Mail::Exim::ACL::Geolocation

A Perl module for the Exim mailer that maps IP addresses to two-letter country codes such as "DE", "FR" and "US". SpamAssassin can use these country codes to filter junk email.

acl_check_rcpt:

  warn
    domains = +local_domains : +relay_to_domains
    set acl_m_country_code = ${perl{country_code}{$sender_host_address}}
    add_header = X-Sender-Host-Country: $acl_m_country_code

DEPENDENCIES

Requires the Perl module IP::Geolocation::MMDB from CPAN and the modules Exporter and List::Util, which are distributed with Perl.

Requires an IP to country database in the MaxMind DB file format from DP-IP.com or MaxMind. The module searches the directories "/var/lib/GeoIP" and "/usr/share/GeoIP" for one of the following database files:

• dbip-country.mmdb
• GeoIP2-Country.mmdb
• dbip-location.mmdb
• GeoIP2-City.mmdb
• dbip-country-lite.mmdb
• GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
• dbip-city-lite.mmdb
• GeoLite2-City.mmdb

INSTALLATION

The Open Build Service provides binary and source packages.

Run the following commands to install the software manually:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Type the following command to see the module usage information:

perldoc Mail::Exim::ACL::Geolocation

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2022 Andreas Vögele

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.