... What are the permissions on the / and /var directories? Sendmail checks permissions on all directory components, though it doesn't tell you which...
... OK - My directories look like this: [root@LINUX /]# ls -lda var drwxr-xrwx 26 root root 4096 Oct 7 16:23 var [root@LINUX /]# ls -lda / drwxr-xr-x 28...
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Matthias Scheler
tron@...
Oct 10, 2005 2:19 pm
... This looks fishy. It means that arbitrary users can create directories in "/var". ... The permissions on "/var" look plain wrong. Any application which...
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Alan Clifford
lists@...
Oct 11, 2005 9:07 pm
The intention is to tap an email into my Palm, perhaps add a photo from my camera (via the sd card - modern day sneakernet) and then, when I get to my hotel,...
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Andreas Unterkircher
unki@...
Oct 12, 2005 4:11 am
Optimal solution would be, if you can enable SMTP-Auth on your mailserver, then milter-greylist will bypass you, as soon as you are authenticated... Cheers, ...
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Fredrik Nyberg DC
nba@...
Oct 12, 2005 7:03 am
The consumption of virtual memory milter-greylist uses grows constantly (currently just under 2GB), however resident memory use is constant. This does not seem...
... It sounds like your greylist database is getting huge. It could be you're getting flooded with an absurd number of greylist entries, causing heavy memory ...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 12, 2005 7:15 pm
... 5) buy some RAM :o) Seriously, 2 GB seems really huge to me. I'd be curious to learn how many message per day flow through this machine. The problem may be...
... greylist still uses hundreds of megs of ram on busy machines (many millions of user-ip combinations). so really, need to move to external db. -Dan...
... I'd guess quite a lot of messages. abo.fi is a university and Fredrik appears to be one of their IT staff. and "The University has nearly 8000 students". ...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 12, 2005 8:14 pm
... Well, if mail with inexistant recipient is not accepted, the amount of messages seen by milter-greylist should be reasonnable. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus ...
... Yes, but that's not how milter-greylist works.. at least, not on my system. For me, the greylist check happens before the recipient is validated, thus I ...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 12, 2005 9:25 pm
... I assume you cannot configure sendmail to reject mail sent to nonexistent usrers. Maybe milter-rcptfilter can fix your problem? You feed it with the list...
... I realized that's not all that clear. Let me clarify. My mailserver will never accept mail to a nonexistent user. I'm not describing post-delivery bounces,...
Well I was going to say that on my system the unknown user rejection comes before greylisting. However, I remembered that the greylisting is on the hubs that...
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Alan Clifford
lists@...
Oct 12, 2005 11:18 pm
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Andreas Unterkircher wrote: I was avoiding that because it looked too complicated. But I had a go tonight and it is all working. I would...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 13, 2005 5:21 am
... Ok, let me rephrase: I assume you cannot configure sendmail to reject mail sent to nonexistent users before milter-greylist runs. Maybe milter-rcptfilter...
... Call me crazy, but it seems rather odd to add a milter to re-implement functionality that's already built into sendmail. Actually, IMHO it's not just odd,...
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Fredrik Nyberg DC
nba@...
Oct 13, 2005 7:13 am
... We have around 1 million entries in our greylist database. What really bugs me is that the current 2.3 GB of VmData that milter-greylist is using does not...
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Christian PELISSIER
Christian.Pelissier@...
Oct 13, 2005 7:35 am
... Storing the md5 of the tuple instead of the tuple itself could be a solution for a large site and an a new option for milter-greylist. md5 is only 16 byte...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 13, 2005 7:39 am
... Well, the idea is to get the thing working without loosing too much time. For me it was even faster to develop milter-rcptfilter than to fix the sendmail...
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Fredrik Nyberg DC
nba@...
Oct 13, 2005 7:41 am
... Not a bad idea, but I think that it would break the subnet matching, since IPs on the same subnet would have different hashes... unless they were stored...
... True, and I think it's a *great* tool for people doing relay mailservers that don't have any other list of users. However, for me it would be a maintenance...
... Like me. The easy way out of this (which I implemented) is to enable greylisting only for existing users (acl greylist rcpt ...) and have a default...
I am running milter-greylist on the following linux system: Kernel: 2.4.4 SMP (2 processors) GLIBC: 2.2.2 total used free shared buffers...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 13, 2005 7:41 pm
... libmilter does the threading job, so thread_create is in libmilter ... That's also my feeling. Do you know how many thread you can run? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus...
... I am going to brush off my C skills and write a short program that just spawns threads and counts them to see how long it can go before it blows up. Are...
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...
Oct 13, 2005 9:01 pm
... You have one thread per mail being processed and one thread for syncing. ... You can add a global and change it in mlfi_connect (+1) and mlfi_close (-1) --...
