Re: check_badrcptto, to prevent backscatter
[email protected] (Matt Sergeant)
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Should we have plugins/qmail and plugins/postfix dirs? Todd Brunhoff wrote: > Tim's view seems appropriate. His script is centered on qmail, and > mine is centered on postfix (or more specifically, on /etc/aliases). > Both scripts are probably best in their current form with appropriate > disclosures. Let me know if there is any prep work you would like me > to do to my script. > > Todd > > On 3/9/2011 7:23 AM, Tim Meadowcroft wrote: >> On Sunday 06 March 2011 06:42:50 Robert Spier wrote: >>> Todd Brunhoff wrote: >>>> Your scripts look like they have a good deal of qmail >>>> sophistication. Some years ago I ran qmail 1.0.3, after each major >>>> system crash, I would revisit whether to use qmail, and eventually >>>> decided to switch to qpsmtp+postfix because both seem to have >>>> better >>>> support. And in fact, the reason I included /etc/alias was to >>>> replace the very useful alias mechanism in qmail. I really didn't >>>> need much, so that was sufficient for me. >>>> >>>> So it seems that among these collections of scripts there are >>>> backscatter solutions for qmail sites and qpsmtp sites. Perhaps one of >>>> the developers can fold these into a contrib folder? >>> A lot of plugins are linked from the wiki, http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org. >>> >>> check_goodrcptto looks like something that might be worth having in >>> core. Tim and Todd, are you interested in reconciling the differences >>> between your versions? (Maybe some sort of configuration interface?) >> Mine is very qmail specific - I sort of feel generalising it would >> make it >> worse. Either you use qmail, in which case you might like it as it >> stands, >> (possibly in addition to other recipient checks) or you don't use >> qmail, in >> which case you can ignore it completely. >> >> I've posted the source (with disclaimers - I'm still on qpsmtpd >> v0.28) at >> >> http://schmerg.com/checkgoodrcptto-a-qpsmtpd-plugin-for-checking >> >> and will see about adding it to the wiki when I can set up an account >> there. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> Tim