On 1/15/06, Hanno Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:29:29 -0600 > Andy Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Along with thoes questions I'd like to add one more. tcpserver can > > deny an ip based on some rules in a .cdb file. (tcprules and friends). > > I currently use that on my main email box and have a good 50 to 100 > > spammers ip's in there. (whever I start getting a massive amout of > > junk from one ip I just ban it) > > > > My main server is not using qpsmtpd though... just standard qmail. > > so if I change it to run qpsmtpd-forkserver do I even need tcpserver > > style rules to ban ip's? can/does rules like that exist for > > qpsmtpd-forkserver? > In the latest revision of forkserver (601) there's a new plugin, which > hooks pre-connection: hosts_allow. This allows to have hosts/networks > not to send mail (and of course exclude some hosts in a blocked > network). It drops the connection before forking with an SMTP error. > Oh: you now need to include this plugin anyway if you want the "max > connections from one ip" working... > > Hanno >
Excelent! That's just what I was looking for. I assume thats in svn head? How stabe is that? ready for "mostly" production? >No, we don't like the "map" name but no one has come up with a better one. >John How about 'cdb'? -Andy
