Neil Schneider([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:24:08PM -0700: > > Wade Curry wrote: > > > I really like the way the MDA part of qmail works (specifically > > dot-qmail files). I use it specifically for that, but put a > > greylisting proxy in front of it. The sticking spot with qmail > > for me is that it accepts all e-mails, processes them, then > > bounces the undeliverables. Its default configuration won't > > block SMTP connections that misbehave or are obviously abusive > > in some way. (There are probably patches that will... never > > used them, though.) > > > > Switch to postfix and your problems will be resolved. Postfix can > be configured to refuse email based upon only the information in > the header, without ever accepting delivery of the body. All good > MTAs should do this.
I've already installed another MTA. Qmail is really only being used for MDA type stuff. Installing postfix by itself would resolve an already resolved issue, and cause another one. If qmail-local were able to be dropped-in as and MDA for any MTA, now *that* would be an ideal resolution, IMO. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
