Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263611AbTH0QX5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:23:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263555AbTH0QXv (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:23:51 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:7067 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263618AbTH0QXK (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:23:10 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: osirusoft.com DNS BLs are broken ... Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030826160252.GF16395@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1062001388 17409 212.34.181.4 (27 Aug 2003 16:23:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:23:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1704 Lines: 38 Matti Aarnio writes: >That in itself should not be any difficulty, but MANY >filter codes in different MTAs appear to treat that as >if there is genuine registered rejection! >I have seen this at sendmails (up to and including lattest), >and at Postfix! But also at several systems not willing >to tell what they are running do exhibit this very same >misbehaviour. sendmail: --- cut -- dnsbl Turns on rejection of hosts found in an DNS based rejection list. If an argument is provided it is used as the domain [...] information. By default, temporary lookup failures are ignored. This behavior can be changed by specifying a third argument, which must be either `t' or a full error message. See the anti-spam configuration control section for --- cut -- _Anyone_ changing the default behaviour of "temporary lookup failure" to reject mail should be treated with a really large clue-bat (TM). Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire "Dominate!! Dominate!! Eat your young and aggregate! I have grotty silicon!" -- AOL CD when played backwards (User Friendly - 200-10-15) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/