exim4_passwd

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/aliases
       /etc/email-addresses
       /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist
       /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist
       /etc/exim4/local_sender_blacklist
       /etc/exim4/local_sender_whitelist
       /etc/exim4/local_sender_callout
       /etc/exim4/local_rcpt_callout
       /etc/exim4/local_domain_dnsbl_whitelist
       /etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts
       /etc/exim4/passwd
       /etc/exim4/passwd.client
       /etc/exim4/exim.crt
       /etc/exim4/exim.key

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  describes  the  files that are in use by the Debian
       exim4 packages and which are not part of an exim installation done from
       source.

/etc/aliases
       is a table providing a mechanism to redirect mail for local recipients.
       /etc/aliases is a text file which is roughly compatible with  Sendmail.
       The file should contain lins of the form
       name: address, address, ...
       The  name is a local address without domain part. All local domains are
       handled equally. For  more  detailed  documentation,  please  refer  to
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz,     chapter     22,    and    to
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz. Please note that it is  not
       possible  to use delivery to arbitrary files, directories and to pipes.
       This is forbidden in Debian's exim4 default configuration.

       You should at least set up an alias for postmaster in the  /etc/aliases
       file.

/etc/email-addresses
       is  used  to rewrite the email addresses of users. This is particularly
       useful for users who use their ISP's domain for email.

       The file should contain lines of the form

       user: someone@isp.com
       otheruser: someoneelse@anotherisp.com

       This way emails from user will appear to be from someone@isp.com to the
       outside  world.  Technically, the from, reply-to, and sender addresses,
       along with the envelope sender, are rewritten for users that appear  to
       be in the local domain.


/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist
       is  an  optional  file  containing a list of IP addresses, networks and

       192.168.10.0/24
       !172.16.10.128/26
       172.16.10.0/24
       10.0.0.0/8

       Exim  just evaluates left to right (or up-down in the file listing con-
       text), so you don't get the same kind of operator binding as in a  pro-
       gramming language.


/etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist
       contains a list of IP addresses, networks and host names whose messages
       will  be   accepted   despite   the   address   is   also   listed   in
       /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist, overriding a blacklisting.


/etc/exim4/local_sender_blacklist
       is  an  optional files containing a list of envelope senders whose mes-
       sages will be denied with  the  error  message  "locally  blacklisted".
       This  is  a full exim 4 address list, and all available features can be
       used. This includes negative items, and so it is  possible  to  exclude
       addresses  from  being  blacklisted.  For convenience, as an additional
       method to whitelist addresses from being blocked, an explicit whitelist
       is  read  in  from  /etc/exim4/local_sender_whitelist.  Entries  in the
       whitelist override corresponding blacklist entries.

       In the blacklist, the trick is to read a line break as "or" if it  fol-
       lows a positive item, and as "and" if it follows a negative item.

       For example, a /etc/exim4/local_sender_blacklist

       domain1.example
       !local@domain2.example
       domain2.example
       domain3.example

       Exim  just evaluates left to right (or up-down in the file listing con-
       text), so you don't get the same kind of operator binding as in a  pro-
       gramming language.


/etc/exim4/local_sender_whitelist
       is an optional file containing a list of envelope senders messages will
       be   accepted   despite    the    address    is    also    listed    in
       /etc/exim4/local_sender_blacklist, overriding a blacklisting.


/etc/exim4/local_sender_callout
       is  an  optional  file containing a list of envelope senders whose mes-
       sages are subject to sender verification with a callout. This is a full
       exim4 address list, and all available features can be used.


       too heavy handed, for example  listing  entire  top-level  domains  for
       their registry policies.


/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts
       is  an  optional file containing a list of route_data records which can
       be used to override or augment MX information from  the  DNS.  This  is
       particularly  useful  for mail hubs which are highest-priority MX for a
       domain in the DNS but are not final destination of the messages,  pass-
       ing  them on to a host which is not publicly reachable, or to temporar-
       ily fix mail routing in case of broken DNS setups.

       The file should contain key-value pairs of  domain  pattern  and  route
       data of the form

       domain: host-list options
       dict.ref.example:  mail-1.ref.example:mail-2.ref.example
       foo.example: internal.mail.example.com
       bar.example: 192.168.183.3

       which  will  cause  mail  for foo.example to be sent to the host inter-
       nal.mail.example (IP address derived from A record  only),  and  mailto
       bar.example to be sent to 192.168.183.3.

       See  spec.txt chapter 20.3 through 20.7 for a more detailed explanation
       of host list format and available options.


/etc/exim4/passwd
       contains account and password data for  SMTP  authentication  when  the
       local exim is SMTP server and clients authenticate to the local exim.

       The file should contain lines of the form

       username:crypted-password:clear-password

       crypted-password  is  the  crypt(3)-created  hash of your password. You
       can, for example, use the mkpasswd program from the  whois  package  to
       create  a  crypted password. It is recommended to use md5 hashing, with
       mkpasswd -H md5.

       clear-password is only necessary if you want to offer CRAM-MD5  authen-
       tication.  If you don't plan on doing so, the third column can be omit-
       ted completely.

       This file must be readable for the Debian-exim user and should  not  be
       readable for others. Recommended file mode is root:Debian-exim 640.


/etc/exim4/passwd.client
       contains account and password data for SMTP authentication when exim is
       authenticating as a client to some remote server.

       The file should contain lines of the form
       target  system  until  it  finds  and IP address, and then looks up the
       reverse DNS for that IP address to use the outcome of  this  query  (or
       the   IP   address   itself  should  the  query  fail)  as  index  into
       /etc/exim4/passwd.client.

       This goes inevitably wrong if the host name of the  mail  server  is  a
       CNAME  (a  DNS  alias),  or the reverse lookup does not fit the forward
       one.

       Currently, you need to manually lookup all reverse DNS names for all IP
       addresses  that  your  SMTP  server host name points to, for example by
       using the host command.  If the SMTP smarthost alias expands to  multi-
       ple  IPs, you need to have multiple lines for all the hosts.  When your
       ISP changes the alias, you will need to manually fix that.

       You may minimize this trouble by using a wild  card  entry  or  regular
       expressions,  thus  reducing  the risk of divulging the password to the
       wrong SMTP server while reducing the number of necessary lines.  For  a
       deeper discussion, see the Debian BTS #244724.

       password  is your SMTP password in clear text. If you do not know about
       your SMTP password, you can try using your POP3  password  as  a  first
       guess.

       This  file  must be readable for the Debian-exim user and should not be
       readable for others. Recommended file mode is root:Debian-exim 640.

       # example for CONFDIR/passwd.client
       # this will only match if the server's generic name matches exactly
       mail.server.example:user:password
       # this will deliver the password to any server
       *:username:password
       # this will deliver the password to servers whose generic name ends in
       # mail.server.example
       *.mail.server.example:user:password
       # this will deliver the password to servers whose generic name matches
       # the regular expression
       ^smtp[0-9]*.mail.server.example:user:password


/etc/exim4/exim.crt
       contains the certificate that exim uses to  initiate  TLS  connections.
       This    is    public   information   and   can   be   world   readable.
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/examples/exim-gencert can be used to generate
       a private key and self-signed certificate.


/etc/exim4/exim.key
       contains  the  private  key  belonging  to the certificate in exim.crt.
       This  file's  contents  must  be  kept  secret  and  should  have  mode
       root:Debian-exim  640.  /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/examples/exim-gencert
       can be used to generate a private key and self-signed certificate.


       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/,
       and for general  notes  and  details  about  interaction  with  debconf
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz


AUTHOR
       Marc  Haber  <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> with help from Ross Boy-
       lan.




EXIM4                            Jun 21, 2006                   EXIM4_FILES(5)