After Debian Squeeze was released last weekend, development will speed up again. Today I uploaded a new postfwd package which ships also the postfwd2 script, a prefork server version. I also started to orphan packages I'm not using anymore or having dead upstream. The first candidate was policyd-weight, fortunately Chris…
This Tuesday Robert Felber released a new upstream version. It is a (local) security bugfix (and some minor fixes) which was reported on Sunday by Chris Howells to the Debian Security Team (as well as to other vendors). Today DSA-1531 was released. Right from the DSA: "... created its socket…
Last week I did again some work on nagios-plugins. After the announcement of Dann Frazier to upload NMU to fix a trivial bug, I thought it's time again to give some extra care to the package. So I prepared 1.4.11-2 fixing the important bugs and uploaded it. I…
In case you think that greylisting might have some disadvantages but give you also some benefits, you probably have thought about to use greylisting with some conditions. For example if you checked some parameters of the mail and you (or better your mailsystem) guess it may be spam, greylisting could…
With policyd-weight you are able to reject mails before the body is received by your MTA, here postfix. No bounce mails, less wasted bandwidth and cpu time. policyd-weight scores characteristics of the mail positive or negative, is a defined value reached, it got rejected. The scores are currently: DNSBLs/RHSBLs…
Why run different instances of policyd-weight? Cause you may want use different scorings based on Access Policy Delegation. At first you need make a copy of policyd-weight and modify it, since Robert didn't implement a switch to specify a config file (yet): # cp policyd-weight policyd-weight-instance2 # sed "s/\/policyd-weight.conf/…