From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 23:58:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5759E16A407 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [64.51.148.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E80B43CA0 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:58:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from yavin.vindaloo.com (yavin.vindaloo.com [172.24.144.34]) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B015C0A; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:58:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from [172.24.145.69] (endor.vindaloo.com [172.24.145.69]) by yavin.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB1C253A8; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:58:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45887CAF.6010007@vindaloo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:58:39 -0500 From: Christopher Hilton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jdow References: <200612191227.kBJCRRLJ054427@lurza.secnetix.de> <4587D1B6.6060500@andric.com><200612191146.45521.joao@matik.com.br> <45882572.7040707@vindaloo.com> <00b801c723be$106ce980$0225a8c0@wednesday> In-Reply-To: <00b801c723be$106ce980$0225a8c0@wednesday> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD's spamd. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:58:42 -0000 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