RE: [Mimedefang] Admin messages

2004-02-26 Thread McWhirter,Julia
David, Thanks works fine now. I hate it when I miss something so obvious!! Regards Julia McWhirter IT Manager SuperH (UK) Ltd First Floor Network House 2410 Aztec West Almondbury Bristol BS32 4QX Tel : 01454 465600 Tel (Direct) : 01454 465661 Tel (Mobile) : 07979 913494 Fax : 01454 465601

[Mimedefang] relaying mail

2004-02-26 Thread Andrew Jayes
Hi All, A little off topic but Can anyone give me some pointers. I have my mimedefang gateway ready to go but I wanted some advice before I put it live. The setup is as follows: mail coming in is forwarded from the firewall to the mimedefang gateway which will then relay the mail on to

[Mimedefang] how to make mimedefang to wait longer for virus scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Toomas Vann
HI! I am running a small mail server on PIII 500, 256MB RAM. Not much traffic nor users. I have come across a following problem: Feb 26 15:57:08 computer sendmail[1464]: i1QDv2sh001464: from=someone, size=1839746, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP,

Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?

2004-02-26 Thread Network Guy
David and all Maybe change that to *any* website. Then wait. tod On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Martin Bene wrote: Any ideas how to best get this address used by spammers? Put the address on a busy web site. Post from it to Usenet. Wait. Regards,

[Mimedefang] Greylist

2004-02-26 Thread Andrea Gabellini
Hi, I found the greylist implementation at http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2004-February/020126.html very useful, and I made a little change to support a greylist 'whitelist'. My intention is to not apply the greylist rules to local or trusted ip. The white list is a BDB

Re: [Mimedefang] resend_message - sanity check for me please

2004-02-26 Thread Lucas Albers
Matthew Hall said: OK, ways to bypass that? I'm collecting a 'spam' pile for analysis - once I tag it as spam, I redirect to my spam storage mbox for a looksie later. Why not just save it with action quarantine? I soon got tired of looking at 500 spam messages a day. --Luke

[Mimedefang] help locating a message or site

2004-02-26 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
Within the past few days, someone published that he had put together files that could be used with sa-learn. I have searched the archives but could not find the message. I would like the subject of the message and/or the URLs from the message as I would like to try improving my spam/ham ratio for

Re: [Mimedefang] Mailing list manager intercepting messages

2004-02-26 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:55, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [analysis snipped] Thanks for your report. I guess I'll have to change it now that Feb is almost over at least until next year when such sentiments become valid again. :-) ger

RE: [Mimedefang] Tracing/Debugging MIMEDefang

2004-02-26 Thread Michael Sims
Peter A. Cole wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3) Sometimes I'll temporarily use action_add_header() to add debug information directly into the headers of a message I'm using as a test. I'll have a go at doing this tonight. I assume by simply

updated novarg check (Was Re: [Mimedefang] Huge messages causing try again later)

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Whittney
Lucas, No problem, wish I could have helped more. I am happy that the novarg test didnt break things... I have found a better way of doing the same thing. # Novarg Detection - PWhittney V1.1 2/25/04 # if (lc($ext) =~ /zip/) { my $lines = $entity-body(); my $found =

RE: [Mimedefang] Huge messages causing try again later

2004-02-26 Thread sysadmin
I forgot to mention that I discovered that it wasn't just large zip files, it was all large attachments. Anyway, I believe the problem is fixed for now. Thanks, Lucas On 26 Feb 2004 at 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible that these messages contain a de-compression bomb (a small

Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?

2004-02-26 Thread WBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/26/2004 02:25:03 AM: Ok, unusual request - I'm looking for ways to get MORE spam sent to a new email account: I'm setting up a spam-trap to hopefully help filtering for the other accounts. Obviously, the more spam address lists etc. this trap is on, the

[Mimedefang] Greylisting problem with the default confTO_COMMAND

2004-02-26 Thread Cahya Wirawan
Hi, I have implemented greylisting in filter_begin, it works great, but there is still an issue because there are some spam software that keep the connection open after they get temporary failure message. The sendmail default timeout to wait a command (confTO_COMMAND) is 1 hour, so if I set the

Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?

2004-02-26 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Martin Bene wrote: Any ideas how to best get this address used by spammers? Put the address on a busy web site. Post from it to Usenet. Wait. Regards, David. ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca

Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I would say that anything other than simply letting the spam come to you is a bad idea and would risk tainting your results. Things you can do to increase the spam coming in that I can think of: Use the email address on the public whois data. Capture all the [EMAIL PROTECTED] emails since a lot