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Re: Preventing Joe-jobs
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- Subject: Re: Preventing Joe-jobs
- From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:35:14 -0800
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James Craig Burley wrote:
|>On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:17:10PM -0000, James Craig Burley wrote:
|>
|>>>Our server is under a heavy joe-job attack. The server is RedHat Linux
|>>>8.0 with stock qmail, QMAILQUEUE and qmail-scanner installed, running
|>>>vpopmail and SMTP-AUTH.
|>
|>[...]
|>
|>Is not it easier to just simply switch to mailfront then trying to
|>choose from all these incomplete solutions? It is working incredibly
|>smoothly---and it has an active chief developer.
|
|
| I don't know; I haven't tried mailfront, beyond just glancing at it,
| mainly due to lack of time. It might indeed be just the ticket!
I use it, and it works great for me. The only downsides I've seen are
that it precludes the use of Russel's anti-virus patch (though there are
several other solutions) due to the fact that it replaces qmail's own
smtpd, and that the filter rules aren't quite as powerfull as I would
like since I use tmda to do a variety of address tagging. It still does
the job, but in theory some mail could get through that was only
similiar to a valid address instead of actually being one, though the
probability of this is extremely low.
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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"Some days you fix the multi-million dollar machine, other days the $12
stapler kicks your ass."
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