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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:58:39 -0500
From:      Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
To:        jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenBSD's spamd.
Message-ID:  <45887CAF.6010007@vindaloo.com>
In-Reply-To: <00b801c723be$106ce980$0225a8c0@wednesday>
References:  <200612191227.kBJCRRLJ054427@lurza.secnetix.de>	<4587D1B6.6060500@andric.com><200612191146.45521.joao@matik.com.br>	<45882572.7040707@vindaloo.com> <00b801c723be$106ce980$0225a8c0@wednesday>

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jdow wrote:

>>
>> Spamd does talk to the remote smtp. It does this until it determines 
>> that the remote smtp is RFC compliant in the area of retrying mail. On 
>> the first delivery attempt it sets up a time window for the delivery 
>> tuple: (server, sender, recipient). If it receives another delivery 
>> attempt within this time window it modifies a PF table which allows 
>> further delivery attempts to bypass spamd and talk directly to your 
>> actual smtp daemon. Without this entry remote smtp daemons talk to 
>> your spamd.
> 
> Features aside I see a huge problem with something called spamd. That
> is the same name as the daemon mode for SpamAssassin. It's not good
> to have duplicated names that way. It makes life difficult when you
> want to run both tools on the same system.
> 

Agreed. Fortunately in this case Spam Assassin's spamd installs in the 
wrong part of heir: /usr/local/bin I believe and OpenBSD's spamd 
installs in ${PREFIX}/libexec.

-- Chris




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