On Friday 17 June 2005 08:43 am, Bruno Negrão wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm editing my Simscan + ClamAV + Chkuser installation guide at: > http://www.qmailwiki.org/Simscan/Related_Docs/Simscan_ClamAV_Chkuser_Instal >lation_Guide > > And I added a new part where I persuade the reader to enable some of > chkuser's features that came disabled by default. To persuade the reader, I > make some comments of the usefulness of each feature. > > I'd like you to read and criticize my comments to prevent me teaching > bullshit to the others. > > The text is this bellow: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Enable some nice Chkuser features [OPTIONAL] > > Chkuser has disabled by default some of it's nice features: > > a.. CHKUSER_SENDER_FORMAT: checks if the SENDER of each message has the > username part matching [a-z0-9_-], and the domain part matching [a-z0-9-.] > with not consecutive "-.", not leading or ending "-." ==> Great for > identifying spam. a.. CHKUSER_RCPT_FORMAT: Equals to the above checking, > but for the RCPT of each message. Good to prevent your users to send crap > to the net.
doesn't this block bounces? I seem to recall one time where this was enabled
by default and was blocking all bounce messages, which is a VERY bad thing.
> a.. CHKUSER_SENDER_MX: Checks if the SENDER domain has a valid MX
> configured for it, thus, discovering fake domain names. Great for
> identifying spam. a.. CHKUSER_RCPT_MX: Checks if the RCPT domain has a
> valid MX configured for it. Good to discover "typos" your users do when
> sending e-mails.
the latter seems less useful than the former, however it shouldn't cause any
performance problems.
> To enable these features, we have to edit the chkuser_setting.h file and
> uncomment them.
>
> vi chkuser_settings.h
nano? *ducks* a lot of new users would get stuck in vi, so I would recommend
saying nano or pico there, advanced users will recognize this as a text
editor and use their editor of choice.
I know the first time I got in vi by accident I was like "wtf how do i get out
of this thing!??" :)
> Search and uncomment the line for each feature:
>
> /* #define CHKUSER_RCPT_FORMAT */
> #define CHKUSER_RCPT_FORMAT
> /* #define CHKUSER_RCPT_MX */
> #define CHKUSER_RCPT_MX
> /* #define CHKUSER_SENDER_FORMAT */
> #define CHKUSER_SENDER_FORMAT
> /* #define CHKUSER_SENDER_MX */
> #define CHKUSER_SENDER_MX
> Save the chkuser_settings.h file with the above modifications.
sounds good :)
-Jeremy
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