On Aug 18, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Jem Berkes wrote:
Here is my current plan for introducing the RBL support in
mod_smtpd, using
the existing mod_dnsbl_lookup which I posted earlier. This way of
accomplishing the RBL support should not require any code
modification to
mod_smtpd itself. Nick and Rian, let me know if I should be going
about
this a different way?
I thought the most modular fashion would be to create a
mod_smtpd_rbl that
registers the following mod_smtpd hooks:
smtpd_run_connect (might deny service to connecting IP, per
request_rec)
smtpd_run_mail (might deny service to this envelope domain, per loc)
+1
These would query whitelists and blacklists, whatever is available.
I don't mind whipping up this bridging mod_smtpd_rbl module, but if it
seems excessive to introduce a new module for this purpose then the
other
way of doing this would be to add the RBL supporting code into
mod_smtpd
itself.
Don't do this just yet, mod_smtpd is changing completely! completely
= structures/io. I should commit my changes very soon so you can
start working on this.
Either way it's done, RBLs are still not required and
mod_dnsbl_lookup does
not have to be present for mod_smtpd to function normally. However,
adding
a new bridging module has the advantage of leaving mod_smtpd code
alone and
taking advantage of the hooks interface.
+1
-rian
