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[Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Kristian,

I am curious if there are any major challenges merging asterisk 1.4  
into AstLinux?

Just some small hurdles or are there mountains to climb?

Thanks,

Lonnie

PS:  Interesting lists.sourceforge.net requires me to have a  
postmaster address.  Do most people here simply auto-delete all  
postmaster mail?  This seems very attractive to spammers.

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 12/25/06, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
> Kristian,
>
> I am curious if there are any major challenges merging asterisk 1.4
> into AstLinux?
>
> Just some small hurdles or are there mountains to climb?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lonnie
>
> PS:  Interesting lists.sourceforge.net requires me to have a
> postmaster address.  Do most people here simply auto-delete all
> postmaster mail?  This seems very attractive to spammers.
>

Lonnie,

  It's not that big of a deal.  I started work on it, but stalled
because most important things came up and it wasn't even released yet
:).  I'll get back to work on it now that there is an actual release.

  As far as the lists.sf.net question, I'm afraid that I don't quite
understand what you mean...

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

On Dec 26, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

>   It's not that big of a deal...
That is good news.

>   As far as the lists.sf.net question, I'm afraid that I don't quite
> understand what you mean...
To reduce spam guessing, my mail domains reject all mail not exactly  
addressed to known users.  The sourceforge lists require a posting  
email to have a 'postmaster' user in the same domain (or sub-domain)  
as the sender.  (There are RFC's that say a 'postmaster' user should  
be defined, but I have never quite understood why.)

After defining a 'postmaster' user in my mail system, I was able to  
post to this new list

I am just curious the logic of requiring the 'postmaster' and not  
creating a spam email channel.

Lonnie


> On 12/25/06, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
>> Kristian,
>>
>> I am curious if there are any major challenges merging asterisk 1.4
>> into AstLinux?
>>
>> Just some small hurdles or are there mountains to climb?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lonnie
>>
>> PS:  Interesting lists.sourceforge.net requires me to have a
>> postmaster address.  Do most people here simply auto-delete all
>> postmaster mail?  This seems very attractive to spammers.
>>
>
> Lonnie,
>
>   It's not that big of a deal.  I started work on it, but stalled
> because most important things came up and it wasn't even released yet
> :).  I'll get back to work on it now that there is an actual release.
>
>   As far as the lists.sf.net question, I'm afraid that I don't quite
> understand what you mean...
>
> -- 
> Kristian Kielhofner
>
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Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>>   As far as the lists.sf.net question, I'm afraid that I don't quite
>> understand what you mean...
>>     
> To reduce spam guessing, my mail domains reject all mail not exactly  
> addressed to known users.  The sourceforge lists require a posting  
> email to have a 'postmaster' user in the same domain (or sub-domain)  
> as the sender.  (There are RFC's that say a 'postmaster' user should  
> be defined, but I have never quite understood why.)
>
> After defining a 'postmaster' user in my mail system, I was able to  
> post to this new list
>
> I am just curious the logic of requiring the 'postmaster' and not  
> creating a spam email channel.
>
>   
Lonnie,

I believe this is either strongly suggested or a requirement to be able 
to address abusive people on your domain.  Generally the postmaster 
account is an alias to an actual user.  Other strongly suggested aliases 
are webmaster and abuse.

Darrick

-- 
Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
http://www.djhsolutions.com

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

On Dec 26, 2006, at 10:39 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote:

Thanks Darrick,
> Other strongly suggested aliases
> are webmaster and abuse.

Yes, I recently removed all my 'webmaster' mail user aliases because  
they were a conduit for spam.

I can deal with this 'postmaster' requirement for this list.  I just  
think it creates more problems than it solves.

Lonnie