On 30-12-2006 at 05:34 wrote Ryan Murray in a message to the mailinglist debian-developer-announce:
> Here's some news on recent db.debian.org changes that are now available: > > The LDAP schema has been updated to include several new fields: > * Date of Birth (developer-only visible) > * Gender (world visible) > * Mail disable message > * Mail greylisting > * Mail sender verification callouts > * Mail whitelist > * Mail RBL list > * Mail RHSBL list > > The exim4 config has been updated to make use of these new fields, > giving developers the ability to: > * disable their @debian.org email address entirely > with a message of their choosing at SMTP reject time > * specify a whitelist that will be immune to the newly added checks > * enable greylisting and sender verification callouts > * specify RBL and RHSBL lists to be checked at SMTP time > > The mail gateway, web scripts, and userdir-ldap command line interface > have all been updated to deal with the new fields. > > Some developers who were causing backscatter on master.debian.org > have had some of the features enabled already to match what they had > attempted to configure on master. Please remember that greylisting, > RBLs, and sender verification callouts are all SMTP time defenses > that only work when active on the first real mail host that accepts > mail for a given email address. Enabling them on a later host will > just cause mail delay and backscatter between the later host and the > initially accepting host, unless the initial host is whitelisted. > Most of the mail delays and backlog on master over the past several > months have been caused by people enabling greylisting or callouts > without whitelisting master from the checks. > > To enable the new features, visit the login page at > https://db.debian.org/login.html or send signed email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with something like this: > > birthDate: 20061225 > mailGreylisting: TRUE > mailCallout: TRUE > mailrbl sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > mailrbl ... > mailrhsbl rhsrbl.example.org > mailrhsbl ... > mailwhitelist hostname/ip > mailwhitelist ... Did that information made it to some document? If yes, to which one and what is it's URL? In other words: Where can one read more about it? Cheers Geert Stappers not subscribed to -project, please CC me on replies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
