.\" $OpenBSD: spamd.conf.5,v 1.23 2019/09/02 21:18:41 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net) .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Bob Beck .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE .\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, .\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES .\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR .\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, .\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2019 $ .Dt SPAMD.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm spamd.conf .Nd spamd-setup configuration file .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm file is read by .Xr spamd-setup 8 to configure .Em blacklists for .Xr spamd 8 . Blacklists are lists of addresses of likely spammers. Mail from these addresses never reaches the actual mail server, but is instead redirected to .Xr spamd 8 and tarpitted. .Pp .Nm follows the syntax of configuration databases as documented in .Xr cgetent 3 . Here is an example: .Bd -literal -offset indent all:\e :nixspam:override:myblack: nixspam:\e :black:\e :msg="Your address %A is in the nixspam list\en\e See http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/dnsbl_en/ for details":\e :method=https:\e :file=www.openbsd.org/spamd/nixspam.gz override:\e :white:\e :method=file:\e :file=/etc/mail/override.txt: myblack:\e :black:\e :msg=/etc/mail/myblackmsg.txt:\e :method=file:\e :file=/etc/mail/myblack.txt: .Ed .Pp The default configuration file must include the entry .Ar all , which specifies the order in which lists are to be applied. Lists are constructed by name: blacklists are identified by the capability .Pf : Ar black : . If a list is instead given the .Pf : Ar white : capability, addresses in it will not be blacklisted. The addresses in such a list are removed from the preceding blacklist. .Pp In the above example, if an address was present in all three lists, blacklists .Ar nixspam and .Ar myblack , as well as the exceptions list .Ar override , the address would be removed from list .Ar nixspam by the subsequent .Ar override list. However, the address would not be removed from the .Ar myblack list. To remove all the addresses in .Ar override from .Ar myblack , the following configuration would be used instead: .Bd -literal -offset indent all:\e :nixspam:override:myblack:override: .Ed .Pp The source of the addresses for lists is specified using the .Ar method and .Ar file capability entries. .Pp .Ar method specifies the method by which to retrieve a file containing a list of addresses and may be one of .Ar http , .Ar https , .Ar ftp , .Ar file , or .Ar exec . The .Ar http , .Ar https , .Ar ftp , and .Ar file methods will make .Nm retrieve the file from the location specified by the .Ar file capability. The .Ar exec method will make .Nm spawn the program with arguments indicated in the .Ar file capability for the list, and reads a list of addresses from the output of the program. .Pp The format of the list of addresses is expected to consist of one network block or address per line (optionally followed by a space and text that is ignored). Comment lines beginning with .Ar # are ignored. Network blocks may be specified in any of the formats as in the following example: .Bd -literal -offset indent # CIDR format 192.168.20.0/24 # A start - end range 192.168.21.0 - 192.168.21.255 # As a single IP address 192.168.23.1 .Ed .Pp Each blacklist must include a message, specified in the .Ar msg capability as a string. If the .Ar msg string is enclosed in double quotes, the characters in the quoted string are escaped as specified in .Xr cgetent 3 with the exception that a colon (:) is allowed in the quoted string. The resulting string is used as the message. Alternatively, if the .Ar msg string is not specified in quotes, it is assumed to be a local filename from which the message text may be read. .Pp The message is configured in .Xr spamd 8 to be displayed in the SMTP dialogue to any connections that match addresses in the blacklist. The sequence \e" in the message will produce a double quote in the output. The sequence %% will produce a single % in the output, and the sequence \&%A will be expanded in the message by .Xr spamd 8 to display the connecting IP address in the output. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/mail/spamd.conf" .It Pa /etc/mail/spamd.conf Configuration file for .Xr spamd-setup 8 . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr spamd 8 , .Xr spamd-setup 8