Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Ronald F. Guilmette: > > In message <3j7vdm3rglzb...@spike.porcupine.org>, you wrote: > Wietse: >There is no supported API for {DNS} retry/timeout settings as far as I >can tell. Whacking bits in the __res structure does not count. Ronald F. Guilmette: > Mostly, I just wanted to know if Postfix

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <3j7vdm3rglzb...@spike.porcupine.org>, you wrote: >Wietse: >There is no supported API for {DNS} retry/timeout settings as far as I >can tell. Whacking bits in the __res structure does not count. > >Maybe it can be set with environment variables, but that >may require support to do: >

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Paul C wrote: >Postfix doesn't have any type of automatic detection of any >malfunctioning blacklists, it may be configurable on how long to wait >for a response, I'm not sure on that, but no dynamic changing of what >is being used, if you think that one though, postfix shouldn't do

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > >See "man 5 resolver" for timeouts, retry counts, etc. > > But clients of a typical resolver library (e.g. Postfix) may > optionally request either more or fewer retries. No? > > So I was asking what Postfix does. There is no supported API for retry/timeout settings as far as I can te

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Paul C
Postfix doesn't have any type of automatic detection of any malfunctioning blacklists, it may be configurable on how long to wait for a response, I'm not sure on that, but no dynamic changing of what is being used, if you think that one though, postfix shouldn't do anything like that. Would tempt p

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <3j7sdd1mnszb...@spike.porcupine.org>, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette: >> >> In message <542c35a7.3050...@rhsoft.net>, >> "li...@rhsoft.net" wrote: >> >> >Am 01.10.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: >> >> What would happen in such a case?

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 01.10.2014 um 21:40 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: > In message <542c35a7.3050...@rhsoft.net>, > "li...@rhsoft.net" wrote: > >> Am 01.10.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: >>> What would happen in such a case? Would inbound e-mail start to >>> back up horribly, as Postfix waited for D

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Wietse Venema
Ronald F. Guilmette: > > In message <542c35a7.3050...@rhsoft.net>, > "li...@rhsoft.net" wrote: > > >Am 01.10.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: > >> What would happen in such a case? Would inbound e-mail start to > >> back up horribly, as Postfix waited for DNS responses that were > >>

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <542c35a7.3050...@rhsoft.net>, "li...@rhsoft.net" wrote: >Am 01.10.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: >> What would happen in such a case? Would inbound e-mail start to >> back up horribly, as Postfix waited for DNS responses that were >> not forthcoming? > >no - no answer i

Re: Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 01.10.2014 um 19:04 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette: > I have been thinking of maybe putting up an experimental > anti-spam blocklist server. As far as the client interface, > this would operate in the usual way, i.e. via DNS, just as > all of the current well-known blacklists do. > > Due to the

Blacklist failure response

2014-10-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have been thinking of maybe putting up an experimental anti-spam blocklist server. As far as the client interface, this would operate in the usual way, i.e. via DNS, just as all of the current well-known blacklists do. Due to the (backend) nature of the thing however, it would probably only pr