Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 9:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 8/18/2010 6:14 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false positives when you send email.

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/18/2010 6:14 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false positives when you send email. If you want to reduce spam however you could ad

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false positives when you send email. If you want to reduce spam however you could add this MX record as your highest numbered MX

Re: abuse/postmaster lists at RFC-Ignorant.org

2010-08-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please do NOT reply to an unrelated message, if you actually intend to start a new thread. In-Reply-To and References headers make your post appear as a reply to another post. You just hi-jacked a thread. On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 01:21 +0100, s...@yacc.co.uk wrote: > A release or two ago, default inc

abuse/postmaster lists at RFC-Ignorant.org

2010-08-18 Thread si
Guys, A release or two ago, default inclusion of Postmaster and Abuse lists at RFC-Ignorant.org were turned off (some will say for good reason). What is easiest way to turn them back on again? Thanks Mup.

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> On the other hand, back to topic, Barracuda rejecting for mail originating > on a dialup line is just crazy. We've seen it too. And it has been mentioned here, and in other places on the net, before. Yes, indeed, there appears to be an issue with Barracuda appliances' configuration in "certain

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false > positives when you send email. > > If you want to reduce spam however you could add this MX record as your > highest numbered MX. > > tarbaby. [...] Ahem. Marc, your i

Re: anyone running SA on Freebsd 8.0?

2010-08-18 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have it working here: 8.0-STABLE 8.1-RELEASE-p0 8.0-RELEASE-p3 9-CURRENT previously: 7-STABLE as well both at $work and on mx1.(eu|us).apache.org I don't use default OPTIONS but all I run is make install. It even works with pkg_add afte

Re: anyone running SA on Freebsd 8.0?

2010-08-18 Thread RW
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:46:02 -0400 Michael Scheidell wrote: > > On 8/18/10 4:44 PM, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: > > > > Yes, was at 8.0 p2 when I installed it I believe, and worked > > without probs. (with perl 5.10.1) > > > Thanks. > You might not want to go to 8.0 p4 until the problem is figured

Re: anyone running SA on Freebsd 8.0?

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 8/18/10 4:44 PM, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Yes, was at 8.0 p2 when I installed it I believe, and worked without probs. (with perl 5.10.1) Thanks. You might not want to go to 8.0 p4 until the problem is figured out. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO o: 561-999-5000 d: 561-948-2259 ISN: 1259*1300

Re: anyone running SA on Freebsd 8.0?

2010-08-18 Thread a . smith
Quoting Michael Scheidell : Had a report from a user who installed SA 3.3.1 from freebsd ports with perl 5.10.1 on a Freebsd AMD64 build, Freebsd 8.0, p4 and he noted that the binaries never got installed. said he default install does a 'make pure_site_install', and he wasn't able to get it

anyone running SA on Freebsd 8.0?

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Had a report from a user who installed SA 3.3.1 from freebsd ports with perl 5.10.1 on a Freebsd AMD64 build, Freebsd 8.0, p4 and he noted that the binaries never got installed. said he default install does a 'make pure_site_install', and he wasn't able to get it to work without 'make pure_perl_

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Sergios T.S. ( aka linuxman)
στις 18/08/2010 10:38 μμ, O/H Marc Perkel έγραψε: On 8/18/2010 12:29 PM, Sergios T.S. ( aka linuxman) wrote: στις 18/08/2010 10:03 μμ, O/H Matt έγραψε: By the way I'm not a big fan of registering my servers to any private entity in order to improve "deliverability". Register our servers here

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 12:29 PM, Sergios T.S. ( aka linuxman) wrote: στις 18/08/2010 10:03 μμ, O/H Matt έγραψε: By the way I'm not a big fan of registering my servers to any private entity in order to improve "deliverability". Register our servers here: www.dnswl.org Do not really use it for scoring b

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Sergios T.S. ( aka linuxman)
στις 18/08/2010 10:03 μμ, O/H Matt έγραψε: By the way I'm not a big fan of registering my servers to any private entity in order to improve "deliverability". Register our servers here: www.dnswl.org Do not really use it for scoring but do not grey list any servers listed. Matt Hi ,

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Matt
> By the way I'm not a big fan of registering my servers to any private > entity in order to improve "deliverability". Register our servers here: www.dnswl.org Do not really use it for scoring but do not grey list any servers listed. Matt

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 11:27 -0700, Marc Perkel a écrit : > > On 8/18/2010 7:53 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > >> When other well known DNSBL (I have always heard spamhaus sbl and xbl > >> are trust worthy) list less at most 50 entries , barrcuda lists > >> almost 8

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 7:53 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: Alexandre Chapellon wrote: When other well known DNSBL (I have always heard spamhaus sbl and xbl are trust worthy) list less at most 50 entries , barrcuda lists almost 8000 That's not a problem all by itself, but when combined with this: Finally

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 4:10 AM, corpus.defero wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 06:36 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 8/17/10 7:30 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Hi the list, I am posting the results of my tests in order to have fedback/feelings/remarqs. This is not directly spamassassin related, but ca

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 12:10 +0100, corpus.defero a écrit : > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 06:36 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > On 8/17/10 7:30 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > > > Hi the list, > > > > > > I am posting the results of my tests in order to have > > > fedback/feelings/remarqs. >

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 13:39 -0400, Joseph Brennan a écrit : > The error message from Barracuda is broken too. Sample: > > > > ... while talking to barracuda.xprize.org.: > DATA > > <<< 554 Service unavailable; Client host [tarap.cc.columbia.edu] blocked > > using Barracuda Reputation;

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 06:36 -0400, Michael Scheidell a écrit : > On 8/17/10 7:30 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > > Hi the list, > > > > I am posting the results of my tests in order to have > > fedback/feelings/remarqs. > > This is not directly spamassassin related, but can be helpful for >

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
The error message from Barracuda is broken too. Sample: ... while talking to barracuda.xprize.org.: DATA <<< 554 Service unavailable; Client host [tarap.cc.columbia.edu] blocked using Barracuda Reputation; http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/?r=1&ip=69.86.203.182 554 5.0.0 Service u

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 10:53 -0400, Kris Deugau a écrit : > Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > > When other well known DNSBL (I have always heard spamhaus sbl and xbl > > are trust worthy) list less at most 50 entries , barrcuda lists almost > > 8000 > > That's not a problem all by itself, bu

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
Matt wrote: Perhaps for authenticated SMTP not record the IP address in the headers but rather just the authenticated username in the headers. I think Squirrelmail does that. Your MTA logs will have the IP recorded if needed later. From the browser to Squirrelmail is not SMTP. Gmail is

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > Finally there is a special feature that barrcuda folks call "deep scanning" > > which makes the appliance scans the 'Received' headers and reject the mails > > if an IP found in that headers, is listed in the DNSBL... a feature that > > should obviously be called: 'even increase my false positi

Re: IP blacklists via Rsync

2010-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.08.10 16:47, Andrea Gelmini wrote: > Hi all, >thanks a lot for the wonderful SpamAssassin. > >I'm trying to keep update Wikipedia page about DNS blacklists, also > adding info about blacklists data available via Rsync, for free. >I wrote about UceProtect¹ and Surriel. >I'm ch

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Matt
> Finally there is a special feature that barrcuda folks call "deep scanning" > which makes the appliance scans the 'Received' headers and reject the mails > if an IP found in that headers, is listed in the DNSBL... a feature that > should obviously be called: 'even increase my false positive rate'

Re: Installing spamd as a Windows service

2010-08-18 Thread Emin Akbulut
Simply schedule a batch file in 5 min. intervals -Windows Server 2008 minimum interval is 5 minute- It's not high cpu or memory consuming process. You also need freeware *cryping* utility. I use MailEnable as MTA, you may ignore it. Script produces 2 files: check.log & error.log I also test SA scor

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Deugau
Alexandre Chapellon wrote: When other well known DNSBL (I have always heard spamhaus sbl and xbl are trust worthy) list less at most 50 entries , barrcuda lists almost 8000 That's not a problem all by itself, but when combined with this: Finally there is a special feature that barrcuda fo

IP blacklists via Rsync

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Gelmini
Hi all, thanks a lot for the wonderful SpamAssassin. I'm trying to keep update Wikipedia page about DNS blacklists, also adding info about blacklists data available via Rsync, for free. I wrote about UceProtect¹ and Surriel. I'm checking all of them, but probably you can already point

Re: Installing spamd as a Windows service

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry M
Thank you so much for the info.  Yes.  the monitoring script would be great as well. Thanks.again. Jerry On 8/18/2010 12:53 AM, Emin Akbulut wrote: Wow, the messages look like rocket science : ) Jerry, I'm happy tha

Re: two SA folders and sa-updates

2010-08-18 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 2010-08-18 14:05, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: /etc/mail/spamassassin/sare-sa-update-channels.txt BE sareful about SARE rules. They are often obsolete, have false positives and meny of them are already incorporated in stock SA, and some have better alternatives (uri blacklist vs. hardcode

Re: two SA folders and sa-updates

2010-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.08.10 10:06, Mark Chaney wrote: > I found out the above when trying to use the following howto for SARE > rule updates: http://www.topdog.za.net/configure_spamassassin. > > # > r...@warpath:~# sa-update --import GPG.KEY > gpg: keyblock resource `/etc/

Re: Spamassassin and no whitelisting

2010-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 14:31 +0200, Josef Karliak wrote: > > It is needed to run sa-update after every editing of the local.cf > > or whitelist file? On 17.08.10 13:46, Martin Gregorie wrote: > No. they are something different. However after editing config files (or sa-update if it updates

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread corpus.defero
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 06:36 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 8/17/10 7:30 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > > Hi the list, > > > > I am posting the results of my tests in order to have > > fedback/feelings/remarqs. > > This is not directly spamassassin related, but can be helpful for > > peopl

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 8/17/10 7:30 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Hi the list, I am posting the results of my tests in order to have fedback/feelings/remarqs. This is not directly spamassassin related, but can be helpful for people (I saw here) wondering if they would used the barracuda DNSBL. When other well

Re: Installing spamd as a Windows service

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel Lemke
Just to clarify some things: Jerry M wrote: > > I'm really surprised that there is so little info or support for > installing spamd a service. > The reason, it is not mentioned in the official SpamAssassin docs or Wiki is because SpamD is not supported for Windows. There are projects like Sa

Calling SpamAssassin parse function from perl program

2010-08-18 Thread Sabiha Fathima
Hi All, Am calling the parse function of SpamAssassin module. Am passing the html message along with all the message headers. The program returns the same input for all the messages, though the message data and the message headers contain spammy content. Please let me know if there are any change