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CLEANUP(8)		    System Manager's Manual		    CLEANUP(8)

NAME
       cleanup - canonicalize and enqueue Postfix message

SYNOPSIS
       cleanup [generic	Postfix	daemon options]

DESCRIPTION
       The  cleanup(8)	daemon processes inbound mail, inserts it into the in-
       coming mail queue, and informs the queue	manager	of its arrival.

       The cleanup(8) daemon performs the following transformations:

             Insert missing  message  headers:	 (Resent-)  From:,  To:,  Mes-
	      sage-Id:,	and Date:.
	      This  is	enabled	 with the local_header_rewrite_clients and al-
	      ways_add_missing_headers parameter settings.

             Transform	 envelope  and	header	addresses  to	the   standard
	      user@fully-qualified-domain form that is expected	by other Post-
	      fix  programs.  This task	depends	on the trivial-rewrite(8) dae-
	      mon.
	      The   header   transformation   is   enabled   with   the	   lo-
	      cal_header_rewrite_clients parameter setting.

             Eliminate	duplicate envelope recipient addresses.
	      This  is	enabled	with the duplicate_filter_limit	parameter set-
	      ting.

             Remove message headers:  Bcc,  Content-Length,  Resent-Bcc,  Re-
	      turn-Path.
	      This is enabled with the message_drop_headers parameter setting.

             Optionally,  rewrite all envelope	and header addresses according
	      to the mappings specified	in the canonical(5) lookup tables.
	      The   header   transformation   is   enabled   with   the	   lo-
	      cal_header_rewrite_clients parameter setting.

             Optionally,  masquerade  envelope	 sender	 addresses and message
	      header addresses (i.e. strip host	or  domain  information	 below
	      all  domains  listed in the masquerade_domains parameter,	except
	      for user names listed in	masquerade_exceptions).	  By  default,
	      address masquerading does	not affect envelope recipients.
	      The    header   transformation   is   enabled   with   the   lo-
	      cal_header_rewrite_clients parameter setting.

             Optionally, expand envelope recipients according to  information
	      found in the virtual_alias_maps lookup tables.

       The  cleanup(8)	daemon	performs  sanity checks	on the content of each
       message.	When it	finds a	problem, by default it	returns	 a  diagnostic
       status to the cleanup service client, and leaves	it up to the client to
       deal  with  the	problem.  Alternatively,  the  client  can request the
       cleanup(8) daemon to bounce the message back to the sender in  case  of
       trouble.

STANDARDS
       RFC 822 (ARPA Internet Text Messages)
       RFC 2045	(MIME: Format of Internet Message Bodies)
       RFC 2046	(MIME: Media Types)
       RFC 2822	(Internet Message Format)
       RFC 3463	(Enhanced Status Codes)
       RFC 3464	(Delivery status notifications)
       RFC 5322	(Internet Message Format)
       RFC 8689	(TLS-Required: message header)

DIAGNOSTICS
       Problems	and transactions are logged to syslogd(8) or postlogd(8).

BUGS
       Table-driven  rewriting	rules make it hard to express if then else and
       other logical relationships.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
       Changes to main.cf are picked up	automatically, as cleanup(8) processes
       run for only a limited amount of	time. Use the command "postfix reload"
       to speed	up a change.

       The text	below provides only a parameter	summary. See  postconf(5)  for
       more details including examples.

COMPATIBILITY CONTROLS
       undisclosed_recipients_header (see 'postconf -d'	output)
	      Message header that the Postfix cleanup(8) server	inserts	when a
	      message contains no To: or Cc: message header.

       Available in Postfix version 2.1	only:

       enable_errors_to	(no)
	      Report  mail  delivery  errors to	the address specified with the
	      non-standard Errors-To: message header, instead of the  envelope
	      sender  address  (this  feature  is removed with Postfix version
	      2.2, is turned off by default with Postfix version 2.1,  and  is
	      always turned on with older Postfix versions).

       Available in Postfix version 2.6	and later:

       always_add_missing_headers (no)
	      Always  add  (Resent-)  From:, To:, Date:	or Message-ID: headers
	      when not present.

       Available in Postfix version 2.9	and later:

       enable_long_queue_ids (no)
	      Enable long, non-repeating, queue	IDs (queue file	names).

HEADER FORMATTING CONTROLS
       Available in Postfix version 3.0	and later:

       message_drop_headers (bcc, content-length, resent-bcc, return-path)
	      Names of message headers that the	cleanup(8) daemon will	remove
	      after  applying  header_checks(5)	and before invoking Milter ap-
	      plications.

       Available in Postfix version 3.3	and later:

       header_from_format (standard)
	      The format of the	Postfix-generated From:	header.

       Available in Postfix version 3.10 and later:

       full_name_encoding_charset (utf-8)
	      The character set	name (also called "charset") that Postfix will
	      output when it automatically generates an	RFC 2047 encoded  full
	      name.

BUILT-IN CONTENT FILTERING CONTROLS
       Postfix built-in	content	filtering is meant to stop a flood of worms or
       viruses.	It is not a general content filter.

       body_checks (empty)
	      Optional	lookup	tables	for content inspection as specified in
	      the body_checks(5) manual	page.

       header_checks (empty)
	      Optional	lookup	tables	for  content  inspection  of   primary
	      non-MIME	message	 headers, as specified in the header_checks(5)
	      manual page.

       Available in Postfix version 2.0	and later:

       body_checks_size_limit (51200)
	      How much text in a message body segment (or attachment,  if  you
	      prefer to	use that term) is subjected to body_checks inspection.

       mime_header_checks ($header_checks)
	      Optional	lookup	tables	for content inspection of MIME related
	      message headers, as described  in	 the  header_checks(5)	manual
	      page.

       nested_header_checks ($header_checks)
	      Optional	lookup	tables for content inspection of non-MIME mes-
	      sage  headers  in	 attached  messages,  as  described   in   the
	      header_checks(5) manual page.

       Available in Postfix version 2.3	and later:

       message_reject_characters (empty)
	      The  set	of characters that Postfix will	reject in message con-
	      tent.

       message_strip_characters	(empty)
	      The set of characters that Postfix will remove from message con-
	      tent.

       Available in Postfix version 3.9, 3.8.5,	3.7.10,	 3.6.14,  3.5.24,  and
       later:

       cleanup_replace_stray_cr_lf (yes)
	      Replace  each  stray  <CR>  or <LF> character in message content
	      with a space character, to prevent outbound SMTP smuggling,  and
	      to make the evaluation of	Postfix-added DKIM or other signatures
	      independent  from	 how a remote mail server handles such charac-
	      ters.

BEFORE QUEUE MILTER CONTROLS
       As of version 2.3, Postfix supports the Sendmail	version	8 Milter (mail
       filter) protocol. When mail is not received via	the  smtpd(8)  server,
       the cleanup(8) server will simulate SMTP	events to the extent that this
       is possible. For	details	see the	MILTER_README document.

       non_smtpd_milters (empty)
	      A	 list  of  Milter (mail	filter)	applications for new mail that
	      does not arrive via the Postfix smtpd(8) server.

       milter_protocol (6)
	      The mail filter protocol version and  optional  protocol	exten-
	      sions  for  communication	 with  a  Milter application; prior to
	      Postfix 2.6 the default protocol is 2.

       milter_default_action (tempfail)
	      The default action when a	Milter (mail filter) response  is  un-
	      available	 (for  example,	 bad  Postfix  configuration or	Milter
	      failure).

       milter_macro_daemon_name	($myhostname)
	      The {daemon_name}	macro value for	Milter (mail filter)  applica-
	      tions.

       milter_macro_v ($mail_name $mail_version)
	      The {v} macro value for Milter (mail filter) applications.

       milter_connect_timeout (30s)
	      The time limit for connecting to a Milter	(mail filter) applica-
	      tion, and	for negotiating	protocol options.

       milter_command_timeout (30s)
	      The  time	 limit	for  sending an	SMTP command to	a Milter (mail
	      filter) application, and for receiving the response.

       milter_content_timeout (300s)
	      The time limit for sending message content  to  a	 Milter	 (mail
	      filter) application, and for receiving the response.

       milter_connect_macros (see 'postconf -d'	output)
	      The  macros  that	 are sent to Milter (mail filter) applications
	      after completion of an SMTP connection.

       milter_helo_macros (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The macros that are sent to Milter  (mail	 filter)  applications
	      after the	SMTP HELO or EHLO command.

       milter_mail_macros (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The  macros  that	 are sent to Milter (mail filter) applications
	      after the	SMTP MAIL FROM command.

       milter_rcpt_macros (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The macros that are sent to Milter  (mail	 filter)  applications
	      after the	SMTP RCPT TO command.

       milter_data_macros (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The  macros  that	 are  sent to version 4	or higher Milter (mail
	      filter) applications after the SMTP DATA command.

       milter_unknown_command_macros (see 'postconf -d'	output)
	      The macros that are sent to version 3  or	 higher	 Milter	 (mail
	      filter) applications after an unknown SMTP command.

       milter_end_of_data_macros (see 'postconf	-d' output)
	      The  macros  that	 are sent to Milter (mail filter) applications
	      after the	message	end-of-data.

       Available in Postfix version 2.5	and later:

       milter_end_of_header_macros (see	'postconf -d' output)
	      The macros that are sent to Milter  (mail	 filter)  applications
	      after the	end of the message header.

       Available in Postfix version 2.7	and later:

       milter_header_checks (empty)
	      Optional lookup tables for content inspection of message headers
	      that are produced	by Milter applications.

       Available in Postfix version 3.1	and later:

       milter_macro_defaults (empty)
	      Optional	list  of  name=value pairs that	specify	default	values
	      for arbitrary macros that	Postfix	may send  to  Milter  applica-
	      tions.

MIME PROCESSING	CONTROLS
       Available in Postfix version 2.0	and later:

       disable_mime_input_processing (no)
	      Turn off MIME processing while receiving mail.

       mime_boundary_length_limit (2048)
	      The maximal length of MIME multipart boundary strings.

       mime_nesting_limit (100)
	      The maximal recursion level that the MIME	processor will handle.

       strict_8bitmime (no)
	      Enable both strict_7bit_headers and strict_8bitmime_body.

       strict_7bit_headers (no)
	      Reject mail with 8-bit text in message headers.

       strict_8bitmime_body (no)
	      Reject 8-bit message body	text without 8-bit MIME	content	encod-
	      ing information.

       strict_mime_encoding_domain (no)
	      Reject  mail with	invalid	Content-Transfer-Encoding: information
	      for the message/*	or multipart/* MIME content types.

       Available in Postfix version 2.5	and later:

       detect_8bit_encoding_header (yes)
	      Automatically detect 8BITMIME body content by  looking  at  Con-
	      tent-Transfer-Encoding:  message headers;	historically, this be-
	      havior was hard-coded to be "always on".

AUTOMATIC BCC RECIPIENT	CONTROLS
       Postfix can automatically add BCC (blind	carbon copy) when mail	enters
       the mail	system:

       always_bcc (empty)
	      Optional	address	 that  receives	 a "blind carbon copy" of each
	      message that is received by the Postfix mail system.

       Available in Postfix version 2.1	and later:

       sender_bcc_maps (empty)
	      Optional BCC (blind carbon-copy) address lookup tables,  indexed
	      by envelope sender address.

       recipient_bcc_maps (empty)
	      Optional	BCC (blind carbon-copy)	address	lookup tables, indexed
	      by envelope recipient address.

ADDRESS	TRANSFORMATION CONTROLS
       Address rewriting is delegated to the trivial-rewrite(8)	 daemon.   The
       cleanup(8) server implements table driven address mapping.

       empty_address_recipient (MAILER-DAEMON)
	      The recipient of mail addressed to the null address.

       canonical_maps (empty)
	      Optional	address	 mapping lookup	tables for message headers and
	      envelopes.

       recipient_canonical_maps	(empty)
	      Optional address mapping lookup tables for envelope  and	header
	      recipient	addresses.

       sender_canonical_maps (empty)
	      Optional	address	 mapping lookup	tables for envelope and	header
	      sender addresses.

       masquerade_classes (envelope_sender, header_sender, header_recipient)
	      What addresses are subject to address masquerading.

       masquerade_domains (empty)
	      Optional list of	domains	 whose	subdomain  structure  will  be
	      stripped off in email addresses.

       masquerade_exceptions (empty)
	      Optional	list  of  user names that are not subjected to address
	      masquerading, even when their  addresses	match  $masquerade_do-
	      mains.

       propagate_unmatched_extensions (canonical, virtual)
	      What  address  lookup  tables copy an address extension from the
	      lookup key to the	lookup result.

       Available before	Postfix	version	2.0:

       virtual_maps (empty)
	      Optional lookup tables with a) names of domains  for  which  all
	      addresses	 are aliased to	addresses in other local or remote do-
	      mains, and b) addresses that are aliased to addresses  in	 other
	      local or remote domains.

       Available in Postfix version 2.0	and later:

       virtual_alias_maps ($virtual_maps)
	      Optional lookup tables that are often searched with a full email
	      address (including domain) and that apply	to all recipients: lo-
	      cal(8),  virtual,	and remote; this is unlike alias_maps that are
	      only searched with an email address localpart  (no  domain)  and
	      that apply only to local(8) recipients.

       Available in Postfix version 2.2	and later:

       canonical_classes (envelope_sender, envelope_recipient, header_sender,
       header_recipient)
	      What addresses are subject to canonical_maps address mapping.

       recipient_canonical_classes (envelope_recipient,	header_recipient)
	      What  addresses  are subject to recipient_canonical_maps address
	      mapping.

       sender_canonical_classes	(envelope_sender, header_sender)
	      What addresses are subject to sender_canonical_maps address map-
	      ping.

       remote_header_rewrite_domain (empty)
	      Rewrite or add message headers in	mail from  remote  clients  if
	      the  remote_header_rewrite_domain	 parameter value is non-empty,
	      updating incomplete addresses with the domain specified  in  the
	      remote_header_rewrite_domain parameter, and adding missing head-
	      ers.

RESOURCE AND RATE CONTROLS
       duplicate_filter_limit (1000)
	      The maximal number of addresses remembered by the	address	dupli-
	      cate filter for aliases(5) or virtual(5) alias expansion,	or for
	      showq(8) queue displays.

       header_size_limit (102400)
	      The  maximal  amount  of	memory	in bytes for storing a message
	      header.

       hopcount_limit (50)
	      The maximal number of Received:  message headers that is allowed
	      in the primary message headers.

       in_flow_delay (1s)
	      Time to pause before accepting a new message, when  the  message
	      arrival rate exceeds the message delivery	rate.

       message_size_limit (10240000)
	      The  maximal  size in bytes of a message,	including envelope in-
	      formation.

       Available in Postfix version 2.0	and later:

       header_address_token_limit (10240)
	      The maximal number of address tokens are allowed in  an  address
	      message header.

       mime_boundary_length_limit (2048)
	      The maximal length of MIME multipart boundary strings.

       mime_nesting_limit (100)
	      The maximal recursion level that the MIME	processor will handle.

       queue_file_attribute_count_limit	(100)
	      The maximal number of (name=value) attributes that may be	stored
	      in a Postfix queue file.

       Available in Postfix version 2.1	and later:

       virtual_alias_expansion_limit (1000)
	      The  maximal  number  of	addresses that virtual alias expansion
	      produces from each original recipient.

       virtual_alias_recursion_limit (1000)
	      The maximal nesting depth	of virtual alias expansion.

       Available in Postfix version 3.0	and later:

       virtual_alias_address_length_limit (1000)
	      The maximal length of an email address after virtual  alias  ex-
	      pansion.

SMTPUTF8 CONTROLS
       Preliminary SMTPUTF8 support is introduced with Postfix 3.0.

       smtputf8_enable (yes)
	      Enable  preliminary SMTPUTF8 support for the protocols described
	      in RFC 6531, RFC 6532, and RFC 6533.

       smtputf8_autodetect_classes (sendmail, verify)
	      Detect that a message requires SMTPUTF8 support for  the	speci-
	      fied mail	origin classes.

       Available in Postfix version 3.2	and later:

       enable_idna2003_compatibility (no)
	      Enable   'transitional'	compatibility	between	 IDNA2003  and
	      IDNA2008,	when converting	UTF-8 domain names to/from  the	 ASCII
	      form that	is used	for DNS	lookups.

TLS SUPPORT
       Available in Postfix version 3.10 and later:

       tls_required_enable (yes)
	      Enable  support  for  the	"TLS-Required: no" message header, de-
	      fined in RFC 8689.

MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS
       config_directory	(see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The default location of the Postfix main.cf and  master.cf  con-
	      figuration files.

       daemon_timeout (18000s)
	      How  much	time a Postfix daemon process may take to handle a re-
	      quest before it is terminated by a built-in watchdog timer.

       delay_logging_resolution_limit (2)
	      The maximal number of digits after the decimal point  when  log-
	      ging delay values.

       delay_warning_time (0h)
	      The  time	 after which the sender	receives a copy	of the message
	      headers of mail that is still queued.

       ipc_timeout (3600s)
	      The time limit for sending or receiving information over an  in-
	      ternal communication channel.

       max_idle	(100s)
	      The  maximum  amount of time that	an idle	Postfix	daemon process
	      waits for	an incoming connection before terminating voluntarily.

       max_use (100)
	      The maximal number of incoming connections that a	Postfix	daemon
	      process will service before terminating voluntarily.

       myhostname (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The internet hostname of this mail system.

       myorigin	($myhostname)
	      The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to  come	 from,
	      and that locally posted mail is delivered	to.

       process_id (read-only)
	      The process ID of	a Postfix command or daemon process.

       process_name (read-only)
	      The process name of a Postfix command or daemon process.

       queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
	      The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

       soft_bounce (no)
	      Safety  net to keep mail queued that would otherwise be returned
	      to the sender.

       syslog_facility (mail)
	      The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

       syslog_name (see	'postconf -d' output)
	      A	prefix that  is	 prepended  to	the  process  name  in	syslog
	      records, so that,	for example, "smtpd" becomes "prefix/smtpd".

       Available in Postfix version 2.1	and later:

       enable_original_recipient (yes)
	      Enable  support  for the original	recipient address after	an ad-
	      dress is rewritten to a  different  address  (for	 example  with
	      aliasing or with canonical mapping).

       Available in Postfix 3.3	and later:

       service_name (read-only)
	      The master.cf service name of a Postfix daemon process.

       Available in Postfix 3.5	and later:

       info_log_address_format (external)
	      The  email  address  form	that will be used in non-debug logging
	      (info, warning, etc.).

       Available in Postfix 3.9	and later:

       force_mime_input_conversion (no)
	      Convert body content that	claims to be 8-bit into	 quoted-print-
	      able, before header_checks, body_checks, Milters,	and before af-
	      ter-queue	content	filters.

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/postfix/canonical*, canonical mapping table
       /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual*,	virtual	mapping	table

SEE ALSO
       trivial-rewrite(8), address rewriting
       qmgr(8),	queue manager
       header_checks(5), message header	content	inspection
       body_checks(5), body parts content inspection
       canonical(5), canonical address lookup table format
       virtual(5), virtual alias lookup	table format
       postconf(5), configuration parameters
       master(5), generic daemon options
       master(8), process manager
       postlogd(8), Postfix logging
       syslogd(8), system logging

README FILES
       Use  "postconf readme_directory"	or "postconf html_directory" to	locate
       this information.
       ADDRESS_REWRITING_README	Postfix	address	manipulation
       CONTENT_INSPECTION_README content inspection

LICENSE
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

AUTHOR(S)
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J.	Watson Research
       P.O. Box	704
       Yorktown	Heights, NY 10598, USA

       Wietse Venema
       Google, Inc.
       111 8th Avenue
       New York, NY 10011, USA

       Wietse Venema
       porcupine.org

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