Re: AW: Te5t dns server

[Jay Daniels <jay infoave net>]

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 04:10, berndi wrote:
> hi
> 
> > Von: Jay Daniels [mailto:jay infoave net]
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juni 2002 09:14
>  
> > On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 08:33, Josep M wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I have problems with email,possible dns errors,I would like 
> > know if is possible test one dns server.
> > > 
> > > I mean as this: "command  dns-server    domain-to-test" for 
> > know what of my ISP dns servers are 
> > > wrong
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > Josep
> > > 
> > 
> > $ host <hostname> <ip_of_dns_server>
> 
> dig is also a nice tool to do thsi check, also to verify ressource
> records like mx, ns, ...
> use nslookup in the interactive mode, if you have many of records to
> check ....
> 
> > 
> > A more interesting question is how many users like me missed this post
> > because of the word "Test" in the subject 8-)
> > 
> > mailfilters!!!
> 
> do you use a third party product for your mailfilters? or just any rules
> for e.g. sendmail?
> 
> viel spass
> 	bernd

Currently, I'm running qmail with maildrop which uses a simple
.mailfilter. maildrop is more complex than procmail, but I could not get
procmail to function properly. Today a problem occurred when I removed
procmail and fetchmail stopped working, so Instead of backtracking I
installed getmail and pipe to maildrop.  Another problem, maildrop would
not accept a pipe from root for users mail so I had to run cronron job
as user to get mail so .mailfilter would work too.

I probably would have avoided all this if I had known redhat installed
postfix as default mta if I had not installed sendmail in the first
place. Oh well, qmail was already on this box when I upgraded, and I did
not have to screw with those aliasdb for mailman. Getting mailman to
work with qmail was another story;)

Now to figure how to get maildrop to source a file with a list of spam
addresses to send to deliver to /dev/null



jay