Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-07-04 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Friday 22 May 2009 01:38:30 am Steve wrote: [snip] The real question I guess I am asking - is it possible to have three instances of Postfix running on the same box, listening on different ports, with separate queue directories? Actually, it would be more accurate to ask HOW someone would

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-26 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:12:12AM +0100, Steve wrote: This is really lame rate control mechanism. It fails catastrophically when a legitimate site has a spike of email in your direction. Consider generous connection concurrency limits, and avoid rate limits unless they are very generous,

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Steve steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk: This 'BSMTP' munged MTA looks to offer very little more than Postfix save for some Rate Control/Throttling/Better logging ? From my early explorations with Postfix, it can mostly do all of this anyway or am I missing something? Postfix does rate

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-22 Thread d . hill
Quoting Steve steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:06 +1000, Barney Desmond wrote: 2009/5/22 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: 2. Rate/Anti DNS control a. If IP X is seen more than 50 times in 30 minutes block it. Postfix can do that using anvil

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:23:07PM +0100, Steve wrote: The appliance I took apart had a nice rate control feature. The crux of it was the ability to set connection limit on a per IP basis in 30 minutes. You could *NOT* change this time window, but could change the limit thus; 50

OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-21 Thread Steve
I was taking apart a well know anti spam appliance on the Bench today and it has some interesting (but clearly ripped off) software inside. I managed to find; INBOUND MTA {own munged MTA with a queue structure just like Postfix called BSMTP} This pushes inbound mail VIA

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve: The real question I guess I am asking - is it possible to have three instances of Postfix running on the same box, listening on different ports, with separate queue directories? Actually, it would be more accurate to ask HOW someone would implement this and what benefits it could give

Re: OT: Multiple Queues

2009-05-21 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/5/22 Steve steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk: This 'BSMTP' munged MTA looks to offer very little more than Postfix save for some Rate Control/Throttling/Better logging ? From my early explorations with Postfix, it can mostly do all of this anyway or am I missing something? We've also