Re: [Mimedefang] filter_sender, authenticated or smtp (port 25) Connections

2012-02-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au wrote: A number of clients (this includes thunderbird and some apple clients) come by default sset to 465 so I guess that is one reason why I chose this. The other point is that port 465 is an SSL channel with SMTP inside it, so right from the start on

Re: [Mimedefang] filter_sender, authenticated or smtp (port 25) Connections

2012-02-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Is it time to propose 465 as a standard again? Probably since 465 is the default with the latest Thunderbird if you select SSL/TLS. Reality and RFCs are often at odds. Regards, KAM ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in

Re: [Mimedefang] Problem using ClamAV

2012-02-21 Thread Matt Garretson
On 2/18/2012 10:23 AM, Mișu Moldovan wrote: And in that setup it was SpamAssassin doing all the heavy lifting, which resulted in +90% of the incoming mail being rejected before reaching the ClamAV filter. In the end I have disabled AV scanning Funny... on my system it's the exact

[Mimedefang] all_spam_to abuse

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Flav
Hello, I searched the archives and in 2005-2006 it was discussed that in order to reject during the SMTP transaction an email using action_bounce (generating a 5xx error), this was not possible since SpamAssassin would score the message including USER_IN_ALL_SPAM_TO and all recipients would

Re: [Mimedefang] all_spam_to abuse

2012-02-21 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:55:31 -0800 (PST) Chris Flav chris.f...@yahoo.ca wrote: I searched the archives and in 2005-2006 it was discussed that in order to reject during the SMTP transaction an email using action_bounce (generating a 5xx error), this was not possible since SpamAssassin would

Re: [Mimedefang] all_spam_to abuse

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Flav
I don't know where you read that, but it's wrong.  If you call action_bounce from filter_begin, filter or filter_end, the message will not be delivered to anyone. Regards, Hmm.  I added this block to filter_end and it only rejects email sent if none of the recipients are listed in

Re: [Mimedefang] Problem using ClamAV

2012-02-21 Thread Mișu Moldovan
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 17:24, Matt Garretson ma...@assembly.state.ny.us wrote: On 2/18/2012 10:23 AM, Mișu Moldovan wrote: And in that setup it was SpamAssassin doing all the heavy lifting, which resulted in +90% of the incoming mail being rejected before reaching the ClamAV filter. In the

Re: [Mimedefang] all_spam_to abuse

2012-02-21 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:21:34 -0800 (PST) Chris Flav chris.f...@yahoo.ca wrote: Hmm. I added this block to filter_end and it only rejects email sent if none of the recipients are listed in all_spam_to; But that's because it is not actually calling action_bounce. To do what you need: read the

Re: [Mimedefang] all_spam_to abuse

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Flav
To do what you need: read the mimedefang-filter page and look for stream_by_recipient.  Be very careful to discard, not bounce, messages that have been streamed.  Otherwise, you risk generating backscatter. Hello again, Indeed the point of using MIMEdefang is the possibility to reject a email