[vox-tech] Anyone running a mail server on a dynamic IP?

[Brian Lavender]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:45:13PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:09 pm, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:19:03AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> ...
> > > Well I use Postfix.  I believe the rough equivalent with
> > > that would be something like amavisd-new which runs
> > > SpamAssassin "internally", using the "before queue content
> > > filter" which Postfix introduced with release 2.1.  I don't
> > > know anyone who has tried this combination yet.
> > 
> > Well, does Postfix do the following?!!! This mail was rejected at the
> > SMTP layer.  This way, the sender doesn't think he sent it. If the mail
> > had been accepted, it would have returned a code 500. If I had tried to
> > bounce this spam, it would have gone to some unknow domain "gandalf".
> 
> Postfix's built-in spam controls (such as RBL checks)
> operate like this.  In the past, for 3rd party filters like
> SpamAssassin you had to accept the mail first; but if you
> use the above-mentioned "before queue" interface, you can
> presumably invoke stuff like SpamAssassin and ClamAV while
> the SMTP connection is still active.
> 
> Thanks for the detailed info!

Why is it I always think I have the sliced bread, when someone else is
selling bread slicers? :)

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