On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Vicente Aguilar wrote: > Hello > > We've recently upgraded our mail server from an old qmail-ldap version > (don't know the exact release number, but it was about 2 years old) to > 20031101, and it's been working great for about a week now. We've really > noticed the improvements, great work! > > Yesterday we started playing with the SMTP550DISCONNECT, SANITYCHECK, > SENDERCHECK and RCPTCHECK options, in order to filter out some SPAM and > diminish mail traffic due to bounces, incorrect addresses and the like. > We've already identified these problems (don't know if they're already > known by the list, sorry if this is an already known issue but I haven't > found anything on the docs):
Yeah, the docs are currently not in the best shape. But hopefully we update it until December. > - SMTP550DISCONNECT breaks some MUAs, verified with Outlook Express > 6.00.2800.1106 (xp sp1.020.828-1920) and Eudora 6. I've sniffed some > Eudora 6 traffic and it *always* sends a RSET after the EHLO and before > the MAIL FROM:, so it gets disconnected if SMTP550DISCONNECT is active. > OK changed the code so that it no longer disconnects on RSET. This was a one line fix. > - A combination of SANITYCHECK, SENDERCHECK and RCPTCHECK seems to break > some Macintosh MUAs (only MACs? not sure about that). Disabling all > those options seems to solve the problem. Still have to investigate a > little bit more about this... > Sounds intresting ;-) > On the other hand, we've had no problems at all with several other > versions of Outlook on both MACs and PCs, Evolution on Linux, and > Mozilla & Netscape on PCs and Linux. > > I'll report to the list any other findings regarding these problems... > thanks for the info -- :wq Claudio "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat."
