Re: spam removal

2004-02-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > [ Sorry for the delay, I was (and still am) rebuilding everything with > pthread on my desktop. ] > Not a problem!! I got a late start today and have other-stuff to do before evening... . > > On Mon, 16 Feb

Re: spam removal

2004-02-17 Thread Michel Schwab
ot smmsp daemon www mailnull Can me help some? tnx Michel - Original Message - From: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Olga Zenkova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesda

Re: spam removal

2004-02-17 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ Sorry for the delay, I was (and still am) rebuilding everything with pthread on my desktop. ] On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:30 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: [..] > > Hi, > > I'd be grateful for some ti

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > Give a try to ports/mail/dspam; it uses a combined bayesian algorithm. > If you have problems just email me privately and I'll be glad to help. > but it's extremely easy to setup. User must just fw the spams to an > alias you

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread David Brinegar
Gary defends qmail: > It delivers a bounce called QSBMF, and to my knowledge is the only > MTA that does. Those messages are like idiot lights, without the brevity. But qmail is besides the point -- most bounce messages are pretty weak. They work okay if the reader is computer literate. I like t

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Gary
Hi David, On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:53:40 -0800 UTC (2/16/2004, 11:53 AM -0600 UTC my time), David Brinegar wrote: D> Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The D> other day a client tried to send an e-mail that exceeded my ISP's D> limit and was told something like "mailbox

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread David Brinegar
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Let's imagine that Charles gets a bounce notification, but it doesn't > reach his threshold for doing anything more about it. Bob loses > legitimate mail. Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The other day a client tried to send an e-mail that exc

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-02-16T09:13:16Z, Olga Zenkova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody > advice to stop it? My writeup on the subject starts at: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterSpam and includes information on DNS bl

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 04:18 a.m. 16/02/04 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote: > Hi! > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > think it is not very effective at all. May be

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > > > > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > > > also highly recommended for site use. I tend

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote: > So Alice knows the email was not lost. She is now aware of why, > hence the http://url in the error mesg. And now Alice can contact > her admin, and figure out why that ip/block is spewing spam > at me/us/blacklist users. To repeat, most

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:51:35PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also > > highly recommended for site use. > > I'll second both. SpamAssassin worked well for me

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:13:16 -0800 (PST) Olga Zenkova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > think it is not very effective at all. May be ot

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > > also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based > > > filtering because it has a high rate of fa

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Woods
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:18:39 -0500 (EST) matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also check spamassassin, razor2, dcc. > procmail too. or maildrop. > amavisd and the uvscan binary. I'll second spamassassin, dcc and amavisd (which also does virus scanning), i've just setup spamassassin via amavisd

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is also > highly recommended for site use. I'll second both. SpamAssassin worked well for me for several years, but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA ju

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is > > also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based > > filtering because it has a high rate of false positives, and it > > causes your users to lose legi

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: > > > Hi! > > > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > > > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: > > Hi! > > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > > think it is

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: > Hi! > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > think it is not very effective at all. May be other > mail daemon or

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread matthew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote: > Hi! > Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What > tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have > sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I > think it is not very effective at all. May be other > mail daemon or some additional t

spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Olga Zenkova
Hi! Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I think it is not very effective at all. May be other mail daemon or some additional tools for sendmail? Thanks, Olga __