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From: Georg Wagner
Subject: Конфигурация sendmail'а с помощью m4 макросов (eng)
Configuring sendmail 8.9 with m4-macros
Georg Wagner
http://www.free-x.ch/pub/sendmail-m4.html
29. November 1999
Abstract
There exist two possibilities to configure sendmail: the first is to
edit the sendmail.cf file directly, the second to use a m4-macro file.
Most people - including me - are using both methods depending on the
their know how. Recently I took the effort to get a single point for
applying my changes to the configuration of sendmail: the m4-macro
file.
1 Introduction
I am using a dialup-account to connect to my ISP. My provider's domain
is datacomm.ch whereas my domain at home is internal.ch with a
192.168.x.x-network; the machine has the name mymachine. I will refer
to my local username as login. My username at the ISP is g.wagner.
This means my internal address is [email protected] and my
external address is [email protected].
2 Configuring sendmail
First change to the directory ../cf/cf and create a copy of
generic.bsd4.4.mc:
# cp generic.bsd4.4.mc mymachine.mc
Before you start editing your newly created file, some possible
pitfalls with the macro language m4 should be mentioned:
* m4 uses forward- and backward-quotes
* The #-character does not have a special meaning to m4. If you are
writing a comment you should do it in the following way:
# `your comment here'
to prevent the possible interpretation of some words in your
comment as a macro.
2.1 Structure of the mc-file
The mc-file has the following structure:
VERSIONID
OSTYPE
DOMAIN
FEATURE
Local Macros
MAILER
LOCAL_RULESETS
2.2 Basic entries in mymachine.mc
After the header you should have the entries below the line with
divert(0):
VERSIONID(`$Id$')dnl
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
FEATURE(relay_entire_domain)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
These entries are already sufficient to get a simple forwarding
sendmail configuration.
2.3 Masquerading
The first problem I want to solve, is to masquerade the internal
username and the internal domain.
Add the lines
MASQUERADE_AS(datacomm.ch)dnl
FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/user.db')dnl
Cwmymachine.internal.ch
in front of the line with MAILER(local). Now you have to populate the
user database:
makemap hash /etc/mail/user.db < ./user
where the file user contains lines like:
login:mailname [email protected]> 9
[email protected]:maildrop login
2.4 Anti-Spam measures
Relaying
Since version 8.9 of sendmail the default is not to (ab)use your
machine as mail relay. This is also the reason for the
relay_entire_domain entry in Section 2.2.
To allow your mail to be relayed at your provider's mailserver add a
line like:
define(`SMART_HOST', 'smtp.datacomm.ch')dnl
Rejecting spam
Using the acess database
If you want to maintain a spammer database of your own you can use the
feature:
FEATURE(access_db, hash -o /etc/mail/access.db)dnl
Add this entry between the DOMAIN and MAILER directives. Be sure to
create the access database using the commands:
cd /etc/mail
/usr/sbin/makemap hash access.db < ./access
Where access is a file which you fill with lines like:
[email protected] REJECT
baddomain.com REJECT
....
Using the Realtime Blackhole List
As alternative, if you don't want to maintain your own access
database, you can use the Realtime Blackhole list. If you don't know
what the Realtime Blackhole list is, have a look at
http://maps.vix.com/rbl. This is the simplest mechanism for
blocking spam. Just add the line:
FEATURE(rbl)dnl
to your mymachine.mc file.
Setting the privacy flags
Don't allow remote user to ask for any informations on your smtp port:
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `goaway')dnl
3 Generating and Installing the sendmail.cf-file
You should now have a mymachine.mc file containing the lines:
VERSIONID(`$Id$')dnl> OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
FEATURE(relay_entire_domain)dnl
MASQERADE_AS(datacomm.ch)dnl
FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
FEATURE(rbl)dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/user.db')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', 'smtp.datacomm.ch')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `goaway')dnl
Cwmymachine.internal.ch
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
With the following commands you can change your current sendmail
configuration:
m4 ../m4/cf.m4 mymachine.mc > mymachine.cf
cp /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail.cf.old
cp mymachine.cf /etc/sendmail.cf
ps -aux| grep sendmail
kill -HUP <PID>
4 Conclusion
I am not responsible if you spoil your configuration in applying the
described actions to your sendmail configuration. Make backups of
every file before you start. The mc-file was tested on my private
machine and seams to be working so far.
If you have any remarks, corrections or additions please send them to
me.
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