Re: check against whitelist DNS

From: Victor Duchovni (no email)
Date: Sun Mar 13 2005 - 11:17:35 EST

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    On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:42:43PM +0100, Magnus B?ck wrote:

    > On Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 14:00 CET,
    > richard lucassen <> wrote:
    >
    > > The smtpd of qmail has this feature:
    > >
    > > -a whitelist.example.com -b -r blacklist.example.com
    > >
    > > This means that a whitelist DNS is queried *before* the blacklist DNS
    > > is queried. If a server appears on the whitelist, the mail is
    > > accepted, even if this server appears on a blacklist.
    > >
    > > I want all mailservers to use a whitelist DNS but I can only find in
    > > the docs methods to whitelist domains in a hash table.
    > >
    > > Of course I can use LDAP, but is there a way to use a whitelist DNS
    > > instead of a hash table?
    >
    > No such feature is built into Postfix. However, you can write a custom
    > policy server that provides such functionality.
    >

    What happens when the whitelist lookup tempfails? The right answer is
    to return DEFER_IF_REJECT. With "rbldnsd" (local copies of blacklist
    data) one can specify a separate whitelist that substracts from the
    RBL database.

    -- 
    	Viktor.
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