Thanks John, Do you recommend any settings for postfix's main.cf or the throttle config? More specifically, im wondering if its better to use HOST base throttling or SASL, as well as where in postfix's config it should go so that it only scans for throttling the outgoing messages of our users
- Mike John Beaver wrote: > Clearcable Networks - Mike D. wrote: > >> Good Afternoon, >> >> We recently implemented policyd on our MX servers, which also handle >> outbound SMTP for clients. For this, i whitelisted our IP blocks for >> greylisting, but recently discovered that this also exempted the hosts >> from the THROTTLE feature. Now, when a user is infected with a >> virus/spambot, the servers seem to allow the mail through (thousands!) >> and ignore the throttle function of policyd. However, if i remove the >> whitelisting, then every user gets a "greylisting" error every time they >> try to send mail through the server >> >> If someone can point me in the right direction of being able to >> whitelist our IP blocks/hostnames for greylisting in policyd but not for >> throttling, that would be great. I was thinking of trying to run >> another instance of policyd using a different port for JUST throttling, >> but thought there must be better way >> > > Running another instance is exactly what you will need to do. > I also use a second postfix instance because my outgoing instance (to > the Internet) has different rules that my incoming instance (from the > Internet). > For example, I don't want to scan for spam on mail my users send, but I > do scan on incoming messages. Same thing for policyd. I use one > instance configured for throttling on my outgoing instance, and I use a > second instance configured for greylisting (and other things) on the > incoming instance. > > john beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > policyd-users mailing list > policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ policyd-users mailing list policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users
