X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/5bde3efabfec675b323501cae5e3a99784afcc31..0a6c178c6c5f45668b5bb37b8be723cc9d1e72ae:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 2e72def27..1e826aee1 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ about experimental features, all of which are unstable and liable to incompatible change. -Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) suppport +Brightmail AntiSpam (BMI) support -------------------------------------------------------------- Brightmail AntiSpam is a commercial package. Please see @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ These four steps are explained in more details below. 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 @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ would relax host matching rules to a broader network range. A lookup expansion is also available. It takes an email address as the key and an IP address as the database: - $lookup (username@domain} spf {ip.ip.ip.ip}} + ${lookup {username@domain} spf {ip.ip.ip.ip}} The lookup will return the same result strings as they can appear in $spf_result (pass,fail,softfail,neutral,none,err_perm,err_temp). @@ -464,11 +464,13 @@ SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) Support Exiscan currently includes SRS support via Miles Wilton's libsrs_alt library. The current version of the supported -library is 0.5. +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 -http://srs.mirtol.com/ +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 @@ -478,6 +480,7 @@ EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes in your Local/Makefile. + DCC Support -------------------------------------------------------------- Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse; http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/ @@ -550,7 +553,7 @@ Then set something like mout-xforward.gmx.net 82.165.159.12 mout.gmx.net 212.227.15.16 -Use a reasonable IP. eg. one the sending cluster acutally uses. +Use a reasonable IP. eg. one the sending cluster actually uses. DMARC Support -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -592,12 +595,14 @@ package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib). 2. Use the following global settings to configure DMARC: -Required: +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 @@ -894,7 +899,7 @@ 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 succeded using dnssec. +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. @@ -960,7 +965,7 @@ The reporting MTA detailed diagnostic. Example: X-Exim-Diagnostic: X-str; SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: 550 hard error Rationale: - This string somtimes give extra information over the + This string sometimes give extra information over the existing (already available) Diagnostic-Code field. @@ -970,7 +975,7 @@ 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 shoul read about the feature +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. @@ -1013,6 +1018,63 @@ ${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$ ${lookup{$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:". + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------