[opendmarc-users] new Ubuntu config questions

[Juri Haberland]

On 29/07/18 19:23, Michael Fox wrote:

> 1)  PidFile:
> opendmarc.conf came pre-configured with "PidFile /var/run/opendmarc.pid".  
> But when I look in the /var/run directory, the PID file is actually in
> /var/run/opendmarc/opendmarc.pid.
> And when I look in /var/log/mail.log, I see it was started with the -P
> option:
> ... opendmarc[11740]: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.1 starting (args: -c
> /etc/opendmarc.conf -u opendmarc -P /var/run/opendmarc/opendmarc.pid)
> Question:  The actual location (/var/run/opendmarc/opendmarc.pid) is fine
> with me.  But why isn't the PidFile value in the config file being used?

Because command line options take precedence over config file options -
most programs work like this.

> 2)  Public Suffix list:
> opendmarc.conf came pre-configured with "PublicSuffixList
> /usr/share/publicsuffix/"
> But I see the file is actually at
> "/usr/share/publicsuffix/public_suffic_list.dat"
> The text in the config file says "Specifies the path to a file", not to a
> directory.
> Question:  Again, the actual location is fine with me.  But why isn't the
> PublicSuffixList value in the config file being used?

It is used, but it looks like you found a little bug - error logging should
trigger here, but didn't. Will look into it.

> 3)  History File:
> I tried to turn on the history file.
> In opendmarc.conf, I uncommented "HistoryFile /var/run/opendmarc.dat"
> After restarting opendmarc and receiving some mail, there is still no
> history file.
> Since /var/run is owned by root, I tried setting "HistoryFile
> /var/run/opendmarc/opendmarc.dat" to match the actual PID file path.
> After restarting opendmarc and receiving some mail, still no history file.
> Question:  Why isn't the HistoryFile value in the config file being used?

It is used, but per default mails are only logged to the HistoryFile if the
From-domain has a DMARC entry (can be changed with RecordAllMessages).
I recommend to use /var/lib/opendmarc to store the HistoryFile as this
location is preserved across reboots.

> Lastly, is there a way to display all of the values of all config variables
> known by opendmarc?  It would help in understanding if opendmarc is using
> the same value as in the config file.

Maybe if you turn on debugging, but I'm not sure about that, but usually it
is not needed as the options from the config file and the command line are
used - they are not silently ignored.


Cheers,
  Juri