Date:  Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:47:23 -0400
From:  "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15890] Re: Block Hacker IP from BQ and BX Server
To:  "'Greg Kuhnert'" <greg.kuhnert (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kuhnert [mailto:greg.kuhnert (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:38 PM
> To: Darrell D. Mobley
> Cc: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: Re: Block Hacker IP from BQ and BX Server
> 
> What are AOL's mail servers doing to cause dfix to trip? If there is a
> false positive, I can investigate the cause of that problem.
> 
> I have deliberately kept it simple till now. The only official whitelist
> functionality is provided by valid authenticated dovecot logins. When
> this happens, that user is auto whitelisted. I was thinking of splitting
> a couple of bits out into a seperate config file - and you could
> possibly put some stuff in there...

Actually, you can skip this.  I remember after I had added the whitelist to
Dfix for AOL servers, I was able to correct some settings in my sendmail.cf
file that was causing AOL mail servers to time out, and therefore blocking
them.  So that's no longer a wish.