Re: [milter-greylist] greylisting reliablity?
2005-07-06 by Matthias Scheler
... That usually happens if you use SPF (which is enabled by default) and the DNS query of the SPF records takes too long. ... That depends on your sendmail
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2005-07-06 by Matthias Scheler
... That usually happens if you use SPF (which is enabled by default) and the DNS query of the SPF records takes too long. ... That depends on your sendmail
2005-07-06 by Nils-Henner Krueger
I m testing milter-greylist with four Sun Netra T1AC200, 1GB RAM, running Solaris 8 (with latest rec. patches added), working as incoming MX for a company.
2005-07-04 by fredrik.pettai@vattenfall.com
... Sure, it s just some extra debuging info for lazy admins X = zero, you wont get the extra information. X = 1, always print delaytime X 1, print out
2005-07-03 by Emmanuel Dreyfus
... That sounds nice. But are you ready to loose that information on milter-greylist restart? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@netbsd.org
2005-07-03 by fredrik.pettai@vattenfall.com
Hello I don t know if this has been discussed before... It would be nice with a extra column in greylist.db that mentions the delaytime between first recived
2005-07-01 by manu@netbsd.org
... Of course it s buggy, else I would have released a new version instead of a patch. :-) I m stuck with bugs in ipsec-tools. If someone wants to work on the
2005-07-01 by Adri Koppes
Emmanuel, I have just installed the blacklist2 patches against milter-greylist 2.0 and it seems there s a serious problem with the acl blacklist helo! When I
2005-07-01 by manu@netbsd.org
... Of course. You are also encouraged to translate and spread my thought on the european constitution: http://hcpnet.free.fr/tece (summary: it s unacceptable,
2005-06-30 by Elrond
... I wouldn t be surprised, if the last char of the message was lost, but I have no idea, what this is about. Elrond
2005-06-30 by Dan Hollis
... This is the same risk with any filter (procmail, sendmail access, etc). Preventing users from doing dangerous things also prevents them from doing useful
2005-06-30 by Dan Hollis
... Sounds like this might happen with greylisting too. Anyone tested this case? -Dan
2005-06-30 by Elrond
... *G* May I cite you with these two lines? Elrond
2005-06-30 by Elrond
... Well, part of what I meant was dummy users . With blacklisting in the milter, it s easy to screw your mailsystem up. without it, theere s exactly one way:
2005-06-30 by manu@netbsd.org
... I added this (well, it s the message keyword instead of text... maybe it should be named status?), and I added helo as well.
2005-06-30 by manu@netbsd.org
... It s as democratic as the European Union: you can tell your opinion, but at the end, the decision is taken by self-appointed technocrats. :-) -- Emmanuel
2005-06-30 by Dan Hollis
... It would be nice to specify a custom reject message. This is the main thing special about /etc/mail/access. acl blacklist blabla1 text 554 5.7.1 fuck
2005-06-30 by Dan Hollis
... Exactly. -Dan
2005-06-30 by Matt Kettler
... I would agree, but this should be a fairly lightweight feature, and has lots of flexibility a separate milter would not have. ... Read the thread from the
2005-06-30 by William F. Dudley Jr.
If this is a democracy, then I vote in favor of the blacklist feature. This opens up some neat possiblities with reading /var/log/maillog and using information
2005-06-30 by Adri Koppes
... Do you also have plans to expand this with: acl blacklist helo Best regards, Adri.
2005-06-30 by Emmanuel Dreyfus
Hi Anyone want to give this a try? http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/blacklist.diff That adds the acl blacklist feature. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@netbsd.org
2005-06-30 by Fredrik Nyberg DC
... I would assume so, at least the major ones. Perhaps the facility is the most important one, since levels can be adjusted via /etc/syslog.conf. I ll be
2005-06-30 by Fredrik Nyberg DC
... Yes, but MIMEDefang is singethreaded perl with a C-multiplexor. The memoryfootprint is huge comapred to C, and a milter that only parses acls for
2005-06-30 by Emmanuel Dreyfus
... But it integrates not so bad. I drafted a patch for blacklist support in 30 minutes, the diff is only 210 lines long. I ll publish it later today. ...
2005-06-30 by Elrond
... Exactly, what I smelled... I hear, there s mime-defang for doing this sort of stuff. Anyone used it? ... I rather see the problem here: Currently
2005-06-30 by Dan Hollis
... Less code redundancy Fewer points of failure (more daemons = more failure) Less memory usage (fewer daemons = less memory) More cpu efficient (fewer
2005-06-30 by Emmanuel Dreyfus
... I feel the smell of bloatware :-) An other approach would be to write a second milter, called milter-acl, which would reuse milter-greylist s ACL code to
2005-06-30 by Matthias Scheler
... That s what I m using now. ... Exactly. ... Yes, *and* multiple criterias. /etc/mail/access can only check for one thing. BTW: how difficult would it be
2005-06-29 by Dan Hollis
... Yes, milter-greylist syntax is much more flexible and convenient than /etc/mail/access. For instance you can do netmasks in greylist.conf and you cannot do
2005-06-29 by Dan Hollis
... If milter-greylist could also blacklist, it means there s one less milter people have to run. Also, the blacklist milters i ve run all seem to suck badly.
2005-06-29 by Matt Kettler
... I like that idea. Although it at first sounds like you could implement this in /etc/mail/access, this is considerably more flexible. By having it in
2005-06-29 by manu@netbsd.org
... So far my opinion was that other tools were doing it better, but it s true that with ACL, blacklists could be a damn nifty tool here that no other tool I
2005-06-29 by Matthias Scheler
Hello, I really like the flexibility of the ACLs in milter-greylist 2.0. I would be nice to be able to use them for filtering e-mails, too, by adding acl
2005-06-29 by manu@netbsd.org
... I d rather see it as a config file option (there are already too many command line options). Something such as log facility mail log level debug Are the
2005-06-29 by Fredrik Nyberg DC
... I d like to propose a commandline switch and config file value for specifying which syslog facility to log to, if it has not yet been suggested. Perhaps
2005-06-26 by manu@netbsd.org
... Moving milter-greylist to a public CVS have been for a long time on my TODO list... Let s say we can continue living without it for some time. If I recall
2005-06-26 by Dan Hollis
... If there s svn tree somewhere, I d join in development. -Dan
2005-06-25 by manu@netbsd.org
Hello everybody milter-greylist 2.0 is now available http://ftp.espci.fr/pub/milter-greylist/milter-greylist-2.0.tgz MD5 (/tmp/milter-greylist-2.0.tgz) =
2005-06-20 by Dan Hollis
... greylist doesn t die if I send SIGBUS by hand. I don t see how sendmail could possibly kill the milter though, as they just communicate through a socket,
2005-06-20 by manu@netbsd.org
... SIGBUS means something is rotten in sendmail s kindom. Maybe sendmail catch SIGBUS and kills its milter? That would be odd, but it s worth checking it.
2005-06-20 by Dan Hollis
... Ok, it seems that sendmail dies with SIGBUS and milter-greylist gets SIGKILL and exits. I m not sure why this happens. -Dan
2005-06-18 by manu@netbsd.org
... Right, let s hold on for you to fix it. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@netbsd.org
2005-06-18 by Dan Hollis
... I m currently trying to trace down a bug in 2.0rc5 where milter-greylist daemon mysteriously exits on x86_64. -Dan
2005-06-18 by manu@netbsd.org
Hi everybody There have been no feedback on 2.0rc5. I ll assume that this means there is nothing to complain about and I plan to release milter-greylist 2.0
2005-06-16 by Steve Ladendorf
milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 5:18 PM ... Sorry.. 2.0rc5 does the same thing. I guess I m not going to worry about it. It
2005-06-15 by manu@netbsd.org
... milter-greylist reloads its config each time a new message gets in and the configuration file was changed. Except if you have a syntax error, it should not
2005-06-15 by Steve Ladendorf
I just upgraded to milter-greylist-1.6 and notice that if I change the config file while milter-greylist is running that it dies - even if I only change the
2005-06-10 by Dawn Keenan
... I m not a sendmail guru, the people at work think I am. The MILTER_MACROS definitions say what information is passed from sendmail to the milter when it is
2005-06-10 by Thomas Cameron
Hi all - I am using clamav-milter, spamass-milter, and milter-greylist 1.6. I am not an m4 expert by any stretch of the imagination. My sendmail.mc file looks
2005-06-10 by Martin Paul
... 2.0rc5 looks fine now. I ve put it into production. Thanks for the quick reaction. mp.