Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-27 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: The spamd.alloweddomains method is useful Hi, Peter. Where can i find more information about spamd.alloweddomains? It doesn't appear in spamd(8) (OpenBSD 4.2 -release, i386). Thanks very much.

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-27 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Zhang Huangbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can i find more information about spamd.alloweddomains? It doesn't appear in spamd(8) (OpenBSD 4.2 -release, i386). It should, in the GREYTRAPPING section (page down a few screenfuls) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-26 Thread OpenBSD - Wire Consulting
Aaron Martinez wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on white listing freemail hosts like hotmail and yahoo? I know that people do spam somewhat from these places, but I thought it was mainly from people forging the domains and I do get a lot of valid email that is not getting though. I also

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-02-26, OpenBSD - Wire Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freemail hosts like yahoo, hotmail and google have a huge number of servers which are used to send the email coming from this domains. The problem I found some time ago, was that the retries didn't come always from the same

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-26 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 2/26/08, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imo this problem is less likely to be seen on a very large mail system, since enough mail is going through that most of the common-queue pool is likely to stay whitelisted by spamlogd, but I think it can sometimes be a problem on

spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron Martinez
I've got spamd up and running in the default greylisting mode on a 4.2 stable system. Things seem to be working great, however I've noticed that some freemail like yahoo and hotmail stuff isn't getting through. Valid mail that i'm sending from my yahoo and hotmail accounts to my home

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-25 Thread Calomel
Aaron, White listing or blacklisting is up to you. If you are using another person's blacklist then you must accept their methods or decisions. Try using spamd to weed out mail servers and perhaps manually white list servers who you want to trust. Then setup your own blacklist with your own

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Aaron Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking through my daemon log and found some of the (BLACK) instances of the mail I was sending from my yahoo account to valid addresses on my OpenBSD box. (BLACK) 69.147.97.90: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLACK entries usually show

Re: spamd and freemail hosts

2008-02-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Calomel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about setting up greytrapping with spamd.alloweddomains file? The spamd.alloweddomains method is useful, as long as you can be sure you /never/ use subdomains of the domains listed or hostnames for valid mail. Fortunately, greytrapping does not depend