Re: smtproutes

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Leverton
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:03:12PM -0600, Roger wrote: I recently installed qpsmtpd and sorta got it to run. The problem is qpsmtpd would not recognise my smtproutes setup - which forwards all Qpsmtpd doesn't use smtproutes, as someone else said. It purely replaces qmail-smtpd; you still

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Skaag Argonius wrote: I disagree with you and robert about remote mail admins not giving a damn. Every mail admin i've talked to online, made the efforts to fix the problems, because I am hosting mail for some companies that do some serious business. Lost mail means lost

Re: QPSMTPD Re: smtproutes

2004-03-23 Thread Roger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possible solution, assuming I understand your setup correctly, would be to set up a .qmail-default in your ~alias directory that forwards everything inbound to localhost:10024. I expect that that qmail installation will take care of final delivery. Hadn't

Re: smtproutes

2004-03-23 Thread Roger
Nick Leverton wrote: Qpsmtpd doesn't use smtproutes, as someone else said. It purely replaces qmail-smtpd; you still need the rest of your /var/qmail_in programs (qmail-queue, qmail-send, qmail-remote, etc). You can tell qpsmtpd to forward directly via SMTP to your scanner instead of calling

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread frank
(note: I'm the author) I have to agree with this guy here. Since I wrote the plugin, I've been in touch with at least 10 mail admins who were interested in bringing their server closer to spec. Course I'm not quite sure what spec is, I'm just a hacker who is sick of spam on his box and used a

Re: smtproutes

2004-03-23 Thread Robert Spier
Also just a random suggestion. On the list a reply-to field of [EMAIL PROTECTED] would help. Just hitting replies got directly to the sender, hense off list. W/ that in the reply field just hitting reply would send the message to the list. Please google for Reply-To Considered Harmful

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread Sam Laffere
frank wrote: (note: I'm the author) I have to agree with this guy here. Since I wrote the plugin, I've been in touch with at least 10 mail admins who were interested in bringing their server closer to spec. Course I'm not quite sure what spec is, I'm just a hacker who is sick of spam on

Re: denysoft_greylist problem

2004-03-23 Thread Sam Laffere
Charlie Brady wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matt Sergeant wrote: It probably has to be re-written with locking (though I haven't read the code for the plugin - does it lock?) Yes, it does lock. I didn't check that it will always remove the lock. Behaviour probably depends on which form of the

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sam Laffere wrote: Make no mistake, this plugin is a heavy hand. By its self, this plug-in seemed to eliminate the largest chunk of remaining spam when I added it in. It also reduced the load on the server by saving the following plugins the effort of more tests.

Re: denysoft_greylist problem

2004-03-23 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sam Laffere wrote: Charlie Brady wrote: Yes, [greylisting] does lock. I didn't check that it will always remove the lock. Behaviour probably depends on which form of the command is run - Sam, are you using select server, or running under tcpserver? Tcpserver. I

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread James Craig Burley
By its self, this plug-in seemed to eliminate the largest chunk of remaining spam when I added it in. It also reduced the load on the server by saving the following plugins the effort of more tests. I used to do the equivalent for qmail, i.e. temporarily rejecting incoming TCP connections from

Re: IP Address of qpsmtpd

2004-03-23 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Skaag Argonius wrote: My mail server has several ip addresses. I want qpsmtpd to bind to a specific one. How do I do this? That depends on which form of qpsmtpd you run (i.e. how you start qpsmtpd). I changed the file /config/IP and it still other hosts see another ip

Re: IP Address of qpsmtpd

2004-03-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 23, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Skaag Argonius wrote: I changed the file /config/IP and it still other hosts see another ip address connecting to them. If you are trying to make qmail-remote use a different address, then the qmail-remote outgoingip patch might be useful to you:

Re: IP Address of qpsmtpd

2004-03-23 Thread Bryan Scott
The only way I've been able to solve that problem is to specify my source ip address in my default route: default via 192.168.4.1 dev eth2 src 192.168.4.68 Otherwise it'll use the primary IP address, 192.168.4.68 in this example: eth2: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000

Re: IP Address of qpsmtpd

2004-03-23 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Skaag Argonius wrote: I guess it would probably be qmail-remote. How do I change this? Why do you want to change it? There's a good chance you'll break something if you try. --- Charlie

Re: check_hostbyrename (discussion)

2004-03-23 Thread frank
With some inspiration from Sam, I cleaned up my code a bit and added a configurable whitelist to my hnbl plugin. The new config file is called 'notbadmailfromhost'. Please note the need to edit the $errormail variable to point to a fairly open address that you can check regularly like yahoo or