Many Thanks Hanno! What dnswl flags in plugins are you setting to get it to skip early talker? Of course dnswl is called first, is that all that is required?
Thanks, Mike > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:57:31 -0500 > "mike.ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Issue, two large email sources for us, apple.com (mac.com) and > > bellnexxia.net ( Bell Canada / Sympatico ) are now being rejected by > > check_earlytalker. > [...] > > I definitely do not want to turn off check_earlytalker since it rejects > > about 30,000 connections a day for me. I've tried sending email to the > > support teams at both to tell them of the issue but of course that fell into > > a black hole most likely. > > > > Reason for this email was to possibly alert others to the issue before it > > bites you when someone screams at you that they're not getting important > > email. And secondly to see what thoughts anyone has on a solution or work > > around. > > > > I've thought of implienting dns_whitelist_soft but these guys have a lot of > > servers and how do you go about making sure you get them all? > The dns_whitelist_soft in the distribution won't do this for you, the > answer is fetched at rctp. The dnswl plugin in svn contrib looks up a > local db on connect and stores a connection note ("dnswl") with the > score. I have switched off the check_earlytalker (and some other > plugins) for all hosts with a score of >= 0. > The dnswl.org data seems to be complete for your case, if not: the > plugin supports local additions/overrides by loading it a second time > with another file. > > Hanno > > > > > > >
