Re: can I specify timeouts for a specific DNS rule

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Kettler
ram wrote: > > > But I am seeing the DNS tests taking more than 10s on my servers from > the spamassassin -D logs > > Even though I have in my prefs file > rbl_timeout 5 > rbl_timeout is an administrator setting. You can't set in user_prefs. It's got to be a local.cf thing. (This protects th

Re: how many children

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Kettler
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing a bunch of these in my maillog; > > prefork: child states: BB > prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it > > > This what I currently have set in my startup script > > command_args="-d --min-children=2 --max-childre

Re: newbie question about bayesian filter

2007-09-07 Thread maillist
Miguel wrote: Dear All, im using SA in a central system wide dedicated filter, so i dont have any account in it, the "clean" emails are forwarded to the final destination servers. In this scenario, nobody will be training SA, so, does it make sense to use the bayesian filter at all? ,or SA will

Re: unsubscribe

2007-09-07 Thread Evan Platt
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Re: Maybe I'm dense...

2007-09-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
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newbie question about bayesian filter

2007-09-07 Thread Miguel
Dear All, im using SA in a central system wide dedicated filter, so i dont have any account in it, the "clean" emails are forwarded to the final destination servers. In this scenario, nobody will be training SA, so, does it make sense to use the bayesian filter at all? ,or SA will still use the

how many children

2007-09-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm seeing a bunch of these in my maillog; prefork: child states: BB prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it This what I currently have set in my startup script command_args="-d --min-children=2 --max-children=10 --min-spare=2 --max-spare=3 --max-co

Re: eval method to add RHSBL

2007-09-07 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, ram wrote: > Usually it makes a lot of sense to do all RBL/RHSBL checks at the > MTA INCOMING!!! -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F

Re: can I specify timeouts for a specific DNS rule

2007-09-07 Thread Mark Martinec
ram, > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:36 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > No, because all the DNS tests are run together as a batch. > > (this way the lookups run in parallel) > > Besides, if completewhois is the only "slow" RBL, the timeout for it is > > going to effectively be 4 seconds anyway. (ie: if

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Edwards
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jason Haar wrote: | What if SMTP servers report a 5XX and then drop the connection? I know | that's not compliant, but a real mail server would have got the 5XX and | so (mainly) wouldn't retry, and a spammer would have their connection | terminated. In exim-speak this is "dro

Re: eval method to add RHSBL

2007-09-07 Thread Srilatha
At 06:19 PM 9/7/2007, ram wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:59 +0530, Srilatha wrote: > Hi, > > In 20_dnsbl_tests.cf file, to add a DNSBL, eval method > eval:check_rbl() / eval:check_rbl_txt() is used. > I understand that these methods are used to add specifically DNSBL zones > Am i correct ? > >

Re: can I specify timeouts for a specific DNS rule

2007-09-07 Thread ram
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:36 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > ram wrote: > > On my SA 3.2.3 servers , I want to timeout all the *.completewhois.com > > DNS lookups after 5s > > > > > > I have seen the mailqs shoot up just because of these lookups > > > > No, because all the DNS tests are run toget

Re: eval method to add RHSBL

2007-09-07 Thread ram
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:59 +0530, Srilatha wrote: > Hi, > > In 20_dnsbl_tests.cf file, to add a DNSBL, eval method > eval:check_rbl() / eval:check_rbl_txt() is used. > I understand that these methods are used to add specifically DNSBL zones > Am i correct ? > > eval:check_rbl_envfrom() is used

Re: do I need to adjust something on AWL

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Kettler
Tim Litwiller wrote: > I just got a message back that I sent to a mailing list. It came back > to me marked as Spam. So I looked at what caused it > > here is the headers > > X-Spam-ASN: AS1784 199.232.0.0/16 > X-Spam-Flag: YES > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on > u152

Re: can I specify timeouts for a specific DNS rule

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Kettler
ram wrote: > On my SA 3.2.3 servers , I want to timeout all the *.completewhois.com > DNS lookups after 5s > > > I have seen the mailqs shoot up just because of these lookups > No, because all the DNS tests are run together as a batch. (this way the lookups run in parallel) Besides, if compl

can I specify timeouts for a specific DNS rule

2007-09-07 Thread ram
On my SA 3.2.3 servers , I want to timeout all the *.completewhois.com DNS lookups after 5s I have seen the mailqs shoot up just because of these lookups Thanks Ram

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Mason
Henrik Krohns writes: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:20:21AM -0500, Jeff Chan wrote: > > Quoting Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > > > > > > > > I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have > > > >

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Matthias Haeker
Hi all probably more a sendmail Question and i googled around but may someone can give me a short input for 5xx i have $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Mail from [" $&{client_addr} "] Rejected. in my sendmail.cf does anybody know how i have to change it to 421 $#error $@ 4.2.1 $: "421 Mail from ["

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > > > > I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have > > infinite resources, they can deliver us a LOT of hurt when they wish to. > > I can think of a lot worse thin