Re: [toaster] Razor2 and Simscan

2004-12-28 Thread John Melville
One other thing I should caution you on though, I'm also running the RBL lists at the frontend to block as many that way before it actually reaches SimScan, without those then you would likely see resource issues. Specifically the following RBL checks are used ...     -r cbl.abuseat.org -r dyn

Re: [toaster] Razor2 and Simscan

2004-12-28 Thread John Melville
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m just fishing for comments on the pros or cons with simscan plus spamassassin with razor2. I have just finished a toaster install and also placed razor2 on top of the standard spamassassin, everything is working like a charm … kudos to Bill

Re: [toaster] Help: question regarding limiting bandwith of outbound emails

2004-12-10 Thread John Melville
Joe Young wrote: Sorry, They have a DSL connection with verizon. Their connection with verizon is 640k down and 256k up.They The server is inhouse and they will send email to it. The emails will somethings be 8megs big sent to multiple people. The server will then send multiple 8meg emails a

Re: [toaster] Toaster performance tuning

2004-11-22 Thread John Melville
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: Oh? Have you posted at all on the simscan list? I'm running it here with no problem... nm, figured out what was stopping it .. combo of testing qscanq and not uninstalling their wrapper and also wrong perms on /var/qmail/simscan/ directory. Seems to work now

Re: [toaster] Toaster performance tuning

2004-11-22 Thread John Melville
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: simscan is another one. I can vouch for simscan.. :) Wish I could get that thing to work, tried a couple a times now and it just doesn't seem to work, mail seems to just disappear. John

Re: [toaster] catch ip of spammer

2004-08-09 Thread John Melville
Eric Noel wrote: Thanks to all those who responded to my previous question about patching. Ive been trying to find the ipaddress of most senders both outside/local, i tried qmailanalog but i only get recipients list or senders list with no ip. Are there any good scripts there to list a summary w

Re: [toaster] smtproutes and chkuser

2004-06-24 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: Do this MTA have the equivalent of chkuser? If so, you could amend the chkuser patch to check if the domain is listed in /var/qmail/control/ntdomains (or whatever you want to call it), and if so, then call a perl script or something to make an smtp connection and see if that

Re: [toaster] smtproutes and chkuser

2004-06-24 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: I run backup MX for some clients, and mail goes through just fine. I have not examined the patch closely in a while, but it appears that if vpopmail does not have a listing for the domain, chkuser does not fail. I can confirm this, I run a pass-thru virus/spamassassin scanning

Re: [toaster] qmail-scanner repeating the same mail

2004-06-18 Thread John Melville
trevor wrote: I use spamassasin site wide with qmail-scanner. So far no problems, although the more memory you can get the better with this option. I'm currently using this just fine on about 3 other qmail servers, just this one RH ES is having the problems, it could be tied to the fact Perl-Se

Re: [toaster] qmail-scanner repeating the same mail

2004-06-18 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: I use qscanq/clamav with spamassassin, but spamassassin is on a per-user config, not site-wide. Works great. I assume site wide isn't an issue too? :-) I'll have to do more research into getting SpamAssassin firing up after qscanq me thinks.

Re: [toaster] qmail-scanner repeating the same mail

2004-06-18 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: I am working on linux mail server area. I am using qmail mail as my MTA. I used to install the entire mail setup as per the instructions given in the qmail-toaster. I installed the qmail-scanner and virus guard as the trend interscan virus wall. I experienced a problem of repe

Re: [toaster] POP Relay Window

2004-03-29 Thread John Melville
I was just thinking and it might be an idea to leave the roaming users option in the toaster, at least as an additional option for those using the RBLs to stem the tide of spam. Not really required on a server with a fairly static range of accessing IPs but for others it is needed when used in

Re: [toaster] POP Relay Window

2004-03-29 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: This makes sense, as rblsmtpd is run *before* smtp-auth happens. With roaming users, RELAYCLIENT is already set before rblsmtpd runs. The best solution for you is to turn roaming-users back on. Thanks Bill, was hoping it was going to be that easy, wasn't sure if a special

[toaster] POP Relay Window

2004-03-29 Thread John Melville
Hi all, I have a question about the new toaster version. I noticed that the relay window that used to be opened by successful POP checks was removed in vpopmail (roaming users?) being used. One of the issues I've run across here is by removing that users can no longer use SMTP if they are list

Re: [toaster] Toaster PRE/POST Installation Questions

2004-01-13 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: Secondly, after installing the toaster do I need to setup logrotate to rotate any files for qmail, vpopmail, etc...? My main concern is qmail. Nope. This toaster install uses multilog, which rotates logs for you. One of the things I love about this is the smallness of the

Re: [toaster] IP Blocking

2003-12-18 Thread John Melville
Does your IP have reverse mapping working right (reverse lookup). If the IP only looks up to a number there's your problem, AOL requires reverse lookup to connect to them now. I wish everyone would get it fixed too ... I turned this on at the local ISPs mail server and man does that cut back

Re: [toaster] OT: VegaDNS

2003-11-26 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: Just wanted to let any of you that use djbdns know about a web administration tool I just wrote for managing tinydns data, VegaDNS. It's available here: www.vegadns.org. This is the first public release, so use with caution, and keep in mind that it will likely change a lot

Re: [toaster] Complete Failover

2003-10-08 Thread John Melville
pmaag wrote: Bill, The only thing that I really need to replicate is user account details(username and passwords), so people can atleast POP into their account and send mail if the primary goes down. As of right now uptime is not an issue, but I really want to prepare for something that knocks

Re: [toaster] SMTP spam denial ideas

2003-10-06 Thread John Melville
trevor wrote: ahhh I see yes that would be nice. btw, where did you find the sobig patch? we got clogged up by that one and i couldn't figure out how to make qmail-scanner/clamav just drop those emails. it ended up sending back a reply to all those senders saying they had sobig, even though

Re: [toaster] SMTP spam denial ideas

2003-10-06 Thread John Melville
trevor wrote: This is all doable and pretty easy to add to the current toaster. I've done it. All you need to install is qmail-scanner, spamassassin, and clamav. Spamassassin uses qmail-scanner to checks all incoming emails and makes a score based on a rules file. It can then mark the subject

[toaster] SMTP spam denial ideas

2003-10-06 Thread John Melville
ally their server now rejects anything with a 6.0+ score in SA at the SMTP level! Slick indeed. 3: Virus refusal at SMTP level, probably doable using the subject line rejection but could also be done by looking at attachments I think. I know a patch exists for this one too. -- John Melvil

Re: [toaster] HELP! Am I an open relay?

2003-09-26 Thread John Melville
Andy Drexler wrote: I added the host name to the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file and re-ran the tests from http://spamlart.homeunix.org and got the same results (a lot of "Potential Vulnerabilities"). I guess I need to "grab the 0.5 patch from shupp.org. You'll have to patch a fresh

Re: [toaster] HELP! Am I an open relay?

2003-09-26 Thread John Melville
(Sorry about the dupe here Bill, forgot to remove your address and put in the list address, but I feel this should be in the thread archives for future reference so forwarding to list too) Bill Shupp wrote: Which version of the toaster and patch worked without the hostname? Not sure what ver

Re: [toaster] HELP! Am I an open relay?

2003-09-26 Thread John Melville
qmail didn't exhibit the smtp-auth relay problem (I rolled back to it until I found the fix). John Melville Dynanet Network Services http://www.dynanet.ca/

Re: [toaster] An SMTP-AUTH Relay Bug Does Exist!

2003-09-18 Thread John Melville
Bill Shupp wrote: So, unless you removed "domain.com" from the script, you should be fine. Perhaps you upgraded from a much earlier toaster? I don't recall if/when I added the hostname argument to the default run file. Yeah that was likely my issue, I've been running it since pretty early o

[toaster] An SMTP-AUTH Relay Bug Does Exist!

2003-09-17 Thread John Melville
Well I found it. Yes there is a method being employed by spammers to get mail relayed via our servers using SMTP-AUTH. If the last line of your /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file looks like this ... /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 2>&1 AND you've updated t

Re: [toaster] Wierd Positive Relay test

2003-08-15 Thread John Melville
- From: "John Melville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:16 AM Subject: [toaster] Wierd Positive Relay test Hey gang, http://relaytest.kundenserver.de/view.php?id=25599688 Is there a bug in the smtp authentication that let&#x

[toaster] Wierd Positive Relay test

2003-08-14 Thread John Melville
Hey gang, http://relaytest.kundenserver.de/view.php?id=25599688 Is there a bug in the smtp authentication that let's anyone just use [EMAIL PROTECTED] First time I've seen this one and I'd like to keep that type of hole closed, rediculous what these guys come up with really but then it is a h