Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Qmail Scanner - Patch to reject unknown user before scan?

2003-08-31 Thread Anthony Baratta
At 07:05 AM 8/31/2003, Jeff Koch wrote: Seems to me that our mail server is wasting alot of CPU and quarantine disk space scanning email messages for unknown users. Is there a patch that would bounce messages to unknown recipients before the mail reached qmail-scanner? We have one domain that s

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Qmail Scanner - Patch to reject unknownuser before scan?

2003-08-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, chkuser patch at http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/#qmail-smtpd or integrated with Bill Shupp's mega patch at http://www.shupp.org I use Bill's patch myself. Regards, Rick Jeff Koch wrote: Hi: Seems to me that our mail server is wasting alot of CPU and quarantine disk space scanning ema

[Qmail-scanner-general]notifications being sent despite --silent-viruses (SoBig.F)

2003-08-31 Thread Mike Burkhouse
Hi All, I need a little guidance. I, like most of us, have been getting hammered by SoBig. I upgraded to q-s-1.20rc1 this past week, and I was happy to notice that SoBig was in the default silent-viruses list, but after a couple days of running it, I have noticed that the "senders" are still bei

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Why would qmail-scanner not pick up all offending messages?

2003-08-31 Thread Jason Haar
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:18:23PM -0400, Marc Nicholas wrote: > I have Qmail-scanner/ClamAV/SpamAssassin running on a RedHat box with > Qmail-1.03. There's definitely stuff going to quarantine, but I'm being told > users are still getting lots of Sobig work messages...any clues as to why > some st

[Qmail-scanner-general]Idea for dynamic spam relay blocking

2003-08-31 Thread Benjamin Smith
Email from spammers typically causes a large number of bounces. Why not do something like the following: 1) Register an email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] which forwards to a script, eg: "| /usr/local/bin/countbounces" 2) countbounces counts the number of bouncing messages from each source, by I

[Qmail-scanner-general]Why would qmail-scanner not pick up all offending messages?

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Nicholas
I have Qmail-scanner/ClamAV/SpamAssassin running on a RedHat box with Qmail-1.03. There's definitely stuff going to quarantine, but I'm being told users are still getting lots of Sobig work messages...any clues as to why some stuff is definitely getting nuked, but other stuff makes it through? Tha