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NAME

karmad - Karmasphere policy daemon for Postfix

DESCRIPTION

This is a small postfix policy server. It is spawned by spawn(8). It offers an interface between Postfix and Mail::Karmasphere::Client.

USAGE

Add the following to /etc/postfix/master.cf:

 karma unix - n n - 0 spawn
   user=nobody argv=/usr/local/bin/karmad-postfix --action=prepend --verbose-header --syslog

Add the following to /etc/postfix/main.cf:

 karma_time_limit = 3600

Append the following to smtpd_recipient_restrictions, somewhere AFTER reject_unauth_destination:

  check_policy_service unix:private/karma

Watch your mail.debug syslog go by; you should see queries and responses.

COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

--cutoff-pass
--cutoff-fail

Recommended.

Scores below cutoff-fail will turn into a "fail/reject". Scores above cutoff-pass will turn into a "pass". You should set these thresholds yourself: Karmasphere provides the score, but you decide policy. If you do not, they will default to +300 and -300.

--action

Optional.

If you're running postfix, you can set --action to one of prepend (default) or reject. Prepend will prepend an X-Karma header. Reject will cause any mail with a karma score below cutoff-fail to be rejected. Use this only if you are happy with the results you've observed.

If not specified, defaults to prepend.

--verbose-header

Optional.

If you've set action to prepend, this flag will add two fields to the X-Karma header: identities shows what was queried, and query_id includes the timestamp and (if available) the MTA's queue ID.) This is useful for debugging purposes: it allows one to replay the query.

--username
--password

Optional.

Query credentials for authenticated queries. You only need to set this if you're querying a restricted feedset. For more information, see http://www.karmasphere.com/devzone/client/configuration#credentials

--server

Hostname of the Karmasphere Query Server to connect to. Defaults to query.karmasphere.com. You probably don't need to set this, unless you have set up a local query server, in which case you should be following the directions provided with that server.

--feedset

The name of the feedset you want to query. Defaults to karmasphere.email-sender. You probably don't need to set this.

--syslog

Syslog verbosely to mail.info and mail.debug.

BUGS

SEE ALSO

Mail::Karmasphere::Client Mail::Karmasphere::Query Mail::Karmasphere::Response karmaclient http://www.karmasphere.com/ http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 Shevek, Karmasphere. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.