X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/1a2e76e1676bf405a464a233950a95012533c227..599fc3c68f5e942c1d662012053ecfc6ea26bd49:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 2b77d2647..3beab4b9c 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -292,10 +292,11 @@ These four steps are explained in more details below. -SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support +SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support (using libsrs_alt) -------------------------------------------------------------- +See also below, for an alternative native support implementation. -Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's +Exim 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. @@ -312,6 +313,105 @@ EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes in your Local/Makefile. +The following main-section options become available: + srs_config string + srs_hashlength int + srs_hashmin int + srs_maxage int + srs_secrets string + srs_usehash bool + srs_usetimestamp bool + +The redirect router gains these options (all of type string, unset by default): + srs + srs_alias + srs_condition + srs_dbinsert + srs_dbselect + +The following variables become available: + $srs_db_address + $srs_db_key + $srs_orig_recipient + $srs_orig_sender + $srs_recipient + $srs_status + +The predefined feature-macro _HAVE_SRS will be present. +Additional delivery log line elements, tagged with "SRS=" will show the srs sender. +For configuration information see https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/SRS . + + + + +SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support (native) +-------------------------------------------------------------- +This is less full-featured than the libsrs_alt version above. + +The Exim build needs to be done with this in Local/Makefile: +EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE=yes + +The following are provided: +- an expansion item "srs_encode" + This takes three arguments: + - a site SRS secret + - the return_path + - the pre-forwarding domain + +- an expansion condition "inbound_srs" + This takes two arguments: the local_part to check, and a site SRS secret. + If the secret is zero-length, only the pattern of the local_part is checked. + The $srs_recipient variable is set as a side-effect. + +- an expansion variable $srs_recipient + This gets the original return_path encoded in the SRS'd local_part + +- predefined macros _HAVE_SRS and _HAVE_NATIVE_SRS + +Sample usage: + + #macro + SRS_SECRET = + + #routers + + outbound: + driver = dnslookup + # if outbound, and forwarding has been done, use an alternate transport + domains = ! +my_domains + transport = ${if eq {$local_part@$domain} \ + {$original_local_part@$original_domain} \ + {remote_smtp} {remote_forwarded_smtp}} + + inbound_srs: + driver = redirect + senders = : + domains = +my_domains + # detect inbound bounces which are SRS'd, and decode them + condition = ${if inbound_srs {$local_part} {SRS_SECRET}} + data = $srs_recipient + + inbound_srs_failure: + driver = redirect + senders = : + domains = +my_domains + # detect inbound bounces which look SRS'd but are invalid + condition = ${if inbound_srs {$local_part} {}} + allow_fail + data = :fail: Invalid SRS recipient address + + #... further routers here + + + # transport; should look like the non-forward outbound + # one, plus the max_rcpt and return_path options + remote_forwarded_smtp: + driver = smtp + # modify the envelope from, for mails that we forward + max_rcpt = 1 + return_path = ${srs_encode {SRS_SECRET} {$return_path} {$original_domain}} + + DCC Support @@ -542,6 +642,9 @@ ARC support Specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-11 Note that this is not an RFC yet, so may change. +[RFC 8617 was published 2019/06. Draft 11 was 2018/01. A review of the +changes has not yet been done] + ARC is intended to support the utility of SPF and DKIM in the presence of intermediaries in the transmission path - forwarders and mailinglists - by establishing a cryptographically-signed chain in headers. @@ -550,10 +653,18 @@ Normally one would only bother doing ARC-signing when functioning as an intermediary. One might do verify for local destinations. ARC uses the notion of a "ADministrative Management Domain" (ADMD). -Described in RFC 5598 (section 2.3), this is essentially the set of -mail-handling systems that the mail transits. A label should be chosen to -identify the ADMD. Messages should be ARC-verified on entry to the ADMD, -and ARC-signed on exit from it. +Described in RFC 5598 (section 2.3), this is essentially a set of +mail-handling systems that mail transits that are all under the control +of one organisation. A label should be chosen to identify the ADMD. +Messages should be ARC-verified on entry to the ADMD, and ARC-signed on exit +from it. + + +Building with ARC Support +-- +Enable using EXPERIMENTAL_ARC=yes in your Local/Makefile. +You must also have DKIM present (not disabled), and you very likely +want to have SPF enabled. Verification @@ -697,6 +808,59 @@ Issues: hosts_require_ocsp will fail + +Dovecot authenticator via inet socket +------------------------------------ +If Dovecot is configured similar to :- + +service auth { +... +#SASL + inet_listener { + name = exim + port = 12345 + } +... +} + +then an Exim authenticator can be configured :- + + dovecot-plain: + driver = dovecot + public_name = PLAIN + server_socket = dovecot_server_name 12345 + server_tls = true + server_set_id = $auth1 + +If the server_socket does not start with a / it is taken as a hostname (or IP); +and a whitespace-separated port number must be given. + + + +Twophase queue run fast ramp +---------------------------- +To include this feature, add to Local/Makefile: + EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUE_RAMP=yes + +If the (added for this feature) main-section option "queue_fast_ramp" (boolean) +is set, and a two-phase ("-qq") queue run finds, during the first phase, a +suitably large number of message routed for a given host - then (subject to +the usual queue-runner resource limits) delivery for that host is initiated +immediately, overlapping with the remainder of the first phase. + +This is incompatible with queue_run_in_order. + +The result should be a faster startup of deliveries when a large queue is +present and reasonable numbers of messages are routed to common hosts; this +could be a smarthost case, or delivery onto the Internet where a large proportion +of recipients hapen to be on a Gorilla-sized provider. + +As usual, the presence of a configuration option is associated with a +predefined macro, making it possible to write portable configurations. +For this one, the macro is _OPT_MAIN_QUEUE_FAST_RAMP. + + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------