Am 24.06.2014 18:41, schrieb Viktor Dukhovni: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:35:15PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Uffe Jakobsen: >>> Your installation or platform must be differeent from mine (FreeBSD) - I >>> have no Makefile, GNUmakefile or BSDmakefile in /usr/local/etc/postfix/ >>> config dir. >> >> The idea is that you to create that Makefile. > > That Makefile can validate the safety of the externally sourced data, > and update main.cf. > >>> But it was not was I was looking for - because for various reasons the >>> userid that writes the dnsbl sites file has no permissions to write >>> main.cf nor realod postfix. > > But root (the account that actually performs the reload) can update > main.cf.
IMHO all answers bypass the question which was not to list the configured blacklists in an external file - some blacklists offer to download / rsync the complete list data into a local file and so no DNS requests needed
