annotate ChangeLog @ 151:0e8ec3c483ce stable-5-29

limit dns resolver timeouts and retry interval
author carl
date Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:24:43 -0700
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4 Limit dns resolver to two retries five seconds apart.
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6 5.28 2007-02-19
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7 Change the conflict resolution algorithm to "second one wins" if we
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8 have two contexts that both define env_to user@. Update ICANN tld
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9 list.
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11 5.27 2007-01-30
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12 Allow 'inherit' as an env_from target. Documentation cleanup
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13 from G.W. Haywood.
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15 5.26 2006-12-04
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16 Fix bug in content filtering introduced in 5.23 that prevented
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17 seeing any host names in the body.
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19 5.25 2006-10-15
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20 DNSBL lists are inherited, so dump the effective list with the
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21 -c switch.
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23 5.24 2006-10-15
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24 Allow child and parent context to specify the same fully qualified
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25 env_to address. Only dump the rate limit for the default context
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26 with -c switch.
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28 5.23 2006-10-10
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29 Require two periods in ip addresses.
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31 5.22 2006-09-27
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32 Change syntax for default rate limit. Improve hourly reset of
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33 limits. Warning for rate limits in non default contexts to allow
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34 nesting of client configurations.
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36 5.21 2006-09-26
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37 Add SMTP AUTH recipient rate limits, to help throttle infected
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38 client machines and accounts with weak cracked passwords.
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40 5.20 2006-08-02
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41 Fully qualify all dns lookups. Fix my_read() bug. Try to convert
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42 names that might be ip addresses via inet_aton before doing dns
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43 lookups.
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46 Bug fix - add trailing dot to uribl dns lookups to make them fully
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47 qualified. Check host names with only two components, since
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48 spammers are now using bare http://domain.tld references.
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49 Spec file now creates an rpm that properly creates the dnsbl user.
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52 Bug fix - newer sendmail versions don't guarantee envelope addresses
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53 enclosed in <> wrapper.
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55 Document backscatter prevention configuration for systems that are
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56 used to mainly spam filter and then forward to mail to the internal
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57 server.
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59 Never ask uribl blacklists about rfc1918 address space.
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62 Never ask dns blacklists about rfc1918 address space.
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65 Bug fix - the smtp error message for uribl filtering needs to
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66 reference the host name, not the ip address.
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69 Bug fix - we failed to properly set the return code to indicate the
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70 reason when rejecting mail for content filtering.
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73 Fix a typo in the default config file and documentation for using
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74 multi.surbl.org
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76 5.13 2006-03-12
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77 patch from Jeff Evans <jeffe@tricab.com>
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78 add SURBL/URIBL lookups, remove trailing dots from hostnames,
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79 allow ip address literals as hostnames.
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82 5.12 2006-01-08
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83 Use larger resolver buffer to accomodate spammers with many name
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84 servers. A current example is life-all.com which needs to retry in
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87 'make chkconfig' now creates the dnsbl user if it does not exist.
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90 switch to autoconf/automake/docbook
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93 Fix a compile error on Fedora Core 3.
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94 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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97 Fix a bug with empty return paths passed to the verification code.
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98 That resulted in 'MAIL FROM:<<>>' being sent to the verification
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99 mail server.
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102 Allow empty env_to at global context level to remove restrictions
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103 on env_to values in child contexts.
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106 Failed to return a value from parse_verify() which caused failures
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107 to load the configuration.
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110 Tokenizer errors now go thru the syslog code, so they are visible
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111 when generated during config file reloads during normal operation.
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114 Cleanup debug logging. Verify from/to pairs now remembers the last
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115 from value sent to the remote server to prevent unnecessary rset
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116 commands.
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118 5.4 2005-09-18
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119 Add verify statement to specify the smtp host to be used to verify
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120 envelope from / recipient pairs.
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122 Authenticated clients are now exempt from all white/black listing
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123 in addition to the dnsbl lookups.
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125 dcc_to should not look at substitute mail_host. That is only used
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126 by dcc_from.
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128 5.3 2005-08-07
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129 Properly quit if the config file has syntax errors on startup. Send
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130 mail to root if the config file needs to be reloaded since it was
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131 modified, but contains syntax errors. In this case, we continue to
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132 use the old configuration.
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134 5.2 2005-08-02
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135 Patch from Stephen Johnson <stephen.johnson@arkansas.gov> fixing the
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136 lack of a default return value in CONTEXT::acceptable_content().
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138 5.1 2005-07-20
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139 Add multiple syslog debug levels. Detect and silently remove
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140 duplicate DNSBL definitions. That allows us to accept mail to
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141 recipients in multiple domains that use the same blacklist and yet
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142 only check that blacklist once. This may happen when your config
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143 file directly includes as child contexts the config files used on
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144 your clients mail servers.
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146 5.0 2005-07-16
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147 Major changes to the syntax of the config file. Content filtering
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148 is no longer a global mail server setting.
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150 4.6 2005-04-02
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151 Fix enum compilation error on Fedora Core 3.
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152 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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154 Remove bad html tag command from the default conf file. Spammers
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155 seem to have abandoned this.
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157 Add toolbar.msn.click-url.com in hosts-ignore.conf. These are all
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158 commented, but you might want to uncomment them.
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160 4.5 2005-01-22
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161 Add uuencode decoding for old style attachments.
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163 4.4 2005-01-18
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164 Bug fix in forked process termination that left zombies.
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166 4.3 2005-01-16
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167 Only keep 20% of the resolver sockets in the ready pool.
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169 4.2 2005-01-08
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170 Use the separate resolver processes even if we don't have the
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171 resolver interfaces and need gethostbyname.
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173 4.1 2005-01-06
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174 Use a local unix domain socket for the resolver process
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175 communication, rather than a tcp/ip socket.
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177 4.0 2005-01-03
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178 Initialize the thread mutex objects early, before they are needed
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179 by possible calls to my_syslog.
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180
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181 Fork off a separate resolver listener process, so we can do multiple
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182 dns operations in parallel. For each simultaneous inbound email,
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183 we have a separate sendmail process, a milter thread, and a dns
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184 resolver process.
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185
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186 3.7 2004-10-28
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187 Added an 'ignore' command to the conf file, used to ignore some
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188 hosts that might end up on the SBL and otherwise trip the content
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189 scanning filter. In particular, many recent Microsoft Word
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190 documents contain the string www.5iantlavalamp.com which is
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191 associated with their smart tags stuff. That is currently hosted at
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192 216.168.224.70, which is shared with a site that ended up on the
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193 SBL.
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194
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195 3.6 2004-09-08
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196 Contributions from Dan Harkless <software@harkless.org>
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197 Better documentation for disabling the content filtering.
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198 Don't bother looking at the body text if we are not doing
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199 content filtering.
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200
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201 3.5 2004-07-17
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202 Extend the error message for content filtering when the NS record
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203 points to an ip address on the SBL. Include the original host name
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204 that referenced that NS name.
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205
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206
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207 3.4 2004-07-15
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208 Tokens with two consecutive periods cannot be ip addresses or host
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209 names.
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210
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211 Updated dnsbl.spec file for building rpms from John Gunkel.
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212
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213
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214 3.3 2004-07-09
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215 Drop root priviledges properly, including the group id.
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218 3.2 2004-07-09
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219
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220 Contributions from John Gunkel <jgunkel@palliser.ca>:
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221 Add .spec file for building rpms, contributed by John Gunkel
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222
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223 Changes to file layout to conform to RedHat/LSB standards.
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224
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225 Add some html (actually xml) tags used by Apple mac print
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226 subsystem that were tripping the html tag detector.
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227
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228 Help with changes required to allow dnsbl to drop root
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229 priviledges. Move the socket to /var/run/dnsbl/dnsbl.sock
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230
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231 Change parser to handle &#xnnn; obfuscated urls with charaters
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232 specified in hex.
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233
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234 Make bad_html tags more sensitive to binary tags, to reduce false
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235 positives in .zip or .tar.gz file attachments.
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236
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237 Add sendmail queueid to the dnsbl syslog messages.
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238
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239 Fix one place where host names were not forced to lower case.
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240 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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241
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242 Remove duplicate dns queries within the same smtp transaction from
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243 the body content filtering. This helps if the mail server does not
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244 have a nearby caching dns server.
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245
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246 Add host_soft_limit config keyword. Use only one of host_limit or
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247 host_soft_limit, since the last one wins. The host_limit is a hard
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248 upper limit on the number of host names in a message. The
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249 host_soft_limit allows unlimited host names, but only checks a
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250 random sample of them against the dnsbl.
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251
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252 The main thread has dropped root priviledges, but other threads
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253 are still running as root. This needs to be fixed.