Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-30 Thread Sam Clippinger
On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Sam, Thanks so much for your very clear and thoughtful reply. I'll comment as we go this time so I don't need to establish context. On 07/26/2012 02:12 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: You have not yet begun to try my patience. :) I'm

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-28 Thread Gary Gendel
On 7/28/12 1:09 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: A potential problem just occurred to me though. QMT uses the (preferred default) submission port 587, and includes a qmail-smtpd patch which forces authentication (export REQUIRE_AUTH=1). While spamdyke wouldn't typically be used on the submission port

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-27 Thread Eric Shubert
Sam, Thanks so much for your very clear and thoughtful reply. I'll comment as we go this time so I don't need to establish context. On 07/26/2012 02:12 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: You have not yet begun to try my patience. :) I'm certainly glad for that! :) I hope you'll not hesitate to let me

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-26 Thread Sam Clippinger
You have not yet begun to try my patience. :) I guess I just don't understand the full difference between the way you think of whitelisting and authentication. Here's how I think of them: When I have a machine (e.g. a web server) that needs to send mail using my mail server without

[spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Shubert
I've been testing spamdyke's auth capabilities a little, anticipating using it to enforce encrypted passwords (when that feature comes available). While doing so, I came across what I think is a bug. When the access-file parameter is specified: access-file=/etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp then my

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-25 Thread Sam Clippinger
This keeps coming up and there doesn't appear to be a good fix for it within spamdyke. I posted a patch to fix simscan here: http://www.mail-archive.com/spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org/msg03036.html As for not setting the RELAYCLIENT variable unless the user authenticates, unfortunately

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Shubert
On 07/25/2012 10:13 AM, Sam Clippinger wrote: As for not setting the RELAYCLIENT variable unless the user authenticates, unfortunately that isn't possible: http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/FAQ.html#SUGGESTION8 Isn't possible, or isn't easy to do? Please pardon my ignorance. In the

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-25 Thread Sam Clippinger
Well, enough information in this case refers to the options you're used in the configuration file. If spamdyke knows what domains it controls (local-domains-file or local-domains-entry) and knows the relaying rules (access-file), it has enough information to control relaying and it sets

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Shubert
On 07/25/2012 12:28 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: Well, enough information in this case refers to the options you're used in the configuration file. If spamdyke knows what domains it controls (local-domains-file or local-domains-entry) and knows the relaying rules (access-file), it has enough