Scott D. Yelich writes:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Sam wrote:
> > Speaking for myself, I just refuse to accept mail from these people.
>
> I agree...
>
> > So, unless I succesfully resolve the IP address backwards, and I resolve it
> > forwards to the same IP address, I reject the mail. If I get a temporary
> > DNS failure, it's a temporary rejection. If I get a permanent DNS failure,
> > it's going to be a permanent rejection.
>
>
> But... the site is connecting every 3 seconds and tcp-env is refusing it.
> I can't seem to get it to stop using tcp-env and hosts.deny, etc.
>
> I would like to know what can be done using just qmail... to stop this.
I've hacked my Qmail to reject all RCPT TOs from these connections with a
permanent 500 error. That usually does it.
> I mean, isn't there a fancy 10 line pipe I can put in place to accept
> this connection and give it some permanent error so it will stop trying
> to reconnect? That's the qmail way, right?
I'm sure there's a qmail solution for this one too, but I prefer to use my
own solutions instead. There are some situations where a modular approach
makes sense, and some situations where it does not, and, I believe that
this is one of those situations that does not, so I rolled my own.
--
Sam
