Good results with my upgrade. I've installed the experimental 0.52- based Courier deb (had to uninstall the 0.47 first to get it to take properly), and both basic Courier operation and Maildrop-based rcptfilter protection are working.
In testing this out, I ran across an interesting dichotomy in the filtering rules for aliases of two different types. I don't see that this bit of lore is completely documented in any one place, so I thought I'd pass it along. It turns out that the rules-of-the-game are rather different for aliases defined by the Courier aliases/aliases.dat mechanism, and for those which are defined via the QMail-style .courier-aliasname mechanism. For aliases defined in aliases.dat, the necessary rcptfilters go into the .mailfilters in the home directory for the user ID specified in the "aliasfilteracct" config file. The name of the rcptfilter for an alias "foo" would be [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tld (i.e. "rcptfilter-alias-" followed by the fully-qualified email address of the alias, with dots in the domain name changed to colons. The .mailfilters directory, and the rcptfilter-alias=* files, must be owned by the "aliasfilteracct" user, and must not be accessible to other users. The maildrop scripts are run under this user/group ID. For aliases defined by Qmail-style .courier files located in the /etc/courier/aliasdir/ directory, the rules are different. In these cases, the filters go in /etc/courier/aliasdir/.mailfilters/ and are simply named like "rcptfilter-foo" (no "-alias" and no @domain.tld). The directories and filters must be owned by whatever user/group ID you've specified in the esmtpd config file (usually daemon.daemon) and are run under that user-ID. It helped a lot to have a little maildrop-wrapper script which logs its invocation and environment via "logger"! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
