Mailfromd Manual: Mailfromd

Preface
- Short history of mailfromd.
- Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to mailfromd
- 1.1 Typographical conventions
- 1.2 Mailfromd at a first glance
- 1.3 Sender Address Verification.
  - 1.3.1 Limitations of Sender Address Verification
- 1.4 Controlling Mail Sending Rate.
- 1.5 SPF
2. Building the Package
3. Tutorial
- 3.1 Start Up
- 3.2 Simplest Configurations
- 3.3 Conditional Execution
- 3.4 Functions and Modules
- 3.5 Domain Name System
- 3.6 Checking Sender Address
- 3.7 SMTP Timeouts
- 3.8 Avoiding Verification Loops
- 3.9 HELO Domain
- 3.10 SMTP RSET and Milter Abort Handling
- 3.11 Controlling Number of Recipients
- 3.12 Sending Rate
- 3.13 Greylisting
- 3.14 Local Account Verification
- 3.15 Databases
  - 3.15.1 Database Formats
  - 3.15.2 Basic Database Operations
  - 3.15.3 Database Maintenance
- 3.16 Testing Filter Scripts
- 3.17 Run Mode
  - 3.17.1 Parsing Command Line Arguments
- 3.18 Logging and Debugging
- 3.19 Runtime Errors
- 3.20 Notes and Cautions
4. Mail Filtering Language
- 4.1 Comments
  - 4.1.1 Pragma stacksize
  - 4.1.2 Pragma regex
  - 4.1.3 Pragma dbprop
  - 4.1.4 Pragma greylist
- 4.2 Data Types
- 4.3 Numbers
- 4.4 Literals
- 4.5 Here Documents
- 4.6 Sendmail Macros
- 4.7 Constants
  - 4.7.1 Built-in constants
- 4.8 Variables
  - 4.8.1 Predefined Variables
- 4.9 Back references
- 4.10 Handlers
- 4.11 The ‘begin’ and ‘end’ special handlers
- 4.12 Functions
  - 4.12.1 Built-in and Library Functions
  - 4.12.2 User-Defined Functions
    - 4.12.2.1 Some Useful Functions
- 4.13 Expressions
  - 4.13.1 Constant Expressions
  - 4.13.2 Function Calls
  - 4.13.3 Concatenation
  - 4.13.4 Arithmetic Operations
  - 4.13.5 Relational Expressions
  - 4.13.6 Special Comparisons
  - 4.13.7 Boolean Expressions
  - 4.13.8 Operator Precedence
  - 4.13.9 Type Casting
- 4.14 Variable and Constant Shadowing
- 4.15 Statements
  - 4.15.1 Action Statements
  - 4.15.2 Variable Assignments
  - 4.15.3 The pass statement
  - 4.15.4 The echo statement
- 4.16 Conditional Statements
- 4.17 Loop Statements
- 4.18 Exceptional Conditions
- 4.19 Sender Verification Tests
- 4.20 Modules
  - 4.20.1 Declaring Modules
  - 4.20.2 Scope of Visibility
  - 4.20.3 Require and Import
- 4.21 MFL Preprocessor
- 4.22 Example of a Filter Script File
- 4.23 Reserved Words
5. Using the GNU Emacs MFL Mode
6. Configuring mailfromd
- 6.1 Special Configuration Data Types
- 6.2 Base Mailfromd Configuration
- 6.3 Milter Connection Configuration
- 6.4 Logging and Debugging configuration
- 6.5 Timeout Configuration
- 6.6 Call-out Configuration
- 6.7 Privilege Configuration
- 6.8 Database Configuration
- 6.9 Standard Mailutils Statements
7. Mailfromd Command Line Syntax
- 7.1 Command Line Options.
- 7.2 Starting and Stopping
8. Using mailfromd with Sendmail.
9. Using mailfromd with MeTA1.
10. mtasim — a testing tool
- 10.1 mtasim interactive mode mode
- 10.2 mtasim expect commands
- 10.3 Trace Files
- 10.4 Daemon Mode
- 10.5 mtasim command line options
11. Pmilter multiplexer program.
- 11.1 Pmult Configuration
- 11.2 Pmult Example
- 11.3 Pmult Invocation
12. A universal socket-map program for MeTA1.
- 12.1 Smap Configuration
- 12.2 Smap Invocation
- 12.3 Smap Examples
  - 12.3.1 Configure local_user_map.
  - 12.3.2 Configure aliases
13. How to Report a Bug
A. Gacopyz
B. Time and Date Formats
C. S-Expression
D. Deprecated Features
- D.1 #pragma option
- D.2 #pragma database
- D.3 Implicit Concatenation and Operational Syntax
- D.4 Old-Style Function Declarations
- D.5 Operational Notation
E. Upgrading
- E.1 Upgrading from 5.x to 6.0
- E.2 Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1
- E.3 Upgrading from 4.4 to 5.0
- E.4 Upgrading from 4.3.x to 4.4
- E.5 Upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3.x
- E.6 Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2
- E.7 Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1
- E.8 Upgrading from 3.1.x to 4.0
- E.9 Upgrading from 3.0.x to 3.1
- E.10 Upgrading from 2.x to 3.0.x
- E.11 Upgrading from 1.x to 2.x
F. GNU Free Documentation License
- F.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
Concept Index

This edition of the Mailfromd Manual, last updated 12 December 2009, documents mailfromd Version 6.0.

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