################################################## # Virtual Vacation for Postfix Admin Release 2.x # ################################################## # # Postfix Admin (Virtual Vacation) # Originally authored by Mischa Peters # Copyright (c) 2002 - 2005 High5! # Licensed under GPL for more info check GPL-LICENSE.TXT # REQUIRED! --------- There are a bunch of Perl modules which need installing, depending on your distribution these may be available through your package management tool, or will need installing through CPAN. A full list of required modules can be found in the source of vacation.pl. It obviously relies on Perl About Virtual Vacation ---------------------- The vacation script runs as service within Postfix's master.cf configuration file. Mail is sent to the vacation service via a transport table mapping. When users mark themselves as away on vacation, an alias is added to their account sending a copy of all mail to them to the vacation service. e.g. mail to billy@goat.com will be delivered to billy@goat.com AND billy#goat.com@autoreply.goat.com Mail to @autoreply.goat.com is caught by the vacation.pl script and a reply will be sent based on various settings. By default a reply is only sent once. Install Virtual Vacation ------------------------ 1. Create a local account ------------------------- Create a dedicated local user account called "vacation". This user handles all potentially dangerous mail content - that is why it should be a separate account. Do not use "nobody", and most certainly do not use "root" or "postfix". The user will never log in, and can be given a "*" password and non-existent shell and home directory. This should look like this: #/etc/passwd vacation:*:65501:65501::0:0:Virtual Vacation:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin #/etc/group vacation:*:65501: 2. Create a directory --------------------- Create a directory, for example /var/spool/vacation, that is accessible only to the "vacation" user. This is where the vacation script is supposed to store its temporary files. 3. Copy the files ----------------- Copy the vacation.pl file to the directory you created above: $ cp vacation.pl /vacation.pl $ chown -R vacation:vacation Which will then look something like: -rwx------ 1 vacation vacation 3356 Dec 21 00:00 vacation.pl* 4. Setup the transport type --------------------------- Define the transport type in the Postfix master file: #/etc/postfix/master.cf: vacation unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq user=vacation argv=/var/spool/vacation/vacation.pl -f ${sender} -- ${recipient} 5. Setup the transport maps file -------------------------------- Tell Postfix to use a transport maps file, so add the following to your Postfix main.cf: #/etc/postfix/main.cf: transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport Then add the transport definition to the newly created transport file. Obviously, change yourdomain.com to your own domain. This can be any arbitrary domain, and it is easiest if you just choose one that will be used for all your domains. #/etc/postfix/transport autoreply.yourdomain.com vacation: (You may need to create an entry in /etc/hosts for your non-existant domain) Execute "postmap /etc/postfix/transport" to build the hashed database. Execute "postfix reload" to complete the change. 6. Configure vacation.pl ------------------------ The perl vacation.pl script needs to know which database you are using, and also how to connect to the database. Namely : Change any variables starting with '$db_' and '$db_type' to either 'mysql' or 'pgsql'. Change the $vacation_domain variable to match what you entered in your /etc/postfix/transport file. You can do this in two ways: a) edit vacation.pl directly b) create /etc/mail/postfixadmin/vacation.conf and enter your settings there Just use perl syntax there to fill the config variables listed in vacation.pl (without the "our" keyword). Example: $db_username = 'mail'; 7. Check the alias expansion ---------------------------- Depending on your setup, you may have multiple 'smtpd' service definitions within your postfix master.cf file. This is especially the case if you are also using AMAVIS or another content filtering system when mail is re-injected into Postfix using the smtpd daemon. If you are, it's likely that alias expansion may happen more than once, in which case you may see vacation-style responses duplicated. To suppress this behaviour, you need to add : -o receive_override_options=no_address_mappings For example : smtp inet n - - - 12 smtpd -o content_filter=amavis:[127.0.0.50]:10024 ^^^ Alias expansion occurs here, so we don't want it to happen again for the other smtpd daemon (below) which receives email out of amavis on port 10025. 127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_autorized_xforward_hosts=127.0.0.0/8 -o smtpd_client_restrictions= -o smtpd_helo_restrictions= -o smtpd_sender_restrictions= -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject -o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8 -o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks,no_header_body_checks,no_address_mappings 8. Security ----------- If security is an issue for you, read ../DOCUMENTS/Security.txt What do these files do? ----------------------- When a user enables a vacation message on their account, the alias definition is changed so that in addition to delivering to their own mailbox, it also delivers to a dummy alias which calls the vacation.pl program. In other words, if joeuser@domain.com enables their vacation, the entry in the alias database table will deliver mail to joeuser@something.com, as well as joeuser#something.com@autoreply.yourdomain.com vacation.pl then checks the database to see wether a user is on holiday and what message to send back. Make sure that vacation.pl is able to communicate to your database. In the first couple of lines you have to specify the database, username and password for it. NOTE: Make sure that the path to perl is correct. I'm in trouble! --------------- When something is not working there are a couple of files that you can have a look at. The most important one is your maillog (usually in /var/log/). Vacation.pl also has some debugging and logging capabilties. Check the top of vacation.pl. Done! ----- When this is all in place you need to have a look at the Postfix Admin config.inc.php. Here you need to enable Virtual Vacation for the site.