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NAME

       exim4_files - Files in use by the Debian exim4 packages

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
       host names whose  messages  will  be  denied  with  the  error  message
       "locally  blacklisted".  This  is  a  full  exim  4  host 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_host_whitelist.  Entries  in  the  whitelist  override
       corresponding blacklist entries.

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

       For example, a /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist

       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
       context),  so  you  don't get the same kind of operator binding as in a
       programming 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
       messages  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
       follows 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
       context),  so  you  don't get the same kind of operator binding as in a
       programming 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
       messages  are  subject to sender verification with a callout. This is a
       full exim4 address list, and all available features can be used.

/etc/exim4/local_rcpt_callout

       is an optional file containing a list of envelope recipients for  which
       incoming messages are subject to recipient verification with a callout.
       This is a full exim4 address list, and all available  features  can  be
       used.

/etc/exim4/local_domain_dnsbl_whitelist

       is  an  optional  file  containing  a  list  of  envelope senders whose
       messages are exempt from blacklisting via a domain-based DNSBL. This is
       a  full  exim4  address  list,  and all available features can be used.
       This feature is intended to be used in case  of  a  domain-based  DNSBL
       being  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,
       passing them on to a host  which  is  not  publicly  reachable,  or  to
       temporarily 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
       internal.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
       authentication. If you don't plan on doing so, the third column can  be
       omitted 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.mail.server.example:login-user-name:password

       which  will cause exim to use login-user-name and password when sending
       messages   to   a    server    with    the    canonical    host    name
       target.mail.server.example.   Please  note that this does not configure
       the mail server to send to (this is determined in  Debconf),  but  only
       creates   the   correlation   between   host  name  and  authentication
       credentials to avoid exposing passwords to the wrong host.

       Please note that target.mail.server.example is currently the value that
       exim  can  read from reverse DNS: It first follows the host name of the
       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
       multiple 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.

BUGS

       Plenty. Please report them through the Debian BTS

       This  manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff
       than us and has more experience in writing manual  pages,  any  patches
       would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8),
       update-exim4.conf(8),
       /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
       Boylan.