Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities

2009-04-29 Thread dev
shane and rick, thanks for your hints, will check it out soon. regards, stephan Quoting Rick Macdougall ri...@ummm-beer.com: d...@stean.ch wrote: hello rick, yes i have two points why i dont use bounce-no-mailbox. one is dictionary based spamming, meaning that if one tries out hard

Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
d...@stean.ch wrote: hello there, i am using vpopmail 5.4.17 with cdb backend and i would like to know if there are some real logging capabilities for it. i have a rather big tool chain installed on the server around qmail and i need to have an overview of what happens with all the e-mails.

Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities

2009-04-27 Thread dev
hello rick, yes i have two points why i dont use bounce-no-mailbox. one is dictionary based spamming, meaning that if one tries out hard enough, he will, by scanning with lots of recipients, find out what valid user accounts exist on my server. the other one is the problem called backscatter,

Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities

2009-04-27 Thread Shane Chrisp
d...@stean.ch wrote: Backscatter exists only if you first accept the email and then later bounce it. By using bounce-no-mailbox, you tell the sending server during the smtp conversation that you are not going to accept email for that account as it does not exist, therefor you dont send

Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
d...@stean.ch wrote: hello rick, yes i have two points why i dont use bounce-no-mailbox. one is dictionary based spamming, meaning that if one tries out hard enough, he will, by scanning with lots of recipients, find out what valid user accounts exist on my server. the other one is the problem