NAME

OpenSMTPd::Filter - Easier filters for OpenSMTPd in perl

VERSION

version v0.0.3

SYNOPSIS

use OpenSMTPD::Filter;
use OpenBSD::Pledge;

pledge();

my $filter = OpenSMTPd::Filter->new(
    on => {
        report => \%report_callbacks,
        filter => \%filter_callbacks,
    },
);

$filter->ready;  # Registers and starts listening for updates

DESCRIPTION

This module is a helper to make writing OpenSMTPd filters in perl easier.

It should support smtpd API protocol version 0.7 and earlier.

METHODS

new

my $filter = OpenSMTPd::Filter->new(
    input  => \*STDIN,  # the default
    output => \*STDOUT, # the default
    debug  => 0,        # the default,

    on => \%callbacks,
);

Instantiates a new filter ready to start handling events.

• on

    my $filter = OpenSMTPd::Filter->new(
        ...,
        on => {
            report => { 'smtp-in' => {
                'link-connect' => \&lookup_spf_async,
            } },
            filter => { 'smtp-in' => {
                helo => \&check_spf,
                ehlo => \&check_spf,
            } },
        },
    );
  

  A hashref of events to add callbacks for. The top level is the stream to listen on, either report or filter. The next level is the subsystem which must be smtp-in. Finally the event or phase to to handle.

  See "REPORT AND FILTER STREAMS" for details on writing callbacks.

• input

  The filehandle used to receive messages from smtpd. Will be changed to binmode(":raw").

  Defaults to STDIN.

• output

  The filehandle used to send messages to smtpd. Will be changed to binmode(":raw").

  Defaults to STDOUT.

• debug

  Set to a true value to enable debugging. Primarily this means copying all lines from "input" and "output" to STDERR.

ready

$filter->ready;

Processes events on "input" until it hits eof, which should only happen when smtpd exits.

REPORT AND FILTER STREAMS

my $callback = sub {
    my ( $phase_or_event, $session, @extra ) = @_;
    ...;
};

Each stream triggers events and each event callback adds to a session state as well as a list of events that have been received in that session.

Each callback is called with the report event or filter phase that triggered the callback as the first argument and a session datastructure as the second argument. The subsystem can be found in $session->{state}->{subsystem}. Some callbacks will get additional arguments as documented below.

The $session hashref may contain up to three keys:

$session = {
    state    => \%state,
    events   => \@events,
    messages => \@messages,
};

Nothing in this session hash is used by this module other than in each message, the data-line arrayref is passed to the "data-lines" filter and the sent-dot boolean is used to know whether to continue sending filter-dataline responses. This means your filters can munge the contents or add additional entries although care must be taken not to change the expected type of an entry, but adding additional keys or changing values will not cause issues.

• state

  This is the state filled in by the fields for each received event. Any tx events go into "messages" instead of this state.

  A state might loook like this, however it only contains the fields recieved at each point in the connection and will contain any fields set by a "REPORT EVENT":

    my $state = {
        version   => '0.6',
        timestamp => '1613356167.075372',
        subsystem => 'smtp-in',
        event     => 'timeout',
        phase     => 'commit',
        session   => '3647ceea74a815de',
  
        rdns      => 'localhost',
        fcrdns    => 'pass',
        src       => '[::1]:37403',
        dest      => '[::1]:25',
  
        hostname  => 'mail.example.test',
  
        method    => 'HELO',
        identity  => 'mail.afresh1.test',
  
        command   => '.',
        response  => '250 2.0.0 5e170a6f Message accepted for delivery',
  
        message   => $session->{messages}->[-1],
    };
  

  See the rest of this section for which events fill in each field.

• events

  This is an arrayref of hashrefs of the fields for each recieved message, each hashref contains all fields supplied by that report event or filter phase. In addition, the event includes a request field indicating whether the event was a report or a filter.

    my $event = {
        request   => 'report',
        version   => '0.5',
        timestamp => '1576146008.006099',
        subsystem => 'smtp-in',
        event     => 'link-connect',
        session   => '7641df9771b4ed00',
        rdns      => 'mail.openbsd.org',
        fcrdns    => 'pass',
        src       => '199.185.178.25:33174',
        dest      => '45.77.67.80:25',
    };
  

• messages

  Message states collect the fields provided by each tx-* "REPORT EVENT" for each message-id in a session.

    my $message' = {
        'message-id'  => '48f59d87',
        'envelope-id' => '48f59d87264c2287',
        'mail-from',  => 'andrew',
        'rcpt-to',    => ['afresh1'],
        'data-line'   => [
            'Received: from mail (localhost [::1])',
            '   by mail.example.test (OpenSMTPD) with SMTP id 48f59d87',
            '   for <afresh1@mail.afresh1.test>;',
            '   Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:56:38 -0800 (PST)',
            'From: andrew',
            'To: afresh1',
            'Subject: Hai!',
            '',
            'Hello There',
            '.'
        ],
        'result'   => 'ok',
        'sent-dot' => 1,
    };
  

  The "tx-from" and "tx-rcpt" events are handled specially and go into the mail-from, rcpt-to, and result fields. The rcpt-to ends up in an arrayref as the message can be destined for multiple recipients. If a "data-lines" filter exists, the data-line field is also an arrayref of each line that has been recieved so far, with the CR and LF removed. The sent-dot field is a boolen indicating whether this message has sent the . indicating it is complete.

REPORT EVENT

my $callback = sub {
    my ( $event, $session ) = @_;
    ...;
    return 'anything'; # ignored
};

All report events will provide these fields:

• version
• timestamp
• subsystem
• event
• session
• suffix

Events for the subsystem below may include additional fields.

• smtp-in
  • link-connect
    • rdns
    • fcrdns
    • src
    • dest
  • link-greeting
    • hostname
  • link-identify
    • method
    • identity
  • link-tls
    • tls-string
  • link-disconnect
  • link-auth
    • result
    • username
  • protocol-client
    • command
  • protocol-server
    • response
  • filter-report
    • filter-kind
    • name
    • message
  • filter-response
    • phase
    • response
    • param
  • timeout

MESSAGE REPORT EVENTS

my $callback = sub {
    my ($event, $session) = @_
    my $message = $session->{state}->{message};
    ...;
};

All filters that begin with tx- include a message-id field and possibly other fields. These events add to the last item in "messages", which is also added as the message field in the session "state".

• message-id

Message events for the smtp-in subsystem may include additional fields.

• tx-reset
• tx-begin
• tx-mail

  • result

  • mail-from

    The address field for a tx-mail event is recorded as the mail-from in the message.

• tx-rcpt

  • result

  • rcpt-to

    The address field for a tx-rcpt events are recorded in the rcpt-to arrayref in the message.

• tx-envelope
  • envelope-id
• tx-data
  • result
• tx-commit
  • message-size
• tx-rollback

FILTER REQUEST

my $callback = sub {
    my ( $phase, $session, @data_lines ) = @_;
    ...;
    return $response, @params;
};

See "FILTER RESPONSE" for details about what can be returned.

The "data-line" and "data-lines" callbacks are special in that they also recieve the current data-line or all lines recieved. They should also return a list of "dataline" responses instead of the normal decision response.

All filter events have these fields:

• version
• timestamp
• subsystem
• phase
• session
• opaque-token

Specific filter events for each subsystem may include additional fields.

• smtp-in

  • connect
    • rdns
    • fcrdns
    • src
    • dest
  • helo
    • identity
  • ehlo
    • identity
  • starttls
    • tls-string
  • auth
    • auth
  • mail-from
    • address
  • rcpt-to
    • address
  • data
  • commit

• data-line

  The data-line and data-lines callbacks are special in that they return a list of "dataline" responses and not a normal "FILTER RESPONSE".

  The returned lines are split on \n so you can return a single string that is the entire message and it will be split into individual "dataline" responses.

  You can return any number of lines from an individual data-line callback until you recieve the single . indicating the end of the message. When you recieve the single . as the line you will need to finish processing the message and return any lines that are still pending.

  • line

• data-lines

  This is a wrapper around the "data-line" callback to make it easier to process the entire message instead of dealing with it on a line-by-line basis and having to store it yourself.

  See the "BUGS AND LIMITATIONS", although this seemed like a good idea, to better support pledge it might go away and leave implementing data-line storage to the filter author.

  • lines

    The final argument is an arrayref of all lines in the message.

FILTER RESPONSE

The return value from a "FILTER REQUEST" callback determines what will be done with the message.

• dataline

  This is the special response used by "data-line" filters. There is special processing that if the returned line contains newlines it will be split into multiple responses.

  • line

• proceed

    my $callback = sub {
        ...;
        return 'proceed';
    };
  

  This is the normal response, it means the message will continue to additional filters and if all filters return proceed the message will be accepted.

• junk

    my $callback = sub {
        ...;
        return 'junk';
    };
  

  Like "proceed" but will add an X-Spam header to the message.

• reject

    my $callback = sub {
        ...;
        return reject => "400 Not Sure";
    };
  

  You must provide a valid SMTP error message as the second argument to the return value including the status code, 5xx or 4xx.

  A 421 status will "disconnect" the client.

  • error

• disconnect

    my $callback = sub {
        ...;
        return disconnect => "550 Go Away";
    };
  

  As with "reject" the return from this callback must include a valid SMTP error message including the status code. However, like a 421 "reject" status, all messages will disconnect the client.

  • error

• rewrite

    my $callback = sub {
        my ($phase, $session) = @_;
        ...;
        if ( $phase eq 'tx-rcpt' ) {
             my $event = $session->{events}->[-1];
             return rewrite => 'afresh1'
                 if $event->{address} eq 'andrew';
        }
        return 'proceed';
    };
  

  • parameter

• report

  Generates a "filter-report" event with the parameter as the message that will be reported. I'm not entirely sure where they get reported to, I assume maybe any later filters.

  I believe you would do something like this, and that you could generate any supported event, but I haven't had good luck with it.

    my $s = $_[1]->{state};
    printf $output "%s|"%010.06f"|%s|%s|%s|%s\n";
        'report', Time::HiRes::time,
        $s->{subsystem}, 'filter-response', $s->{session},
        $parameter
    );
  

  This is not a result response.

  • parameter

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

The received "data-line" are stored in a list in memory if a "data-lines" filter exists, which could easily be very large if the message is sizable. These should instead be stored in a temporary file.

There is currently no way to stop listening for specific report events, this module should provide a way to specify which events it should listen for and gather state from.

DEPENDENCIES

Perl 5.16 or higher.

SEE ALSO

smtpd-filters(7)

OpenBSD::Pledge

OpenBSD::Unveil

AUTHOR

Andrew Hewus Fresh andrew@afresh1.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2021 by Andrew Hewus Fresh andrew@afresh1.com.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License