From: jon@fourwinds.com (Jon Steinhart)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:26:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201709202126.v8KLQWcj018541@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83CD6BB4-9617-47F9-A87E-55C447D5F1CC@bitblocks.com>
Bakul Shah writes:
>
>
> > On Sep 20, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> >
> > I run my own server using sendmail. Part of what makes it work is an accretion
> > of crud that I have hooked to it over the years which I wouldn't particularly
> > suggest to anyone else.
> >
> > So yes, spam is a big problem. I manage it in a crude but effective way. I
> > have a milter (mail filter) that I cobbled together that is invoked by sendmail.
> > I also have a separate "spam" user. What the milter does is to take anything
> > that it considers to be spam and rewrites the address so that it goes to the
> > spam user. I have permissions set up so that I can easily check on spam when I
> > have time. Oh yeah, another of my curmudgeon credentials is that I use nmh for
> > my MUA (I'm a maintainer).
>
> I use postfix + postgrey. But greylisting doesn't seem to work
> any more. I detect spam using various scripts. As you put it,
> "accretion of crud"! I block spammer IP addrs via pf.
> Probably not the right thing to do. Should look into various
> anti-spamming mail filters again. It is trivial to manually
> detect spam so probably should experiment with NN code for
> this.
>
> I too use nmh (and MH before then). But since my last upgrade
> repl, comp, forw seem to bring up a blank X-MH-Attachment in
> vi. Used to bring ~/Mail/drafts/<number> file, initialized
> with interpreted contents of "components" or "replcomps" file.
> Haven't gotten around to looking into this. [This is a
> problem with many "maintained" software packages. Things
> evolve and if you update only sporadically, you just may miss
> a crucial update or two!]
Um, well, while I am a maintainer I have been too busy to pay attention
to it in the last couple of years. I am the person who invented/wrote the
attachment code for nmh. I asked and asked for feedback on the design
before implementing it an received none. Things were find for about a
decade and then all of a sudden folks had a myriad of complaints and made
a bunch of changes. My suggestion is that you mention this on their
mailing list after making sure that you have the latest stuff installed.
I do recall that a few changes were made some years back which broke stuff
if one had customized the components files for their own installation.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 16:25 Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 19:59 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 21:26 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2017-09-20 23:17 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21 0:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 0:08 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 0:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 1:52 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 4:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 5:30 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:43 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 0:38 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21 1:30 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-09-21 1:57 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 3:04 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21 5:20 ` Grant Taylor
[not found] ` <20170921042528.E12C5156E523@mail.bitblocks.com>
2017-09-21 4:45 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21 4:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 5:34 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:49 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 16:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 17:01 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:39 ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 22:54 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-20 16:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-20 17:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 18:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 23:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20 22:54 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 23:31 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:57 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21 0:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 1:08 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 12:36 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 17:47 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 17:54 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-09-20 17:57 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 18:22 ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:11 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 19:25 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 19:54 ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:09 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:26 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-20 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 18:51 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-09-20 20:13 ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-20 22:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 12:40 ` Ben Greenfield
2017-09-23 9:12 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-21 20:05 Norman Wilson
2017-09-21 21:02 ` Grant Taylor
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