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| author | carl |
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| date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:44:56 -0700 |
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| 3 <head> | |
| 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> | |
| 5 <title>DNSBL Sendmail milter</title> | |
| 6 </head> | |
| 7 | |
| 12 | 8 <center>Introduction</center> |
| 0 | 9 <p>This milter is released under the GPL license version 2 included in |
| 10 the LICENSE file in the distribution, and also available at | |
| 11 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</a> | |
| 12 | |
| 12 | 13 <p>Consider the case of a mail server that is acting as secondary MX for |
| 14 a collection of clients, each of which has a collection of mail domains. | |
| 15 Each client may use their own collection of DNSBLs on their primary mail | |
| 16 server. We present here a mechanism whereby the backup mail server can | |
| 17 use the correct set of DNSBLs for each recipient for each message. As a | |
| 0 | 18 side-effect, it gives us the ability to customize the set of DNSBLs on a |
| 19 per-recipient basis, so that fred@example.com could use SPEWS and the | |
| 20 SBL, where all other users @example.com use only the SBL. | |
| 21 | |
| 16 | 22 <p>This milter will also decode (base64, mime, html entity) and scan for |
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23 HTTP and HTTPS URLs and bare hostnames in the body of the mail. If any |
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24 of those host names have A records on the SBL (or a single configurable |
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25 list), the mail will be rejected unless previously whitelisted. |
| 11 | 26 |
| 6 | 27 <p>The DNSBL milter reads a text configuration file (dnsbl.conf) on |
| 28 startup, and whenever the config file (or any of the referenced include | |
| 29 files) is changed. The entire configuration file is case insensitive. | |
| 0 | 30 |
| 12 | 31 <hr> |
| 32 <center>DCC Issues</center> | |
| 0 | 33 <p>If you are also using the <a |
| 34 href="http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/">DCC</a> milter, there are | |
| 35 a few considerations. You may need to whitelist senders from the DCC | |
| 36 bulk detector, or from the DNS based lists. Those are two very | |
| 37 different reasons for whitelisting. The former is done thru the DCC | |
| 38 whiteclnt config file, the later is done thru the DNSBL milter config | |
| 5 | 39 file. |
| 0 | 40 |
| 41 <p>You may want to blacklist some specific senders or sending domains. | |
| 42 This could be done thru either the DCC (on a global basis, or for a | |
| 43 specific single recipient). We prefer to do such blacklisting via the | |
| 13 | 44 DNSBL milter config, since it can be done for a collection of recipient |
| 45 mail domains. The DCC approach has the feature that you can capture the | |
| 0 | 46 entire message in the DCC log files. The DNSBL milter approach has the |
| 47 feature that the mail is rejected earlier (at RCPT TO time), and the | |
| 48 sending machine just gets a generic "550 5.7.1 no such user" message. | |
| 49 | |
| 5 | 50 <p>There is an option to reference the DCC whiteclnt file (via an |
| 51 include_dcc line) in the DNSBL milter config. This will import the | |
| 52 (env_to, env_from, and substitute mail_host) entries from the DCC config | |
| 53 into the DNSBL config. This allows using the DCC config as the single | |
| 13 | 54 point for white/blacklisting. When used in this manner, the whitelist |
| 55 env_to entries from the DCC config become global whitelist entries in | |
| 56 the DNSBL config. | |
| 5 | 57 |
| 58 <p>Consider the case where you have multiple clients, each with their | |
| 59 own mail servers, and each running their own DCC milters. Each client | |
| 60 is using the DCC facilities for envelope from/to white/blacklisting. | |
| 6 | 61 Presumably you can use rsync or scp to fetch copies of your clients DCC |
| 5 | 62 whiteclnt files on a regular basis. Your mail server, acting as a |
| 63 backup MX for your clients, can use the DNSBL milter, and include those | |
| 64 client DCC config files. The envelope to white/blacklisting will be | |
| 65 global for your system, but the envelope from white/blacklisting will be | |
| 66 appropriately tagged and used only for the domains controlled by each of | |
| 67 those clients. | |
| 68 | |
| 12 | 69 <hr> |
| 70 <center>Definitions</center> | |
| 0 | 71 <p>DNSBL - a named DNS based blocking list is defined by a dns suffix |
| 72 (e.g. sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org) and a message string that is used to | |
| 73 generate the "550 5.7.1" smtp error return code. The names of these | |
| 74 DNSBLs will be used to define the DNSBL-LISTs. | |
| 75 | |
| 76 <p>DNSBL-LIST - a named list of DNSBLs that will be used for specific | |
| 77 recipients or recipient domains. | |
| 78 | |
| 79 <p>ENVELOPE-FROM-MAP - a named collection of mappings (key->value pairs) | |
| 80 from envelope-from values to the WHITE, BLACK, or DEFAULT keywords. The | |
| 81 names of these maps will be used for specific recipients or recipient | |
| 82 domains. | |
| 83 | |
| 84 <p>The configuration file maps each recipient (or recipient domain) to | |
| 85 two names (a named DNSBL-LIST, and a named ENVELOPE-FROM-MAP). If the | |
| 86 recipient is not found in the configuration, the named DEFAULT | |
| 87 dnsbl-list and DEFAULT envelope-from-map will be used. When mail is | |
| 88 received for that recipient, | |
| 89 | |
| 90 <ol> | |
| 91 | |
| 92 <li>If the client has authenticated with sendmail, the mail is accepted | |
| 93 and the dns lists are not checked. | |
| 94 | |
| 95 <li>If either one is BLACK, mail to this recipient is rejected with "no | |
| 96 such user", and the dns lists are not checked. | |
| 97 | |
| 98 <li>If the envelope-from-map name is WHITE, mail to this recipient is | |
| 99 accepted and the dns lists are not checked. | |
| 100 | |
| 101 <li>If the envelope-from-map exists, the map is checked for the presence | |
| 102 of the sender. A WHITE or BLACK answer is definitive and the dns lists | |
| 103 are not checked. | |
| 104 | |
| 105 <li>If the dnsbl-list name is WHITE, the dns lists are not checked and | |
| 106 the mail is accepted. Otherwise, the dns lists are checked and the mail | |
| 107 is rejected if any list has an A record for the standard dns based | |
| 108 lookup scheme (reversed octets of the client followed by the dns | |
| 109 suffix). | |
| 110 | |
| 11 | 111 <li>If the mail has not been accepted or rejected yet, the body content |
| 112 is scanned for HTTP URLs (after base64, mime and html entity decoding), | |
| 113 and the first 20 host names are checked for their presence on the SBL. | |
| 114 If any host name is on the SBL, the mail is rejected. | |
| 115 | |
| 0 | 116 </ol> |
| 117 | |
| 12 | 118 <hr> |
| 119 <center>Sendmail access vs. DNSBL</center> | |
| 120 <p>With the standard sendmail.mc dnsbl FEATURE, the dnsbl checks may be | |
| 121 suppressed by entries in the /etc/mail/access database. For example, | |
| 122 suppose you control a /18 of address space, and have allocated some /24s | |
| 123 to some clients. You have access entries like | |
| 0 | 124 |
| 12 | 125 <pre> |
| 126 192.168.4 OK | |
| 127 192.168.17 OK | |
| 128 </pre> | |
| 129 | |
| 130 <p>to allow those clients to smarthost thru your mail server. Now if | |
| 13 | 131 one of those clients happens get infected with a virus that turns a |
| 132 machine into an open proxy, and their 192.168.4.45 lands on the SBL-XBL, | |
| 133 you will still wind up allowing that infected machine to smarthost thru | |
| 134 your mail servers. | |
| 12 | 135 |
| 136 <p>With this DNSBL milter, the sendmail access database cannot override | |
| 137 the dnsbl checks, so that machine won't be able to send mail to or thru | |
| 15 | 138 your smarthost mail server (unless the virus/proxy can use smtp-auth). |
| 139 | |
| 140 <p>Using the standard sendmail features, you would add access entries to | |
| 141 allow hosts on your local network to relay thru your mail server. Those | |
| 142 OK entries in the sendmail access database will override all the dnsbl | |
| 143 checks. With this DNSBL milter, you will need to have the local users | |
| 144 authenticate with smtp-auth to get the same effect. You might find <a | |
| 145 href="http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/IRIA/knowledge_base/linuxinfo/sendmail-ssh-how-to.htm"> | |
| 146 these directions</a> helpful for setting up smtp-auth if you are on RH | |
| 147 Linux. | |
| 12 | 148 |
| 13 | 149 <hr> <center>Installation and configuration</center> <p>Usage: Note |
| 150 that this has ONLY been tested on Linux, specifically RedHat Linux. In | |
| 151 particular, this milter makes no attempt to understand IPv6. Your | |
| 152 mileage will vary. You will need at a minimum a C++ compiler with a | |
| 153 minimally thread safe STL implementation. The distribution includes a | |
| 154 test.cpp program. If it fails this milter won't work. If it passes, | |
| 155 this milter might work. | |
| 0 | 156 |
| 157 Fetch <a href="http://www.five-ten-sg.com/util/dnsbl.tar.gz">dnsbl.tar.gz</a> | |
| 158 and | |
| 159 | |
| 160 <pre> | |
| 161 tar xfvz dnsbl.tar.gz | |
| 162 bash install.bash | |
| 163 </pre> | |
| 164 | |
| 165 Read and understand the contents of that install.bash script before you | |
| 166 run it. It may not be suitable for your system. Modify your | |
| 167 sendmail.mc by removing all the "FEATURE(dnsbl" lines, add the following | |
| 168 line in your sendmail.mc and rebuild the .cf file | |
| 169 | |
| 170 <pre> | |
| 14 | 171 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`dnsbl', `S=local:/var/run/dnsbl.sock, F=T, T=C:30s;S:2m;R:2m;E:5m') |
| 0 | 172 </pre> |
| 173 | |
| 174 Read the sample <a | |
| 175 href="http://www.five-ten-sg.com/dnsbl.conf">var/dnsbl/dnsbl.conf</a> | |
| 6 | 176 file and modify it to fit your configuration. You can test your |
| 13 | 177 configuration files, and see a readable internal dump of them on stdout |
| 6 | 178 with |
| 179 | |
| 180 <pre> | |
| 181 cd /var/dnsbl | |
| 182 ./dnsbl -c | |
| 183 </pre> | |
| 184 | |
| 185 <pre> | |
| 0 | 186 |
| 187 | |
| 6 | 188 |
| 2 | 189 $Id$ |
| 4 | 190 </pre> |
| 0 | 191 </body> |
| 192 </html> |