On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>
> [ Sorry for the delay, I was (and still am) rebuilding everything with
> pthread on my desktop. ]
>
Not a problem!! I got a late start today and have
other-stuff to do before evening... .
>
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:30 -0800
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> [..]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd be grateful for some tips on how to get dspam up. I
> > installed it after reading your mail; then I waded into the
> > long README and felt nearly overwhelmed.
>
> Yeh, I know. I will hopefully rewrite the readme and add some docs on
> the next release.
>
> > I've used mysql to set up several message boards,, but that's about
> > the extent of my knowledge.
>
> No problem here. The first question is: do you have your mail users in a
> mysql database or they are in the system ?
I don't quite understand your question. I would like to
filter spam from/at my primary nameserver, ns1.thought.org.
There aren't any real user accounts on NS1; it's just me
and an "admin" account, and of course, root. Other user
accounts are on inside/private hosts: tao.thought.org and
ethic.thought.org. ethic is a RedHat system that I let
my daughter play on. So far she hasn't gotten much spam.
The spammers hit me hard. Do I need to install dspam here
on tao.thought.org? (This host is my testbed so I have
mysql installed here.)
>
> If they are in the system use dspam_2mysql to generate the table for
> dpsam from the passwd file, and use dspam_genaliases to generate the
> spam aliases for each user to forward the spam to.
Ok, in an xterm on NS1 I just ran dspam_2mysql; nothing was
output to std|[out|err]. (?) Nothing in /var/db/mysql so
looks like I'm doing something wrong.
dspam_genaliases prints aliases like:
spam-nobody: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'nobody' --addspam"
spam-admin: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'admin' --addspam"
spam-www: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'www' --addspam"
spam-kline: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'kline' --addspam"
spam-postmaster: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'postmaster' --addspam"
spam-abuse: "|'/usr/local/bin/dspam' --user 'abuse' --addspam"
to stdout. Let's say that I want to block spam from
/home/admin: the address would be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where would I put the "spam-admin" alias?
>
> As a general note, until you're convince the hole system works ok
> compile dpam with verbose_debug. As currently the port doesn't offer
> that, just add:
>
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-debug \
> --enable-verbose-debug
>
> just above:
>
> .if defined(WITH_MYSQL)
>
Done! and re-installed....
>
> Be aware that this will produce * a lot * of noise on a busy system (It
> will log a copy of each mail in /usr/local/etc/dspam/dspam.messages, in
> dspam.debug it will log how it applies the algorithms ans some sql debug
> info in dspam.messages and the sql queries and results in sql.errors)
> And when I say a lot I mean about 100MB for about 10.000 mails.. Also I
> would suggest turning off mysql query log if it's on (I nicely run out
> of space, for the same amount of messages it eats up about 500MB).
Thanks for the warnings. I've got to be careful with my
DNS server: not much space.
>
> Make an test user so that you don't have all your mails passed to dspam
> until it working ok.
>
I'll use [EMAIL PROTECTED] right now.
> > I've been using /etc/mail/access that catches tons of
> > spam. It would be great if dspam could do the rest!
>
> You can use dspam between your MTA and LDA for local delivery. Or do a
> more complex setup and re-inject the mail into the MTA.
>
> Give me some more details, please.
>
Ok; looks like I'll rebuild dspam here on tao. I'm beginning
to get a clue, but still don't understand what I need to do
re mysql. Also, what to do with the spam-aliases lines.
Thanks much for your help. I think dspam will save
lots of people from needness grief (and spam)!
gary
>
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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