Re: check_badrcptto, to prevent backscatter

2011-03-12 Thread Todd
Isn't back scatter exactly the intent of the spammer? Send the spam to invalid addresses with a forged return which is where the reject goes. But you could be right: back scatter may be so specific that these two scripts would be the only ones ever to go into the folder. Addresses or

Re: check_badrcptto, to prevent backscatter

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Lewis
On 3/12/2011 3:19 AM, Todd wrote: Isn't back scatter exactly the intent of the spammer? Send the spam to invalid addresses with a forged return which is where the reject goes. The reality is that spammers use forged sender addresses so their own accounts don't get nuked. Relying on

Announce: Haraka

2011-03-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
Some of you may be interested in this... I decided I wanted to hack on node.js to see what all the fuss is about. So to do that I have basically ported Qpsmtpd to Node.js (and given it a decent name while doing so!). It's still early days - there are no plugins to speak of yet (i.e. no

Re: Announce: Haraka

2011-03-12 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 13:14 -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote: Some of you may be interested in this... I decided I wanted to hack on node.js to see what all the fuss is about. I saw a good video introduction a while back ... got busy and forgot about it. Some of the fuss was that it should be good

Re: Announce: Haraka

2011-03-12 Thread Matt Simerson
On Mar 12, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: So to do that I have basically ported Qpsmtpd to Node.js (and given it a decent name while doing so!). It's still early days - there are no plugins to speak of yet (i.e. no queue plugins at all yet), but you might be interested in just

Re: Announce: Haraka

2011-03-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
Guy Hulbert wrote: https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka Had a look. I recognize bits. Do you have any feeling for how easy it is to code versus perl Once you get used to the idiosyncrasies of Javascript, just as easy really. Took me a while to understand the object model, but

Re: Announce: Haraka

2011-03-12 Thread David Nicol
a perl six in javascript exists, or existed until its author found a new distraction -- called sprixel -- that could be used to leverage CPAN into node.js through some kind of intermediate perl-in-js layer