Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51)

2005-05-24 Thread David F. Skoll
Albert Croft wrote: > Downgraded Mail::Tools to v. 1.15, and no joy-it occurred again. What's the output of: mimedefang.pl -features on the machine in question? Seeing "-odd" -related messages means mimedefang.pl is having trouble re-mailing messages. Could you post some complete log e

[Mimedefang] Re: Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51)

2005-05-24 Thread Albert Croft
Albert Croft wrote: It was a fresh load of a machine-the configuration was adapted from one that was older, though. Mail::Tools 1.67 is installed. Do I maybe need to drop back to the 1.15 (or earlier 1.1401) version? -Albert C. Downgraded Mail::Tools to v. 1.15, and no joy-it occurred

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-24 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:13:08AM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > This is indeed a problem. What we did in CanIt was separate out the > "facts" from the "policy". > > So the "facts" modules might say: > > - User [EMAIL PROTECTED] is whitelisted. > - Domain foo.com is blacklisted. > - Message con

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-24 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:37:23PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > >So, I split up the mimedefang config file into a parts directory: > > But it doesn't: > > 1. Make it easy to unit test your functionality. > > be a fairly time consuming process. So it would be nice to have a > way to unit

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-24 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:36:22AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > Ditch mimedefang-filter. Have mimedefang.pl use something like > Module::Pluggable to find everything in the MimeDefang::Filter::Plugin > namespace. > > Then have every filter_* subroutine in mimedefang-filter be something like: Hm

[Mimedefang] Re: Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51)

2005-05-24 Thread Albert Croft
Today's Topics: 4. Re: Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51) (James Ebright) -- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:11:44 -0400 From: "James Ebright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] O

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable software by Hormel

2005-05-24 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:24 PM -0500 Charles Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to remember that using the term spam to refer to unwanted email and ham to refer to wanted email is basically a put-down of the Hormel product SPAM. It is clear that the email term is a reference to the

Re: [Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

2005-05-24 Thread Curtis
Matthew, Thank you for sharing this. It is about time more people get involved in this growing and out of control menace to Internet society. Curtis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/zombies.htm > > " > ... will send letters to more than 3,000 ISPs around > the worl

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable software by Hormel

2005-05-24 Thread Charles Mount
You have to remember that using the term spam to refer to unwanted email and ham to refer to wanted email is basically a put-down of the Hormel product SPAM. It is clear that the email term is a reference to their product, not an independently arrived at term. To Hormel this is a severe threa

Re: [Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

2005-05-24 Thread Ben Kamen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/zombies.htm " ... will send letters to more than 3,000 ISPs around the world, urging them to employ protective measures to prevent their customers' computers from being hijacked by spammers. The measures include: * blocking a common

Re: [Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

2005-05-24 Thread Ben Kamen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About time, too... As a sidenote: They should also be writing a letter to Mr. Bill (Oo Noo) asking his darn company to stop writing so many darn bugs into the OS. We just all want to be free... IE/Outlook free that is. ;) -Ben p.s. I think we need a new bum

[Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

2005-05-24 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/zombies.htm " ... will send letters to more than 3,000 ISPs around the world, urging them to employ protective measures to prevent their customers' computers from being hijacked by spammers. The measures include: * blocking a common Internet port used for e-ma

Re: [Mimedefang] Tie to aliases.db doesn't work

2005-05-24 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:37:05PM -0800, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > newaliases stores the keys (and values) with a trailing \0 character. Try: > > print $aliases{"root\0"}, "\n"; > > Also make sure to strip the \0 from the value if you're using it for > anything

Re: [Mimedefang] Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51)

2005-05-24 Thread James Ebright
On Tue, 24 May 2005 13:29:49 -0500, Albert Croft wrote > I have tried both mimedefang 2.51 and 2.49, to the same effect. The > new machine is running SpamAssassin 3.03 and sendmail 8.13.1 under > CentOS > 4.0, with Milter.LogLevel=0 and LogLevel=9, and was adapted from a > working gateway usin

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable

2005-05-24 Thread Kelson
Ian Mitchell wrote: Always curious how someone who owns a trademark feels when they're trademark is essentially hijacked by a community as a whole for use to describe the bain of all existance ;) Yeah. When you think about it, Kleenex, Xerox, and Styrofoam have had it *easy*. -- Kelson Vibb

[Mimedefang] Odd error messages filling up logfiles in new deployment (MD 2.49 or 2.51)

2005-05-24 Thread Albert Croft
Just configured a new machine to act as a filter gateway to replace the current, underpowered machine, and encountering an error I do not understand that is at times filling up the log files. The entries have the following appearance: May 24 12:52:30 spam1b mimedefang-multiplexor[20618]: Slave

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable

2005-05-24 Thread Ian Mitchell
According to Hormel, the usage of "spam" as a term to identify Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) is ok. However, it should not be confused with the term "SPAM" which is a registered trademark of the SPAM lunchmeat product they offer. Here's a link. http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm Always curiou

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable software by Hormel

2005-05-24 Thread James Ebright
This refers to thier meat byproduct in a can and is in all caps (SPAM), when referring to UCE you should only cap the first letter or do it in all lower case. And yes, SPAM (c)Hormel way pre-dates even ARPANET and Hormel does defend their trademark fairly religiously (and they should). Jim On

Re: [Mimedefang] spam now a registered trademark for downloadable software by Hormel

2005-05-24 Thread Ben Kamen
Alexander Dalloz wrote: The wonderful world of software patents and trademarks http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76586902 Now time to avoid to offer "anti-spam" solutions / software :} Hormel could that treat hostile. I don't think it could apply to the industry we use it

Re: [Mimedefang] Tie to aliases.db doesn't work

2005-05-24 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:37:05PM -0800, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > However if I try to pull out a specific value with: > > require DB_File; > use Fcntl; > tie %aliases, "DB_File", "/etc/mail/aliases.db", O_RDONLY; > > print $aliases{root}; > > It doesn't work. If I use `makemap hash aliases