On 2006-01-09 11:36:40 -0500, Swallow, Harold wrote: > I am a new user of qpsmtpd. > > My current effort is to connect qpsmtpd in a > Postfix "Advanced Filter" configuration.
You mean as described on <http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html#advanced_filter>? > I have noticed the plugins/queue/postfix-queue > file but was not sure how to tie it into > Postfix properly. The postfix-queue is meant to deliver directly to cleanup(8). qpsmtpd with the postfix-queue plugin does about the same thing as postfix smtpd(8). So, in the diagram on the website mentioned above, you wouldn't need the smtpd(8) listening on port 10026, as qpsmtpd can feed directly into cleanup(8): Unfiltered -> smtpd(8) qmgr(8) smtp(8) -> Filtered >- cleanup(8) -> Postfix -< Unfiltered -> pickup(8) queue local(8) -> Filtered ^ | | v | smtp(8) | | | | v qpsmtpd 10025 I don't know what you are trying to filter, but I think it is usually better to let qpsmtpd listen on port 25 instead of postfix: Unfiltered -> qsmtpd -> Filtered qmgr(8) smtp(8) >- cleanup(8) -> Postfix -< Unfiltered -> pickup(8) -> Unfiltered queue local(8) This is not only a simpler setup, it also allows qpsmtpd to reject mails during the SMTP dialog, so you never accept fishy mails and therefore responsibility for them. In the postfix filter setup, postfix has already accepted the mail and is responsible for either delivering it or creating a bounce message - which is not good, because for a large fraction of the messages you want to bounce the sender address is forged, so you send lots of bounce messages to innocent bystanders (or you drop messages silently, which isn't good, either). A mixed blessing in this kind of setup is that only mails received via SMTP are passing through qpsmtpd. This is what I normally want (Mails from "outside" are filtered, mails from "inside" are not), but it may not be what you want. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Ich sehe nun ein, dass Computer wenig |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | geeignet sind, um sich was zu merken. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Holger Lembke in dan-am
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