Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Kenneth Porter wrote: help a small company server. Perhaps a distributed greylist DB? Sort of like a DNSBL but with white-listing. MD could store the successful entries in a zone and we could publish our zones for others to use. OK, how to keep the "Bad Guys" out? You're

RE: [Mimedefang] disclamer only for out going mails.

2005-12-14 Thread bablu bablu
Any one has solution for this. help me.. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > bablu wrote: > > I want to attach disclamer only to mails relayed > by > > smtp server. (i.e. mail sent by internal clients > who > > have account on smtp server) > > Or is it possible to attach disclamer ba

RE: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Brian Leyton
Thank you all for your comments on greylisting. John Kirkland's work looks like it will fit the bill nicely. I especially like the idea of using MySQL for the database. I think it might require a bit of prep work to make this a bit less noticeable. The recommendation of building a whitelist a

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Charles
David F. Skoll wrote: It helps a lot, because you quickly build up a list of servers for companies you correspond with often, and for large domains like hotmail.com and aol.com. Suppose you correspond with 10 people at CompanyA. Once *one* person has passed the greylist test, all 10 of them can

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:50 PM -0500 "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suppose you correspond with 10 people at CompanyA. Once *one* person has passed the greylist test, all 10 of them can communicate with any one of you without any greylisting delays. True. But I was t

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread David F. Skoll
Kenneth Porter wrote: >> Our (commercial) implementation of greylisting notes when a host >> makes it past the greylist hurdle. Once that happens, we don't greylist >> that host for 40 days. > While I can see how that helps a large userbase, I don't see how it > would help a small company server

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:37 PM -0500 "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Our (commercial) implementation of greylisting notes when a host makes it past the greylist hurdle. Once that happens, we don't greylist that host for 40 days. It's a simple trick that greatly reduces

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread David F. Skoll
Gary Funck wrote: > something worth mentioning: greylisting is highly effective, > but it takes some getting used to. Like when you go to a > web site and register a new account, and wait, wait, wait for > the reply to come in with your account confirmation e-mail. Yup. Our (commercial) impleme

RE: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Gary Funck
something worth mentioning: greylisting is highly effective, but it takes some getting used to. Like when you go to a web site and register a new account, and wait, wait, wait for the reply to come in with your account confirmation e-mail. Or when you forget your password and wait for the mail to

RE: [Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Gary Funck
I used John Kirkland's implementation, using MYSQL, with great success (on an FC3 system): http://www.bl.org/~jpk/md-greylist/ ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it.

[Mimedefang] Greylisting

2005-12-14 Thread Brian Leyton
I am relatively new to MIMEDefang, and I'm very happy with what I've been able to do so far. I'd like to take things to a higher level though, and one of the areas I'd like to work on is greylisting. I've seen a couple of emails in the archives, and I've tried using Jonas Eckerman's filter on my

RE: [Mimedefang] disclamer only for out going mails.

2005-12-14 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
bablu wrote: > I want to attach disclamer only to mails relayed by > smtp server. (i.e. mail sent by internal clients who > have account on smtp server) > Or is it possible to attach disclamer based on domain > name. > > which solution is effective.. I think, perhaps, the solution is to imagi

[Mimedefang] SA - DnsResolver

2005-12-14 Thread Didi Rieder
Hi, I get tons of the following errors in the mail.log after I start mimedefang-2.54 Dec 14 12:27:09 sbox dns: select failed: Bad file number at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 347. Dec 14 12:27:09 sbox mimedefang-multiplexor[10855]: [ID 980602 mail