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NAME

       mimedefang - Sendmail MIME mail filter

SYNOPSIS

       mimedefang prcap

       mimedefang -p connection -m mx_socket_name -U user [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mimedefang  is  a  filter  built  around  Sendmail 8.11's milter API for mail filters.  It
       collects each incoming message and runs a filter on  the  message.   This  is  useful  for
       deleting  attachments  which  may  be  a  security  risk  on  poorly-designed systems like
       Microsoft Windows.

       mimedefang  does  not  actually  run  the  Perl  filter;  instead,  it  communicates  with
       mimedefang-multiplexor(8),  which  manages  a  pool of persistent Perl processes.  See the
       mimedefang-multiplexor man page for additional information.

OPTIONS

       If you invoke mimedefang with the single argument prcap, it prints information  about  the
       version of Milter it is linked against and exits.  Otherwise, you should invoke mimedefang
       as shown in the second line of the SYNOPSIS.

       -U user
              Runs mimedefang as user rather  than  root.   The  user  argument  must  match  the
              argument to mimedefang-multiplexor's -U option as well.

       -z spooldir
              Set  the  spool  directory  to  spooldir.   If  this  option  is omitted, the spool
              directory defaults to /var/spool/MIMEDefang.

       -p connection
              The -p switch is required and specifies the milter connection type.  Typically, you
              should  run mimedefang on the same computer as sendmail.  Therefore, you should use
              a UNIX-domain socket for the connection type.   The  suggested  value  for  the  -p
              switch is mimedefang.sock under the spool directory.

       -m mx_socket_name
              Specifies   the  socket  for  communicating  with  mimedefang-multiplexor(8).   The
              mx_socket_name specifies the path  of  the  UNIX-domain  socket.   See  mimedefang-
              multiplexor(8) for details.

       -b backlog
              Sets  the  "backlog"  argument  to  the  listen(2) system call to backlog.  If this
              option is omitted, then the operating-system default backlog is used.

       -G     Normally, mimedefang uses a umask of 077 when creating the milter socket and files.
              If you would like the socket to be readable and writeable by the group and files to
              be group-readable, supply the -G option.  This causes the umask to be 007  whenever
              UNIX-domain  sockets are created and 027 whenever files are created.  Note: if your
              milter library is too old to have the smfi_opensocket()  function,  the  -G  option
              causes mimedefang to use a umask of 007 throughout its execution.

              Note  that by default, /var/spool/MIMEDefang is created with mode 0700.  If you use
              the -G option, you probably should change the mode to 0750.

       -d     The -d switch causes mimedefang not to delete the temporary spool files it  creates
              for  incoming  messages.   This  is for debugging purposes only and should never be
              used on a production mail server.

       -r     Causes mimedefang to perform a relay check  before  processing  any  messages.   It
              calls  into  a  user-supplied Perl function called filter_relay with the IP address
              and host name of the sending relay.  (See mimedefang-filter(5) for details.)

       -H     Causes mimedefang to perform a HELO check before processing any messages.  It calls
              into  a user-supplied Perl function called filter_helo with the IP address and host
              name of the sending relay, and the HELO argument.   (See  mimedefang-filter(5)  for
              details.)

       -s     Causes mimedefang to perform a sender check before processing the message body.  It
              calls into a user-supplied Perl function called  filter_sender  with  the  envelope
              address of the sender.  (See mimedefang-filter(5) for details.)

       -t     Causes  mimedefang  to perform recipient checks before processing the message body.
              It calls into a  user-supplied  Perl  function  called  filter_recipient  with  the
              envelope address of each recipient.  (See mimedefang-filter(5) for details.)

       -q     Permits  the  multiplexor  to  queue  new  connections.   See  the section QUEUEING
              REQUESTS in the mimedefang-multiplexor man page.  Note that this option and the  -R
              option are mutually-exclusive.  If you supply -q, then -R is ignored.

       -k     Causes  mimedefang  not to delete working directories if a filter fails.  This lets
              you obtain the message which caused the filter to  fail  and  determine  what  went
              wrong.  mimedefang logs the directory containing the failed message using syslog.

       -P fileName
              Causes  mimedefang  to  write  its  process-ID  (after  becoming  a  daemon) to the
              specified file.

       -R num Normally, mimedefang tempfails a new SMTP connection if there are no  free  slaves.
              Supplying  the -R num option makes mimedefang tempfail new connections if there are
              fewer than num free slaves, unless the connection is from  the  local  host.   This
              allows  you to favour connections from localhost so your clientmqueue doesn't build
              up.  Note that supplying -R 0 is subtly different from omitting the option; in this
              case,  mimedefang  permits  new  connections  from  localhost  to  queue,  but  not
              connections from other hosts (unless you also supply the -q option.)

              The purpose of the -R  option  is  to  reserve  resources  for  clientmqueue  runs.
              Otherwise,  on  a  very  busy  mail server, clientmqueue runs can starve for a long
              time, leading to delays for locally-generated or streamed mail.  We recommend using
              a  small  number  for  num;  probably  no more than 3 or 10% of the total number of
              slaves (whichever is smaller.)

              Note that this option and the -q option are mutually-exclusive.  If you supply  -q,
              then -R is ignored.

       -C     Conserve  file  descriptors  by  opening  and closing disk files more often.  (Disk
              files are never held open across Milter callbacks.)  While this shortens the length
              of  time  a file descriptor is open, it also leaves more opportunities for the open
              to fail.  We do not recommend the use of this flag except on very busy systems that
              exhibit failures due to a shortage of file descriptors.

       -T     Causes mimedefang to log the run-time of the Perl filter using syslog.

       -x string
              Add  string  as  the content of the X-Scanned-By: header.  If you set string to the
              empty string (i.e. -x ""), then no X-Scanned-By: header will be added.

       -X     Do not add an X-Scanned-By: header.  Specifying -X is equivalent to  specifying  -x
              "".

       -D     Do  not  fork  into  the  background  and  become  a  daemon.  Instead, stay in the
              foreground.  Useful mainly for debugging or  if  you  have  a  supervisory  process
              managing mimedefang.

       -M     This option is obsolete; it is accepted for backward-compatibility, but is ignored.

       -N     Normally, mimedefang sees all envelope recipients, even ones that Sendmail knows to
              be invalid.  If you don't want Sendmail to perform a milter callback for recipients
              it  knows to be invalid, invoke mimedefang with the -N flag.  Please note that this
              flag only works with Sendmail and Milter 8.14.0 and newer.  It  has  no  effect  if
              you're running an older version of Sendmail or Milter.

       -S facility
              Specifies  the  syslog  facility  for  log  messages.   The  default  is mail.  See
              openlog(3) for a list of valid facilities.  You  can  use  either  the  short  name
              ("mail") or long name ("LOG_MAIL") for the facility name.

       -a macro
              Pass the value of the specified Sendmail macro through to the Perl filter.  You can
              repeat the -a option to write more macros than the built-in defaults.  Note that in
              addition  to  asking  mimedefang  to  pass  the macro value to the filter, you must
              configure  Sendmail  to  pass  the  macro   through   to   mimedefang   using   the
              confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM definition in Sendmail's m4 configuration file.

       -c     Strip  "bare"  carriage-returns  (CR)  characters from the message body.  A bare CR
              should never appear in an e-mail message.  Older versions  of  mimedefang  used  to
              strip  them  out automatically, but now they are left in by default.  The -c option
              enables the older behavior.

       -h     Print usage information and exit.

OPERATION

       When mimedefang starts, it connects to sendmail using the milter API.  (See  the  Sendmail
       8.11  documentation.)  For each incoming message, mimedefang creates a temporary directory
       and saves information in the directory.  At various phases during the  SMTP  conversation,
       mimedefang   communicates  with  mimedefang-multiplexor  to  perform  various  operations.
       mimedefang-multiplexor manages a pool of persistent Perl processes that  actually  perform
       the mail scanning operations.

       When a Perl process scans an e-mail, the temporary spool directory contains certain files;
       details of the communication protocol between  mimedefang  and  the  Perl  script  are  in
       mimedefang-protocol(7).

WARNINGS

       mimedefang  does  violence  to  the  flow  of  e-mail.  The Perl filter is quite picky and
       assumes that MIME e-mail messages are well-formed.  While I have tried to make the  script
       safe,  I  take no responsibility for lost or mangled e-mail messages or any security holes
       this script may introduce.

AUTHOR

       mimedefang was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.   The  mimedefang  home
       page is http://www.mimedefang.org/.

SEE ALSO

       mimedefang.pl(8), mimedefang-filter(5), mimedefang-multiplexor(8), mimedefang-protocol(7)