[RndTbl] Grey-listing in effect on MUUG server

[Shawn Wallbridge]

On 17-Nov-06, at 12:00 AM, Tim Lavoie wrote:

>>>>>> "GD" == Gilbert E Detillieux <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> writes:
>
>  [ lots of great stuff about greylisting truncated ]
>
>     GD> If you're not running sendmail, but some other SMTP server,
>     GD> you should look for a similar grey-listing solution for your
>     GD> mail server.
>
> Excellent timing, Gilbert! I was just looking for something to add for
> my personal mail setup, though I've got qmail instead of sendmail.
>
> What I did find though, might be helpful for others too. There is
> another program called qpsmtpd, which takes a plugin approach. This
> allows for multiple ways to handle the incoming message, with an
> included greylist plugin as one of them. It also supports DNS block
> lists, virus and spamassassin scans, and even the sendmail milters you
> mentioned.
>
> It started out as a replacement for qmail-smtpd, but is now quite
> flexible, and can sit out in front of other MTAs as well. If
> interested, it can be found at: http://smtpd.develooper.com/
>
>     Cheers,
>     Tim

If you happen to be running OpenBSD or FreeBSD, you can run spamd  
(not part of spamassassin). It does greylisting for any MTA and add's  
almost no load to the machine. To enable it on OpenBSD requires  
removing 6 comment #'s (IIRC).

shawn