Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-14 Thread John Floren
I feel a bit silly now... just discovered upas/spam etc. This seems to be catching all of my spam with just the default set of rules, while allowing non-spam through. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, John Floren wrote: > Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons > of "fr

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> I have not yet gotten around to setting up nupas, but I figured I'd > try populating /mail/lib/blocked a bit since it is easy, and a lot of > the spam seems to come from erewards@ > However, after putting the line "*block *!erewards*" into blocked, I > still keep getting spam from "erewards

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, John Floren wrote: > Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons > of "free coupons", "free Dell XPS", "Student loans!" spam, apparently > from one operator, since every domainname is in the form > .com or , like eggnavajo.com, > rosydeer.co

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> If nupas gets installed to /$objtype/bin/nupas, what files will I need > to update to make sure everything uses nupas rather than the old > upas? I'm assuming stuff in the listen scripts, any references in my > profile, but anything else? i didn't put this on sources because i thought it would b

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-10 Thread john
>> 2. If I update /mail/lib/blocked, do I have to restart smtpd in order >> to get the changes? >> >> 3. What's the best way to restart smtpd? > > smtpd is not a daemon. smtpd is started from listen. > so what you do is ... nothing. Looks like I just wasn't thinking about how listen works. Th

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> 2. If I update /mail/lib/blocked, do I have to restart smtpd in order > to get the changes? > > 3. What's the best way to restart smtpd? smtpd is not a daemon. smtpd is started from listen. so what you do is ... nothing. > 1. What do I need to do in order to drop nupas into my system? 1.

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-10 Thread john
> On Thu Jan 8 14:59:57 EST 2009, slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: >> Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons >> of "free coupons", "free Dell XPS", "Student loans!" spam, apparently >> from one operator, since every domainname is in the form >> .com or , like eggnavajo.com

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> I am using this one: http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/spamfilter/ > which is working quite comfortably for me. i found this bit interesting: Some mail server's IPs are a little different from the IPs obtained using DNS query. For example, I observed Received: from coraid.c

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Hello, I am using this one: http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/spamfilter/ which is working quite comfortably for me. Kenji Arisawa On 2009/01/09, at 5:49, erik quanstrom wrote: I am using the standard smtpd with -D and the greylisting, and also a modified validateserder which probably qualifies as a

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> I am using the standard smtpd with -D and the greylisting, > and also a modified validateserder which probably qualifies as an > earlier incarnation of erik's (he sent me the code before nupas > was finished and I hacked it a bit). /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/nupas/bits/validatesender - eri

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Simon
I will go with erik on this. I am using the standard smtpd with -D and the greylisting, and also a modified validateserder which probably qualifies as an earlier incarnation of erik's (he sent me the code before nupas was finished and I hacked it a bit). I get 1 or 2 spams a day. I plan to try n

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 8 15:28:26 EST 2009, n...@lsub.org wrote: > Quite similar here. > Also, use the first MX in DNS as a trap for those > that do not use the secondary, as sugested by Geoff, IIRC. > > lots of spammers used to prefer the secondary. this is because it's hard to check email on a secondary

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Quite similar here. Also, use the first MX in DNS as a trap for those that do not use the secondary, as sugested by Geoff, IIRC. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Jan 8 14:59:57 EST 2009, slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: >> Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 8 14:59:57 EST 2009, slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: > Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons > of "free coupons", "free Dell XPS", "Student loans!" spam, apparently > from one operator, since every domainname is in the form > .com or , like eggnavajo.com, > ro