Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-16 Thread email builder
> >> On 2/16/2012 4:54 PM, email builder wrote: > >>>>   but it's misconfigured trusted_networks and >>>>   internal_networks what causes SPF to misfire... >>>   Thank you sincerely for your help. I can only imagine that SPF >>> wo

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-16 Thread email builder
> On 2/16/2012 4:54 PM, email builder wrote: >>> but it's misconfigured trusted_networks and >>> internal_networks what causes SPF to misfire... >> Thank you sincerely for your help. I can only imagine that SPF wouldn't >> fire if I accidentally s

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-16 Thread email builder
> > On 2/15/2012 7:08 PM, email builder wrote: >> OK, but: Q: Are there any default rules as supplied by sa-update that would >> prevent SPF rules from firing? > Not that I can think of. >> >> Q: Any other ideas on how to learn what rules are actually being

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-16 Thread email builder
> >>> Q: Will some rules not fire if some condition exists based on other >>> rules? >>> >>> A: Correct.  There are plenty of rules that build on other rules.  We >>> call these >>> meta rules. >> >> Q: Are there any default rules as supplied by sa-update that would >> prevent SPF rules fr

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-15 Thread email builder
> > Q: Will some rules not fire if some condition exists based on other rules? > > A: Correct.  There are plenty of rules that build on other rules.  We call > these > meta rules. > OK, but: Q: Are there any default rules as supplied by sa-update that would prevent SPF rules from firing?

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-12 Thread email builder
>>> On 02/10, email builder wrote: >>>>   > I believe for SPF you *should* be doing the detecting at your >>>>   > MTA >>>>   > (mail server software) and inserting a header for >>>>   > spamassassin to use: >>>>

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-12 Thread email builder
  > On 02/10, email builder wrote: >> > I believe for SPF you *should* be doing the detecting at your MTA >> > (mail server software) and inserting a header for spamassassin to use: >> > Received-SPF.  (Because SPF is supposed to use the "envelope >>

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-12 Thread email builder
> On 2/10/2012 9:20 PM, email builder wrote: >> Wonder if I can delete the older one > Sure.  Worst case just run sa-update again if you delete the wrong one. OK, thank you. I'll report back if it causes any problems but I can't imagine it would. >> Hm, well is

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-12 Thread email builder
> On 2/10/2012 9:35 PM, email builder wrote: >> Hi Kevin, thank you for your reply! But I think you should send it to the >> list :) > Hi & Thanks for bringing it back to the list.  Sometimes I'm just trying > to bang out answers too quickly! >>> Y

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-10 Thread email builder
> From: Kevin A. McGrail Hi Kevin, thank you for your reply! But I think you should send it to the list :) >> Is this the right place to look to know what >> tests the server should be running? >> >> https://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html > You should look in /var/lib/spamassass

Re: SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-10 Thread email builder
Thanks a lot for your reply > Run: sa-update -D 2>&1| grep DIR > > That will output something like: > > Feb  9 12:08:49.609 [20855] dbg: generic: Perl 5.010001, PREFIX=/usr, > DEF_RULES_DIR=/usr/share/spamassassin, LOCAL_RULES_DIR=/etc/spamassassin, > LOCAL_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/spamassassin >

SPF and DKIM tests by default?

2012-02-08 Thread email builder
Hello, I have a server where I never customized any of the SA rules/tests (SA v.3.3.1).  The server does run sa-update every day.  Is this the right place to look to know what tests the server should be running? https://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html From that page, it seems that SPF

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-26 Thread email builder
> After some help on the CentOS list, I may have found the problem: > >> perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf  <=== I think that is the problem package >> >> I don't know if that version is required by the repoforge packages ... >> but base contains perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6 >> >> I would se

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-09 Thread email builder
>>>   used 'it' for YEARS in production, (commercial product,) >>> several >>>   platforms, i386, amd64, FreeBSD versions 6.4-7.4. >>> >>>   ONE DAY, ONE BRAND NEW CLIENT was having real problems with their >>> mailq.  email was backing up. >>>   Two days to figure it out, I deleted the INET6

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-09 Thread email builder
rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >>> By the way, is there a way to grep for the errant code?  My >>> feeble attempt didn't turn up much: >>> >> as in one of  my previous emails: >> >> 'locate IO-Socket-INET6' Sorry I missed that! This gives only docs: /usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Sock

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-08 Thread email builder
>> I am the ports maintainer for the FreeBSD version of SpamAssassin. >> >> used 'it' for YEARS in production, (commercial product,) several >> platforms, i386, amd64, FreeBSD versions 6.4-7.4. >> >> ONE DAY, ONE BRAND NEW CLIENT was having real problems with their mailq.  > email >> wa

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-08 Thread email builder
>> while I*DO*  appreciate your suggestion, since I am fairly confident to say >> I doubt that my config is the problem in a DNS resolver/IPv6 function >> redefinition, I'm not too interested in proving that point by making >> those >> changes on a production machine.  Again, thanks anyway.

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-07 Thread email builder
Wow, really?  Then why wouldn't RedHat or CentOS have a fixed updated version in their repo?  That seems egregious if what you say is indeed the case. >>> >>> RedHat (and CentOS, since their whole mission is to match RHEL >>> feature-for-feature and bug-for-bug) be

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-07 Thread email builder
>> Sure, but the point is that my spamassassin and per-Net-DNS (where the >> error is happening?) are up to date from the CentOS repo so shouldn't >> they work without an error when spamassassin restarts? > > It isn't the job of the SA project to worry about specific distros and > repos

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-06 Thread email builder
>>> Does spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep -i Resolver show the >>> same error? >> >> Yes > > And if you temporarily move all your config files and run the same command, > does > the error go away? Yikes, I'm reluctant to do this on a production machine.  I have only made config changes in

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-06 Thread email builder
>> Wow, really?  Then why wouldn't RedHat or CentOS have a fixed updated >> version in their repo?  That seems egregious if what you say is indeed the >> case. > > RedHat (and CentOS, since their whole mission is to match RHEL > feature-for-feature and bug-for-bug) believes that their Enterprise

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-05 Thread email builder
>>>       What is the Net::DNS version, are you pure ipv6 > and are you >> >>>   64-bit? >> >>       perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf >> > >     You are in no man's land there - the distro uses   perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5 >     and the latest rpmforge package i

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-05 Thread email builder
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65.  at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm >> >> line 66 [  OK  ] >> >> With my spamassassin, perl-Net-DNS and per-IO-Socket-INET6 >> packages all being from CentOS repo, I'm unsure why this would hap

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-05 Thread email builder
>   What is the Net::DNS version, are you pure ipv6 and are you > 64-bit?   perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf >>> >>>   You are in no man's land there - the distro uses >> perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5 >>>   and the latest rpmforge package is perl-Net-DNS-0.66-1.el5.rfx. >>> >

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-05 Thread email builder
>   What is the Net::DNS version, are you pure ipv6 and are you > 64-bit?   perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf >>> >>> You are in no man's land there - the distro uses >>> perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5 >>> and the latest rpmforge package is perl-Net-DNS-0.66-1.el5.rfx. >>> >>>

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
  What is the Net::DNS version, are you pure ipv6 and are you > 64-bit? >>> >>>   perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf >>> >> >> You are in no man's land there - the distro uses > perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5 >> and the latest rpmforge package is perl-Net-DNS-0.66-1.el5.rfx. >> >> If you're going

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
>>> What is the Net::DNS version, are you pure ipv6 and are you 64-bit? >> >> >> perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf >> > > You are in no man's land there - the distro uses perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5 > and the latest rpmforge package is perl-Net-DNS-0.66-1.el5.rfx. > > If you're going to use rpmforge

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
  What does the following show: >>   rpm -q --requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >>> >>> Oops, I meant: >>> >>> rpm -q --whatrequires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >> >> no package requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 > > Try rpm -q --whatrequires 'perl(IO::Socket::INET6)' - Perl depend

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
>> What does the following show: >> >> rpm -q --requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >> > > Oops, I meant: > > rpm -q --whatrequires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 no package requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 Woa wait a minute!  Then why this??? yum remove perl-IO-Socket-INET6 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror S

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
> I have spamassassin-3.3.2-2.el5 installed from rpmforge on el5 - that > package, > besides being more up to date than the distro version also does not require > perl-IO-Socket-INET6. I suspect your version does not really require > perl-IO-Socket-INET6 either. You may be right.  It was sugg

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-04 Thread email builder
would likely update net dns with cpan at least temporarily >to see if it fixes thinks. >Regards, >KAM > > >email builder wrote: >Anyone have any other insights?  Thanks! >> >> >>>>>   Running CentOS5 with SpamAssassin v3.3.1-2.el5 installed via yum

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-03 Thread email builder
Anyone have any other insights?  Thanks! >>>   Running CentOS5 with SpamAssassin v3.3.1-2.el5 installed via yum > >>> >>>   I remember getting this error a while ago, and it was fixed (don't >>>   remember how, but I think just by upgrading), but now it's >>>   happening again: >>> >>>   Subro

Re: sa-update / perl error again

2012-01-02 Thread email builder
>> Running CentOS5 with SpamAssassin v3.3.1-2.el5 installed via yum >> >> I remember getting this error a while ago, and it was fixed (don't >> remember how, but I think just by upgrading), but now it's >> happening again: >> >> Subroutine Net::DNS::Resolver::Base::AF_INET6 redefined at >>

sa-update / perl error again

2011-12-31 Thread email builder
Hi, Running CentOS5 with SpamAssassin v3.3.1-2.el5 installed via yum I remember getting this error a while ago, and it was fixed (don't remember how, but I think just by upgrading), but now it's happening again: Subroutine Net::DNS::Resolver::Base::AF_INET6 redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Expo

error writing to filter -- Who are you?

2008-08-03 Thread email builder
Hi, Been a while since I had to look at our mail system (a tribute to postfix/courier/spamassassin/sasl/related software), but when upgrading all our software recently, I ran into a couple issues, the 2nd one being particularly confounding (and not much turns up via a Google search, thus I thou

Re: per-user or global bayes (was: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?)

2005-11-13 Thread email builder
bump --- Michael Monnerie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My users are quite happy > > with overall markup of the spam. We occasionally get a HAM marked as > > SPAM. We have an odd client base though. > > The question is: when to use global and when per-user bayes? > > On our server, we have p

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-10 Thread email builder
> > Just a follow-up to my own brain-lapse: > > > > If you define a custom user scores query like this: > > > > user_scores_sql_custom_querySELECT preference, value FROM > > spamassassin_settings WHERE username = _USERNAME_ OR username = '!GLOBAL' > OR > > username = CONCAT('@', _DOMAIN_) ORD

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
> > Well, I know there have to be some admins out there who have a lot of > users > > and do not use sitewide bayes.. RIGHT? See original email snippet at > > bottom. > > > > > * Other ideas: > > - increase system memory as much as possible > > - per-domain Bayes instead of per-use

Re: OT: DB connections coming from unqualified hostname

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
--- email builder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When we connect to our bayes/awl/user_scores databases, the > > connections > > > are > > > > being made by clients with unqualified hostnames. If we try to use > > > GRANTs > >

Re: OT: DB connections coming from unqualified hostname

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
> > > When we connect to our bayes/awl/user_scores databases, the > connections > > are > > > being made by clients with unqualified hostnames. If we try to use > > GRANTs > > > such as 'user'@'%.example.com', connections are refused since only the > > > hostname portion is being used to connect

Re: OT: DB connections coming from unqualified hostname

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
> > When we connect to our bayes/awl/user_scores databases, the connections > are > > being made by clients with unqualified hostnames. If we try to use > GRANTs > > such as 'user'@'%.example.com', connections are refused since only the > > hostname portion is being used to connect I guess. For

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
Thanks a lot for checking, Gary! --- "Gary W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, my guy gave me the size of bayes + awl. The real number > is 14.5mb. (with an overhead of 3.2mb). > > > Not sure, that's just what phpmyadmin is reporting. I'll check again. > I can't remember if

OT: DB connections coming from unqualified hostname

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
Hello, When we connect to our bayes/awl/user_scores databases, the connections are being made by clients with unqualified hostnames. If we try to use GRANTs such as 'user'@'%.example.com', connections are refused since only the hostname portion is being used to connect I guess. For example, if

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
> > > > I guess the relevant point for this thread is that I don't necessarily > think > > that this is the silver bullet as implied. Even if you use a > > high-availability clustering technology that can mirror writes and reads, > you > > are STILL dealing with the possibility of a database that

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread email builder
>> > Our production database for a large number of emails (but using site >> > wide) is about 40mb. >> >> What is your bayes_expiry_max_db_size set to? Do you feel that it has >> been >> enough to effectively capture your various user email habits? > > Default. > How can you be running the

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread email builder
> Our production database for a large number of emails (but using site > wide) is about 40mb. What is your bayes_expiry_max_db_size set to? Do you feel that it has been enough to effectively capture your various user email habits? __ Start you

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread email builder
> > In-memory storage: > > All data stored in each data node is kept in memory on the node's > > host computer. For each data node in the cluster, you must have > > available an amount of RAM equal to the size of the database times > > the number of replicas, > > This refers to the first line: "I

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-07 Thread email builder
> Just my $0.02 but if it's in MySQL then you really don't need to expire > each one. You can write a custom script that will do this. When you > break it down, expire is really just finding those tokens that are > beyond the threshold where id=x and time=y. The resultant would be > "where time=

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-07 Thread email builder
> Well, I know there have to be some admins out there who have a lot of users > and do not use sitewide bayes.. RIGHT? See original email snippet at > bottom. > * Other ideas: > - increase system memory as much as possible > - per-domain Bayes instead of per-user??? This might be o

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-07 Thread email builder
Well, I know there have to be some admins out there who have a lot of users and do not use sitewide bayes.. RIGHT? See original email snippet at bottom. I'll start the ball rolling with what few tweaks we've made, although they are not enough; we desperately need more ideas to make this viabl

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-04 Thread email builder
> >>> As a result of this, however, we are currently burdened with an > >>> 8GB(! yep, you read it right) bayes database (more than 20K users > >>> having mail delivered). > >> > >> Consider using bayes_expiry_max_db_size in conjunction with > >> bayes_auto_expire > > > > "Using"? So you are s

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-03 Thread email builder
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > email builder wrote: > > As a result of this, however, we are currently burdened with an > > 8GB(! yep, you read it right) bayes database (more than 20K users > > having mail delivered). > > Consider using bayes_expiry_max_

HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-03 Thread email builder
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone out there hosts a large number of users with per-USER bayes (in MySQL)? Our user base is varied enough that we do not feel bayes would be effective if done site-wide. Some people like their spammy newsletters, some are geeks who would deeply resent someone train

RE: best of RBLs without the FPs

2005-09-26 Thread email builder
--- email builder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But again, since almost no legitimate email is ever > > greylisted only almost nothing DESIRABLE EVER gets > > delayed. > > So you ONLY greylist what the RBLs tell you is on their list? Maybe I need > to

RE: best of RBLs without the FPs

2005-09-26 Thread email builder
> But again, since almost no legitimate email is ever > greylisted only almost nothing DESIRABLE EVER gets > delayed. So you ONLY greylist what the RBLs tell you is on their list? Maybe I need to go back and re-read your original email, which I skimmed perhaps too lightly... because even back

RE: Hotmail on sorbs?!? (and eliminating false positives)

2005-09-26 Thread email builder
--- Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to postfix and spamassassin, but we are already > > using greylist, and I liked a lot what you said here. > > > > How can I greylist messages by means of RBL checking? How > > should I setup Postfix to do that? > > > > Regards, > > Carl

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-23 Thread email builder
> On Donnerstag, 22. September 2005 22:24 email builder wrote: > > How so? I can't believe you don't hear me when I say for the 100th > > time that services like ours that have a lot of users who expect to > > communicate with hotmail users cannot use an RBL in

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-22 Thread email builder
> goals as irrelevant as you explicitly did. I, for one, enjoy the thought > of > people working together for goals outside of their own self-interest. > > > So we circle back to the start: you apparently have a utopian user > community > that does not have any need to correspond with hotmail us

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-22 Thread email builder
> ... but who not to whitelist? > >>> > >>> the small guys. unfortunately, large ISPs like that have power in > >>> the > >>> number > >>> of users they have. in no way do I advocate defending that as a good > >>> thing, > >>> but the fact that this gives them an immense amount of power to

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-21 Thread email builder
> We removed sorbs. I don't think it's even open for debate at the > current > point. > If places like hotmail mx's end up on the blacklist you *will* > have > upset > customers. > >>> > >>> Yeah. It would be nice if there were a blacklist out there that took

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-21 Thread email builder
> >> We removed sorbs. I don't think it's even open for debate at the > >> current > >> point. > >> If places like hotmail mx's end up on the blacklist you *will* have > >> upset > >> customers. > > > > Yeah. It would be nice if there were a blacklist out there that took > > the > > best of

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-21 Thread email builder
> > Complaint from a user led me to find this in our logfile: > > > > Sep 21 09:07:07 gaia postfix/smtpd[6392]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > > bay101-f11.bay101.hotmail.com[64.4.56.21]: 554 Service unavailable; > Client > > host [64.4.56.21] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: > > ht

Re: Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-21 Thread email builder
> > Sep 21 09:07:07 gaia postfix/smtpd[6392]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > > bay101-f11.bay101.hotmail.com[64.4.56.21]: 554 Service unavailable; > Client > > host [64.4.56.21] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: > > http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?64.4.56.21; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hotmail on sorbs?!?

2005-09-21 Thread email builder
Complaint from a user led me to find this in our logfile: Sep 21 09:07:07 gaia postfix/smtpd[6392]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from bay101-f11.bay101.hotmail.com[64.4.56.21]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [64.4.56.21] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.

DNS cache size for moderatly busy sites?

2005-08-27 Thread email builder
Hello, We just migrated to Tinydns from BIND and are looking at our cache size (OK, so I am really talking about dnscache, not tinydns itself). Looking at our cache logs from the last 12 hours (2am Friday night to 2pm Saturday afternoon), I see our "cache motion" is already 75MB of data. Wow.

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc1 release candidate available!

2005-08-23 Thread email builder
bump. can anyone answer at least the questions about dcc and razor? > Exellent. This is the information I needed! Is there any chance of > getting > an updated release schedule (I checked the wiki, but the schedule info for > 3.1.0 seems out of date)? > > Might also be nice to see some pointer

RE: Help with RR DNS for spamd?

2005-08-19 Thread email builder
> > > Telnet uses the built-in resolver -- most ordinary > > applications work > > > this way. > > > > Hrm. Any tips on how to make it aware of my new "spam." subdomain? > > If a application uses a resolver (it's own or the built > in resovler) that points solely to a DNS server (set) > WITH

RE: Help with RR DNS for spamd?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
> > > You cannot depend on "first DNS" setting on a client -- most DNS > > > clients may try ANY of the one's listed -- Windows clients for > > > instance certainly work this way. > > > > OK, fair enough (although from my experience, dig always > > seems to take the first one it finds that work

RE: Help with RR DNS for spamd?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
> > I recognize this is a bit OT, but not sure where to turn...? > > > > I am trying to use DNS to load balance a couple spamd > > servers. I am attempting to return more than one A record > > for spam.mydomain.com, and I am getting a correct dig, but > > just a test telnet is returning "U

RE: BIND with "forward first" as caching DNS?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
qYEtK+MMxJUkTh49JFhGn0NEWiKgHcDmqS06AYxSsU3U+itOkbDn+2aLfIkMKzRdoPfAztHWnEMdiIQ= > ; > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from [64.171.185.165] by web51909.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, > 17 Aug 2005 16:16:02 PDT > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:16:02 -0700 (PDT) > F

Help with RR DNS for spamd?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
All, I recognize this is a bit OT, but not sure where to turn...? I am trying to use DNS to load balance a couple spamd servers. I am attempting to return more than one A record for spam.mydomain.com, and I am getting a correct dig, but just a test telnet is returning "Unknown host". What

RE: BIND with "forward first" as caching DNS?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
--- Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm no DNS expert, so am wondering if I am shooting myself > > in the foot by having "forwarders" set up in my BIND config > > file, especially with "forward > > first": > > > Where xxx and yyy are the DNS servers for my colo provider >

BIND with "forward first" as caching DNS?

2005-08-17 Thread email builder
Hello, I'm no DNS expert, so am wondering if I am shooting myself in the foot by having "forwarders" set up in my BIND config file, especially with "forward first": options { directory "/var/named"; forward first; forwarders { xxx.xxx.x.x

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc1 release candidate available!

2005-08-15 Thread email builder
Exellent. This is the information I needed! Is there any chance of getting an updated release schedule (I checked the wiki, but the schedule info for 3.1.0 seems out of date)? Might also be nice to see some pointers in the docs about how to reenable the DCC and Razor plugins for those of us who

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc1 release candidate available!

2005-08-13 Thread email builder
> SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc1 is released! SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a major update. Very exciting! > - - Apache preforking algorithm adopted; number of spamd child processes is > now > scaled, according to demand. This provides better VM behaviour when not > under peak load. I presume this is acti

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-10 Thread email builder
Bump. :) Gary, please share how you do this! Thanks! > > > How do you (make and) balance the calls to the AV servers? How do you > > > (make > > > and) balance the calls to the spamd machines? I am very interested in > > > these > > > details! > > > > We just call them in order case on the c

Re: Manual bayes expiration in MySQL database

2005-08-10 Thread email builder
> >> Don't expire things manually. > >> > >> > > > > 1. Why not? > > > > 2. On a Bayes SQL setup with multiple servers feeding/reading the db, > > should one server be responsible for expiration or should each > > opportunistically take care of it? > > > > > I'll be more specific, don't expire thin

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-03 Thread email builder
> > > > How do you (make and) balance the calls to the AV servers? How do you > > (make > > and) balance the calls to the spamd machines? I am very interested in > > these > > details! > > We just call them in order case on the connection line. On two of the 4 > SMTP gateways we use node 1 as

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-02 Thread email builder
out there or a combination of several?? Do you run DCC in your SA environment? If so, you are over their recommended limit for hosting a DCC server (we are nearing it - 100K a day I think). Do you run a DCC server for yourself? Any issues to be aware of? Thanks a TON!! > > >

Re: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-02 Thread email builder
--- Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, email builder wrote: > > > Technically, this should be feasible with just plain DNS load balancing, > but > > in our current medium/low budget scenario, we don't have the rackspace to

Re: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-02 Thread email builder
--- Jason Frisvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/05, email builder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even if I had forgotten the -A, I think I would have been seeing > connection > > refused notices, but right now, it just seems to time out. I'm pretty >

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-01 Thread email builder
would have been seeing connection refused notices, but right now, it just seems to time out. I'm pretty sure this is a LVS question more than a spamc/d question, since I've no problems with the latter -- I am only asking here to see if anyone else does SA weighted load balancing.

Load balancing spamd

2005-08-01 Thread email builder
Hi, I am looking for advice on how to load balance spamd servers. I (think I) understand that the -d option used with -H for spamc will randomize multiple addresses from a DNS lookup of the given hostname (and still include failover support???). However, I am wanting to do weighted load bala

Re: DNS failing... why? (works fine on cmd line)

2005-07-24 Thread email builder
newest (0.53) and the problem has gone away.   Thanks everyone! email builder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a new spamd instance I am trying to start up on a server that sitsbehind another firewall (linux) machine (which I *think* is irrelevant, butthat's the only different thing fro

DNS failing... why? (works fine on cmd line)

2005-07-19 Thread email builder
I have a new spamd instance I am trying to start up on a server that sits behind another firewall (linux) machine (which I *think* is irrelevant, but that's the only different thing from our other setups that work fine) that is somehow missing DNS connections: '

Help debugging spamc/spamd

2005-07-11 Thread email builder
Hi, We recently changed some of our network topology so that we are temporarily connecting with spamc to spamd over a regular external network connection (we usually keep it inside our LAN, but this is a temporary thing... don't ask). Unfortunately, spamd stops (mostly) responding it seems.

Re: Net::DNS problem?

2005-06-21 Thread email builder
All, I also ran into this problem: > 0.51 has already been released that addresses the overlooked debug > statement (http://www.net-dns.org/).I still get failures in > the "11-escapedchars.t" test under Solaris-8/Perl-5.8.6 though. I contacted the author and he said it's fixed in SVN: "I f

Re: What is a caching name server?

2005-05-20 Thread email builder
> > in several posts I have noticed people refer to a "caching nameserver". > > What exactly is that? Would BIND 9.3.1 qualify? Any advice would be > > greatly appreciated. > yes Bind will become a caching only name server if you don;t have any > local zone files to lookup. Basically think of i

Re: multiple hosts for spamc -d ?

2005-03-09 Thread email builder
> >>> Some postings a while back led me to believe that I could specify > >>> multiple hosts for the -d option of spamc. I understood that it > >>> would operate basically on a fallback basis (not load balancing). > >>> However, I can't seem to get spamc to use more than one of the -d > >>> listin

Re: multiple hosts for spamc -d ?

2005-03-09 Thread email builder
> > Some postings a while back led me to believe that I could specify > multiple > > hosts for the -d option of spamc. I understood that it would operate > > basically on a fallback basis (not load balancing). However, I can't > seem to > > get spamc to use more than one of the -d listings. I'

multiple hosts for spamc -d ?

2005-03-09 Thread email builder
All, Some postings a while back led me to believe that I could specify multiple hosts for the -d option of spamc. I understood that it would operate basically on a fallback basis (not load balancing). However, I can't seem to get spamc to use more than one of the -d listings. I've tried: /us

sql-based global use_auto_whitelist error?

2005-03-09 Thread email builder
Hi, I have a global setting in my SQL-based userprefs for use_auto_whitelist. I am noticing that spamd -D shows these messages about it, which confuse me: debug: retrieving prefs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from SQL server debug: config: not parsing, administrator setting: use_auto_whitelist 1 deb

Re: sa-learn for per-user sql bayes

2005-03-08 Thread email builder
> > I'm looking for how to tell sa-learn to learn against a per-user Bayes > > database (in MySQL) instead of learning sitewide. > > > As in manually training the database? > > sa-learn -u username Can anyone tell me how to verify that a message was learnt correctly for the right user? Runni

Re: sa-learn for per-user sql bayes

2005-03-08 Thread email builder
> > I'm looking for how to tell sa-learn to learn against a per-user Bayes > > database (in MySQL) instead of learning sitewide. > > > As in manually training the database? > > sa-learn -u username I don't know... as long as this will do the same thing spamd does with the username to work agai

sa-learn for per-user sql bayes

2005-03-08 Thread email builder
Hi, I'm looking for how to tell sa-learn to learn against a per-user Bayes database (in MySQL) instead of learning sitewide. I swear I saw this was going to be in 3.0.2; some kind of change to sa-learn... but a couple hours searching around didn't turn up anything helpful. If I missed someth

Re: spamd still burning CPU in 3.0.1

2005-01-04 Thread email builder
All, > email builder wrote: > > > > >How much email are you processing ? > > > > Well, just the other day we had an average of 48 msgs/min (max 255/min) > > get run through SA. Can't say today yet because can't run our stats > > tools unt

Re: [OT] Making two machines talk to one another

2004-12-22 Thread email builder
> > I am attempting to offload SA to a machine that is not my main MX > server. > > I have two machines, two NIC cards and a crossover cable, but after that > I > > get very lost. I believe there should be a way to make them aware of one > > another using this direct connection w/out the need fo

[OT] Making two machines talk to one another

2004-12-21 Thread email builder
Hello, I am attempting to offload SA to a machine that is not my main MX server. I have two machines, two NIC cards and a crossover cable, but after that I get very lost. I believe there should be a way to make them aware of one another using this direct connection w/out the need for DHCP or a

Re: make test error installing Net::Ident

2004-11-28 Thread email builder
> a question that Google nor any list I can find will answer... trying to > install perl module Net::Ident, I get make test errors as follows. I'd > really appreciate any tips. I've no idea why this is happening (Fedora > Core 1): > > # perl -MCPAN -e'CPAN::Shell->install("Net::Ident")' >

make test error installing Net::Ident

2004-11-27 Thread email builder
All, I understand this may be the wrong place to ask a perl question, but I have a question that Google nor any list I can find will answer... trying to install perl module Net::Ident, I get make test errors as follows. I'd really appreciate any tips. I've no idea why this is happening (Fedor

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