Re: *panic* Open relay question..?

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 08:42:13 EST


Crystone AB / Daniel S?rl?v:
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>
> Hello!
>
> How is that file then supposed to look like?
> I got this inspiration from imgate docs...

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NAME
       access - format of Postfix access table

SYNOPSIS
       postmap /etc/postfix/access

DESCRIPTION
       The optional access table directs the Postfix SMTP server
       to selectively reject or accept mail. Access can be
       allowed or denied for specific host names, domain names,
       networks, host network addresses or mail addresses.

       Normally, the access table is specified as a text file
       that serves as input to the postmap(1) command. The
       result, an indexed file in dbm or db format, is used for
       fast searching by the mail system. Execute the command
       postmap /etc/postfix/access in order to rebuild the
       indexed file after changing the access table.

       When the table is provided via other means such as NIS,
       LDAP or SQL, the same lookups are done as for ordinary
       indexed files.

       Alternatively, the table can be provided as a regular-
       expression map where patterns are given as regular expres-
       sions. In that case, the lookups are done in a slightly
       different way as described below.

TABLE FORMAT
       The format of the access table is as follows:

       pattern action
              When pattern matches a mail address, domain or host
              address, perform the corresponding action.

       blank lines and comments
              Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored,
              as are lines whose first non-whitespace character
              is a `#'.

       multi-line text
              A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A
              line that starts with whitespace continues a logi-
              cal line.

EMAIL ADDRESS PATTERNS
       With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM, or from
       networked tables such as NIS, LDAP or SQL, the following
       lookup patterns are examined in the order as listed:

       user at domain
              Matches the specified mail address.

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       domain.name
              Matches domain.name as the domain part of an email
              address.

              The pattern domain.name also matches subdomains,
              but only when the string smtpd_access_maps is
              listed in the Postfix parent_domain_matches_subdo-
              mains configuration setting. Otherwise, specify
              .domain.name (note the initial dot) in order to
              match subdomains.

       user@ Matches all mail addresses with the specified user
              part.

       Note: lookup of the null sender address is not possible
       with some types of lookup table. By default, Postfix uses
       <> as the lookup key for such addresses. The value is
       specified with the workaround is to specify
       smtpd_null_access_lookup_key parameter in the Postfix
       main.cf file.

ADDRESS EXTENSION
       When a mail address localpart contains the optional recip-
       ient delimiter (e.g., user+foo at domain), the lookup order
       becomes: user+foo at domain, user at domain, domain, user+foo@,
       and user at dot

HOST NAME/ADDRESS PATTERNS
       With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM, or from
       networked tables such as NIS, LDAP or SQL, the following
       lookup patterns are examined in the order as listed:

       domain.name
              Matches domain.name.

              The pattern domain.name also matches subdomains,
              but only when the string smtpd_access_maps is
              listed in the Postfix parent_domain_matches_subdo-
              mains configuration setting. Otherwise, specify
              .domain.name (note the initial dot) in order to
              match subdomains.

       net.work.addr.ess

       net.work.addr

       net.work

       net Matches any host address in the specified network.
              A network address is a sequence of one or more
              octets separated by ".".

ACTIONS

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       [45]NN text
              Reject the address etc. that matches the pattern,
              and respond with the numerical code and text.

       REJECT Reject the address etc. that matches the pattern. A
              generic error response message is generated.

       OK Accept the address etc. that matches the pattern.

       all-numerical
              An all-numerical result is treated as OK. This for-
              mat is generated by address-based relay authoriza-
              tion schemes.

       restriction...
              Apply the named UCE restriction(s) (permit, reject,
              reject_unauth_destination, and so on).

REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES
       This section describes how the table lookups change when
       the table is given in the form of regular expressions. For
       a description of regular expression lookup table syntax,
       see regexp_table(5) or pcre_table(5).

       Each pattern is a regular expression that is applied to
       the entire string being looked up. Depending on the appli-
       cation, that string is an entire client hostname, an
       entire client IP address, or an entire mail address. Thus,
       no parent domain or parent network search is done,
       user at domain mail addresses are not broken up into their
       user@ and domain constituent parts, nor is user+foo broken
       up into user and foo.

       Patterns are applied in the order as specified in the
       table, until a pattern is found that matches the search
       string.

       Actions are the same as with indexed file lookups, with
       the additional feature that parenthesized substrings from
       the pattern can be interpolated as $1, $2 and so on.

BUGS
       The table format does not understand quoting conventions.

SEE ALSO
       postmap(1) create mapping table
       smtpd(8) smtp server
       pcre_table(5) format of PCRE tables
       regexp_table(5) format of POSIX regular expression tables

LICENSE
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this
       software.

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AUTHOR(S)
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J. Watson Research
       P.O. Box 704
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

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