Marek Lindner wrote:
That is a qood question. It is self-contained as well but I don't think it makes much sense bringing it into staging as it is just a "hack". :) I'm not sure what the best path forward might be. Does it hurt keeping it the way it is ?
Sry, doesn't want to upset you, but wanted to say that batgat isn't a complete solution like batman-adv, but an extension to reduce the load on the gateway. I don't think that it would hurt at the moment to leave it as it is. Have not attended Linux Plumber Conf 2009 - so don't know what was discussed there. As co-maintainer (Holger is the actual maintainer) of that package in Debian it doesn't hurt me at the moment.
Parts which are important:
- TODO list for staging inside batman-adv folder
- removed compat.h and remaining LINUX_VERSION_CODE (net_device_ops, unregister_chrdev)
- clean Makefile and Kconfig
- anyone who says how the further development should be done
- anyone who sends the patch to Greg (probably Marek)
I think most of the things listed here are already done. It just needs to come together. I'm confident that this will happen soon.
I categorized them in my head under todo because nothing of it is currently visible to the user. So some parts could be marked as "put them in the right place".
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The postifx setup is quite simple at the moment: It rejects all unknown / unregistered mail. Greylisting is not in place yet. I quickly ran pflogsumm to give you an impression:
Per-Day Traffic Summary date received delivered deferred bounced rejected -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 27 2009 110 107 153 16 4874 Sep 28 2009 170 855 298 56 6894 Sep 29 2009 229 1235 379 90 6757 Sep 30 2009 176 525 420 38 7477 Oct 1 2009 187 222 377 20 7913 Oct 2 2009 132 132 414 17 8086 Oct 3 2009 112 117 374 18 7790 Oct 4 2009 128 658 294 42 6158 Oct 5 2009 243 1634 509 97 7657
But I tend to agree with you: We might have to face the fact that we have to improve the SPAM filter on our end and open the list. As a first step we could install greylisting and have a bunch of moderators to see how that goes.
Lets hope that greylisting would do a good job here as it is quite easy to setup (just done that for exim using greylistd - so cannot say that it is also that easy for postfix, but there is a package called postgrey). I never feel real happy about the filtering of spamassassines bayesian analysis as it marks important mails for me as spam from time to time.
Best regards, Sven