Dan Mahoney, System Admin
danm@prime.gushi.org
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:39:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Sam Leffler wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Sam Leffler wrote: >> >> Something I've been meaning to do for a while is get docs put together >> on how to run a separate MSP daemon with separate rules: >> >> 1) It would not shut down under periodic high load like the main MTA >> process does. >> >> 2) It would not need all the milters involved (although could share >> sockets with those it does use). >> >> That's how I'd handle it, anyway. Your roaming (and even non-roaming) >> users shouldn't be using port 25. > > This might be a reasonable compromise. I already use 587 since most > ISP's block port 25. Not sure how many spammers come in on port 25; > guess I can check my logs. Uh, all of them. :) What you're checking is how many USERS come in on port 25 (annoyingly, the port wouldn't be listed in your log file -- the only real way is disable SMTP auth on that daemon and see who complains). Your main problem is that there's a small subset of legacy clients that CANNOT change their SMTP ports (I ran into this problem with Sybase's email replication YEARS AGO). But most any client these days should support both configurable port and SMTP auth. -Dan -- "We need another cat. This one's retarded." -Cali, March 8, 2003 (3:43 AM) --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------