Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Filter Empty Subject with qmail-scanner

2004-11-23 Thread Jason Haar
Venilton de Carvalho Junior wrote: Hie All, I have a FreeBSD runing qmail+qmail-scanner. I notice that in my server are passing to many emails with empty subject and some of them are probably virus. I know that i can block strings in Subjects, Headers, Mail from and Rcp to. But what is the wildca

[Qmail-scanner-general]Filter Empty Subject with qmail-scanner

2004-11-23 Thread Venilton de Carvalho Junior
Hie All, I have a FreeBSD runing qmail+qmail-scanner. I notice that in my server are passing to many emails with empty subject and some of them are probably virus. I know that i can block strings in Subjects, Headers, Mail from and Rcp to. But what is the wildcard to empty strings? Does anyone

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread Jason Haar
Justin This is getting off-topic - but you've got me curious :-) Whjat exactly is the environment you are in? You say you are responsible for Qmail-Scanner - but you can't change Qmail itself? How is that possible? You must have root access - so you can alter any package as you see fix can't you

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread Justin Fielding
Maybe the whole host is running low on memory rather than just my particular VPS: Memory Usage Total Used Free Shared Buffer Cached Usage 7.89 GB 7.36 GB 541.55 MB 0 B 2.26 GB 1.75 GB 93.3%

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread toribio
> Guys, I know what it's not a perfect solution. It's not that I don't > want to patch qmail, as I said I find myself in a position (which I know > a lot of other people are in) where compiling is just not an option. > > Even not giving the politically correct error numbers, rejecting the >

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread Justin Fielding
Guys, I know what it's not a perfect solution. It's not that I don't want to patch qmail, as I said I find myself in a position (which I know a lot of other people are in) where compiling is just not an option. Even not giving the politically correct error numbers, rejecting the message saying

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread Adam Goryachev
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:57, Jason Haar wrote: > Justin Fielding wrote: > > > I am suffering from dictionary spam attacks causing qmail-scanner with > > clamav and SA to overload the servers memory and now and then crash > > it. When the spammer connects and starts firing off all these emails,

[Qmail-scanner-general]Using qmail-scanner with qmail-inject for outgoing mail

2004-11-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
Does anyone know if there have there been any attempts to use qmail-scanner in conjunction with qmail-inject to modify headers in email messages being sent by clients? Firstly, I'm fairly new to qmail-scanner. I've only been using it for a couple of weeks, and I'm already very impressed with it, a

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread RD
Hi Justin, As Jason stated, here's a good qmail patch against dictionary attacks. http://www3.sympatico.ca/humungusfungus/code/validrcptto.html You may also want to limit the spamd child process. -rd Jason Haar wrote: Justin Fielding wrote: I am suffering from dictionary spam attacks causing qmail-

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]reject mail during smtp session

2004-11-23 Thread Jason Haar
Justin Fielding wrote: I am suffering from dictionary spam attacks causing qmail-scanner with clamav and SA to overload the servers memory and now and then crash it. When the spammer connects and starts firing off all these emails, before qmail can just dump the ones to non-exising addresses, t