Re: [Mimedefang] disable spamcheck for localhost and stream_by_domain problem

2010-02-16 Thread David F. Skoll
Marcus wrote: I'd like to disable spamassassin checks for all emails sent from the host mimedefang is running on (= localhost). But how can I distinguish between an email sent by localhost and an email which is resubmitted via localhost because of mimedefang's stream_by_domain function.

Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang

2010-02-16 Thread David F. Skoll
Cliff Hayes wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: It is fairly difficult to imagine a box that is still running today that couldn't handle a GUI That's not the point. Any software installed on a machine is a potential vulnerability. I would never install X on a server. I also tried xming. I ran the

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread WBrown
DFS wrote on 02/12/2010 06:54:27 PM: I must confess, I've never understood people who administer Linux servers, yet don't run a Linux desktop. Heck, run Linux in VMWare if you must, but at least use proper desktop tools to administer a Linux server. When I first started using Linux for

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2/16/2010 8:45 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Making the switch caused some grief, but I think it was worth it in the long run. If nothing else, patches don't eventual bog the system down like they do in Windows. If you don't believe me, take a fresh machine and install Windows 2000 on it. Time

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/16/2010 8:45 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: The frustration of having to run a Windows desktop would drive me insane. Making the switch caused some grief, but I think it was worth it in the long run. If nothing else, patches don't eventual bog the system down like they do in Windows. If

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2/16/2010 10:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Windows 2000 is a decade old now - and was not even intended to be a desktop OS. And you need to defrag after making big disk changes. If you don't already see why this is a bad comparision, try installing a 10-year old Linux server distro and try to

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/16/2010 10:33 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: On 2/16/2010 10:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Windows 2000 is a decade old now - and was not even intended to be a desktop OS. And you need to defrag after making big disk changes. If you don't already see why this is a bad comparision, try installing a

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread David F. Skoll
Les Mikesell wrote: [...] Vista is irrelevant. If you read any trade literature at all you would never have touched it in the first place. Just like any X.0 version of a linux distribution. But realistically, the problem in Vista was changing the driver interface, something that Linux does

[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.68-BETA-5 is available

2010-02-16 Thread David F. Skoll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Unfortunately, it seems we need just *one more* beta before 2.68-final can be released. Please try 2.68-BETA-5 available at http://www.mimedefang.org/download. I promise that if this one's good, it will be 2.68-final. :-) Changes since 2.67

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Dave O'Neill
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:51:21AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: I take it you don't read the changelogs on linux distribution updates to see the historic bugs that are still being found and fixed. You should. Or, read the MIMEDefang changelog to see the ten-year-old bug fixed in -BETA4 :)

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2/16/2010 10:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Vista is irrelevant. If you read any trade literature at all you would never have touched it in the first place. Just like any X.0 version of a linux distribution. But realistically, the problem in Vista was changing the driver interface, something

[Mimedefang] ADMINISTRIVIA: Please kill off thread... Re: OT: Choice of desktop OS (was Re: watch-mimedefang)

2010-02-16 Thread David F. Skoll
Hello, Although I was guilty enough to start and contribute this thread, I'm luckily also hypocritical enough to request that it end. Thanks, David. ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND

Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang

2010-02-16 Thread Cliff Hayes
I can ssh from my windows instance of cygwin to the mimedefang server. I also established a trust relationship by exchanging ssh keys. I do that all the time to automate ssh tasks. However, for cygwin, it keeps defaulting to my windows user and not root and that's the problem. I can override

Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang

2010-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/16/2010 1:37 PM, Cliff Hayes wrote: I can ssh from my windows instance of cygwin to the mimedefang server. I also established a trust relationship by exchanging ssh keys. I do that all the time to automate ssh tasks. However, for cygwin, it keeps defaulting to my windows user and not

Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang

2010-02-16 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
Op 16 feb 2010, om 21:30 heeft David F. Skoll het volgende geschreven: However, for cygwin, it keeps defaulting to my windows user and not root and that's the problem. Just use the right Control Command entry; see the watch-mimedefang man page. Or, specify the right user in the ssh_config

[Mimedefang] stripping Received headers based on authentication

2010-02-16 Thread Tom H
Hi All, I've heard some suggestions not to do this, but I plan along with gmail and some others to do it anyway... ;-) I would like to strip off any headers for my connection to my own smtp server, which are authenticated. So I have enabled filter_sender - however filter sender will not allow

Re: [Mimedefang] watch-mimedefang (SSH Security).

2010-02-16 Thread -
The superuser (unix) or administrator (windows) should NEVER be permitted login access via SSH. If you need such access, log in as an unprivileged user and request an access upgrade (i.e. su in unix). Didn't our mailing-list host administrator declare this thread closed (as off topic)...?