Re: ATTN: Ben Goran (was: Parents: OpenBSD better than Linux Mandrake)

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:40:41PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> >  mailto:ben@trumpetpower.com
>
> I  tried  to  reply  (for off-list  comments  and  question). It
> bounced  due  to  your   anti-spam. I  (think)  I  followed  the
> steps. It didn't work.

First, please accept my apologies. You're  the first person I know
of who  wasn't able  to make  it through  the Web  form...though I
suppose I wouldn't know about others who didn't use an out-of-band
method to contact me.

reedmedia.net is now in my whitelist, so you can send as much mail
as you like from that domain.

> I tried several times.
>
> It took  me more  that ten  minutes to write  (phone call)  so I
> decided to  start again since it  says you have to  do it within
> ten minutes. Twice.

I've wondered about the ideal  amount of time. I didn't intend for
the Web form to be for long, involved messages, only ``let me in''
ones.  I'll  increase the time limit  to twenty minutes and  add a
reminder to that effect...done, and done.

> Then SSL certificate was expired.

Gahk! It's  been   a  year  *already*? Time  to   generate  a  new
key...done

> Then CGI  returned "You must  fill out all  fields to send  me a
> message. Please try again."
>
> All fields were completed.
>
> And that also happened twice.

Strange. I tested  that one  extensively. The only time  I've ever
been able to get that to appear  was, well, when one of the fields
was left  blank. Name, address, subject, and  body. This one truly
puzzles me.

> Also,   I   have   a    similar   setup   for   blocking   email
> except    from    known    senders    for    a    few    people:
> http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/exim-verify_known_sender.html

That's essentially what I've done,  except that I used Mail::Audit
instead of exim. What you were  having trouble with was my webmail
form.  It's a pretty vanilla  webmail form except for the timeout,
which seems to be the part that did the most damage. It's intended
to stem the damage should a  bot start pounding mercilessly at the
script.

> There are several other solutions, like TMDA.

Yeah,  I've looked  at many  (most?) of  them. most  are much  too
complicated. Mail::Audit is simple.

In any event,  thanks much for the heads-up. If  you're willing to
help me  check for  remaining problems, please  let me  know--as I
said, mail from reedmedia.net is now unimpeded.

>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

Yours,

b&

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