Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Allen Coates
On 03/09/17 00:43, Wietse Venema wrote: > On 02/09/17 22:03, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Surprise: I already solved that problem: postscreen would hand off >> the _decrypted_ session to the tarpitting daemon :-) > > Allen Coates: >> How would you optionally hand off to the tarpit daemon, instead of

Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
On 02/09/17 22:03, Wietse Venema wrote: > Surprise: I already solved that problem: postscreen would hand off > the _decrypted_ session to the tarpitting daemon :-) Allen Coates: > How would you optionally hand off to the tarpit daemon, instead of to > postfix? That requires new code for a config

Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Allen Coates
On 02/09/17 22:03, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Surprise: I already solved that problem: postscreen would hand off > the _decrypted_ session to the tarpitting daemon :-) > How would you optionally hand off to the tarpit daemon, instead of to postfix? Allen C

Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Viktor Dukhovni: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 09:01:21AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Allen Coates: > > > GIVEN THAT, when the Postscreen internal SMTP engine is invoked, the > > > decision to reject the message has already been made; > > > It seems to me that this is an opportunity to tar-pit the

Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 09:01:21AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Allen Coates: > > GIVEN THAT, when the Postscreen internal SMTP engine is invoked, the > > decision to reject the message has already been made; > > It seems to me that this is an opportunity to tar-pit the (bad) remote > > host, dimi

Re: Postscreen Feature Request

2017-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Allen Coates: > GIVEN THAT, when the Postscreen internal SMTP engine is invoked, the > decision to reject the message has already been made; > It seems to me that this is an opportunity to tar-pit the (bad) remote > host, diminishing spam throughput, and eroding the host's useful life-span. postsc

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Kov?cs Albert: > On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:42 PM, Wietse Venema > wrote: > >> I'm not sure how one (type of) dns query is a performance concern,>> and > >> another is not, see below. > > > You see no performance difference between querying a small number > > of well-operated DNS servers that

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-10 Thread Tom Hendrikx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, If you want to block more DUL ip blocks, the easiest way is probably to use some upstream DUL DNSBL providers, and use rbldnsd to create your private DNSBL to provide your own additions. There also is a community-maintained pcre file for smtpd

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-10 Thread Kovács Albert
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:42 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> I'm not sure how one (type of) dns query is a performance concern,>> and >> another is not, see below. > You see no performance difference between querying a small number > of well-operated DNS servers that are chosen by the local sy

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Kov?cs Albert: > On Monday, March 9, 2015 4:21 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > > > For performance reasons, postscreen does not do PTR lookups, nor > > will PTR lookups be added to postscreen in the foreseeable future. > > > I'm not sure how one (type of) dns query is a performance concern, > and anoth

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-10 Thread Kovács Albert
On Monday, March 9, 2015 4:21 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > For performance reasons, postscreen does not do PTR lookups, nor > will PTR lookups be added to postscreen in the foreseeable future. I'm not sure how one (type of) dns query is a performance concern, and another is not, see below. > Eithe

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
On 3/9/2015 7:02 AM, Kovács Albert wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like postscreen to have the ability to reject clients based on a > regex pattern based on their PTR records. > > I use both the pregreet and the dns block feature of postfix. > However it seems that still too many spamming hosts > manage

Re: postscreen feature request

2015-03-09 Thread @lbutlr
On Mar 9, 2015, at 6:02 AM, Kovács Albert wrote: > I'd like postscreen to have the ability to reject clients based on a regex > pattern based on their PTR records. If it has to be postscreen, you can setup a local RBL lookup and score it high enough to trigger a rejection. But based on your pa