Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Maidment
Stephen Smoogen wrote: My advice is to log your hours, time, and the emails and then let the company lawyers that you are worried that the company is setting itself up for a lawsuit for allowing harrassing and abusive email in. Send them some of the emails, the amount of time it is costing, and

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

2004-05-26 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Bill Maidment wrote: Patrick Morris wrote: SOCKS with MIMEDefang? Nope, not gonna work. I assume you're talking about accessing external POP and/or IMAP servers? I assume so because I can't think of *any* good reason to not force outgoing mail through your own SMTP servers

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Maidment
Patrick Morris wrote: SOCKS with MIMEDefang? Nope, not gonna work. I assume you're talking about accessing external POP and/or IMAP servers? I assume so because I can't think of *any* good reason to not force outgoing mail through your own SMTP servers -- it's just too easy, and should have ne

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

2004-05-26 Thread Patrick Morris
Bill Maidment wrote: Our site is well protected by mimedefang/spamassassin/clamav/file-scan etc, but unfortunately the powers-that-be insist on allowing people to access other external mail servers via socks. The result is that we get all sorts of undesireable email completely bypassing the mail

[Mimedefang] Mail Bypassing Mimedefang

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi Our site is well protected by mimedefang/spamassassin/clamav/file-scan etc, but unfortunately the powers-that-be insist on allowing people to access other external mail servers via socks. The result is that we get all sorts of undesireable email completely bypassing the mail server. Is there

[Mimedefang] Re: MXcommand: connect: socket operation on non-socket

2004-05-26 Thread Wallace, Hazel
We are trying to install MIMEDefang 2.43 and are having problems. Our configuration is Sendmail 3.1.5 (commercial version) running on a Solaris 8 operating system. Compiled MIMEDefang with Sendmail 8.12.11 on Solaris 8. Then transferred the compiled Perl modules and mimedefang files to the Sendmai

Re: [Mimedefang] filter-recipient not reacting as expected...

2004-05-26 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Keith Patton wrote: > } else { > return 'ok', '0'; Syntax error. Should be: return ('ok', 0); -- David. ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

[Mimedefang] filter-recipient not reacting as expected...

2004-05-26 Thread Keith Patton
Hello all, I have a filter : filter_recipient and is it doing what is should do, however sendmail is not returning the code I expected... I am trying to output a 550 error code yet it responds with 554?? I have modified the return codes and I still get 554.. version of mimedefang: 2-43 Any i

RE: [Mimedefang] action_bounce not generating the correct error code

2004-05-26 Thread Kjell Uddeborg
David, That's exactly what it was. Sendmail logged a different message than the one actually sent. Thanks for you help. Kjell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David F. Skoll Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub filter()

2004-05-26 Thread Troy Carpenter
I have to agree here. I went back and checked a number of email lists that I subscribe to. ALL messages I sent to the list arrived back at my mail server with the original message ID that my system gave the message. So, I have other mail servers, namely list mail servers, that send me messages w

RE: [Mimedefang] Greylist cleaner script problem

2004-05-26 Thread Todd Aiken
On 26 May 2004 at 17:44, Paul Murphy wrote: > Todd, > > > I am trying to use a slightly modified version of the greylist > > cleaner perl script that is found on Jonas Eckerman's web page to > > clean up my greylist database file. It runs okay, and gives me > > valid results, but does not change

Re: [Mimedefang] Spamassassin Ruleset question ..

2004-05-26 Thread David T Hollis
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 14:49 -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I read in one of your responses about the following rule sets for > Spamassassin. I have 2 questions: > 1. Is it OK to have all the rule sets. > 2. Where can you get all these rule sets. I downloaded bigevil.cf but I > am not su

RE: [Mimedefang] Greylist cleaner script problem

2004-05-26 Thread Paul Murphy
Todd, > I am trying to use a slightly modified version of the greylist > cleaner perl script that is found on Jonas Eckerman's web page to > clean up my greylist database file. It runs okay, and gives me valid > results, but does not change my database file at all. Here is what > my script f

[Mimedefang] SpamAssassin LDAP support?

2004-05-26 Thread Nate Carlson
Hey all, Taking a look over the SpamAssassin CVS code, I see it now supports loading certain user prefs over LDAP. Has anyone done any work to tie this into Mimedefang yet? If your users are in LDAP, and the message is being delivered to a local user, I don't think it should be all that tough -

RE: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub fi lter()

2004-05-26 Thread Joseph Brennan
Some data. I did "grep [EMAIL PROTECTED],.proto= syslog" on one of our incoming mail hosts. The file had 46,000 msgid= strings. The Bagle virus does this. We are catching these already with a test on the HELO string-- it says "helo columbia.edu" when sending, and we don't allow that unless we ha

[Mimedefang] Greylist cleaner script problem

2004-05-26 Thread Todd Aiken
I am trying to use a slightly modified version of the greylist cleaner perl script that is found on Jonas Eckerman's web page to clean up my greylist database file. It runs okay, and gives me valid results, but does not change my database file at all. Here is what my script file looks like.

RE: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub fi lter()

2004-05-26 Thread Cormack, Ken
To test your concern, I sent myself test emails to my yahoo account. Then, using yahoo's "Display Full Headers" option, I confirmed that my Exchange server's IMS had placed a valid MessageID into the outbound message. That MessageID incorporated the hostname - dot - domainname, to the right of th

Re: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub filter()

2004-05-26 Thread Frank Doepper
Am 26.05.04 um 08:49 schrieb Cormack, Ken: >Yesterday, I had a spam come in, in which I noticed the MessageID >contained my own domain. Since the originating MTA is responsible for >generating the MessageID, and since the message came from the outside What about forwarded mail? If someone from o

RE: [Mimedefang] spam coming through

2004-05-26 Thread Jimmy Hayes
I think I know whats happening, most of this e-mails are from the microsoft virus that was going around. But I noticed that I do get a attachment file from mimedefang, WARNING: This email message has been modified, for more information contact systems.com An attachment named ggumx.exe

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: R/W: lock failed: File exists

2004-05-26 Thread Patrick Morris
Andrzej Marecki wrote: It is trying to lock the bayes journal, and other mimedefang threads can't read to it while it learns from the journal. This will solve your problem. 1. There is something weird with my installation but, OK, luckily enough there's a workaround. 2. Everyone has the sam

RE: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub fi lter()

2004-05-26 Thread Cormack, Ken
> 1. Are you sure it actually came in with that Message-ID? Sendmail > adds one if there is not one present and the added one will of course > have your host's name in it. I forget whether it has been added > already at milter stage. Yes, I'm sure. It actually contained <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@domai

Re: [Mimedefang] action_bounce not generating the correct error code

2004-05-26 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Kjell Uddeborg wrote: > I'm having some problems with action_bounce() not sending the correct error > code to the relaying SMTP server. Try testing by telnetting directly in. Sendmail sometimes logs a different reply code than the one that was actually received, much to many

Re: [Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub filter()

2004-05-26 Thread Joseph Brennan
Yesterday, I had a spam come in, in which I noticed the MessageID contained my own domain. Since the originating MTA is responsible for generating the MessageID, and since the message came from the outside, I added the following in sub filter() of my mimedefang-filter last night. Over night, it c

[Mimedefang] MessageID anti-impersonation function for sub filter()

2004-05-26 Thread Cormack, Ken
All, Yesterday, I had a spam come in, in which I noticed the MessageID contained my own domain. Since the originating MTA is responsible for generating the MessageID, and since the message came from the outside, I added the following in sub filter() of my mimedefang-filter last night. Over night

Re: [Mimedefang] manage by user email account

2004-05-26 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 25 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does MimeDefang or any other anti-spam product, allow > us to send mail that is declared "spam" to a "junk" > email folder that a user can then review? CanIt-PRO will do what you need: http://www.canit.ca/ Regards, David. _

RE: [Mimedefang] Re: R/W: lock failed: File exists

2004-05-26 Thread Lee Dilkie
>> It is trying to lock the bayes journal, and other mimedefang >threads can't >> read to it while it learns from the journal. >> This will solve your problem. >> >> My settings: >> bayes settings: >> bayes_learn_to_journal 1 >> bayes_journal_max_size 512 >> >> >> cronjob: >> */55 * * * *

[Mimedefang] Re: R/W: lock failed: File exists

2004-05-26 Thread Andrzej Marecki
> It is trying to lock the bayes journal, and other mimedefang threads can't > read to it while it learns from the journal. > This will solve your problem. > > My settings: > bayes settings: > bayes_learn_to_journal 1 > bayes_journal_max_size 512 > > > cronjob: > */55 * * * *su -c 's

Re: [Mimedefang] manage by user email account

2004-05-26 Thread Lucas Albers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We are looking at ways to manage spam on our Solaris > Sendmail system. Users connect via POP3, IMAP or > Horde/Imp. > > Does MimeDefang or any other anti-spam product, allow > us to send mail that is declared "spam" to a "junk" > email folder that a user can then review