[REVIEW REQUEST] New MAC chapter; new article; new manual pages

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Jun 14 18:52:40 UTC 2004


Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:40:04 -0400
> Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, a new article about configuring the relaydelay (ya'know,
> > > the greylist stuff) on FreeBSD with Sendmail.  I know, the
> > > first and only title is goofy but I hope that others will
> > > add on to this article their experiances with other MTAs
> > > (Bill Moran?).  That is located here:
> > > 
> > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/relaydelay
> > 
> > Are you asking me to write an equivalent document using Postfix?
> 
> No, I'm telling.  :P

<grumble>, <grumble> ...

> > I'd be happy to do it, but it may take me a week or more.
> 
> It can be added later on, we have time.

OK, I'll get a start on it as quickly as possible.  I'll grab the
SGML off the links you provided and just add to that.

> > Your article looks good.  The only difficulty I find in putting
> > together a howto on greylisting, is it's tough to do so without
> > picking my "favorite" software.  There's a number of MTAs and
> > each has its own method of greylisting, and there are a number
> > of implementations of greylist back ends.
> 
> That is why I hoped you could cover Postfix.  I've never used
> Postfix because Sendmail comes in the base and that is what
> I tried this on.  I don't expect you or anyone for that matter
> to be an expert on every MTA with regards to certain features
> they provide;  let alone be configured with.

Gotcha.

> > If you think an article for Postfix is in order, let me know
> > and I'll put it together and push it your way to clean up my
> > SGML and the like.
> 
> Well, not an entire article.  We can just tack the Postfix
> part on to this one.  If you can find the time to do it
> or at least send some notes my way then we'll put it together.
> Otherwise we can do it after I commit.  Thanks for the review!

Should be some time near the end of the week.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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