Vytvorenie vlastného poštového servera s FreeBSD 11

Prevádzka vlastného e-mailového servera môže byť celkom obohacujúca. Máte na starosti svoje údaje. Umožňuje vám tiež väčšiu flexibilitu pri možnostiach doručenia. Existuje však niekoľko výziev. Riskujete, že váš server bude ohrozený zraniteľnosťami, ako aj tým, že sa váš server stane potenciálnym zdrojom pre spamerov.

S tým preč, začnime prevádzkovať vlastný poštový server.

Prehľad

Na inštaláciu sú potrebné tri časti softvéru, ktoré nie sú súčasťou základného systému FreeBSD:

• OpenSMTPd
• Holubník
• spam

OpenSMTPd je agent prenosu pošty (MTA) a agent doručovania pošty (MDA). To znamená, že dokáže cez SMTPprotokol komunikovať s ostatnými poštovými servermi a zabezpečuje aj doručovanie pošty do schránok jednotlivých používateľov. OpenSMTPd nastavíme tak, aby mohol komunikovať s externými servermi (filtrovaný cez spam) a doručovať poštu lokálnym používateľom, ako aj doručovať lokálnu poštu od používateľa k používateľovi.

Dovecot je MDA, ktorý číta lokálne poštové schránky a poskytuje ich používateľom cez IMAP alebo POP3. Na doručenie tohto obsahu použije poštové schránky miestnych používateľov.

Spamd je služba filtrovania pošty. Môžeme preposielať poštu cez spam a bude filtrovať poštu na základe rôznych zoznamov zakázaných položiek, bielych zoznamov a greylistov.

Všeobecná myšlienka tohto poštového servera vyžaduje niekoľko rôznych ciest:

Outside world -> Firewall -> spamd -> OpenSMTPD -> User mail boxes
Outside world -> Firewall (spamd-whitelist) -> OpenSMTPD -> User mailboxes
Outside world -> Firewall (IMAP/POP3) -> Dovecot
Outside world -> Firewall (SMTPD submission)

V tomto návode budeme používať FreeBSD verziu PF OpenBSD pre náš firewall. Môžete tiež použiť ipfw, kde je konfigurácia veľmi podobná.

Poznámka: Vultr štandardne blokuje port 25, ktorý všade používajú servery SMTP. Ak chcete prevádzkovať plne funkčný e-mailový server, budete musieť tento port otvoriť.

Pôvodné nastavenie

Najprv musíme nainštalovať potrebné programy.

Za predpokladu, že používate ako používateľ s nastaveným sudo prístupom, môžeme spustiť nasledujúce príkazy. Budú sa líšiť v závislosti od toho, či používate porty alebo balíky.

Balíčky (odporúčané)

Ak nepotrebujete špecifickú funkcionalitu zabudovanú do týchto nástrojov, odporúča sa inštalácia prostredníctvom balíkov. Je to jednoduchšie, vyžaduje menej času a zdrojov servera a poskytuje intuitívne a užívateľsky prívetivé rozhranie.

sudo pkg install opensmtpd dovecot spamd

Nasledujúce makepríkazy vám poskytnú veľa možností kompilácie, predvolené nastavenia budú fungovať dobre. Nemeňte ich, pokiaľ presne neviete, čo robíte.

sudo portsnap fetch update   # or run portsnap fetch extract if using ports for the first time
cd /usr/ports/mail/opensmtpd  
make install  # Installs openSMTPd
make clean
cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot
make install  # Installs dovecot
make clean
cd /usr/ports/mail/spamd
make install  # Installs spamd
make clean

Budeme musieť pridať nasledujúce riadky /etc/rc.conf:

pf_enable="YES"
pf_rules="/usr/local/etc/pf.conf"
pflog_enable="YES"
pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog"

obspamd_enable="YES"
obspamd_flags="-v"
obspamlogd_enable="YES"

dovecot_enable="YES"

Nastavenie brány firewall

Na konfiguráciu PF môžeme vytvoriť naše /usr/local/etc/pf.conf:

## Set public interface ##
ext_if="vtnet0"

## set and drop IP ranges on the public interface ##
martians = "{ 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, \
          10.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, 192.0.2.0/24, \
          0.0.0.0/8, 240.0.0.0/4 }"

table <spamd> persist
table <spamd-white> persist

# Whitelisted webmail services
table <webmail> persist file "/usr/local/etc/pf.webmail.ip.conf"

## Skip loop back interface - Skip all PF processing on interface ##
set skip on lo

## Sets the interface for which PF should gather statistics such as bytes in/out and packets passed/blocked ##
set loginterface $ext_if

# Deal with attacks based on incorrect handling of packet fragments 
scrub in all


# Pass spamd whitelist
pass quick log on $ext_if inet proto tcp from <spamd-white> to $ext_if port smtp \
    -> 127.0.0.1 port 25
# Pass webmail servers
rdr pass quick log on $ext_if inet proto tcp from <gmail> to $ext_if port smtp \
    -> 127.0.0.1 port 25
# pass submission messages.
pass quick log on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port submission modulate state
# Pass unknown mail to spamd
rdr pass log on $ext_if inet proto tcp from {!<spamd-white> <spamd>} to $ext_if port smtp \
    -> 127.0.0.1 port 8025 

## Blocking spoofed packets
antispoof quick for $ext_if

## Set default policy ##
block return in log all
block out all

# Drop all Non-Routable Addresses 
block drop in quick on $ext_if from $martians to any
block drop out quick on $ext_if from any to $martians

pass in inet proto tcp to $ext_if port ssh

# Allow Ping-Pong stuff. Be a good sysadmin 
pass inet proto icmp icmp-type echoreq

# Open up imap/pop3 support
pass quick on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port {imap, imaps, pop3, pop3s} modulate state


# Allow outgoing traffic
pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any modulate state
pass out on $ext_if proto udp from any to any keep state

Toto je funkčná konfigurácia PF. Je to pomerne jednoduché, ale je potrebné vysvetliť aj niekoľko vtipov.

Najprv definujeme našu $ext_ifpremennú, ktorú naše vtnet0zariadenie použije neskôr. Tiež definujeme neplatné IP adresy, ktoré by mali byť vynechané na externom rozhraní.

We also define two tables, spamd and spamd-white - these two tables are created by spamd in it's default configuration. As well, we define a table named webmail which we will use to allow some major webmail providers through.

To view a table, you can use the command pfctl -t tablename -T show to list the elements in a table.

We set a few PF rules: skip processing on the local interface, enable statistics on the external interface and scrub incoming packets.

Next is one of the more important parts, where we manage sending our traffic through to spamd or OpenSMTPd.

First up is a redirect rule (note the syntax here, FreeBSD 11 uses the older style PF syntax (pre-OpenBSD 4.6) so the syntax may seem odd. If we receive anything on smtp from a host listed in the spamd table or not listed in the spamd-white table, we redirect the connection through to the spamd daemon, which deals with these connections. The next three rules are passthrough rules so that we can actually receive mail. We pass through messages from the IPs listed in the spamd-white and the webmail tables straight through to OpenSMTPd. Also, we accept messages on the submission port (587).

Then there's a few housekeeping rules to set our default policy, and accept SSH and ICMP messages.

We then pass IMAP and POP3 on our external interface in order to access Dovecot.

Lastly we allow all outgoing traffic. If you wanted to add extra security, you could limit the ports you pass, but for a single-use server it's not a problem to pass everything.

Start PF:

sudo service pf start

Now that we have our firewall setup, we can move on to our mail server configuration.

OpenSMTPd

OpenSMTPd has a very simple, and easy-to-read configuration syntax. An entire working configuration can fit into 14 lines, as you can see below:

#This is the smtpd server system-wide configuration file.
# See smtpd.conf(5) for more information.

ext_if=vtnet0

# If you edit the file, you have to run "smtpctl update table aliases"
table aliases   file:/etc/mail/aliases
table domains   file:/etc/mail/domains

# Keys
pki mail.example.com key "/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/privkey.pem"
pki mail.example.com certificate "/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/fullchain.pem"
# If you want to listen on multiple subdomains (e.g. mail.davidlenfesty) you have to add more lines
# of keys, and more lines of listeners

# Listen for local SMTP connections
listen on localhost hostname mail.example.com

# listen for filtered spamd connections
listen on lo0 port 10026

# Listen for submissions
listen on $ext_if port 587 tls-require auth pki mail.example.com tag SUBMITTED

# Accept mail from external sources.
accept from any for domain <domains> alias <aliases> deliver to maildir "~/mail"

accept for local alias <aliases> deliver to maildir "~/mail"
accept from local for any relay tls
accept tagged SUBMITTED for any relay tls

Firstly, we again define our external interface, as well as a few tables, aliases and domains. Then we move on to the SSL key and certificate for any domains we want to handle mail under.

In the next section, we define the interfaces and ports we want to listen on. Firstly, we listen on localhost for our mail.example.com domain, for any local connections. Then we listen for our spamd-filtered messages and submitted messages on the external interface. Lastly, we listen for submissions, these happen on port 587 and we are requiring them to authenticate, for security reasons.

Lastly are our accept settings. We accept any message for any of our domains defined in our domains table for aliases in our aliases table, to deliver to their home directory in the maildir format. Then we accept all local connections for local mailboxes and relay out our messages, so we can send email. Lastly, we accept our submitted messages to relay. If we didn't require authentication for our submissions port, this would be a big security hazard. This would let anyone use our server as a spam relay.

Aliases

FreeBSD ships with a default alias file /etc/mail/aliases in the following format:

vuser1:  user1
vuser2:  user1
vuser3:  user1
vuser4:  user2

This defines the different mail boxes, and where we want to forward messages sent to these defined mailboxes. We can either define our users as local system users or external mailboxes to forward to. The default FreeBSD file is quite descriptive so you can refer to that for reference.

Domains

FreeBSD does not supply a default domains file, but this is incredibly simple:

# Domains
example.com
mail.example.com
smtp.example.com

This is just a plain text file with each domain you want to listen to on a new line. You can make a comment using the # symbol. This file exists simply so that you can use fewer lines of configuration.

SSL Certificates

There are two ways to be able to secure your communications with your mail server, self-signed and signed certificates. It is certainly possible to self-sign your certificates, however services like Let's Encrypt provide free and incredibly easy to use signing.

First we have to install the certbot program.

sudo pkg install py-certbot

Alternatively, it can be installed with ports:

cd /usr/ports/security/py-certbot
make install
make clean

Then, to get your certificate, you need to make sure you have opened up port 80 on your external interface. Add the following lines somewhere in your filtering rules in /usr/local/etc/pf.conf:

pass quick on $ext_if from any to any port http

Then run pfctl -f /usr/local/etc/pf.conf to reload the ruleset.

Then you can run the command for any domains you want to get a certificate for:

certbot certonly --standalone -d mail.example.com

It is recommended to set up a crontab entry to run certbot renew once every 6 months to ensure your certificates don't expire.

Then for every relevant domain, you can modify the lines to point to the correct key file:

pki mail.example.com key "/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/privkey.pem"
pki mail.example.com certificate "/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/fullchain.pem"

Edit the securities:

sudo chmod 700 /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/archive/mail.example.com/*

Note: You will have to do this for each original keyfile or else OpenSMTPd won't open them.

Now we can start the service:

sudo service smtpd start

Configuring spamd

Here we are using OpenBSD's spamd daemon to reduce the amount of spam we get from the internet. Essentially, this filters out messages from IPs that are known as bad from various spam sources, as well as (by default) "greylisting" incoming connections. Spamd also tries to waste spammer's timme by "stuttering" blacklisted and greylisted connections, which means it spreads out it's response over several seconds which forces the client to stay open for longer than usual.

Greylisting a connection is done when any new IP address connects that isn't on any blacklist or whitelist. Once the new address connects, spamd drops the message with an inocuous error message, then it adds it to a temporary list. Because spammers get paid for delivered messages, they will not retry on an error, whereas a legitimate service will retry relatively soon.

You will have to run the following to mount fdescfs:

mount -t fdescfs null /dev/fd

Then you will have to add this line to /etc/fstab:

fdescfs     /dev/fd     fdescfs rw      0       0

The default config file (found in /usr/local/etc/spamd/spamd.conf.sample) will work fine. You can edit it to add new sources or change the sources you use:

sudo cp /usr/local/etc/spamd/spamd.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/spamd/spamd.conf

We can start the service with the following:

sudo service obspamd start

At this point spamd is set up.

Enabling Webmail Services

One problem with the greylisting approach is that large mail services will often send mail out through one of many different spools, and you aren't guaranteed to get the same server sending the message every time. One solution to this is to whitelist the IP ranges used by various webmail services. This is what the webmail table is used for in the PF configuration. This strategy can backfire if you include an IP address a spammer uses, but as long as you are careful with what ranges you put in the table you will be fine.

To add an email range to the webmail table, you can run the following command:

pfctl -t webmail -T add 192.0.2.0/24

Dovecot

If you want users to access their mail without logging in via SSH, you'll need an MDA that supports IMAP and/or POP3. A very popular program is Dovecot, with a fairly simple configuration and powerful features.

Môžeme skopírovať predvolenú konfiguráciu:

cd /usr/local/etc/dovecot
cp -R example-config/* ./

Konfigurácia sa skladá z niekoľkých rôznych súborov. Ak chcete vidieť rozdiely medzi vašou konfiguráciou a predvolenými nastaveniami holubníka, spustite príkaz nižšie:

sudo doveconf -n

Nasleduje jednoduchá a fungujúca konfigurácia:

# 2.3.2.1 (0719df592): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE amd64  
# Hostname: mail.example.com
hostname = mail.example.com
mail_location = maildir:~/mail
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  mailbox Archive {
    auto = create
    special_use = \Archive
  }
  mailbox Archives {
    auto = create
    special_use = \Archive
  }
  mailbox Drafts {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    auto = create
    autoexpunge = 60 days
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Mail" {
    auto = no
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    auto = no
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Spam {
    auto = no
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    auto = no
    autoexpunge = 90 days
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix = 
  separator = /
}
passdb {
  args = imap
  driver = pam
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/fullchain.pem
ssl_dh = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem
ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example.com/privkey.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}

Väčšina konfiguračných súborov bude in conf.d

Dôležité sú 10-auth.conf, 10-mail.conf, a 10-ssl.conf.

Môžete nakonfigurovať rôzne poštové schránky, ktoré používate v 15-mailboxes.conf. To, čo vidíte vyššie, je dobrá konfigurácia pre mnoho systémov, ale váš počet najazdených kilometrov sa môže líšiť. Odporúča sa, aby ste sa s tým pohrali s čo najväčším počtom rôznych klientov.

Overenie

Väčšina predvolených nastavení bude správna. Ak chcete na autentifikáciu použiť používateľov systému, budete musieť upraviť 10-auth.conf.

Odkomentujte nasledujúci riadok:

!include auth-system.conf.ext

Šifrovanie

Musíme vygenerovať parametre Diffie-Hellman:

sudo nohup openssl dhparam -out /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem

Poznámka: Spustenie bude trvať dlho. Oveľa dlhšie, než by ste čakali.

Teraz môžeme spustiť Dovecot:

sudo service dovecot start

Záver

V tomto bode máme funkčný, bezpečný a relatívne bez spamový poštový server.

Niektoré ďalšie veci, na ktoré sa odtiaľto môžete pozrieť, sú používanie SpamAssassinu na heuristické odstránenie spamu, ako aj nájdenie ďalších zoznamov zakázaných položiek nevyžiadanej pošty zverejnených zdrojmi, ktorým dôverujete.