[Mimedefang] Back into the loop...

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> from 192.150.1.3, then it will reject that the session... with a 5xx
> message... and will also blacklist incoming connections from that

Add it to access_db, however, you cannot quadruple it, as you won't see it 
in Mimedefang anymore.

> Only ratware seems to like to open multiple connections in parallel.

Oh, could someone please tell me, how to configure postfix to NOT open one 
connection per message? Another department bomb our sendmail on a regular 
base, when they flush their message queue.

> The downside of this method is that the mimedefang-filter file would
> have to contain all (or almost all) possible tests, and have an "engine"

But that is exactly the reason to have a fully tweakable perl script.

> So we'd have to decide on a standard format for the XML test
> scripting, and a standard calling convention for the methods embedded
> in mimedefang-filter.

There were a thread about to modulize the filter, maybe you should get in 
touch with the advocates of the idea.

> One other thing...  about a year ago, I asked about adding a sort of
> IP CIDR based set of rules to Mimedefang, and was told to use
> rDNS instead of CIDR addresses (or alternatively, country codes)
> to block certain parties permanently.

There had been some posts about it, but would do you ask about inb detail?
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mimedefang%40lists.roaringpenguin.com&q=cidr
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mimedefang%40lists.roaringpenguin.com&q=geo

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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