Problem with TXT records for ScamNailer and bad_phishing_sites updates

Nick Edwards nick.z.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 09:48:00 IST 2014


is this going to be fixed, or do we just disable this stuff and forget it?


On 6/19/14, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> The update processes for ScamNailer and update_bad_phishing_sites depend
> on DNS TXT records for the domains
> emails.msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com and
> msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com respectively giving data about the
> current updates.
>
> At present, these TXT records don't exist (there are still SPF TXT
> records, but not the updates ones).
>
> We saw a similar issue last year when the bastionmail.com domain
> registration expired, and it just expired again on 17 June 2014, but was
> apparently renewed on 18 June.
>
> There are workaround patches at
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-June/100821.html>
> and
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-June/100828.html>.
>
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