pfixtools

pfixtools is a suite of tools aiming at complementing postfix, to make it even more customizable, while keeping really high performance levels. This is in particular why all the major Postfix Tools are written in plain C.

This suite contains at the time of the writing, two major tools.

pfix-srsd

this daemon brings SRS to postfix using its tcp_table(5) or socketmap_table(5) mechanisms. It allows plugging SRS into canonical(5) or transport(5) rewrites quite easily.

postlicyd

this is a postfix policy daemon. It includes greylisting, rbl lookups, counters, SMTP session tracking, in a way that allow very fine grained schemes. It’s for example quite easy to reject a mail just at the SMTP DATA command using results from filtering done at the RCPT TO or even the MAIL FROM commands.

Its configuration file is described in postlicyd.conf.

Download

The sources are availble from github.

• version 0.9 (September 22th, 2012)

• latest sources: pfixtools snapshot

• from git: git clone https://github.com/Fruneau/pfixtools.git

Previous versions (see [browser:ChangeLog]):

• version 0.8 (October 22th, 2009)

• version 0.7 (September 15th, 2009)

• version 0.6 (February 26th, 2009)

• version 0.5 (November 11th, 2008)

• version 0.4 (October 17th, 2008)

Installation

Supported platforms

The pfixtools have been currently successfully compiled and installed on the following platorms:

• Linux: gentoo, debian etch, debian lenny, arch linux, centos 6.x

• MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Known bugs:

• dns lookup crashed on debian lenny due to a bug in the version of libunbound shipped in the distribution. A workaround is to manually install a more recent version of the library (known to work with libunbound 1.4).

Other platforms might work with some Makefile tuning if gcc is available.

Requirements

The following libraries are required to build and run the pfixtools:

• libev

• libsrs2

• tokyocabinet (postlicyd only)

• libunbound (postlicyd only)

• libpcre (postlicyd only)

The following are build-time dependencies:

• gcc: 4.0 or later

• pkg-config (postlicyd only)

• gperf (postlicyd only)

• libpcre3

• xmlto, docbook-xsl and asciidoc to build the documentation (this is only a stub of documentation)

Compilation

To install the pfixtools, just run make all doc and sudo make install.

If you don’t want to compile all the tools, you can run make toolname and sudo make install-toolname. You can also specify the installation prefix and a sandbox path sudo make install prefix=/my/prefix DESTDIR=/my/sandbox.

Legal

These programs are free softwares distributed AS IS. Please refer to the LICENSE file for details.

Authors:

• Pierre Habouzit (c) 2006-2009: common library, pfix-srsd

• Florent Bruneau (c) 2008-2010: common library, postlicyd

Contributors:

• Aymeric Augustin (c) 2008: postgrey to postlicyd tool

• Nicolas Aupetit (c) 2008: debian packaging

• Vincent Zanotti (c) 2009: build fixes

• Michael Scherer (c) 2009: build fixes

• Jason Woods 2013: socketmap protocol / socketfiles and others