Pigeonhole Sieve Extprograms Plugin
===================================

The "sieve_extprograms" plugin provides an extension to the Sieve filtering
language [http://www.sieve.info] adding new action commands for invoking a
predefined set of external programs. Messages can be piped to or filtered
through those programs and string data can be input to and retrieved from those
programs. To mitigate the security concerns, the external programs cannot be
chosen arbitrarily; the available programs are restricted through administrator
configuration.

This plugin is only available for <Pigeonhole.txt> v0.3 and higher (available
for Dovecot v2.1). For <Pigeonhole.txt> v0.4 this plugin is part of the
release. This an evolution of the <Pipe plugin>
[Pigeonhole.Sieve.Plugins.Pipe.txt] for Pigeonhole v0.2 and now provides the
"filter" and "execute" commands (and corresponding extensions) in addition to
the "pipe" command that was provided earlier by the Pipe plugin.

Getting the sources
-------------------

Starting with Pigeonhole v0.4 for Dovecot v2.2, the plugin is included in the
release and therefore it is implicitly compiled and installed with Pigeonhole
itself.

For Pigeonhole v0.3, the plugin was never released, but you can get the sources
from its Mercurial repository:

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hg clone http://hg.rename-it.nl/pigeonhole-0.3-sieve-extprograms/
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Compiling for Pigeonhole v0.3
-----------------------------

If you downloaded the sources of this plugin using Mercurial, you will need to
execute './autogen.sh' first to build the automake structure in your source
tree. This process requires autotools and libtool to be installed.

If you installed Dovecot from sources, the plugin's configure script should be
able to find the installed 'dovecot-config' automatically, along with the
Pigeonhole development headers:

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./configure
make
sudo make install
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If this doesn't work, you can use '--with-dovecot=<path>' configure option,
where the path points to a directory containing 'dovecot-config' file. This can
point to an installed file:

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./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/lib/dovecot
make
sudo make install
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The above example should also find the necessary Pigeonhole development headers
implicitly. You can also compile by pointing to compiled Dovecot and Pigeonhole
source trees:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.1.0/
--with-pigeonhole=../dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.0
make
sudo make install
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Configuration
-------------

The plugin is activated by adding it to the sieve_plugins setting:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms
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This plugin registers the 'vnd.dovecot.pipe', 'vnd.dovecot.filter' and
'vnd.dovecot.execute' extensions with the Sieve interpreter. However, these
extensions are not enabled by default and thus need to be enabled explicitly.
It is recommended to restrict the use of these extensions to global context by
adding these to the 'sieve_global_extensions' setting. If personal user scripts
also need to directly access external programs, the extensions need to be added
to the 'sieve_extensions' setting.

The commands introduced by the Sieve language extensions in this plugin can
directly pipe a message or string data to an external program (typically a
shell script) by forking a new process. Alternatively, these can connect to a
unix socket behind which a Dovecot script service is listening to start the
external program, e.g. to execute as a different user or for added security.

The program name specified for the new Sieve 'pipe', 'filter' and 'execute'
commands is used to find the program or socket in a configured directory.
Separate directories are specified for the sockets and the directly executed
binaries. The socket directory is searched first. Since the use of "/" in
program names is prohibited, it is not possible to build a hierarchical
structure.

Directly forked programs are executed with a limited set of environment
variables:'HOME', 'USER', 'SENDER', 'RECIPIENT' and 'ORIG_RECIPIENT'. Programs
executed through the script-pipe socket service currently have no environment
set at all.

If a shell script is expected to read a message or string data, it must fully
read the provided input until the data ends with EOF, otherwise the Sieve
action invoking the program will fail. The action will also fail when the shell
script returns a nonzero exit code. Standard output is available for returning
a message (for the filter command) or string data (for the execute command) to
the Sieve interpreter. Standard error is written to the LDA log file.

The three extensions introduced by this plugin - 'vnd.dovecot.pipe',
'vnd.dovecot.filter' and 'vnd.dovecot.execute' - each have separate but similar
configuration. The following configuration settings are used, for which
"<extension>" in the setting name is replaced by either 'pipe', 'filter' or
'execute' depending on which extension is being configured:

sieve_<extension>_socket_dir = :
  Points to a directory relative to the Dovecot base_dir where the plugin looks
  for script service sockets.

sieve_<extension>_bin_dir = :
  Points to a directory where the plugin looks for programs (shell scripts) to
  execute directly and pipe messages to.

sieve_<extension>_exec_timeout = 10s :
  Configures the maximum execution time after which the program is forcibly
  terminated.

sieve_<extension>_input_eol = crlf :
  Determines the end-of-line character sequence used for the data piped to
  external programs. The default is currently "crlf", which represents a
  sequence of the carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF) characters. This
  matches the Internet Message Format (RFC5322) and what Sieve itself uses as a
  line ending. Set this setting to "lf" to use a single LF character instead.

Configuration Example 1: socket service for "pipe" and "execute"
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---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve

  sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms
  sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute

  # pipe sockets in /var/run/dovecot/sieve-pipe
  sieve_pipe_socket_dir = sieve-pipe

  # execute sockets in /var/run/dovecot/sieve-execute
  sieve_execute_socket_dir = sieve-execute
}

service sieve-pipe-script {
  # This script is executed for each service connection
  executable = script /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-extprograms/sieve-pipe-action.sh

  # use some unprivileged user for execution
  user = dovenull

  # socket name is program-name in Sieve (without sieve-pipe/ prefix)
  unix_listener sieve-pipe/sieve-pipe-script {
  }
}

service sieve-execute-action {
  # This script is executed for each service connection
  executable = script
/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-extprograms/sieve-execute-action.sh

  # use some unprivileged user for execution
  user = dovenull

  # socket name is program-name in Sieve (without sieve-execute/ prefix)
  unix_listener sieve-execute/sieve-execute-action {
  }
}
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Configuration Example 2: direct execution for "pipe" and "filter"
-----------------------------------------------------------------

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve

  sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms
  sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.filter

  # This directory contains the scripts that are available for the pipe
command.
  sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe

  # This directory contains the scripts that are available for the filter
  # command.
  sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter
}
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Usage
-----

Read the specification (v0.3 plugin
[http://hg.rename-it.nl/pigeonhole-0.3-sieve-extprograms/raw-file/tip/doc/rfc/spec-bosch-sieve-extprograms.txt]/v0.4+
[https://github.com/dovecot/pigeonhole/blob/master/doc/rfc/spec-bosch-sieve-extprograms.txt])
for detailed information on how to use the new language extensions.

Full Examples
-------------

Example 1
---------

This simple example shows how to use the "vnd.dovecot.execute" extension to
perform some sort of test on the incoming message.

Relevant configuration:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
plugin {
 sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.execute

 sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms
 sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute
}
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sieve script:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
require "vnd.dovecot.execute";

if not execute :pipe "hasfrop.sh" {
        discard;
        stop;
}
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At the location '/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute', create the executable script
'hasfrop.sh'. In this example, the 'hasfrop.sh' checks whether the message
contains the literal text "FROP" anywhere in the message. The Sieve script
shown above discards the message if this scripts ends with an exit code other
than 0, which happens when "FROP" was found.

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# Something that reads the whole message and inspects it for some
# property. Not that the whole message needs to be read from input!
N=`cat | grep -i "FROP"` # Check it for the undesirable text "FROP"
if [ ! -z "$N" ]; then
        # Result: deny
        exit 1;
fi

# Result: accept
exit 0
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Example 2
---------

This example shows how to use the "vnd.dovecot.execute" extension for
querying/updating a MySQL database. This is used to redirect messages only once
every 300s for a particular sender. Note that this particular use case could
also be implemented using the Sieve " <duplicate>
[Pigeonhole.Sieve.Extensions.Duplicate.txt]" extension

Relevant configuration:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
plugin {
 sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.execute

 sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms
 sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute
}
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The sieve script:

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
require ["variables", "copy", "envelope", "vnd.dovecot.execute"];

# put the envelope-from address in a variable
if envelope :matches "from" "*" { set "from" "${1}"; }

# execute the vacationcheck.sh program and redirect the message based on its
exit code
if execute :output "vacation_message" "vacationcheck.sh" ["${from}","300"]
{
 redirect
      :copy "foo@bar.net";
}
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At the location '/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute', create the executable script
'vacationcheck.sh'. In this example, the 'vacationcheck.sh' script needs two
parameters: the sender address and a time interval specified in seconds. The
time interval is used to specify the minimum amount of time that needs to have
passed since the sender was last seen. If the script returns exit code 0, then
message is redirected in the Sieve script shown above.

---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
USER=postfixadmin
PASS=pass
DATABASE=postfixadmin

# DB STRUCTURE
#CREATE TABLE `sieve_count` (
#  `from_addres` varchar(254) NOT NULL,
#  `date` datetime NOT NULL
#) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
#
#ALTER TABLE `sieve_count`
#  ADD KEY `from_addres` (`from_addres`);

MAILS=$(mysql -u$USER -p$PASS $DATABASE --batch --silent -e "SELECT count(*) as
ile FROM sieve_count WHERE from_addres='$1' AND DATE_SUB(now(),INTERVAL $2
SECOND) < date;")
ADDRESULT=$(mysql -u$USER -p$PASS $DATABASE --batch --silent -e "INSERT INTO
sieve_count (from_addres, date) VALUES ('$1', NOW());")

# uncoment below to debug
# echo Uset $1 sent $MAILS in last $2 s >>
/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe/output.txt
# echo Add result : $ADDRESULT >> /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe/output.txt
# echo $MAILS

if [ "$MAILS" = "0" ]
then
exit 0
fi

exit 1
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(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)
