Re: blacklistd vs blocklistd

Michael Grimm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Doug Hardie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2026, at 12:05, Michael Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Doug Hardie <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> I tried that, and encountered the issue that postfix only supports blacklistd and ssh only supports blocklistd.  As a result, a system that wants to use both cannot.  Either one or the other works depending on which server is started.

>> blocklistd runs perfectly well with both sshd and postfix(-current) on smtp and submission. Just use blocklistd_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf and blocklistd should run as expected. And you need to rename your old /etc/blacklistd.conf into /etc/blocklistd.conf
> 
> The version of postfix in the packages still has blacklist.

Ah, now I see what you are referring to.

But, that is just a lack in wording, respecting the upstream change of blocklistd sources. More or less a cosmetic issue in the Makefiles and patches in 'files' of all postfix ports.

The patches in the mail/postfix* ports are referencing the installed blocklistd sources in /usr/src! 
Postfix becomes patched and postfix doesn't care whether you run blocklistd or blacklistd because both binaries are identical w.r.t to their functionality.

HTH and regards,
Michael
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