[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

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 imagine the

[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] 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.

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

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)

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 the

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. It

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

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

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

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 based on

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