Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, December 11, 2004 10:50 +1100 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: diff -u ??? I'll attach privately the diff's from your version ( CVS) Now that's a heck of a tactic LOL :) oh yes, i forgot the most amusing thing about it. it not only sent it to a subset of the spammer d

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 17:01 -0700 Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Saturday, December 11, 2004 10:50 +1100 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: diff -u ??? I'll attach privately the diff's from your version ( CVS) Actually as it turns out I can't send mail directl

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:01:33PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > So it's your fault they figured out the forged MAIL FROM trick! Bad > craig, no donut! ;) no, many of them already knew that. it was obvious anyway. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- T

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:20:28AM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > >i certainly wouldn't recommend running it on a large installation. > >i'm surprised you even tried. > > Well, we're very anti-spam, and willing ot try anything to help...I > had to disable it after we got around ~8K rules in the tab

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-12-09 19:04:49, schrieb Richard Zuidhof: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > cbl.abuseat.org is included in xbl.spamhaus.org so it is not needed to > use both. If you use sbl.spamhaus.org I do not see why not to use sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org had never FP > bl.spamcop.net as well. Both have some coll

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 22:48 +1100 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:18:16PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: --On Friday, December 10, 2004 16:43 +1100 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DoS is a huge exaggeration. a few smtpd processes waiting to t

Re: EHLO/HELO [was blacklists]

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Friday 10 December 2004 09:36, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > (1) If SPF HELO checking is on and lookup matches connecting IP > --> PASS [..] > Otherwise, return 517 HELO $hostname does not match $remote-ip Sorry to reply to myself, but this sequence is more complicated if SPF checking is turned

Re: EHLO/HELO [was blacklists]

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
[CC'ing Bill Taroli who has been helping me with this on courier-user] On Friday 10 December 2004 07:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 00:39, Mark Bucciarelli > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I've recently turned on EHLO/HELO validation and am encouraged by how > > effectiv

Re: EHLO/HELO [was blacklists]

2004-12-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:08:53PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > I tried out "reject_unknown_hostname" but had to turn it off, too many > machines had unknown hostnames. > > For example a zone foo.com has a SMTP server named postfix1 and puts > postfix1.foo.com in the EHLO command but has an extern

Re: EHLO/HELO [was blacklists]

2004-12-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 10 December 2004 00:39, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently turned on EHLO/HELO validation and am encouraged by how > effective it is. WIth RBL's (spamcop and dnsbl) and SpamAssassin 3, only > 88% of spam was stopped. So far, it's 100%. (This is a _very_ small

Re: MailScanner with Sendmail

2004-12-10 Thread Henk . Roose
Penbrock wrote: > Thanks alot I now have MailScanner scanning all my messages :). How ever I > have one minor(?) problem, sendmail movers messages to the mqueue.in , > MailScanner scans them and moves them to the /mqueue like it should,... > but the messages just sit there. Do I now need to change

Re: blacklists

2004-12-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:18:16PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > --On Friday, December 10, 2004 16:43 +1100 Craig Sanders > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >DoS is a huge exaggeration. a few smtpd processes waiting to timeout > >does not constitute a DoS. neither does a few dozen. > > I had about 8

Re: Is gray-listing a one-shot anti-spam measure?

2004-12-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 20.41, mimo wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > >On Friday 03 December 2004 20:07, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>(And - this to Stephen Frost, I believe - there is a patch to postgrey > >>which I will include in the next version, and