Re: [Sqlgrey-users] early reconnect issue

[Robert S. <ro...@sc...>]

Am 06.12.2011 17:44, schrieb Lionel Bouton:
> Le 06/12/2011 12:29, Kevin Wincott a écrit :
>> we currently run sqlgrey across a number of mail cluster servers, what
>> we are seeing on some occasions are servers reconnecting many times in
>> the space of a few seconds, then giving up. has anyone come across this
>> before and how did you get round it?

look at your logs, are these bots, where do they come from ?
there are bots simply dont care about greylist or any other smtp
feature, they simple fire

if using postfix ,use postscreen, anyway you dont need to greylist all
in general, do it only for reverse dns ips looking like dyn ips
these means selective, you wont see much more spam passing by this way
and fast legal clients

anotherway is fail2ban, and/or iptables recent

for extrem fast bots i use iptables recent from rsyslog pipe and a shell
script, i had 5 smtp cons per second in max
which leads to 0,25 million bot ips during a half day on one server
mostly from india and brasil

> 
> This isn't standard compliant behaviour (to workaround temporary
> glitches, mail delivery should be retried for 5 days IIRC).
> 
> Anyway, there are provisions to support this kind of behaviour in
> SQLgrey. Most of the time this doesn't require any tuning, but if
> SQLgrey doesn't manage to recognize these servers, you can whitelist
> them: see the distributed whitelists for examples.
> Don't touch the distributedd whitelists (they are overwritten when
> updating SQLgrey) but place your whitelist entries in the corresponding
> *.local files, SQLgrey loads their content on the fly (no need to restart).
> 
> You should report the servers with such problem here and the whitelist
> entry you used to workaround your problem : if several people report the
> same problem, I'll add the whitelist entries to the ones distributed.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lionel
> 
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