Re: [Assp-user] assp, the end

2016-06-17 Thread Andrew Porter
Sounds like your problems are elsewhere. I've never had to reconfirm my subscription, never had any complaints about the help people here give - out of their own good will - and I've ran multiple ASSP instances for donkeys years now without any but minor concerns. At least no one tied you

Re: [Assp-user] Mail from internal domain

2016-03-22 Thread Andrew Porter
On 22/03/16 11:55, Giuseppe Maglie wrote: > Hi, > > I receive spamming from internal domain users like my address because the > domain is in whitelist: I removed my domain from whitelist but after some > minutes it come back in whitelist. > > How I can block these mails ? > You need to tell assp

Re: [Assp-user] bad attachment [...] possibly a virus infected file (can't extract archive)'

2016-03-22 Thread Andrew Porter
On 22/03/16 11:29, Thomas Eckardt wrote: > Fine - as I told you, this was a very simple stupid mistake - I must > have been somehow mentally deranged. Hey - you don't have to be mentally deranged to work around here But it sure helps ;) :p

Re: [Assp-user] SSL Failing

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Porter
Any suggestions on this ? It seems to be a repeatable denial of service - 10 of these 2016-03-17 19:45:09 [Worker_2] Error: Worker_2 accept to client failed IO::Socket::SSL=GLOB(0x7fe491215f20) (timeout: 5 s) : SSL wants a read first results in 2016-03-17 19:45:27 [Main_Thread] Error: got at

Re: [Assp-user] SSL Failing

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Porter
On 18/03/16 08:22, Thomas Eckardt wrote: > > This is your problem! Run assp with root permission or use listeners above > port 1024. I thought running it as a non-root daemon was the right thing to do :) I've changed it to run as root and will keep an eye on things. Will it still do the 130

Re: [Assp-user] SSL Failing

2016-03-18 Thread Andrew Porter
On 18/03/16 09:47, Thomas Eckardt wrote: >> I thought running it as a non-root daemon was the right thing to do :) > Do I use linux or you ? You should know the OS you use! > creating listeners on port 1-1024 are resticted to root per default - so > you have three option > > - use listeners above

[Assp-user] SSL Failing

2016-03-16 Thread Andrew Porter
Am getting frequent occasions where SSL connections stop working - it seems to be associated with the following in the logs. After this occurs SSL is no longer listening - regardless of the length of time after this occurs. There's no mention of SSL in the logs after this until a restart of

[Assp-user] Features

2012-09-21 Thread Andrew Porter
Forgive me for not knowing whether this can be done but I've not really touched my ASSP installs in a while (aside from upgrading them). I'm wondering if it is possible to do the following in ASSP today... 1) Redirect the SMTP destination based on sender or recipient (i.e. deliver or copy all

Re: [Assp-user] Features

2012-09-21 Thread Andrew Porter
the same customer doesn't just use their own mail server but that's a whole other story). This wouldn't be possible using IP tables because the destination mail server is dependent on the sender not the recipient - nothing specific in the TCP data. -- Andrew Porter Tel: 07766 667788

Re: [Assp-user] Antwort: Features

2012-09-21 Thread Andrew Porter
in Ironport - which is currently being looked into being replaced. -- Andrew Porter Tel: 07766 667788 www.plingit.co.uk -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your

Re: [Assp-user] Outbound Email Filter

2010-10-11 Thread Andrew Porter
On 11/10/10 14:30, Mike O'Connor wrote: The big guys use expensive software/hardware to protect there mail servers from these issues, ASSP does not help with this use case (at least all my reading and testing shows it does not) and I've not been able to find anything open source to handle this

Re: [Assp-user] Private domain suffix

2010-08-05 Thread Andrew Porter
I always set my local domains up as lan.example.com, with nameserver views to prevent anyone external ever knowing about the sub-domain. -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development

Re: [Assp-user] how to handle secondary MXes?

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew Porter
Greybear wrote: I have a setup that contains an exchange 2003, an ASSP box in front of it and a secondary mailserver at our ISP. Unless you are going to expect significant lengthy down time I don't bother with a secondary at all. All servers should be storing and forwarding so any attempts

Re: [Assp-user] So Long My ASSP Friends

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Porter
Alex Davidson wrote: Time will tell if Postini is as good as ASSP - I suspect not - but bigger picture for me was doing away with my mail system overhead, allowing me to be more productive in other areas. If your mail system is an overhead and taking time from you, you must be doing

Re: [Assp-user] Sanesecurity is back !

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Porter
GrayHat wrote: No issue; rsync is working w/o problems; just ensure to allow port 873/tcp outbound on your firewall; if that doesn't work either, then you may have been banned; if so, wait at least one hour before retrying to download the signatures and btw DO NOT schedule the update too

Re: [Assp-user] Mailhop Backup MX?

2008-10-02 Thread Andrew Porter
Melvin wrote: ... BIG SNIP ... Just when I was sure I'd finally found the perfect place to put my skills to use. :) I regularly explain the realities of the computer world to my users, whatever their level of expertise. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it always makes for

Re: [Assp-user] Bayesian Spam still passing through

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Porter
Waseem Sindhu wrote: What should i do to discard those Bayesian spam messages and why is going through? X-Assp-Bayes-Confidence: 0.0 baysConfidence = 0.001 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

Re: [Assp-user] Validate local recipients

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Porter
Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the accepted method for invalid recipient handling? I assume to prevent someone from using error checking to validate local users, there must be something better then returning a 5xx error code? Anyone brute forcing like that would have been penalty blocked

Re: [Assp-user] Validate local recipients

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Porter
Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: Only if they brute-force is fast succession - which is insanely dumb to do. And this is were automation can be brilliant. There are lots of IP addresses to scan. There is no need to make all your efforts against a single IP at a time. If you revolve them, you

Re: [Assp-user] Validate local recipients

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Porter
Joseph L. Casale wrote: So how does one handle this scenario? I am hoping to prevent the barrage of bogus emails from ever getting to my destination server. How does one send all email not destined to a maintained list silently to /dev/null :) You don't - you reject it like you are

Re: [Assp-user] ASSP 1.0.9

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Porter
Chris Smith wrote: The cron entry is: # Rebuild the ASSP spam database at 03:00 every day # 0 3 * * * cd /usr/local/assp; /usr/bin/perl ./rebuildspamdb.pl # 0 3 * * * cd /usr/local/assp; /usr/bin/perl ./rebuildspamdb.pl | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otherwise cron will email it to the user

Re: [Assp-user] OT Bottom posting context replies

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Porter
Fritz Borgstedt wrote: Outlookers, as I call them I think, you are right to call them names )).The only reason for such behaviour was Outlook which did it by default. Period. Now you can read amazing explanations of something which cannot be reasonable explained. Really amazing

Re: [Assp-user] OT Bottom posting context replies

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Porter
Hill, Brett wrote: No one was saying that everyone used it, or even SHOULD use it (I wish they would, but thats irrelevant) An official standard would be nice. I just don't forsee it anytime soon. -- is an official standard.

Re: [Assp-user] MP3 spam flood approaching

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Porter
GrayHat wrote: According to the following sources http://www.gfi.com/news/en/mp3spam.htm http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201466/pump-dump-spammers-tell-users http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/10/mp3_version_of_pumpanddump_sto.html

Re: [Assp-user] Refused Connections

2007-10-07 Thread Andrew Porter
Norbert Doeberlein wrote: So ASSP utilizes the SMTP server for helo, mailfrom, and mailto? ASSP utilised the SMTP for server for all the SMTP conversation - it just snoops and interrupts when it see something it wants to block. It's a PROXY - it just intermediates - it doesn't take over

Re: [Assp-user] Auto-balancing of collection frequency?

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Porter
Charles Marcus wrote: Or this: The relation between collected Spam and Ham wordpairs is called the \'Norm\'(Normality). Ideally you want to keep the Norm as close to \'1,0\' as possible - which means an equal number of ham to spam wordpairs - but

Re: [Assp-user] Listening on more ports and properly implementing SSL

2007-09-22 Thread Andrew Porter
David wrote: I'm looking into the possibility of getting ASSP to listen on more ports. Is it possible and feasible to use IPTables to get another port, like 2525, to forward internally to port 25/26 that ASSP listens on? Yes - I do this for the very same reasons you describe. It's a pretty

Re: [Assp-user] Bayesian spam messages are still received

2007-09-22 Thread Andrew Porter
M. Waseem Sindhu wrote: Okay. I set it to '0.00500'. Can't set to 0 due to some testing. Bellow is a message tagged as [SPAM] with following headers... X-Assp-Received-RBL: pass X-Assp-Received-URIBL: pass X-Assp-Bayes-Confidence: 0.0 Confidence is 0 so the email

[Assp-user] Tuning Bayesian

2007-09-12 Thread Andrew Porter
Due to the nature our setup here I have 250 users that receive email forwarded from other accounts on external mail servers. The only anti-spam processing I can apply to these emails here is content based. Whilst using URIBL and Clamd with Sane Security sigs catches a lot of SPAM it falls

Re: [Assp-user] Version 1.3.3.3 crashes on linux

2007-09-11 Thread Andrew Porter
When reporting to the email interface I get - Undefined subroutine main::matchIP called at bin/assp.pl line 7718. There are two references to matchIP but I couldn't see it defined anywhere. - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Assp-user] Virus filtering

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Porter
Greg Wright wrote: Hi all. Is ASSP with ClamAV integrated good enough to protect a domain (with no local administrator) from virus threats? On a windows network I would suggest always using a desktop filter also. I use Sophos (and am a Sophos reseller if you need a licence ;) ) and

Re: [Assp-user] Fritz hospitalized

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Porter
Yes - get well soon Fritz! Anyone interested in a collection to send him something to cheer himself up with ? - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and

Re: [Assp-user] localDomains list keeps reverting to old version

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Porter
ag wrote: Hello, I've been running Assp 1.2.6 for a while now, and have run into a strange issue. Every couple of days, I get complaints from my users stating that email to their domains is bouncing with a 'Relaying not allowed' error. I look at the localDomains entry in the assp.cfg,

Re: [Assp-user] clamd signatures

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew Porter
Ethan Albone wrote: What do you think to integrate this on clamd assp ? http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/index.htm I've been using them for a while now and almost two thirds of all my SPAM is caught by these sigs. -

Re: [Assp-user] another bombarded server

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Porter
Ethan Albone wrote: I have this list too , if you read carefully my email you understand the problem is another. These email were all rejected due to invalid address. The problem starts when you receive 10 email seconds to [EMAIL PROTECTED] always using always a new ip . It overloads

Re: [Assp-user] another bombarded server

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Porter
Charles Marcus wrote: Andrew Porter wrote: Ethan Albone wrote: I have this list too , if you read carefully my email you understand the problem is another. These email were all rejected due to invalid address. The problem starts when you receive 10 email seconds to [EMAIL PROTECTED] always

Re: [Assp-user] Max SMTP connections

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:34 -0500, Internet Chicago Staff wrote: I've got no maximum set, but the service continues to reject new connections to the point that I have to restart it to start getting messages again Have you tried setting STMP Idle Timeout to something sensible ? I used to get

Re: [Assp-user] Check Content Only RegEx

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Porter
Kevin wrote: Wait a sec. I thought you said you had a Blackberry Server? Are you using the desktop redirector? No - I host Blackberrys for people that cannot for whatever reason host them themselves. They either do a forward to my mail server or I collect for them via pop3/imap etc..

Re: [Assp-user] Check Content Only RegEx

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:49 -0700, Kevin wrote: Why not use the 'Unprocessed Addresses' field? They whine if they receive SPAM on their blackberrys. I do tell them that it's /their/ SPAM that they have forwarded to me but it's still seen as my problem to stop it. I also have other hosted

Re: [Assp-user] Check Content Only RegEx

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:15 -0700, Kevin wrote: If you know the IP it is forwarded from I believe you can add it to the 'ISP/Secondary MX Servers' field. Problem is I have 180 Blackberry users and collecting all their IP addresses would be arduous - and some forward on via their ISPs

Re: [Assp-user] Check Content Only RegEx

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Porter
Fritz Borgstedt wrote: Please try the latest built . Have just updated and it seems to be working as advertised now :) Mar-14-07 19:30:15 id-39006156 198.17.114.39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regex:ContentonlyRe Thanks Fritz :)

Re: [Assp-user] Still on target for 1.3.0 release on the 1st?

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:30 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: I'm a Debian user. I have been looking around for something to package for Debian, and I think ASSP fits that very well. I had thought about doing this independently, but if the project can use what I do, I have no problems in

Re: [Assp-user] SMTP Greeting delaying

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Porter
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:16 -0800, Kevin wrote: How did that answer his questions? What are you - the answers police ? For your information there is often some misunderstanding of what the ASSP sleep did (as it is now gone). As I explained - other anti-spam systems do more than just

Re: [Assp-user] SMTP Greeting delaying

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 03:23 -0800, Kevin wrote: Thats like him asking how to start the car and you telling him how the engine works, it's good information but it doesn't help him. And that needed pointing out for what reasons ? Perhaps now that he knows a little more about how starting the

Re: [Assp-user] [Fwd: stunnel for SSL to web admin interface]

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:28 +0100, Gregor Reich wrote: This is a simple and properly working solution. But our clients won't think good about us and the product if we give them this kind of login procedure. They are used to type in the URL (at most we can let them type https) and the the

Re: [Assp-user] SMTP Greeting delaying

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Porter
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:55 +0100, Matti Haack wrote: Hello, there was a option to add a wait time before the SMTP-Greeting is send. Is this value still uesed in the last builds of ASSP? Which is the name of the var in the config? All this did was sleep before sending the greeting. One

Re: [Assp-user] Stopping PayPal phishing email

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 09:28 -0500, Robert Temple wrote: ASSP is doing a great job for my servers, but I've noticed Paypal phishing email keeps getting through. The Sane Security Virus Signatures are stopping these for me - had loads today. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Assp-user] [Fwd: stunnel for SSL to web admin interface]

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:05 +0100, Gregor Reich wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks for your reply. My assp only listens on localhost for the web interface. When I need access I just use ssh to tunnel to it - ssh -L :localhost:5 myserver and access it with http://localhost: in

Re: [Assp-user] asspnotspam and two domains....

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 06:12 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: In 'Validate Local Addresses' I have set 'Local Addresses' to 'file:LocalAddresses.txt' which also contains 2 lines - '@domain1.tld','@domain2.tld' Hopefully you are planning on populating this file with all of your valid

Re: [Assp-user] [Fwd: stunnel for SSL to web admin interface]

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:01 +0100, Gregor Reich wrote: I just want to ask again if somebody has a solution: (are you really using it via normal http?) I'm confused as to why you are running assp in the tunnel command line. Shouldn't you have assp running full time and just be tunnelling to

Re: [Assp-user] Assp automated reply?

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew Porter
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:41 +0100, Philippe Schelté wrote: I'm not sure but ASSP seems to do it; please look to my post Fetchmail backwards again ... That's fetchmail raising bounces - you can tell it not to. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Assp-user] DNS Blacklist database

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 05:51 -0800, Dave Emory wrote: The file is indeed empty. Where does the file content come from? If it's manual, what should be put in the file? There used to be a DNS Blacklist that you could download (getdnsbl script iirc - wget -q --timestamping

Re: [Assp-user] Assp automated reply?

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:29 -0500, Dickie Bradford wrote: I have seen where a address is marked as spam (or potential spammer) and the mail program will send a email back to the sender to verify if the sender is legitimate, does ASSP have this ability? I hope not - it's never a good thing