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RE: Qmail + greylisting



Title: Qmail + greylisting

I’m using a qmail-spp greylisting plugin that uses mysql (it would allow you to load balance on several servers.) Unfortunately, I think it will always check for the mail_from and rcpt_to no matter what. If you’re still interested, check out qmail-spp’s site (just Google it, I think they have a sourceforge site) it’s the newer greylisting program (the older one only checks IP address I believe.) If you aren’t farmiliar with qmail-spp, its basically a plugin system that allows you to run programs, shell scripts, or perl scripts after each SMTP command (HELO, MAIL, AUTH, and RCPT) and basically the scripts echo coded capital letters to tell qmail spp what to do. For example, after RCPT I have a check_recipient.sh script that runs and checks whether the recipient exists in our active directory, if so it echos the character which tells qmail-spp to move on. If it doesn’t, I echo a character which tells it to reject the command and return an error (basically my error says no mailbox here by the name <whatever the mailbox name was>.) There’s also a character that tells spp to accept the command right now and not run anymore plugins for the command.

 

Have a good one,

Tom

 

Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.

Infrastructure Technician

Department of Information Technology

Westfield State College

Wilson 105-A

(413) 572-8245

E-Mail: tcasartello@xxxxxxxxxx

 

From: Julian Grunnell [mailto:julian.grunnell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:24 AM
To: qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Qmail + greylisting

 

Hi - is anyone aware of a greylisting plugin for qmail that works in the exact same way as spamd does on openbsd in that:

Initially we want to care about relay_ip, mail_from & rcpt_to. But once a mail has been re-sent that matches all three of those - ie. the exact same mail is sent 5+ mins later, we then want to accept all mail from that sender IP address for the next 36 days, regardless of either the mail_from or rcpt_to data.

I've been using the greylisting plugin from http://manuel.mausz.at/coding/qmail-spp/greylisting/ and a customised one from the author that uses just relay_ip on another platform and they've been excellent for detering unwanted mail.

This platform is a load balanced cluster of mail servers handling around 1 million emails a day so its vital that all the servers can share the same greylisting data - a mysql backend server is used in my other setups.

Thanks - Julian.

Julian Grunnell
3rd Line Technical Support
Pipex Communications

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