Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hi all! I have a fairly standard set of smtpd restrictions implemented and generally I’m very happy with them (very low spam traffic and no headaches associated with SpamAssassin or DSPAM). However, once in a while a legitimate message is rejected because the other side has misconfigured HELO

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/16/2015 1:36 PM, Eugene R wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a fairly standard set of smtpd restrictions implemented and > generally I’m very happy with them (very low spam traffic and no > headaches associated with SpamAssassin or DSPAM). > However, once in a while a legitimate message is rejected

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hi Noel, -Original Message- From: Noel Jones Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:29 PM If you're rejecting good mail more than "rarely", you should reevaluate your restrictions. In particular, most built-in HELO checks are likely to reject legit mail, and not terribly effective again

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/16/2015 2:48 PM, Eugene R wrote: > >> Sounds like you're trying to recreate deep inspection in postfix. >> Use SpamAssassin instead. > > Absolutely no deep inspection, no content inspection at all, just > more flexible / controllable chaining of smtpd restrictions. > > Best wishes > Eugene

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hello Noel, -Original Message- From: Noel Jones Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:20 AM You want to conditionally run some extra restrictions based on the outcome of prior restrictions? Some of the existing policy servers do weighted scoring, which gives very similar results. Co

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 16.01.2015 um 21:48 schrieb Eugene R: If you're rejecting good mail more than "rarely", you should reevaluate your restrictions. In particular, most built-in HELO checks are likely to reject legit mail, and not terribly effective against current spam bots. The "reject_unknown_client" is al

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-17 Thread Eugene R
Hello, -Original Message- From: li...@rhsoft.net Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 7:29 AM > Actually the set I have is surprisingly effective and also surprisingly > good in keeping FPs low -- much, much better than anything I saw from SA > and DSPAM, and with virtually no server or m

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-17 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.01.2015 um 00:00 schrieb Eugene R: -Original Message- From: li...@rhsoft.net Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 7:29 AM > Actually the set I have is surprisingly effective and also surprisingly > good in keeping FPs low -- much, much better than anything I saw from SA > and DSPAM,

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-18 Thread Benning, Markus
-Original Message- From: Noel Jones Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:20 AM You want to conditionally run some extra restrictions based on the outcome of prior restrictions? Some of the existing policy servers do weighted scoring, which gives very similar results. Conditional greyl