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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:18:16PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
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DoS is a huge exaggeration. a few smtpd processes waiting to timeout
does not constitute a DoS. neither does a few dozen.
I had about 800 waiting
i use at home but not at work. there are
lots of windows MTAs out there run by the clueless. fortunately, at home
i don't need or have to communicate with them, but at work there are
many people who might.
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:01:33PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
So it's your fault they figured out the forged MAIL FROM trick! Bad
craig, no donut! ;)
no, many of them already knew that. it was obvious anyway.
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if you want to trial it on a small subset, do something like this:
tail -1000 /var/log/mail.log /tmp/small.log
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of communigate) and it does basic pop-before-smtp (dovecot only because
that's what i run). these two features are actually useful :)
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(and climbing all the time). i would expect that to at
least double or triple if i 4xx-ed them rather than 5xx, depending on how much
came from open relays or spamhaus rather than dynamic/DUL.
i can see why some might want to do this, but not me.
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Craig, why do you think it's undesirable to do so?
because i dont want the extra retry traffic. i want spammers to take FOAD
as an answer, and i
/dynamic IP.
in local.cf, that looks like this:
# ignore DUL
score RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 0.0
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if it's a false positive, the sender will get a bounce from their MTA and
they can fix the problem or route around it. IMO, that's far nicer
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:27:27AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
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the log file noise issue is important to me - i've recently started
monitoring mail.log and adding iptables rules to block smtp connections
from client
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the log file noise issue is important to me - i've recently started
monitoring mail.log and adding iptables rules to block smtp connections
i also wrote
the archives, you've already seen my reasons for preferring
postfix, so i won't repeat them here.
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by 554 code... should I change to 4xx?
if it suits your needs. i wouldn't.
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and
thus
not keeping up with current mail practices, especially spammers and
viruses),
the main
validation.
that's not a feature, that's a bug.
that doesn't mean you *SHOULD* ignore them, it means that the software you
choose
to use makes it impossible to do anything about them.
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of just replacing uw-imapd
with dovecot, which would have been a simple action with one isolated effect
(changing the imap daemon), you chose to replace inetd with xinetd, which
affects dozens or possibly hundreds of unrelated inet daemons. why?
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device for the mail queue is a good idea.
(*) e.g. on multiple 15000 rpm hard disks on a hardware raid-5 controller with
at least 128MB of non-volatile cache ram. or whatever else it takes to
optimise this box for extremely fast I/O.
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alternatively, if you must allow users to have huge mailboxes, then:
2. switch to Maildir rather than mbox.
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think) as the db backend, and
the code was relatively easy to understand and modify. works with apache
CGI, or apache with mod-perl.
not finished, but a pretty good base, i thought.
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it's in perl, can use postgresql (or mysql too, i think) as the db backend,
oops, wrong. it uses mysql, not postgres. i hacked it to work with postgres
on my system because i didn't want to install rubbish like mysql.
craig
to convert to debian over the month or two, 2 x DL360s and
2 x DL380s. i'll have to figure out how to make a sarge installer iso with my
custom kernel on it (and without initrd).
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one other problem, is that i can't get the kernel to detect the full
amount of RAM - it has 2GB, but it's only detecting 1GB. I tried
adding mem=1920M in grub but that didn't help.
doh! i forgot to compile high memory support
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:09:36AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
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On Friday 12 November 2004 07.47, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:12:34AM +, John Goerzen wrote:
4 ETRN
Weird, people are just sending ETRN commands to you?
me too
of attempts to
deliver spam goes up all the time. 2 months ago, it was averaging about 30-35K
rejects per week. now it's nearly 50K. the percentages don't change much,
spam is already well over 90% of what my MTA sees.
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:12:10PM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
On Thursday 11 November 2004 17:04, Craig Sanders wrote:
22256 Bad HELO
wow.
most of them being spammers trying to use my IP address or a bogus domain name
in the HELO/EHLO string. and most of them from Korea.
most
in the DNS.
Anyway, thanks for the info. It's always interesting to see what other
people are doing.
of course. TMTOWTDI
And now I know where not to mail you from. :-)
:)
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:21:14AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
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There have been some very simple things that I've needed to find
solutions to with postfix in the past which I ended up having to
do with procmail that I
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:09:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
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I agree. But exim can do it. And even though this is the LDA
part of it, postfix also includes an LDA, which is just not up
to speed.
and postfix can
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:10:18PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Craig Sanders wrote:
backup MX is obsolete these days, very few people need it (most of
This does seem to be a prevailing opinion but I think backup MXs are
valuable now for the same reason they always
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:18:50PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Craig Sanders wrote:
if you do have a backup MX, then you need to have the same anti-spam
anti-virus rules as on your primary server AND (most important!) it
needs to have a list of valid recipients, so
, then it
makes sense. but it's all too easy to get out of sync.
i usually have my backup MX accept everything and then don't treat
them specially on the primary.
then you are generating backscatter. i.e. you are part of the virus/spam
problem and not part of the solution.
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it.
[...]
Now think what happens when viruses/spammers do this. My backup MX is
sending out a lot of bounce messages to potentially innocent victims for
this reason.
yes. you're definitely on the right track with this thought.
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software). then vmailer aka postfix came along and within a few months i had
converted all machines to postfix and now i won't willingly use anything else.
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:04:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
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rbldns (djbdns) is (a) non-free,
nope
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:40:28AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:09:16AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
For ErrorLog you can pipe to a suitable program which does the same.
but this doesn't. unless apache has added this feature since i last looked
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handles. i chose the latter, and occasionally increased both ulimit -n and
/proc/sys/fs/file-max as requiredi never did run into any limit.
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problem is re-alerted.
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More information can be found at http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/.
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adequate.
this can be done before ssh is installed (in which case, the post-install
script won't generate new keys), or it can be done after ssh is installed (in
which case, sshd needs to be restarted after the keys are changed).
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3. when a machine is being built or rebuilt, install the correct
ssh keys in /etc/ssh. they can be fetched via password-protected
http or https or ftp
capturers already debianised - a
netfilter/ulog alternative would be a good thing.
fprobe - exports NetFlow V5 datagrams to a remote collector
pmacct - promiscuous mode traffic accountant
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btw, there are also two libpcap-based netflow capturers already debianised - a
netfilter/ulog alternative would be a good thing.
fprobe - exports NetFlow V5
for what the machine is supposed to do, then it gets compiled in to
the kernel. otherwise as a module.
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the SyncRAID 5000 product for Windows
users. Apple and Linux versions will be available soon. NetCell is
currently only shipping products to US and Canada.
and similar phrasing on the info pages for the other models (3 drive and SATA).
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to get hit by something like this.
upgrades really need someone competent watching them anyway. they should never
be completely automated.
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you need is to discover that an upgraded apache or postfix or squid or whatever
is broken AFTER you've upgraded it on the server that your users depend upon.
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-volatile cache memory and that would give me raid-5 with decent
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to occasionally having to manually delete large
messages from the mailboxes of people who use outlook.
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Craig Sanders wrote:
the problem is that outlook is broken. it's broken in many ways but
this specific problem is due to the fact that outlook locks up when
downloading large messages. it doesn't have to be an attachment
exact combination of
stable plus other packages).
(*) no matter how nice it is, it's not a black coffee any more.
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refresh_pattern ftp://ftp\.nai\.com/ 0 80% 20160 reload-into-ims
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that is why SPF will never be a generic anti-spam tool. it is a
tightly-focussed anti-forgery tool of very limited use.
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top-posting screws up the chronological order of the replies making it a
jarring chore to make sense of them - you have to scroll backwards and
forwards trying to match who said what to whom and when.
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:56:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
You want to block spam or viruses, this is OK but you are on the
wrong way.
no, it's absolutely the right way. a large percentage of spam and
almost all
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top-posting screws up the chronological order of the replies making it a
jarring chore to make sense of them - you have to scroll backwards and
forwards trying to match who said what to whom and when.
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in postfix, you do that by putting the permit_mynetworks rule *before* the
reject_rbl_client rule.
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:56:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:37:41AM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
You want to block spam or viruses, this is OK but you are on the
wrong way.
no, it's absolutely
server.
in postfix, you do that by putting the permit_mynetworks rule *before* the
reject_rbl_client rule.
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:04:03PM -0400, Blu wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:56:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:37:41AM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
You want to block spam or viruses, this is OK but you are on the
wrong way.
no, it's absolutely
but is still very relevant - it should be
required reading for all ISP tech and management staff.
See also Broken PMTU causes slow networks:
http://www.burgettsys.com/stories/56239/
and PMTU Discovery:
http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html
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storing the image in the filesystem and using the database to store metadata
about the image, including description, title, copyright details, and
especially the path and/or URL to the image.
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required reading for all ISP tech and management staff.
See also Broken PMTU causes slow networks:
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:06:33AM +0200, Arnd Vehling wrote:
And why doesnt the bootblock get copied when using identical discs and making
a dd if=/dev/had of=/dev/hdb?
it does.
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and there are no raw devices on linux AFAIK.
/dev/hd? ARE the raw devices.
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(or any other IDE/SATA raid cards i've heard of), they
do have a large (128MB) write-cache - which is essential for raid-5
performance.
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do have a large (128MB) write-cache - which is essential for raid-5
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:03:51AM -0500, Andrew P. Kaplan wrote:
I have an old version of Postfix running on my Debian box. I don't remember
if I used apt-get or installed from a .tgz file. If I use apt-get install I
am concerned I could end up with two version of Postfix. What's the best way
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:03:51AM -0500, Andrew P. Kaplan wrote:
I have an old version of Postfix running on my Debian box. I don't remember
if I used apt-get or installed from a .tgz file. If I use apt-get install I
am concerned I could end up with two version of Postfix. What's the best way
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote:
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Bj?rnar Bj?rgum Larsen wrote:
4. the configuration is truly bizarre.bernstein has his own
non-standard
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:36:08AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
On Thursday 19 February 2004 23.28, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Bj?rnar Bj?rgum Larsen wrote:
For example, I'd like comments on
http://homepages.tesco.net
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Bj?rnar Bj?rgum Larsen wrote:
[3] Craig Sanders wrote:
ps: qmail is a bad idea. postfix is better.
Your conclusion may be right, but the arguments are missing. Would you please
share?
search the archives of this list. MTA comparisons have been
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Bj?rnar Bj?rgum Larsen wrote:
For example, I'd like comments on
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/postfix.html
a collection of lies, half-truths, and mistruths.
the best that can be said about this document is that the
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:35:00PM +0100, Joris wrote:
Majordomo is good, but I think you'd like mailman better.
Web interface for both users and administrators, very configurable, etc.
I'd recommend mailman too, but I have to warn for it's archive function.
all list managers suck, but in
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:19:20AM -0500, John Keimel wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:17:57AM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote:
I wish to implement mailling list management to my software for all virtual
domains. DTC uses qmail, so it has to be compatible with it. DTC will
generate all config
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:19:20AM -0500, John Keimel wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:17:57AM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote:
I wish to implement mailling list management to my software for all virtual
domains. DTC uses qmail, so it has to be compatible with it. DTC will
generate all config
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote:
However, I've just discovered that there's also a bad version mismatch
between the default libdb version used by DB_File in RedHat, and the one in
Debian (db3 in RedHat vs db1 [I think] in Debian). I also discovered that
this has
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:38:58PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
I have a postfix installation and it accepts all email to specified domains
regardless of the user part. This seems to pose a security hole in sending
spam / viruses.
Say someone sends an email to the server with the from of
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote:
However, I've just discovered that there's also a bad version mismatch
between the default libdb version used by DB_File in RedHat, and the one in
Debian (db3 in RedHat vs db1 [I think] in Debian). I also discovered that
this has
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:38:58PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
I have a postfix installation and it accepts all email to specified domains
regardless of the user part. This seems to pose a security hole in sending
spam / viruses.
Say someone sends an email to the server with the from of
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:35:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have the results after all this time. Exim beat postfix in raw
speed of moving mail in and/or out by over 15%.
that must be specific to your particular hardware and/or usage, because it's
contrary to every other postfix
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:38:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, if you want the most blazingly fast mailer, use zmailer. It's
just not a general purpose MTA
true.
For our mailman server, all mail goes to our zmailer (dedicated) machine, and
BOY does that mail just fly outa
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:35:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't have the results after all this time. Exim beat postfix in raw
speed of moving mail in and/or out by over 15%.
that must be specific to your particular hardware and/or usage, because it's
contrary to every other postfix
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:38:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, if you want the most blazingly fast mailer, use zmailer. It's
just not a general purpose MTA
true.
For our mailman server, all mail goes to our zmailer (dedicated) machine, and
BOY does that mail just fly outa
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:03:35AM +, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
Craig Sanders said the following on 28/01/04 23:36:
i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:
exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix.
On what do you base this conlusion
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
why should there be?
[...]
Because, like you mentioned later in your message, not all mailers give
proper responses. For example, I've see a lot of 5xx codes where the verbal
explanation is that the user is over quota.
well,
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:37:07PM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote:
Not looking for a fight either, but... ALL the MTAs? What are the results
for qmail then? I've always heard it's the fastest...
no, postfix beats it.
qmail WAS the fastest several years ago. then postfix arrived.
craig
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