On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:17:03 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 04/07/07 20:40 CST: > > > I tried a Postfix implementation called Postgrey on my own personal > > server and the results were very good. (See > > http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/). Based on those results it was > > decided to implement this service on Quantum. > > Who decided? > > Were things so bad this had to happen? I am against it. I have not > been receiving significant spam mail to my LFS account. And we only > had two recent episodes of spam reaching Trac stuff. > > The reason I'm against it is because of the complications that may > happen (Jeremy already described, and the solution is to send an > email to some private address which isn't even listed, you have to > kind of figure it out and hope you guess the domain name correctly; > a month from know, is anyone going to have a clue what the hell that > email addy was?), and Richards statement of "I also may have lost > some important emails, but I'll never know". > > Oh well, just my two cents. However, as this was decided outside > the community, by who knows, I don't expect a reply, just wanted > to chime in. > Randy, Justifiable scepticism! But just to ally some fears, I have been checking my greylisting logs across the whole time I've been running it, and there are *almost* no Ham messages that have been rejected. I have had two instances where a big server farm insisted on sending the retrys from many different IPs. This can confuse some greylisters - glst/xmail has a method of handling this, but it needs careful setup. The culprit is gmail/googlemail!! I expect the postgrey system that LFS is using also has these controls, if not, that is a worry. The logs will tell, but that's a chore. As with all mailserver management, the secret is in proper log analysis. And I only recommended a test. Happy Easter. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
