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diff --git a/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-postgrey.8 b/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-postgrey.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2532ce --- /dev/null +++ b/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-postgrey.8 @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +.TH s/qmail: qmail-postgrey 8 +.SH NAME +qmail-postgrey \- send SMTP connection data to greylisting server +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B qmail-postgrey ip%netid;port Mail From: Rcpt To: TCPREMOTEIP TCPREMOTEHOST +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B qmail-postgrey +is usually invoked by +.B qmail-smtpd +automatically provissioning the SMTP connection information +.IR Mail\ From: , +.IR Rcpt\ To: , +.IR TCPREMOTEIP +and +.I TCPREMOTEHOST +to a greylising server given by +.IR IPv4|IPv6%netid;port . +.I port +defaults to +.I 60000 +and thus can be omitted. +IPv6 LLU addresses can be specified +adding the +.I netid +name following the percentage sign. +.SH "GREYLISTING SERVER" +Since there is neither a formal API defined for the +greylisting lookup nor for the behavior and return +codes of the greylisting server, +.B qmail-postgrey +only works well with +.I David\ Schweikert's +.B postgrey +implementation. + +Here, the server's response upon recognizing the triple +.RI CLIENT_IP , +.I (SMTP\ envelope)\ SENDER +and +.I (SMTP\ envelope)\ RECIPIENT +is either +.IR action=DUNNO , +.I action=PREPEND +or +.I action=DEFER_IF_PERMIT +and in case of the last, +.B qmail-postgrey +returns with +.I 10 +telling +.B qmail-smtpd +to respond to the client with a SMTP +.I 450\ greylisted +reply code. Otherwise +.B qmail-postgrey +returns +.IR 0 . +.SH "INVOCATION" +Unlike for testing reasons, +.B qmail-postgrey +is called directly from +.B qmail-smtpd +in case the environment variable +.I POSTGREY +is defined and provissioned with the greylisting +server's IP address (and perhaps netid and port) +listening there. + +The environment variable +.I POSTGREY +is typically defined within +.B sslserver\'s +.IR cdb . +Additionally, +.I REPLY_GREYLISTED +can be used as environment variable +to provide some more descriptive +information to the sending MTA which will eventually +be visible in a bounce message. +.SH "CREDITS" +.B qmail-postgrey +and its integration into +.B qmail-smtpd +is based on +.I Jan\ Mojzis +implementation and used by permission. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +qmail-control(5), +qmail-smtpd(8), +https://postgrey.schweikert.ch |