Re: [Hampshire] Sendmail, greylisting and rejecting unknown …

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Sendmail, greylisting and rejecting unknown addresses

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x56ce2100.hantslug.org.uk.23103': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun Dec 31 20:39:43 2006 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 2099B64CBF15490B
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 12:29:35PM +0000, Graeme Hilton wrote:
> 2. My ISP runs a backup mx for me. It gets all the spam that I reject
> at the SMTP level. Then I download it hourly. It is almost always all
> spam, except on the odd occasion that my machine has been offline (ADSL
> gone down for a few minutes, power cut, reboot, maintenance or
> whatever). Are there any services out there that I can use as a backup
> mx that will synchronise with my greylist milter (using the Multi-MX
> sync feature)?


Backup MXes you don't control are a bad idea, so if you want one
then best thing to do would be to get a virtual server somewhere.
Unfortunately although you might get away with 48M or 64M of RAM for
the SMTP part, if you intend to run spamassassin then you tend to
need a lot more.

Cheers,
Andy