On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 13:51, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Shane Chrisp wrote:
> 
> > Using the chkusr patch is probably your best option.
> 
> Another option if all of your mxers are running qmail/vpopmail is to use
> chkuser, but to protect yourself from the intermittent false negatives it
> may give, set it's error string to return a temp failure (ie: 450 instead
> of 550).  It's a bit cruel on the sender, but considering the bulk of what
> it's catching is dictionary spam attacks you might take the risk of
> pushing the queue load off to the sender. :)

Ahhh!

Not only that, but if your MySQL replication gets out of sync, you won't
give out permanent errors for new(er) users.

Rick

> 
> Charles
> 
> > cheers
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Andras Kende [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 2:23 AM
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: [vchkpw] queue
> > >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I use to do catchall for my domain but I had to many spam...
> > >
> > >I deleted the catchall and set to bounce but now my queue is filling up
> > >with junk because can't bounce to fake senders...
> > >
> > >Is there a settings to avoid this ??
> > >
> > >Or should I change bounce to delete ??
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Andras Kende
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

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