RE: [Mimedefang] changing quarantine directory

2004-02-18 Thread Rob
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolf > <---SNIP---> > I wish to place /var/spool/mimedefang on a ramdisk as is > recommended, so > need to put the quarantined messages somewhere more permanent. You don't say what version of MD y

[Mimedefang] changing quarantine directory

2004-02-18 Thread Rolf
Hello Looking through the archives the way to set the quarantine directory is at build time with a directive to the ./configure script. However I have installed via packages and therefore have no need of compiling it via ./configure. In mimedefang.pl about line 100, where many variables are se

[Mimedefang] NAI UVSCAN 4326 Scan.Dat Permission Oddity

2004-02-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Just a note that the recent 4326 DAT for McAfee's uvscan seems to give the wrong permissions to scan.dat. Chmod 644 scan.dat should fix the issue. Regards, KAM ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Mimedefang] swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread WBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/18/2004 12:05:29 PM: > I am paranoid that my mail server will stop working, so I whipped up this > little swatch script to notify me when mimedefang encounters an error, > which might indicate it has stopped working. > I could have it do a restart or similar, but fo

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Ole Craig
On 02/18/04 at 10:45, 'twas brillig and Jeremy Mates scrobe: > * Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I know this, and it's not quite what I was getting at. I'm perhaps > > guilty of excessive indirection in attempting to highlight that a > > script which attempts to > > > > *send mail* > > wh

Re: [Mimedefang] swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread -ray
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ole Craig wrote: > You have a script that emails you to tell you that your email > swerver has stopped swerving? > > I think to be on the safe side, the script should also check > to make sure it was able to send the alert mail correctly, and email > you if it did

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Lucas Albers
Lucas Albers said: > I'm not sure what method it uses to send the email. > An obvious problem if it uses the local mail server to send the email. > And the local mail server is broken. Just checked, It uses the local mail server to send the email. This is not a good idea, then. --Luke ___

[Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Jeremy Mates
* Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I know this, and it's not quite what I was getting at. I'm perhaps > guilty of excessive indirection in attempting to highlight that a > script which attempts to > > *send mail* > when > *the mail server is malfunctioning* > > may have larger issues

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Lucas Albers
Ole Craig said: > [It is, of course, perfectly possible that the script connects to a > different MTA than the one watched. That's not by any means a given, > however, and the OP didn't mention it.] > I'm not sure what method it uses to send the email. An obvious problem if it uses the local mail

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Ole Craig
On 02/18/04 at 09:58, 'twas brillig and Jeremy Mates scrobe: > * Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think to be on the safe side, the script should also check to make > > sure it was able to send the alert mail correctly, and email you if it > > didn't... :-) > > The swatch utility has a 'throttl

[Mimedefang] Summary of new Vexira

2004-02-18 Thread Cormack, Ken
David, Below is a snippet of an email we just received about an update to Vexira, including descriptions of some new command-line switches you might be interested in incorporating into the default commandline you pass to Vexira, from within MIMEDefang. Ken General === 1. Detects other malwa

[Mimedefang] Re: swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Jeremy Mates
* Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think to be on the safe side, the script should also check to make > sure it was able to send the alert mail correctly, and email you if it > didn't... :-) The swatch utility has a 'throttle' option, which should be used to limit notifications. Your log reportin

Re: [Mimedefang] swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Ole Craig
On 02/18/04 at 10:05, 'twas brillig and Lucas Albers scrobe: > I am paranoid that my mail server will stop working, so I whipped up this > little swatch script to notify me when mimedefang encounters an error, > which might indicate it has stopped working. > I could have it do a restart or similar

[Mimedefang] swatch script to email you when an error occurs.

2004-02-18 Thread Lucas Albers
I am paranoid that my mail server will stop working, so I whipped up this little swatch script to notify me when mimedefang encounters an error, which might indicate it has stopped working. I could have it do a restart or similar, but for now I just have it email me. Someone posted c-code to do sim

[Mimedefang] reject in filter-begin

2004-02-18 Thread Lucas Albers
I keep seeing undefined variables from mimedefang-filter. I made the following insignifigant changes, I moved up virus rejects to filter begin. If the variables from he message_contains_virus were not defined, I defined them, it removed the undefined messages I was seeing in my logs. Does this seem

Re: [Mimedefang] horsepower for Baysian

2004-02-18 Thread Albert Whale
Charles Mount wrote: I am running MimeDefang 2.39 with SpamAssassin 2.63 on Sendmail or Sendmail-Switch. I have a collection of SUN computers running Solaris 8. I have a volume of about 12 million messages per week. Right now, the load average is staying below 4 on the eight processor compute

[Mimedefang] horsepower for Baysian

2004-02-18 Thread Charles Mount
I am running MimeDefang 2.39 with SpamAssassin 2.63 on Sendmail or Sendmail-Switch. I have a collection of SUN computers running Solaris 8. I have a volume of about 12 million messages per week. Right now, the load average is staying below 4 on the eight processor computers. I am considering add

Re: [Mimedefang] mimedefang subject filtering code

2004-02-18 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Andrew Jayes wrote: > my($msgSubject); > my($hfile) = "HEADERS"; > while() { No, no, no! You aren't opening the file; Perl won't have a clue what you're trying to do. Also, the message subject is available in the global variable $Subject without your having to d

Re: [Mimedefang] mimedefang subject filtering code

2004-02-18 Thread Jaco Minnaar
Hi, chane to: if ($idx == 0) maybe also do my($idx) = index... you could also try if($line =~ m/^Subject: /) the you don't have to define a "useless" var. Jaco Hi, The '#subject check' section of code is not working in my filter, This is an exact copy of my filter begin. Do I need t

[Mimedefang] mimedefang subject filtering code

2004-02-18 Thread Andrew Jayes
Hi, The '#subject check' section of code is not working in my filter, This is an exact copy of my filter begin. Do I need to define the variables better and if so how? Or do I just have the code wrong? Any help would be great. #*