Qpsmtpd configuration

The default way of setting config values is placing files with the name of the config variable in the config directory config/, like qmail's /var/qmail/control/ directory. NB: /var/qmail/control (or $ENV{QMAIL}/control) is used if a file does not exist in config/. The location of the config/ directory can be set via the QPSMTPD_CONFIG environment variable and defaults to the current working directory.

Any empty line or lines starting with # are ignored. You may use a plugin which hooks the config hook to store the settings in some other way. See "plugins.pod" in docs and "hooks.pod" in docs for more info on this. Some settings still have to go in files, because they are loaded before any plugin can return something via the config hook: me, logging, plugin_dirs and of course plugins. FIXME: more?

Core settings

These settings are used by the qpsmtpd core. Any other setting is (hopefully) documented by the corresponding plugin. Some settings of important plugins are shown below in "Plugin settings".

plugins

The main config file, where all used plugins and their arguments are listed.

me

Sets the hostname which is used all over the place: in the greeting message, the Received: header, ... Default is whatever Sys::Hostname's hostname() returns.

plugin_dirs

Where to search for plugins (one directory per line), defaults to ./plugins.

logging

Sets the primary logging destination, see plugins/logging/*. Format is the same as it's used for the plugins config file. NOTE: only the first non empty line is used (lines starting with # are counted as empty).

loglevel

This is not used anymore, only if no logging/ plugin is in use. Use a logging plugin.

databytes

Maximum size a message may be. Without this setting, there is no limit on the size. Should be something less than the backend MTA has set as it's maximum message size (if there is one).

size_threshold

When a message is greater than the size given in this config file, it will be spooled to disk. You probably want to enable spooling to disk for most virus scanner plugins and spamassassin.

smtpgreeting

Override the default SMTP greeting with this string.

spool_dir

Where temporary files are stored, defaults to tmp/. FIXME: is this correct?

spool_perms

Permissions of the spool_dir, default is 0700. You probably have to change the defaults for some scanners (e.g. the clamdscan plugin).

timeout

timeoutsmtpd

Set the timeout for the clients, timeoutsmtpd is the qmail smtpd control file, timeout the qpsmtpd file. Default is 1200 seconds.

tls_before_auth

If set to a true value, clients will have to initiate an SSL secured connection before any auth succeeds, defaults to 0.

Plugin settings

rcpthosts, morercpthosts

Plugin: rcpt_ok

Domains listed in these files will be accepted as valid local domains, anything else is rejected with a Relaying denied message. If an entry in the rcpthosts file starts with a ., mails to anything ending with this string will be accepted, e.g.:

 example.com
 .example.com

will accept mails for user@example.com and user@something.example.com. The morercpthosts file ist just checked for exact (case insensitive) matches.

hosts_allow

Plugin: hosts_allow.

Don't use this config file. The plugin itself is required to set the maximum number of concurrent connections. This config setting should only be used for some extremly rude clients: if list is too big it will slow down accepting new connections.

relayclients

morerelayclients

Plugin: check_relay

Allow relaying for hosts listed in this file. The relayclients file accepts IPs and CIDR entries. The morercpthosts file accepts IPs and prefixes like 192.168.2. (note the trailing dot!). With the given example any host which IP starts with 192.168.2. may relay via us.

dnsbl_zones

Plugin: dnsbl

This file specifies the RBL zones list, used by the dnsbl plugin. Ihe IP address of each connecting host will be checked against each zone given. A few sample DNSBLs are listed in the sample config file, but you should evaluate the efficacy and listing policies of a DNSBL before using it.

See also dnsbl_allow and dnsbl_rejectmsg in the documentation of the dnsbl plugin

require_resolvable_fromhost

Plugin: require_resolvable_fromhost

Reject sender addresses where the MX is unresolvable, i.e. a boolean value is the only value in this file. If the MX resolves to something, reject the sender address if it resolves to something listed in the invalid_resolvable_fromhost config file. The invalid_resolvable_fromhost expects IP addresses or CIDR (i.e. network/mask values) one per line, IPv4 only currenlty.