Manuel Mausz (manuel at mausz, dot at) has implemented a new greylisting plugin, he writes:

"It's written in C and uses MySQL as database backend. The origin database scheme was derived from greylistexim but I've made some tweaks to get more speed and support for CIDR notations. To calculate this notations at insert-level MySQL 5.0 is recommended. However I've also included support for older MySQL releases, although they will have a about 0.5 to 1 seconds speed decrease per incoming mail (on a moderate weight mail server)."

The plugin has been in production use since more than a month and you can find more information on it on our "Plugins" list.

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Roberto Alsina (ralsina at kde dot org) has been improving his plugin collection for months and decided it's time to release it for testing.

You can grab the updated code at http://code.google.com/p/ra-plugins/ to help Roberto in bug fixing before he releases the 0.2.9 version.

See more details in his mailing list post: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31556670&forum_id=41276 (0 comments)

Werner Maier (werner, at maiers, dot de) has updated the vpopmail_check_recipient plugin and released his own versions. He writes:

"I tried to use the vpopmail_check_recipient plugin, but it had some shortcomings, it did not support ezmlm-lists, a catchall account and and some "manually" edited .qmail-files.

So I patched it, and it works great now.

Then for one of my servers I needed a version that did NOT check against vpopmail but against local users instead.

So if anyone has a qmail-installation without vpopmail but with only local users, this could be a really useful plugin for them.

You can find both here: http://www.maiers.de/qmail/ "

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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold (friz, at godshell, dot com) has updated his great qmail toaster site and published it as a wiki.

Apart of a guide on how to setup qmail with all goodies (along with qmail-spp, of course) you will find some more information about spam prevention and qmail in general there.

The site is available at http://toaster.godshell.com/

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The helodnscheck plugin implemented in C has been fixed by Jason Frisvold. You can grab the updated version from our plugins list.

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Catalin Constantin (catalin, at dazoot, dot ro) writes:

"I made a small Qmail SPP plugin for VMailMgr users checking, at SMTP level.

The code is here: http://opensource.dazoot.ro/member/catalin/vmgrucheck/ "

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Tomislav Randjic (tomislavr at gmail, dot com) has written 3 great new qmail-spp plugins. He writes:

"I have another, hopefully useful, RBL plugin. This one is based on rblsmtpd code, and it is a patch to ucspi-tcp-0.88 which creates another executable 'rblspp' suitable for use as qmail-spp plugin. It behaves exactly like rblsmtpd:

rblspp: usage: rblspp [ -b | -B ] [ -c | -C ] [ -r base ] [ -a base ]

Options are the same as 'original', env var RBLSPP behaves like rblsmtps's RBLSMTPD. Like 'original', 4xx or 5xx SMTP responses are dependant on RBL listing. For usage in smtpplugins conf file, it should be executed in shell, ie:

[rcpt]
:plugins/rblspp -r relays.ordb.org -r list.dsbl.org -r dnsbl.njabl.org -r sbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net

Also, on this page
http://xs3.b92.net/tomislavr/qmail.html
there is a small howto for one solution to problem of avoiding RBL look ups for authenticated SMTP users using qmail-spp plugins.

Hope you find those useful. Everything written by me is free without any limitations or warranties, ucspi-tcp-0.88 has it's own licence."

So again we have new useful plugins and a howto. Thank you! (0 comments)

Thanks to Jacek Jarosiewicz (jj, at, k2, pl), we have a new plugin - he writes:

"I've written a plugin for qmail-spp similar to mfdnscheck, but with the advantage of checking that the TCPREMOTEIP variable is one of the valid MX's for the incoming mail.

The plugin chcecks all MX records for the incoming mail's domain and checks wheather one of their IP's is the same as the TCPREMOTEIP environment variable. If the domain doesn't have an MX record, then it's A record is used.

The code is based on HL Combrinck's getmx program (licensed under GPL) and mfdnscheck plugin. Feel free to add the attached file to Your list :)"

So here it is - thank you, Jacek! (1 comments)

Stephan Zalewski (stephan /dot/ zalewski /at/ web /dot/ de) has created qmail-spp 0.42 patch against qmail-ldap. You can grab it from:

http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/contrib-patches/qmail-ldap-1.03-spp-0.42.patch

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This message is to announce new entry on our plugins list - 'ra-plugins'. Thanks to Roberto Alsina, we have 11 (!) new great plugins:

- authchecks,
- authlogger,
- hardcoderbl,
- ipthrottle,
- localmail,
- mfdnschecks,
- msa,
- rblchecks,
- rcptchecks,
- spfchecks (for libspf2) and
- tarpit.

Below is a direct link if you can't wait to grab them:

http://cablemodem.fibertel.com.ar/lateral/stories/39.html

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