On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Laurent Bigonville wrote:

> Le 28/02/18 à 14:36, Alexander Wirt a écrit :
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > 
> > > Le 28/02/18 à 14:28, Alexander Wirt a écrit :
> > > > severity #891744 minor
> > > > thanks
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Package: amavisd-new
> > > > > Version: 1:2.10.1-4
> > > > > Severity: important
> > > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > > According to the RELEASE_NOTES:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - due to popular demand to reduce undesired and unintentional 
> > > > > backscatter,
> > > > >     defaults for the settings $final_spam_destiny and 
> > > > > $final_banned_destiny
> > > > >     were changed. Previously they both defaulted to D_BOUNCE, new 
> > > > > defaults
> > > > >     are:
> > > > > 
> > > > >       $final_virus_destiny      = D_DISCARD;
> > > > >       $final_banned_destiny     = D_DISCARD;
> > > > >       $final_spam_destiny       = D_PASS;
> > > > >       $final_bad_header_destiny = D_PASS;
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think that the defaults should be updated in debian as well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I got my mail server banned from hotmail.com because of debian default
> > > > > value being D_BOUNCE.
> > > > This is more minor. The configuration is explicitly an example. If you 
> > > > run it
> > > > unaudited noone can help you. I find it more dangerous just to drop 
> > > > mails by
> > > > default, especially during the implementation of a proper policy it 
> > > > helps to
> > > > see that things get lost. However, it is not important.
> > > Well, spamming other people because you are generating DSN to random
> > > addresses seems quite bad(tm) by my book.
> > And people not reviewing example config on my.
> 
> Then please at least add a comment telling that using D_BOUNCE in production
> is actually dangerous and can lead to risks of people being banned from mail
> providers (hotmail/gmail/...) or generate spam to other people.
We will change it, I just disagreed on the severity.

Alex
 

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