OT: Postfix pre-MailScanner Policy Daemon

[Julian Field]

Bang! Quack quack Bang! Quack...

On 5 Jul 2005, at 16:53, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>
>> Martin Hepworth wrote on         Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:35:53 +0100:
>>
>>> Another option I use is to only allow in valid email addresses  
>>> and the MTA. I drop over 70% of my email that way..and don't get  
>>> any FP's from RBLs ;-) Yes in theory you are open to email  
>>> guessing attacks, but then my SA and MS are very well setup so  
>>> this doesn't add much risk :-) No idea how you do this in PF as I  
>>> run Exim....
>>>
>> I suppose you simply have to abandon using wildcards :-)
>> BTW: I see a lot of mails from you on several lists and I read  
>> many of them because they contain valuable information. But  
>> there's one thing which drives me crazy: often I have to scroll  
>> endlessly down before I can read your comment. Sometimes I just  
>> skip the message because I only see "green" (quotes are colored in  
>> green by my newsreader). Is there a reason that you don't trim the  
>> quotes other than comfort?
>> Kai
>>
> Laziness and a tendency to top post (ducks as internet police fire  
> batton rounds)
>
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