Re: [Mimedefang] Off-Topic: AFO.NET (was Re: virus scan stopped working after update to 2.78)

2016-02-04 Thread Ben Kamen
And let's not pass up: *Anarchy* Sites containing information regarding militias, weapons, antigovernment groups, terrorism, and simliar sites. So, that's pretty much all of Fox news, right? (well, *all* news sites.) *Hate/Discrimination* Sites which target a group of people based on ra

Re: [Mimedefang] Off-Topic: AFO.NET (was Re: virus scan stopped working after update to 2.78)

2016-02-04 Thread Ben Kamen
Y'all are cracking me up. :D ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDe

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2014-10-23 1:31 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 10/23/2014 2:01 PM, Kees Theunissen wrote: define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`true')dnl Don't use that! It is way too fuzzy and error prone. At least it was a long time ago on a Silicon Graphics Irix 5.x system. Sounds like some sed/awk parsing of pas

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2014-10-23 11:29 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 10/23/2014 11:36 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: I don't remember "unconfiguring this" -- but my system currently doesn't accept mail at the "full name" user field like it used to. I wonder if over time I managed to t

[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: Sendmail config option for accepting user.n...@domain.com

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Kamen
I don't remember "unconfiguring this" -- but my system currently doesn't accept mail at the "full name" user field like it used to. I wonder if over time I managed to turn it off. What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's "

Re: [Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-25 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2013-11-25 7:55 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:38:56 -0600 Ben Kamen wrote: I don't see any of those in my /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter, where would I normally see those or do I have to write them? You'd have to write them, and if you don't need them yo

Re: [Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-23 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2013-11-22 2:25 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: You should not call read_commands_file from filter_end. It should only be called from filter_relay, filter_helo, filter_sender or filter_recipient Hi David, I don't see any of those in my /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter, where would I normally see t

Re: [Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-22 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2013-11-22 1:09 PM, Ben Kamen wrote: On 2013-11-22 12:52 PM, Joseph Brennan wrote: Ben Kamen wrote: Just put it in before you do any action_bounce Joseph Brennan Got it -- thanks! Erm, I don't think that quite worked. In my /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter, I have: sub filte

Re: [Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-22 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2013-11-22 12:52 PM, Joseph Brennan wrote: Ben Kamen wrote: Just put it in before you do any action_bounce Joseph Brennan Got it -- thanks! -ben ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL

Re: [Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-22 Thread Ben Kamen
Thanks for all the replies... I don't actually need to worry about "port number" -- 465 or 587... as long as the user has authenticated, that's what I'm chasing after. For Steffen, I'm looking in /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter and don't see filter_recipient or filter_sender. (I'm on mimedefang

[Mimedefang] Little help with no checks for AUTH users on 587

2013-11-21 Thread Ben Kamen
Hey all, I need a little quick help -- in my mimedefang milter, what can I put in to bypass checking emails being relayed by my server submitted on 587 by authorized users?? Thanks, -Ben ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate

[Mimedefang] What about DKIM

2013-03-27 Thread Ben Kamen
Hey all, Now that we've see/talked some stats on SPF... I'd be interested to know what anyone might have to offer on DKIM usefulness. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net

Re: [Mimedefang] Spammers - was Re: md_check_against_smtp_server and md_graphdefang_log

2013-03-27 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2013-03-27 8:49 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: Welcome to the IT industry... a giant pile of fail. Amen to that! -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net http://www.benjammin.net

Re: [Mimedefang] Slightly OT: SpamAssassin freemail check data

2013-03-25 Thread Ben Kamen
Am 25.03.2013 04:42, schrieb Ben Kamen: The way I understand it, it does neither of the two. You have to specify them all yourself in the config file as described in the initial comment of FreeMail.pm: ### Supported .cf clauses: # # freemail_domains domain ... # #List of domains to be used

[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: SpamAssassin freemail check data

2013-03-25 Thread Ben Kamen
(through sa "learn").. Thanks, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net http://www.benjammin.net Fortune says: Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to pur

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Kamen
outers, and if the DKIM rules are enabled. Mike, that's a most excellent observation|tech tip! Thanks! -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net http://www.be

Re: [Mimedefang] ADMINISTRIVIA: Re: Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 2:09 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Hi, all, I've had a request to end this thread as it's off-topic and I tend to agree. Let's let it go. I thought it was interesting - but agree. I have a couple more emails queued before this one. This will be my last on the subject. Cheers, -

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 2:08 PM, John Nemeth wrote: On Jan 7, 7:40am, Ben Kamen wrote: } } These were seasoned/experience MAIL ADMINs... Some people have ten years of experience, others have one year of experience repeated nine times. Or, in this case, one month of experience repeated 119 times

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
Curiosity question for Todd and Jon, At this point in the game with people moving to very web based mail operation, are there any compelling reasons are there to stick with Exchange in the future? (other than legacy setup and a new learning curve?) And have your companies considered moving to

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 1:52 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: If you pick a random Exchange admin from the whole population, you're more likely to end up with an incompetent one than if you try the same thing with Sendmail admins, for the simple reasons that Sendmail is less popular than Exchange and it requires

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:08:34 -0400 "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: A) Microsoft's Active Directory Domains pre-date the general concept of Internet Domains. Not possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory I had an official internet email address in 1989 when I was on GEnie Informatio

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:41 PM, Jon Rowlan wrote: Did I miss something? I forgot to conclude... For YOU: you sort of did miss something.. but not in a bad way. You have experience far beyond your Exchange brethren. It's a good thing. I wouldn't be upset I didn't "get that one"... -Ben p.s. I als

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:41 PM, Jon Rowlan wrote: As I run exchange and sendmail/MD systems I thought I would see why the exchange bods were being bashed again ... Did I miss something? Sort of. And it's because you run sendmail/MD systems (most importantly, not exchange). My best story on exchange

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:05 PM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Ben wrote on 08/17/2012 12:39:45 PM: Not a whole lot you can do for them. Lately, my attitude runs towards "Just because you can install Exchange doesn't mean you know what you're doing." And I've run into those types... They're scary. -Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 4:29 AM, Nathan Findley wrote: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? I am finding myself being berated by the other systems admin for my "unconventional" methods in trying to

Re: [Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-08-03 Thread Ben Kamen
dentify the username. I looked at the PDF and there's banners obscuring some of the article body (just an FYI) but I'll read it more closely. Thanks again KAM, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eM

Re: [Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-08-03 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-02 4:37 PM, John Nemeth wrote: http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2005-April/026563.html http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2005-September/028147.html http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2006-June/030475.html http://lists.roaringpen

Re: [Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-08-01 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-01 7:22 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:23:33 -0500 Ben Kamen wrote: But what's weird is that I updated /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf with my settings and that seems to be the one in use even You probably need to do "md-mx-ctrl reread" to hav

Re: [Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-01 1:23 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: On 2012-08-01 12:55 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: If _you_ (aka your filter) pass ~dest_user/.spamassassin/user_prefs as userprefs_filename to SpamAssassin, yes. If not, no. Per default MIMEDefang uses a global config file, one for all: if (!defined

Re: [Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Kamen
't see any place explicitly calling out ~dest_user/.spamassassin/userprefs in any form (still looking) is it normally a default that it's added to SA or does it need to be specified? Thanks Steffen, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -

[Mimedefang] sanity Check: MD -> SpamAssassing checks ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Kamen
Quick yes/no... when using SA though MD, does SA still check the user_prefs (for white/blacklisting) in the destination user's homedir/.spamassassin/ directory? I whitelisted *@domain.com and just got an email still marked as spam by SA. Thanks, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T.

[Mimedefang] MIMEdefang Plugins for Munin

2012-07-23 Thread Ben Kamen
Just curious -- has anyone written any plugins to plot history information from mime-defang to Munin? -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net http://www.benjammin.net

Re: [Mimedefang] DKIM In MIMEdefang

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-07-16 3:23 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:18:22 -0500 Ben Kamen wrote: We use Mail::DKIM directly from MIMEDefang to sign messages. Erm, so if you would please elaborate a little further... We have a little routine like this in our filter: sub dkim_sign

Re: [Mimedefang] DKIM In MIMEdefang

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-07-16 3:03 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:31:05 -0500 Ben Kamen wrote: So I'd like to do DKIM now and I see where I do the signing part in sendmail -- but was curious what the best way to do it with mime-defang was -- through SpamAssassin (and then add checks

[Mimedefang] DKIM In MIMEdefang

2012-07-14 Thread Ben Kamen
-- through SpamAssassin (and then add checks in MD or let SA do all the work?) If any of you played and found good/bad things to do/avoid -- I'd like to hear that too. Thanks, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b..

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Intro to Regular Expressions

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Kamen
sions I love Regexp's! And I definitely know people who might like to see this. Thanks! -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMail: b...@benjammin.net http://www.ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Let the Fishing begin

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-06-07 1:05 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:41:53 -0500 Ben Kamen wrote: Has anyone else seen an increase since the breach? Not really. But interestingly, I've seen a few emails to my theoretically secret former LinkedIn address. These are in my logs from b

[Mimedefang] Let the Fishing begin

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Kamen
since the leak, I've definitely seen an immediate uptick in fishing to my email address. Well... Maybe not. ;) Has anyone else seen an increase since the breach? -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. -- eMa

Re: [Mimedefang] FYI: LinkedIn MIMEDefang group is gone

2012-06-06 Thread Ben Kamen
tence... Thankfully, LinkedIn uses a reasonably unique password unlike anywhere else I run on the web. But the incompetence.. ugh... I want to shout, "what is wrong with these companies" --- but I already know the answer. It's not pretty. In fact, it's pretty depressing. (sigh

Re: [Mimedefang] Only MX record is fake

2011-11-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2011-11-17 3:05 PM, d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: Those people checking for valid MX records for a sender's domain from within MIMEdefang ... is anybody checking if a sender's one and only MX record is a fake MX tempfailing service? Has anyone ever seen this type of setup for legitimate e-mai

Re: [Mimedefang] MIME::Tools 5.501 has been released

2011-02-22 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2/22/2011 5:34 PM, James Ralston wrote: CentOS 5 (rebranded RHEL5) is freely available, and plays reasonably nicely in a VM: http://www.centos.org/ I've been running CentOS over the last year and have been looking to replace my current RH-Fedora server with it. -Ben -- Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Email 101

2010-03-16 Thread Ben Kamen
(although possibly not a '101' subject) the TXT record used for things like SPF? (although maybe no longer relevant) This is nice. I'm going to link it on my website. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = E

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 that

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 up

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

2010-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
hings. Windows patchs might fix things... O it might be installing covert windows software that allow Microsoft, the NSA, SOME government with monetary stake in MS or, or even the execs in HOLLYWOOD to wreak control of your PC and it's content. Grrrr... -Ben -- Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Choice of desktop OS

2010-02-14 Thread Ben Kamen
Sorry for my delay'd jump in... I agree with the concept of not having a linux system around, but I can also see how it's possible to have a system without a GUI around. The GUI's suck a lot of performance and while on a sort of "admin only" box, it's nice to save the space. So I have a mix.

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.68-BETA-4 is released

2010-02-03 Thread Ben Kamen
lling off zombie child..." to something possibly more PC/less offensive. Ha! --Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net Fortune says: Once, there

Re: [Mimedefang] Spam ethics question

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Kamen
I've been using spampoison.com of late. Kinda makes me laugh. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammi

Re: [Mimedefang] Spam ethics question

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Kamen
On 1/14/2010 4:12 PM, - wrote: I had that for a bit where my low priority MX host was routed to self and SBC (Ameritech) used to reject any email from as their servers knew the seconday/low-priority route was bogus. Poo. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P

Re: [Mimedefang] Spam ethics question

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Kamen
;ll run into a honeypot sooner or later and get DNS-BL'd by one of the bigger lists. (and then trickle down) -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benja

Re: [Mimedefang] Obscuring email addresses on the web

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Kamen
). Coupled with the fact that their directory listing is so easy to crawl.. I'm screwed. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net As se

Re: [Mimedefang] Obscuring email addresses on the web

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Kamen
and they get endless pages of bogus email addy's -- a lot at domains of known spammers. Fun! -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net As seen so

Re: [Mimedefang] Blocking Dictionary Attacks

2009-06-09 Thread Ben Kamen
That reminds me, I lost my sendmail blackhole script when my server crashed last year... I think some people asked me for it -- if you still have a copy you could email me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, -Ben ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer o

Re: [Mimedefang] PDF vulnerability

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Kamen
David F. Skoll wrote: I think I'll stick to "xpdf" for now. Yay xpdf!! -ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net As seen somew

Re: [Mimedefang] PDF vulnerability

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Kamen
; Turning off Javascript and looking for a patch that doesn't require downloading iTunes or QuickTime. (snicker) -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Blocking Port 25

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Kamen
Again, wider general populous of admins are clueless when it comes to which ones to block. It's really kinda sad. -Ben -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.ne

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Blocking Port 25

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Kamen
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 1/29/07, Ben Kamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yea, I meant to control port 25 egress from nets like Cable/DSL/Dialup users... Me, personally, I'd hate it. I can deliver mail faster and more reliably (from past experience) than my ISP. When that's

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Blocking Port 25

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Kamen
David F. Skoll wrote: Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Err, How would my server deliver normal, legitimate email to your servers addressed to you, etc. I suspect Ben meant: "What's the consensus on blocking outbound port 25 for home users? (DSL/Cable-Modem/Dialup)" Yea, I meant to control port 25 e

[Mimedefang] OT: Blocking Port 25 (was: On pinheaded ISP's)

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Kamen
odd? the telco's are some of the worst for sourcing spam.) -Ben -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net The trouble with doing something right the first time is th

Re: [Mimedefang] IMAP

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Kamen
Kenneth Porter wrote: Why support a free protocol with a quality implementation when you can *sell* them your proprietary alternative?! (Ie. Exchange.) The IMAP mail list has eluded to the same thing. ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other l

Re: [Mimedefang] IMAP

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Kamen
ith some amount of pith only to incite Mark Crispin having to explain exactly WHY IMAP didn't work so well due to (specific examples) MS's lack of adherence to the protocol. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. == Email: bk

Re: [Mimedefang] regex filter unwanted words

2007-01-23 Thread Ben Kamen
Communications -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net The ornaments of our house are the friends that frequent it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mimedefang] (slightly) OT: Sendmail vs. Qmail

2007-01-19 Thread Ben Kamen
uessing TLS with qmail still hasn't been fixed. So I've adjusted the access file accordingly to not even try... Has anyone else ever looking into why Qmail has such TLS problems with Sendmail? Just curious... -Ben -- Ben Kamen ==

Re: [Mimedefang] filtering words from the subject line

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Kamen
very greatfull for an example. Keyword filtering is a VERY dangerous thing. We can't stress strongly enough how it can generate a LOT of false positives. -Ben -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: OT: New Attack/Poor SPAMming programming?

2007-01-12 Thread Ben Kamen
;what can I do about it". I've been using sendmail for about 11yrs now. However, I do like the fact that the link you provided shows a practical example (I'm sure there's many).. which is always fun to read. Anyway - thank

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: New Attack/Poor SPAMming programming?

2007-01-11 Thread Ben Kamen
d thanks for putting up with a post like that here. The sendmail list is usually clogged with much more neophyte admins asking how to get sendmail running... -Ben -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net

[Mimedefang] OT: New Attack/Poor SPAMming programming?

2007-01-11 Thread Ben Kamen
Has anyone noticed this? I'm seeing a lot of open connections in Sendmail like this: sendmail: server 71-10-225-162.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [71.10.225.162] cmd read They eventually time out... but still... it's consuming connections. any thoughts? --

Re: [Mimedefang] Outlook Calendar invitations and Mimedefang

2006-12-15 Thread Ben Kamen
ingpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.ben

Re: [Mimedefang] the smell of spam and the roar of the penquin ...

2006-11-16 Thread Ben Kamen
Gary Funck wrote: Something like that ... Congrats, David, and thanks for all your work and contributions to MIMEDefang. http://webcast.sys-con.com/general/registerpenguin.htm Webinar: Thursday, November 17, 2006 - 2:00 PM EST Weird. I thought today was the 16th? -Ben -- Ben Kamen

[Mimedefang] eMail Allowed Sender mechs

2006-11-07 Thread Ben Kamen
Ok, so I just emailed someone at earthlink and got one of those annoying auto-messages that say I have to go through their verification process to get my email to the subscriber... Besides the fact I dislike these mechs, the only reason I can think of that they are bad is that if I ALSO had such

Re: [Mimedefang] [OT] Named Question

2006-08-22 Thread Ben Kamen
Oh yea, sorry - forwarders for bind. :D Jason Bertoch wrote: In short, I don't know how to configure bind to always query another nameserver rather than use the root servers. Any hints? regards, KAM Use the "forwarders" option in named.conf.

Re: [Mimedefang] [OT] Named Question

2006-08-22 Thread Ben Kamen
iling list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang -- Ben Kamen = Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net Tonight's the ni

[Mimedefang] Filtering unreasonable email dates

2006-07-07 Thread Ben Kamen
While I realize it wouldn't kill a lot of Spam, I still get ones that are dated more than +-2weeks. (more like >1year) Is anyone doing this, do you think it's worth while and would you be willing to share your filter code for this? -Ben ___ NOTE: I

[Mimedefang] Re: Knowing Perl

2006-06-23 Thread Ben Kamen
Kris Deugau wrote: > > I regularly horrify *myself* with code I wrote six months ago. > > "What was I smoking, and where can I get a fresh supply?!?" > Don't worry - I've seen expert PERL programmers horrified by code they wrote 3 weeks prior... PERL is ju

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: www. and "lazy users" (was Re: DNS and MX records)

2006-05-15 Thread Ben Kamen
As a sidenote, I do remember reading (although I can't remember where) that it's considered bad form to assign an IP address to a domain. IP's should be assigned to hosts... Anyone else ever read that? I can't remember if it was an RFC or what. -Ben -- Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] DNS and MX records

2006-05-14 Thread Ben Kamen
les this method (port based mapping) as well as a full IP to IP mapping just fine. But I don't know all the needs you have - just thought I would mention it. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. == Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
ail - see http://antispam.imp.ch/03-wormlist.html, $&{client_addr} is infected with a virus or worm !', `t', `127.0.0.4.') The comma after .html shouldn't be there. Sendmail barks about too many args for `len'.

[Mimedefang] [WAY OT] As a punchline to the baby bells

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
amusement than anything) to call the phone company to let them know they are transmitting bad CallerID data. Wanna know how many people understood what I was talking about? (I spoke to like 3 supervisors). You guess it - Zero. Hahaha... -Ben -- Ben Kam

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
finding a person who enjoys paying taxes.) Happy Trails, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net ___ NOTE: If

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
ir solution: I should buy a new DSL modem. My Solution: I cancelled my account. I spend enough time on the computer at work. :) We won't even get into the whole process of canceling my service and all the problems I had th

[Mimedefang] [Slightly OT, but good to know] Danger Will Robinson!

2006-04-27 Thread Ben Kamen
pretty far reaching problem. There is also a discussion going on over at Google about this problem. ... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/24/1538205 -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylist-busting ratware?

2006-04-21 Thread Ben Kamen
raining down on your cubicle.. (ala "Geek Squad" in not so sheik bugs) I could see an ISP just blocking you out until you fix it... And in all three, maybe they just stop your port 587 submissions and make you use some form of web mail. Lots of potentials for that one, -Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Attention Yahoo subscribers

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Kamen
US to deliver your email Let AOL and Yahoo email each other. ;) -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net ___ NOTE: If

Re: [Mimedefang] AD: Roaring Penguin webinar...

2006-03-24 Thread Ben Kamen
No need to apologize. You're hosting the list and we are just happy as can be that you do so and that we have access your brain. ;) Thanks as always, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mimedefang] What is this Mimedefang/Sendmail error?

2006-03-08 Thread Ben Kamen
Check the permissions and mode bits of the directory... then compare that to what user your sendmail system is running as and if that user has rwx access to the dir. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. == Email: bkamen AT

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Justifying greylisting to management

2006-03-01 Thread Ben Kamen
David F. Skoll wrote: Web browsing, P2P and FTP probably swamp e-mail. FTP? You mean people still use that? ;) ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http:

Re: [Mimedefang] Repeated attempts with different sender and IP whengreylisting

2006-02-17 Thread Ben Kamen
is. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above mess

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Don't let this happen to you

2006-02-15 Thread Ben Kamen
Ben Kamen wrote: I don't run PGP on this box... (laffin) Er, that's PHP... (hey, I was one letter off... you all knew what I meant! :) ) -Ben ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NUL

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Don't let this happen to you

2006-02-15 Thread Ben Kamen
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:13 -0600, Ben Kamen wrote: Speaking of which, I saw these in my logs today... "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /blog/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /blog/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Don't let this happen to you

2006-02-15 Thread Ben Kamen
Speaking of which, I saw these in my logs today... "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /blog/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /blog/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /drupal/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 500 256 "POST /phpgroupware/xmlrpc.ph

Re: [Mimedefang] Why does MIMEDefang strip .VCFs

2006-02-10 Thread Ben Kamen
good chuckle this morning. :) -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerp

Re: [Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

2006-01-19 Thread Ben Kamen
Lisa Casey wrote: I think moving /var/spool/MIMEDefang onto a RAMdisk is a good idea. I've not set up a RAMdisk before, but I've done some googling and think I can get it done. Question: I have 512 MG RAM on the system. Say I decrease MX_MAXIMUM to 15, how big should I make the RAMdisk? W

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail vs. Qmail

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Kamen
John Barton wrote: Ben Kamen wrote: Does anyone know of any TLS issues with Qmail Servers talking to Sendmail? I seem to have 1 server I send emails to that consistently have TLS handshake problems. It's the ONLY server I see problems like that with.. So I'm not thinking it&

[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail vs. Qmail

2006-01-16 Thread Ben Kamen
Does anyone know of any TLS issues with Qmail Servers talking to Sendmail? I seem to have 1 server I send emails to that consistently have TLS handshake problems. It's the ONLY server I see problems like that with.. So I'm not thinking it's me. Thoughts? -Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Full vs Half duplex

2006-01-11 Thread Ben Kamen
Well, besides being completely off-topic for this list, you should set speed and duplex to AUTO if available. Unless you have a 100Mbs SWITCH (not hub, there's a difference) to plug it into, manually setting the duplex to full will gain you nothing and possibly wreak havoc on the network. For

Re: [Mimedefang] dictionary attacks looking for a valid user

2005-12-16 Thread Ben Kamen
lot of attacks that don't use multiple recipients in one transaction... they figured that one out... so they do one per connection... That's why I added it to the "null route" program instead. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. =

Re: [Mimedefang] dictionary attacks looking for a valid user

2005-12-15 Thread Ben Kamen
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:05:45PM -0600, Alex Moore wrote: A spammer tries many times to find a user with something like a dictionary attack or a list of commonly used user names. How can I setup a rule in MIMEDefang to define those transactions? Say when a smtp serv

Re: Even sillier disclaimers (was Re:[Mimedefang] defang startuperrors)

2005-12-12 Thread Ben Kamen
Mack wrote: What about changing the SMTP Greeting to say that by communicating with this server you accept it's terms and conditions and by communicating with it you accept that any other disclaimersr are null and voidified (is that a word?) O - I like that. What an interesting concept..

Re: Even sillier disclaimers (was Re: [Mimedefang] defang startuperrors)

2005-12-12 Thread Ben Kamen
Hahahahahahahha... You are very funny... You forgot the "this disclaimer trumphs all times infinity" part... -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. == Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.ben

Re: Even sillier disclaimers (was Re: [Mimedefang] defang startup errors)

2005-12-11 Thread Ben Kamen
I agree with you David. The Disclaimers are getting out of control. You are right about unsubscribing people from the list who append such rediculous legalese.. -Ben begin:vcard fn:Ben Kamen n:Kamen;Ben adr:;;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:O.D.T. - S.P. x-mozilla-html:FALSE u

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