http://www.iecc.com/bad-rcpt-noisy-patch.txt

Hi patched my qmail today with this and it was first working. Mail rejected after data.

That's what it is supposed to do.

I had a badrcptto in qmail/controls and everything was hunky dory. Then I was trying to newly edit a badmailfrom or opened the virtualhosts and since then I constantly get a can't open control files etc. I have checked file owners/chmod etc but a direct comparison with my backup I see no difference.

I tried several times to recompile (make setup check) and it just doesn't do the rcptcheck anymore. Can't find control files. I did just to make sure a cdb rebuild, tried to copy the files in extra (as suggested about another patch).

I also haven't changed the source since the patch.

I played my backup in and reversed the patch, but I am puzzled why this first worked and then not. I tried several forms of files in the control directoty, checked for extra tabs spaces endlines.



I am no qmail expert, do I have to enter something else? Maybe a stray .vim file fucking it up?

check out www.qmailrocks.org

How is this helpful?
Neither the search on their FAQ reveils anything about badrcptto or anything helpful on control.

I looked all the control not readable files also up in Google - non fit.

If I have overseen something please direct me to the page.

if you do a morercptto you have to make a morercptto.cdb too, otherwise it goes awol.

Good to read the source sometimes . Pityfully the

text only states

"Addresses to reject go in control/badrcptto and control/morebadrcptto,
one per line, just like badmailfrom. control/morebadrcptto is
compiled into control/morebadrcptto.cdb with the new program
qmail-newbrt. I'd suggest putting all of your bad addresses into
morebadrcptto since it's a lot faster to look something up in a CDB
than in a text file."

and numpties like me made a morebadrcptto (it was empty,as I was testing) without
compiling the cdb with qmail-newbrt. Then it fails.

Argh ...

This just for completion of the issue for numpties after me.

Nope now it does it internal, but ie. Outlook fails

control not readable

I had trouble applying this patch myself too. I eventually gave up and started using the qregex patch which does what you're wanting to do and a whole lot more. It can block badhelo, badmailto and badmailfrom by applying regular expressions.

http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/qmail/

Hi man thanks

That thing, at least a Gentoo variant worked

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/q...way-auth.patch

LOL suddenly it went quiet in /var/log/mail

although they are hitting /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current


Well the customers gonna hit it tomorrow, let's be careful, but Outlook netscape both Windows and Debian seem to work so does opengroupware, full with spamd clamd etc

Thanks anyway, much more progress than that other patch

Well, I know that other patch works for some people. I have seen people swear by it. I have also worked with Jim Levine on some other stuff and he's a brilliant guy. He's working with the IETF so he knows what he's doing. But for some reason, that patch of his is a little bit fickle.

OK.

Thanks again. I am sure the original patch works for many people, but the Suse 8.1 system I inherited from the previous sysadmin patched to 8.2 with some horrid visa control system is a bit awkward.

I found in many patches the name of my ex - boss from 7 years ago. Brilliant, but often maybe too brilliant for the normal human or me.

Thanks again, that was really a great help.

It ran stable today, no customers hitting with complaints ..