postfix delay

[Steen, Glenn]

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of David Curtis
> Sent: den 18 februari 2005 15:03
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: postfix delay
> 
> 
> Thanks to every one for their input. I will start looking into these
> suggestions.
> 
> Is there really any benefit to using sendmail over postfix? It seams
> like there might be but I have never used sendmail.
(Boy are we flame-bait:-)
Well, not really... At least not for me:-).
There are a couple of things that one should note though:
+ Sendmail 8.13.1 has a new spiffy "greet_pause" feature that postfix
  lack. This has been reported to be a real "spamtool killer".
+ Vispan support for postfix seems to be nonexistant.
+ The "mailq watching" feature of MailWatch is only for sendmail.

If any of these really matter to you... They don't to me (well, perhaps
excepting Vispan:). I guess one could argue this the other way round
too:-)...

-- Glenn

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >>> Glenn.Steen at AP1.SE 2/17/2005 7:39:56 AM >>>
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> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Drew Marshall
> > Sent: den 17 februari 2005 13:08
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: postfix delay
> >
> >
> > On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:39, Steen, Glenn said:
> > > Thanks Drew. Thought so, but it's always better to have
> > more than one
> > > pair of eyes....:)
> > >
> > > I found a lot of the anti-UCE docs on
> > http://www.postfix.org/docs.html
> > > to be very helpful,
> > especially John Seymours
> > > http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt
> > > ... And some nice rtfm on the smtpd_*_restrictions settings:-).
> >
> > Yes, there is lots of good info out there. I spent ages
> > re-formatting my
> > main.cf so I could easily identify, set up and maintain
> > particularly the
> > smtpd_* options using nice stacked options starting with white
> spaces.
> > That way I know what will be checked and in which order. I
> > have also been
> > using an extension to the 'single Postfix instance' MailScanner
> rule,
> > allowing me to block using other headers. Put all other lines
> > *above* the
> Yep. I use that same space for "Header sanitizing" too... Have a
> longish
> list of headers that I simply IGNORE (more than the usual stuff you
> find
> on security-sage etc). Works very well. Can share upon request
> (perhaps
> off list).
> 
> > Received: check for MailScanner but you can use regex to
> > block based on
> > Subject: (Crossing threads slightly :-) ) From: or anything else you
> > fancy. It's been very effective rejecting mail from a broken
> > mailer at my
> > car insurance company (2000 copies of the same confirmaton in
> > 2 hours).
> :-) May be a good indicator to use another insurance firm...:-)
> 
> Regards
> -- Glenn
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
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