Killing That Spam With Postgrey And Postfix new version v1.27 for FC6

[micko_escalade]

Hi,

I was using successfully postgrey for a while on FC4 and it really cuts on spam,
now I upgraded to FC6 and this tutorial doesn't work for me because I can't find /etc/default/postgrey is that because I installed using rpm from here ? and not used apt-get install postgrey ?

Thanks!

[micko_escalade]

I just re-installed postgrey using apt-get install postgrey command, and /etc/default/postgrey is still not visible.

[micko_escalade]

Anyone, please ?

[falko]

I think that tutorial is based on Debian, so it won't work on Fedora. Probably the Postgrey configuration is somewhere else on Fedora. You can try and run

updatedb
locate postgrey

to find the file(s).

[micko_escalade]

falko,

Thanks for helping me with this!
with that tutorial beeing for debian /etc/default/postgrey does not exists on fedora,

[root@linux ~]# locate postgrey
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients.local
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_recipients
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K31postgrey
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K31postgrey
/usr/sbin/postgrey
/usr/sbin/postgreyreport
/usr/share/doc/postgrey-1.27
/usr/share/doc/postgrey-1.27/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/postgrey-1.27/Changes
/usr/share/doc/postgrey-1.27/README
/usr/share/doc/postgrey-1.27/README-rpm
/usr/share/man/man8/postgrey.8.gz
/var/cache/apt/archives/postgrey_1.27-4.fc6_noarch.rpm
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/__db.001
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/__db.002
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/__db.003
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/__db.004
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/log.0000000001
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/postgrey.db
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/postgrey.lock
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey/postgrey_clients.db
[root@linux ~]#

but I was able to find this tutorial,
so I found OPTIONS="--unix=$SOCKET" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgrey so I changed it to OPTIONS="--unix=$SOCKET --inet=127.0.0.1:60000 --delay=59"
then I added check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000 to
/etc/postfix/main.cf at smtpd_recipient_restrictions = line
so that it looks like this

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination,check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000

I made a test a excluded scd.yahoo.com from /etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients file then I tried sending mail and it got rejected?

Jul 27 23:36:51 linux postfix/smtpd[2487]: connect from web34805.mail.mud.yahoo.com[209.191.68.169]
Jul 27 23:36:51 linux postfix/smtpd[2487]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from web34805.mail.mud.yahoo.com[209.191.68.169]: 450 4.7.1 <my_user_name@mydomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted, see http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help/mydomain.com.html; from=<my_user_name@yahoo.com> to=<my_user_name@mydomain.com> proto=SMTP helo=<web34805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Jul 27 23:36:51 linux postfix/smtpd[2487]: disconnect from web34805.mail.mud.yahoo.com[209.191.68.169]

[micko_escalade]

I found sqlgrey which is same as postgrey but it can use mySQL DB, looks good,
installed it using step # 7. Setup Grey Listing
Will post review after couple of weeks.