2009/6/11 Simon Jones <simonmjo...@gmail.com>: > 2009/6/10 Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>: >> * Simon Jones <simonmjo...@gmail.com>: >> >>> This is the part I'm missing, how do I enable the shit flinger? >> >> You COULD use smtp_source >> >> OR >> >> your could set ridiculous low limits (1/60s) and then test it manually using >> telnet. >> >> Keep in mind, though: >> smtpd_client_event_limit_exceptions = $mynetworks >> >> so the test must be performed from a client OUTSIDE of $mynetworks >> Or you just say: >> >> smtpd_client_event_limit_exceptions = >> >> -- >> Ralf Hildebrandt >> Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 >> http://www.computerbeschimpfung.de >> Ballmer should step down in favour of Mr T, because he pity the fool >> who don't got high-end video cards and 4GB RAM for Vista Aero! > > Thanks guys, fail2ban looks great - config is being a bitch though but > i have anvil working now! > > Jason, when I fire up failt2ban it says "WARNING 'action' not defined > in 'postfix'. Using default value" > > i found some info on > http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28781 and followed > it through but i got the same error when firing fail2ban up too, the > postfix.conf files looks ok - > > # Fail2Ban configuration file > # > # Author: Cyril Jaquier > # > # $Revision: 510 $ > # > > [Definition] > > # postfix > > # Option: failregex > # Notes.: regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The > # host must be matched by a group named "host". The tag "<HOST>" can > # be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias for > # (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>\S+) > # Values: TEXT > # > #failregex = reject: RCPT from (.*)\[<HOST>\]: 554 > failregex = reject: RCPT from (.*)\[<HOST>\]: 5[05][0-4] > > # Option: ignoreregex > # Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored. > # Values: TEXT > # > ignoreregex = > > I modded it slightly though - but it does the same weather default or > not, any pointers to what i'm doing wrong? "action not defined" would > suggest that i've not enabled / configured something correctly but the > files look the same as the examples i've seen on the web. >
Apologies - i mean Terry of course... I have never been too good with names :)
