New Code! (not dead yet edition)
There haven’t been any updates to Postoffice for a while. Not because I’m not using it, of course – Pell continues to be a 100% postoffice joint – but because it’s just been working without fuss, muss, or bother.
But this last weekend found me putting a few tweaks into the code to get around some pesky spam issues, and another tweak to make the nightly cleanup scripts on some of my freebsd quieter (my macos boxes, despite being mutant freebsd, don’t do mail if they can help it, so they don’t really care about having postfix ripped out and replaced with a proper mail server.)
The new features (in version 1.5.1) are:
- Support the -q command line option for
mailq. No, it doesn’t actually do anything yet, butmailqnow knows about the flag and silently eats it. - better support for
smtpauthblacklists; change the diagnostic messages for a blacklisted address so it simply says the system is busy, but doesn’t add a “try again in {some} seconds” postscript to it. Add the new feature of being able to smtpauth blacklist on
MAIL FROM:addresses. This last one is pretty useful, because if you’re getting spammed from a round-robin MX where if the spam doesn’t get in through one MX it will simply rotate around to the next you don’t want to have to play whack-a-mx and add all of them into your greylist database. Now you can simply blacklist theMAIL FROM:address and it won’t matter where the spam tries to originate.It’s not very subtle, but neither am I. And that’s why I’ve, after an interval of eight months, released this New Code! for your compiling fun.