is used to specify the directory messages should be
+copied to
+
+The generic transport options (body_only, current_directory, disable_logging,
+debug_print, delivery_date_add, envelope_to_add, event_action, group,
+headers_add, headers_only, headers_remove, headers_rewrite, home_directory,
+initgroups, max_parallel, message_size_limit, rcpt_include_affixes,
+retry_use_local_part, return_path, return_path_add, shadow_condition,
+shadow_transport, transport_filter, transport_filter_timeout, user) are
+ignored.
+
+Sample configuration:
+
+(Router)
+
+scan:
+ driver = accept
+ transport = scan
+
+(Transport)
+
+scan:
+ driver = queuefile
+ directory = /var/spool/baruwa-scanner/input
+
+
+In order to build exim with Queuefile transport support add or uncomment
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE=yes
+
+to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show
+Experimental_QUEUEFILE in the line "Support for:".
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