#!perl -w =head1 NAME karma - reward nice and penalize naughty mail senders =head1 SYNOPSIS Karma tracks sender history, providing the ability to deliver differing levels of service to naughty, nice, and unknown senders. =head1 DESCRIPTION Karma records the number of nice, naughty, and total connections from mail senders. After sending a naughty message, if a sender has more naughty than nice connections, they are penalized for I. Connections from senders in the penalty box are tersely disconnected. Karma provides other plugins with a karma value they can use to be more lenient, strict, or skip processing entirely. Karma is small, fast, and ruthlessly efficient. Karma can be used to craft custom connection policies such as these two examples: =over 4 Hi there, well behaved sender. Please help yourself to TLS, AUTH, greater concurrency, multiple recipients, no delays, and other privileges. Hi there, naughty sender. Enjoy this poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Bye. =back =head1 CONFIG =head2 negative How negative a senders karma can get before we penalize them for sending a naughty message. Karma is the number of nice - naughty connections. Default: 1 Examples: negative 1: 0 nice - 1 naughty = karma -1, penalize negative 1: 1 nice - 1 naughty = karma 0, okay negative 2: 1 nice - 2 naughty = karma -1, okay negative 2: 1 nice - 3 naughty = karma -2, penalize With the default negative limit of one, there's a very small chance you could penalize a "mostly good" sender. Raising it to 2 reduces that possibility to improbable. =head2 penalty_days The number of days a naughty sender is refused connections. Use a decimal value to penalize for portions of days. karma penalty_days 1 Default: 1 =head2 reject karma reject [ 0 | 1 | connect | zombie ] I<0> will not reject any connections. I<1> will reject naughty senders. I is the most efficient setting. To reject at any other connection hook, use the I setting and the B plugin. =head2 db_dir Path to a directory in which the DB will be stored. This directory must be writable by the qpsmtpd user. If unset, the first usable directory from the following list will be used: =over 4 =item /var/lib/qpsmtpd/karma =item I/var/db (where BINDIR is the location of the qpsmtpd binary) =item I/config =back =head2 loglevel Adjust the quantity of logging for this plugin. See docs/logging.pod =head1 BENEFITS Karma reduces the resources wasted by naughty mailers. When used with the I setting, naughty senders are disconnected in about 0.1 seconds. The biggest gains to be had are by having heavy plugins (spamassassin, dspam, virus filters) set the B transaction note (see KARMA) when they encounter naughty senders. Reasons to send servers to the penalty box could include sending a virus, early talking, or sending messages with a very high spam score. This plugin does not penalize connections with transaction notes I or I set. These notes would have been set by the B, B, and B plugins. Obviously, those plugins must run before B for that to work. =head1 KARMA No attempt is made by this plugin to determine what karma is. It is up to other plugins to make that determination and communicate it to this plugin by incrementing or decrementing the transaction note B. Raise it for good karma and lower it for bad karma. This is best done like so: # only if karma plugin loaded if ( defined $connection->notes('karma') ) { $connection->notes('karma', $connection->notes('karma') - 1); # bad $connection->notes('karma', $connection->notes('karma') + 1); # good }; After the connection ends, B will record the result. Mail servers whose naughty connections exceed nice ones are sent to the penalty box. Servers in the penalty box will be tersely disconnected for I. Here is an example connection from an IP in the penalty box: 73122 Connection from smtp.midsetmediacorp.com [64.185.226.65] 73122 (connect) ident::geoip: US, United States 73122 (connect) ident::p0f: Windows 7 or 8 73122 (connect) earlytalker: pass: 64.185.226.65 said nothing spontaneous 73122 (connect) relay: skip: no match 73122 (connect) karma: fail 73122 550 You were naughty. You are penalized for 0.99 more days. 73122 click, disconnecting 73122 (post-connection) connection_time: 1.048 s. If we only sets negative karma, we will almost certainly penalize servers we want to receive mail from. For example, a Yahoo user sends an egregious spam to a user on our server. Now nobody on our server can receive email from that Yahoo server for I. This should happen approximately 0% of the time if we are careful to also set positive karma. =head1 USING KARMA To get rid of naughty connections as fast as possible, run karma before other connection plugins. Plugins that trigger DNS lookups or impose time delays should run after B. In this example, karma runs before all but the ident plugins. 89011 Connection from Unknown [69.61.27.204] 89011 (connect) ident::geoip: US, United States 89011 (connect) ident::p0f: Linux 3.x 89011 (connect) karma: fail, 1 naughty, 0 nice, 1 connects 89011 550 You were naughty. You are penalized for 0.99 more days. 89011 click, disconnecting 89011 (post-connection) connection_time: 0.118 s. 88798 cleaning up after 89011 Unlike RBLs, B only penalizes IPs that have sent us spam, and only when those senders haven't sent us any ham. As such, it's much safer to use. =head1 USING KARMA IN OTHER PLUGINS This plugin sets the connection note I. Your plugin can use the senders karma to be more gracious or rude to senders. The value of I is the number the nice connections minus naughty ones. The higher the number, the better you should treat the sender. When I is set and a naughty sender is encountered, most plugins should skip processing. However, if you wish to toy with spammers by teergrubing, extending banner delays, limiting connections, limiting recipients, random disconnects, handoffs to rblsmtpd, and other fun tricks, then connections with the I note set are for you! =head1 EFFECTIVENESS In the first 24 hours, B rejected 8% of all connections. After one week of running with I, karma has rejected 15% of all connections. This plugins effectiveness results from the propensity of naughty senders to be repeat offenders. Limiting them to a single offense per day(s) greatly reduces the number of useless tokens miscreants add to our Bayes databases. Of the connections that had previously passed all other checks and were caught only by spamassassin and/or dspam, B rejected 31 percent. Since spamassassin and dspam consume more resources than others plugins, this plugin seems to be a very big win. =head1 DATABASE Connection summaries are stored in a database. The database key is the int form of the remote IP. The value is a : delimited list containing a penalty box start time (if the server is/was on timeout) and the count of naughty, nice, and total connections. The database can be listed and searched with the karma_dump.pl script. =head1 BUGS & LIMITATIONS This plugin is reactionary. Like the FBI, it doesn't punish until after a crime has been committed. It an "abuse me once, shame on you, abuse me twice, shame on me" policy. There is little to be gained by listing servers that are already on DNS blacklists, send to non-existent users, earlytalkers, etc. Those already have very lightweight tests. =head1 AUTHOR 2012 - Matt Simerson - msimerson@cpan.org =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gavin Carr's DB implementation in the greylisting plugin. =cut use strict; use warnings; use Qpsmtpd::Constants; BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File) } use AnyDBM_File; use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :flock LOCK_EX LOCK_NB); use Net::IP; sub register { my ($self, $qp ) = shift, shift; $self->log(LOGERROR, "Bad arguments") if @_ % 2; $self->{_args} = { @_ }; $self->{_args}{negative} ||= 1; $self->{_args}{penalty_days} ||= 1; $self->{_args}{reject_type} ||= 'disconnect'; if ( ! defined $self->{_args}{reject} ) { $self->{_args}{reject} = 'zombie'; }; #$self->prune_db(); # keep the DB compact $self->register_hook('connect', 'connect_handler'); $self->register_hook('disconnect', 'disconnect_handler'); } sub connect_handler { my $self = shift; $self->connection->notes('karma', 0); # default return DECLINED if $self->is_immune(); my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock( $db ) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie( $db, $lock ) or return DECLINED; my $key = $self->get_db_key(); if ( ! $tied->{$key} ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, no record"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock ); }; my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_value( $tied->{$key} ); my $summary = "$naughty naughty, $nice nice, $connects connects"; my $karma = 0; if ( $naughty || $nice ) { $karma = $nice || 0 - $naughty || 0; $self->connection->notes('karma_history', $karma ); }; my $happy_return = $karma > 3 ? DONE : DECLINED; # skip other connection tests? if ( ! $penalty_start_ts ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, no penalty ($summary)"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock, $happy_return ); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock ); }; my $days_old = (time - $penalty_start_ts) / 86400; if ( $days_old >= $self->{_args}{penalty_days} ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, penalty expired ($summary)"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock ); }; $tied->{$key} = join(':', $penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, ++$connects); $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock ); my $left = sprintf "%.2f", $self->{_args}{penalty_days} - $days_old; my $mess = "You were naughty. You are penalized for $left more days."; return $self->get_reject( $mess ); } sub disconnect_handler { my $self = shift; my $karma = $self->connection->notes('karma') or do { $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "no karma"); return DECLINED; }; my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock( $db ) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie( $db, $lock ) or return DECLINED; my $key = $self->get_db_key(); my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_value( $tied->{$key} ); if ( $karma < 0 ) { $naughty++; my $negative_limit = 0 - $self->{_args}{negative}; my $karma_history = ($nice || 0) - $naughty; if ( $karma_history <= $negative_limit ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "negative, sent to penalty box"); $penalty_start_ts = sprintf "%s", time; } else { $self->log(LOGINFO, "negative"); }; } elsif ($karma > 1) { $nice++; $self->log(LOGINFO, "positive"); } $tied->{$key} = join(':', $penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, ++$connects); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock ); } sub parse_value { my ($self, $value) = @_; my $penalty_start_ts = my $naughty = my $nice = my $connects = 0; if ( $value ) { ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = split /:/, $value; $penalty_start_ts ||= 0; $nice ||= 0; $naughty ||= 0; $connects ||= 0; }; return ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects ); }; sub cleanup_and_return { my ($self, $tied, $lock, $return_val ) = @_; untie $tied; close $lock; return ($return_val) if defined $return_val; # explicit override return (DECLINED); }; sub get_db_key { my $self = shift; my $nip = Net::IP->new( $self->qp->connection->remote_ip ); return $nip->intip; # convert IP to an int }; sub get_db_tie { my ( $self, $db, $lock ) = @_; tie( my %db, 'AnyDBM_File', $db, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0600) or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "tie to database $db failed: $!"); close $lock; return; }; return \%db; }; sub get_db_location { my $self = shift; # Setup database location my ($QPHOME) = ($0 =~ m!(.*?)/([^/]+)$!); my @candidate_dirs = ( $self->{args}{db_dir}, "/var/lib/qpsmtpd/karma", "$QPHOME/var/db", "$QPHOME/config", '.' ); my $dbdir; for my $d ( @candidate_dirs ) { next if ! $d || ! -d $d; # impossible $dbdir = $d; last; # first match wins } my $db = "$dbdir/karma.dbm"; $self->log(LOGDEBUG,"using $db as karma database"); return $db; }; sub get_db_lock { my ($self, $db) = @_; return $self->get_db_lock_nfs($db) if $self->{_args}{nfslock}; # Check denysoft db open( my $lock, ">$db.lock" ) or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "opening lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; flock( $lock, LOCK_EX ) or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "flock of lockfile failed: $!"); close $lock; return; }; return $lock; } sub get_db_lock_nfs { my ($self, $db) = @_; require File::NFSLock; ### set up a lock - lasts until object looses scope my $nfslock = new File::NFSLock { file => "$db.lock", lock_type => LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB, blocking_timeout => 10, # 10 sec stale_lock_timeout => 30 * 60, # 30 min } or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "nfs lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; open( my $lock, "+<$db.lock") or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "opening nfs lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; return $lock; }; sub prune_db { my $self = shift; my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock( $db ) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie( $db, $lock ) or return DECLINED; my $count = keys %$tied; my $pruned = 0; foreach my $key ( keys %$tied ) { my $ts = $tied->{$key}; my $days_old = ( time - $ts ) / 86400; next if $days_old < $self->{_args}{penalty_days} * 2; delete $tied->{$key}; $pruned++; }; untie $tied; close $lock; $self->log( LOGINFO, "pruned $pruned of $count DB entries" ); return $self->cleanup_and_return( $tied, $lock, DECLINED ); };