X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/da47dd4d092ba35e4f8ff055d79693cc1266c816..HEAD:/src/src/configure.default

diff --git a/src/src/configure.default b/src/src/configure.default
index 946137fc9..633c6539e 100644
--- a/src/src/configure.default
+++ b/src/src/configure.default
@@ -147,15 +147,15 @@ acl_smtp_data =         acl_check_data
 # spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783
 
 
-# If Exim is compiled with support for TLS, you may want to enable the
-# following options so that Exim allows clients to make encrypted
-# connections. In the authenticators section below, there are template
-# configurations for plaintext username/password authentication. This kind
-# of authentication is only safe when used within a TLS connection, so the
-# authenticators will only work if the following TLS settings are turned on
-# as well.
+# If Exim is compiled with support for TLS, you may want to change the
+# following option so that Exim disallows certain clients from makeing encrypted
+# connections. The default is to allow all.
+# In the authenticators section below, there are template configurations for
+# plaintext username/password authentication. This kind of authentication is
+# only safe when used within a TLS connection, so the authenticators will only
+# work if TLS is allowed here.
 
-# Allow any client to use TLS.
+# This is equivalent to the default.
 
 # tls_advertise_hosts = *
 
@@ -183,11 +183,15 @@ tls_resumption_hosts = ${if inlist {$received_port}{587:465} {:}{*}}
 # In order to support roaming users who wish to send email from anywhere,
 # you may want to make Exim listen on other ports as well as port 25, in
 # case these users need to send email from a network that blocks port 25.
-# The standard port for this purpose is port 587, the "message submission"
-# port. See RFC 4409 for details. Microsoft MUAs cannot be configured to
+# The standard ports for this purpose are:
+# port 587, the "message submission" port - see RFC 4409 for details,
+# and 465 the TLS-encrypted "submission" port, service name is "submissions",
+# see RFC 8314.
+
+# Microsoft MUAs cannot be configured to
 # talk the message submission protocol correctly, so if you need to support
-# them you should also allow TLS-on-connect on the traditional but
-# non-standard port 465.
+# them you should also allow TLS-on-connect on the traditional (and now
+# standard) port 465.
 
 # daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : 465 : 587
 # tls_on_connect_ports = 465
@@ -458,6 +462,20 @@ acl_check_rcpt:
 
   require verify        = sender
 
+  # Reject all RCPT commands after too many bad recipients
+  # This is partly a defense against spam abuse and partly attacker abuse.
+  # Real senders should manage, by the time they get to 10 RCPT directives,
+  # to have had at least half of them be real addresses.
+  #
+  # This is a lightweight check and can protect you against repeated
+  # invocations of more heavy-weight checks which would come after it.
+
+  deny    condition     = ${if and {\
+                        {>{$rcpt_count}{10}}\
+                        {<{$recipients_count}{${eval:$rcpt_count/2}}} }}
+          message       = Rejected for too many bad recipients
+          logwrite      = REJECT [$sender_host_address]: bad recipient count high [${eval:$rcpt_count-$recipients_count}]
+
   # Accept if the message comes from one of the hosts for which we are an
   # outgoing relay. It is assumed that such hosts are most likely to be MUAs,
   # so we set control=submission to make Exim treat the message as a
@@ -490,11 +508,6 @@ acl_check_rcpt:
           control       = submission
           control       = dkim_disable_verify
 
-  # Insist that a HELO/EHLO was accepted.
-
-  require message       = nice hosts say HELO first
-          condition     = ${if def:sender_helo_name}
-
   # Insist that any other recipient address that we accept is either in one of
   # our local domains, or is in a domain for which we explicitly allow
   # relaying. Any other domain is rejected as being unacceptable for relaying.
@@ -540,11 +553,11 @@ acl_check_rcpt:
   # to the first recipient must be deferred unless the sender talks PRDR.
   #
   # defer  !condition     = $prdr_requested
-  #        condition      = ${if > {0}{$receipients_count}}
+  #        condition      = ${if > {0}{$recipients_count}}
   #        condition      = ${if !eq {$acl_m_content_filter} \
   #                                  {${lookup PER_RCPT_CONTENT_FILTER}}}
   # warn   !condition     = $prdr_requested
-  #        condition      = ${if > {0}{$receipients_count}}
+  #        condition      = ${if > {0}{$recipients_count}}
   #        set acl_m_content_filter = ${lookup PER_RCPT_CONTENT_FILTER}
   #############################################################################
 
@@ -834,9 +847,9 @@ smarthost_smtp:
   # request with your smarthost provider to get things fixed:
   hosts_require_tls = *
   tls_verify_hosts = *
-  # As long as tls_verify_hosts is enabled, this won't matter, but if you
-  # have to comment it out then this will at least log whether you succeed
-  # or not:
+  # As long as tls_verify_hosts is enabled this will have no effect,
+  # but if you have to comment it out then this will at least log whether
+  # you succeed or not:
   tls_try_verify_hosts = *
   #
   # The SNI name should match the name which we'll expect to verify;