Re: Announcing a new plug-in: autowhitelist_captcha

2007-12-19 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
> It would be perfect to combine this with some of the features of TMDA > (http://tmda.sourceforge.net/) like dated and keyword addresses. Hi Werner, thanks for pointing me to this. I never heard about it - seems to be pretty interesting though. I'll think about adding the temporary address stuff

Re: HashCash reloaded

2007-12-10 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
On 10 Dez., 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote: > Why set an additional connection-note and not use relay_client() > directly? I think that's what it is for. > > (not really "incoming" vs. "outgoing" but "authorized to send mail to > anybody" vs. "not authorized to send mail to anyb

Re: HashCash reloaded

2007-12-10 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
On Dec 10, 3:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Almqvist) wrote: > As you can see from my plugin, I based the decision on whether the mail > is sent by an authenticated user... Hi Johan, I cant find any plug-in or library in lib/Qpsmtpd that sets this "authuser" note. It seems not to be set within

HashCash reloaded

2007-12-10 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
Hi list, I've written a HashCash plug-in that uses Digest::HashCash and is a bit more cleaned-up than the existing one. http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/plugins:spam:hashcash Has anyone an idea how a plug-in can find out if the mail it currently handles is a incoming (local delivery) or outgoing (routed

Re: Announcing a new plug-in: autowhitelist_captcha

2007-12-07 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
> we mis-communicate i believe. i suggested that you include the url in > the smtp error message you send when you reject the initial email. > then you do not generate any backscatter spam. however, it does > require that the origin MTA send the text of the message back to the > sender. my basic ru

Re: Announcing a new plug-in: autowhitelist_captcha

2007-12-07 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
> This plugin might be able to reject unwanted mail during the original > smtp transaction if it sent a URL back at that time. The origin MTA > would have to pass that on to the user, but then you would not even > need the captcha at that point. Visiting the page could be enough to > enable the ma

Re: Announcing a new plug-in: autowhitelist_captcha

2007-12-07 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
On Dec 7, 3:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Allan Noah) wrote: > does this not turn your host into a backscatter joe-job spam zombie? > > allan of course you should run all common qpsmtpd anti-spam plug-ins up- front, like: no_dialup, geo_blacklist_whitelist, check_earlytalker, and so on. Captcha res

Announcing a new plug-in: autowhitelist_captcha

2007-12-07 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
autowhitelist_captcha http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/plugins:spam:autowhitelist_captcha This plug-in is a whitelist which automatically maintains itself based on well known and widely used Captcha authentication where a user must identify characters within an image. You can define one ore more mail- dom

Re: IDN support in SMTP?!

2007-12-05 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
> What are the two patches that need to be appied? (I don't see them in > the plugins documentation). I've updated the documentation in the Wiki: Right now, this plug-in always returns DECLINED because recipient- >host and sender->host are always empty when a email address with IDN arrives into q

Re: IDN support in SMTP?!

2007-12-05 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
On Dec 4, 4:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote: > As far as I can tell, this is not an issue for SMTP. The MUA is supposed > to convert the domain name into ACE format (just like the browser > is supposed to convert the domain name before sending an HTTP request). > So MTAs always on

IDN support in SMTP?!

2007-12-04 Thread mpel...@gmail.com
Hello, I run one of the famous new IDN domains - those domains that contains evil utf-8 characters, like german umlaute or japanese chars. IDN is around for some years now and more of less supported in all browsers at least for HTTP. I was wondering if someone knows the status of IDN support for