From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4568 invoked by alias); 6 May 2005 05:15:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4503 invoked from network); 6 May 2005 05:15:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 May 2005 05:15:18 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 0F3EA13C752; Fri, 6 May 2005 01:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 05:15:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: tinkering with email over the weekend Message-ID: <20050506051517.GA30696@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 As I mentioned on IRC today, we've been hammered by viruses in the last couple of days. So, today, I refreshed my memory on the options available for blocking email at the smtp level with qmail. I have regenerated a new version of qmail (which is currently running) with some well-established patches and I plan on implementing a virus blocking solution over the weekend. I'm testing this now on port 443 of sourceware and it seems to be woring ok but there are, of course, no guarantees. I will also play around with blocking any spam that spamassassin notices above some arbitrary threshhold -- 18 maybe? This will require some tweaking to the customized auxilliary spam blocking software so that it doesn't duplicate the effort of running spamassassin again. Anyway, this is just a heads up. I don't plan on anything more than very brief service outages (if that) but if anyone does notice anything wrong please give a holler on IRC or send me personal email. cgf