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 to

[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

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

[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

[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

[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 reporting

[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

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 'throttle' option,

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

[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. This

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

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

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* when

[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

[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

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 you're