Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
List Mail User a écrit : > > So we find it is actually not only *not* contained with RFC2821 > any requirement that the HELO/EHLO argument resolve to/match the client IP, > but we find an explicit prohibition on refusing a transaction because of > the lack of match. For those administrators

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
Craig White a écrit : > This is a bit argumentative and I don't wish to feed this but... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FQDN shorter is http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_faq/glossary/glossarytoc.htm?fqdn.htm In both, there is no "fqdn >= N dots". I could also go the way of http://hom

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread List Mail User
>... mous replied to my comments (originally directly to Kai): >List Mail User a écrit : >[snip] >> Leave the FQDN part out and you can try to base an argument on 2821, >> but there sections 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 simply and clearly states that "Domain >> names are used as names of hosts and of oth

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 04:04 +0100, mouss wrote: > Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > > Mouss wrote on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:56:22 +0100: > > > > > >>"localhost" is an fqdn with no dots > > > > > > No FQDN. > > > > Prove it. This is a bit argumentative and I don't wish to feed this but... http://en.

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > Søren Therkelsen wrote on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:30:10 +0100: > > >>Received: from [218.65.120.230] (helo=uwo.ca) >>--Why should a Canadian university have there >>mail server in China? > > > Why not? The answer may be obvious in this case, bu

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > wrote on 17 Dec 2005 22:25:17 -: > > >>So what would be wrong with one dedicated computer acting as both a webserver >>and mailserver? >>Its real identity in that case is just companysite.com - and it has proper >>dns / rdns entries. > > > That is unusual, but i

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > Mouss wrote on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:56:22 +0100: > > >>"localhost" is an fqdn with no dots > > > No FQDN. > Prove it.

Re: Postfix, ClamAV, and SA

2005-12-18 Thread mouss
Chris a écrit : > While I agree with most of what you outlined (I too experiance tons of > issues with the nes SA/Amavisd combo) - My mailsystem won't work (at > least I don't think so) under this config. unless you can measure and check what causes the real problems, ther's no point in trying to

Re: Postfix, ClamAV, and SA

2005-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chris wrote on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:44:47 -0600: > I considered Mailscanner Good step. Lots of options, nice web interface and bulk scanning of messages. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Postfix, ClamAV, and SA

2005-12-18 Thread Chris
SickBoy wrote: > mouss wrote: > >>Chris a écrit : >> >> >>>Can a mail server just be Postfix, ClamAV, and SA without the need for >>>Mailscanner or Amavis? >>> >>>If so - I would like to see a how-to is someone has one. >>> >>> >> >>yes, but why? you can use clamsmtp[d] for clamav. but if you're u

Re: Postfix, ClamAV, and SA

2005-12-18 Thread SickBoy
mouss wrote: > Chris a écrit : > >> Can a mail server just be Postfix, ClamAV, and SA without the need for >> Mailscanner or Amavis? >> >> If so - I would like to see a how-to is someone has one. >> >> > > yes, but why? you can use clamsmtp[d] for clamav. but if you're using > SA, then amavisd-ne

Re: [OT] distributed spamming

2005-12-18 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 03:56 PM 12/17/2005, Pollywog wrote: On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote: > Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of > zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate. > > Does this surprise you at all? Yes,

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mouss wrote on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:56:22 +0100: > "localhost" is an fqdn with no dots No FQDN. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on 17 Dec 2005 22:25:17 -: > So what would be wrong with one dedicated computer acting as both a webserver > and mailserver? > Its real identity in that case is just companysite.com - and it has proper > dns / rdns entries. That is unusual, but it doesn't violate 2821. Kai -- Kai