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

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

[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 Full Name field? (like mine is Ben Kamen -- so

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 turn it off. What's the config option so

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 bka...@benjammin.net 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

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

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

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 bka...@benjammin.net 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

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 bka...@benjammin.net 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

[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

[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 http

[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: SpamAssassin freemail check data

2013-03-25 Thread Ben Kamen
-- 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 pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion

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

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Kamen
, 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.benjammin.net

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] 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 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

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 also

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:08:34 -0400 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com 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

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

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 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] 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] 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

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 bka...@benjammin.net 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 have

[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., S.P

[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 3:03 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:31:05 -0500 Ben Kamen bka...@cornelius.benjammin.net 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

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 bka...@cornelius.benjammin.net 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

[Mimedefang] DKIM In MIMEdefang

2012-07-14 Thread Ben Kamen
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...@benjammin.net

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Intro to Regular Expressions

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Kamen
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.benjammin.net

[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. -- eMail: b

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 bka...@benjammin.net 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

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

2012-06-06 Thread Ben Kamen
... 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) -Ben -- Ben Kamen

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

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 Kamen

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. = Email: bkamen

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

2010-02-16 Thread Ben Kamen
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. G... -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P

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 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

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

2010-02-03 Thread Ben Kamen
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 was NO fun

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] Obscuring email addresses on the web

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Kamen
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 somewhere on the net: My other

Re: [Mimedefang] Obscuring email addresses on the web

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Kamen
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 seen somewhere on the net: My other computer is your Windows Server

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

Re: [Mimedefang] PDF vulnerability

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Kamen
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.benjammin.net As seen

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 somewhere on the net

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 not an option I

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Blocking Port 25

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Kamen
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.net Alex Haley was adopted

Re: [Mimedefang] IMAP

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Kamen
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: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net

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

Re: [Mimedefang] regex filter unwanted words

2007-01-23 Thread Ben Kamen
Communications www.speed.net -- 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
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 = Email: bkamen AT benjammin

Re: [Mimedefang] filtering words from the subject line

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Kamen
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 Web

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

2007-01-12 Thread Ben Kamen
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 - thanks, -Ben -- Ben Kamen

[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? -- Ben Kamen

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

2007-01-11 Thread Ben Kamen
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 Web: http://www.benjammin.net Remember

Re: [Mimedefang] Outlook Calendar invitations and Mimedefang

2006-12-15 Thread Ben Kamen
mailing 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 She missed an invaluable

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

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. -- Ben Kamen

Re: [Mimedefang] [OT] Named Question

2006-08-22 Thread Ben Kamen
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 night: Sleep

[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:

[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 just like that. -Ben -- Ben Kamen

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 Kamen - O.D.T., S.P

Re: [Mimedefang] DNS and MX records

2006-05-14 Thread Ben Kamen
(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 net Web: http

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
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 there. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

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

Re: [Mimedefang] Another silly idea

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Kamen
://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'. Just FYI, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P

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

2006-04-27 Thread Ben Kamen
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] http://www.benjammin.net

Re: [Mimedefang] Greylist-busting ratware?

2006-04-21 Thread Ben Kamen
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. shrug Lots of potentials for that one, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P

Re: [Mimedefang] Attention Yahoo subscribers

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Kamen
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

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 PROTECTED

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

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

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

2006-02-17 Thread Ben Kamen
As I read these emails and look at the measures which we must take to prevent/ward-off the chaos inflicted on our systems I think to myself, Oh yea.. those anti-spam laws in the US are working just fabulous! (sigh) My sympathies to all of us out there having to cope with this. -Ben -- Ben

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.php HTTP/1.1

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 POST /blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1 500

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 NULL AND VOID

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?

[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] 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's me. I

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

2005-12-16 Thread Ben Kamen
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. == Email: bkamen

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

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.benjammin.net

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

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

[Mimedefang] Which is worse?

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Kamen
These spammers go through all this trouble to send us this crap... The bayesian poisoning. The images with the message. Inviso-type... the list goes on... The one I've been seeing lately is a big text of jargon with an .jpg of a topless lady with a stud in the backround that says in the

Re: [Mimedefang] Which is worse?

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Kamen
Dave Williss wrote: The one I've been seeing lately is a big text of jargon with an .jpg of a topless lady with a stud in the backround that says in the image She's dreaming about a strong man... click to find out more and you can't click it! U And you tried to click on the

Re: [Mimedefang] Which is worse?

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Kamen
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:59:10PM -0700, Ben Kamen wrote: I was mousing over it to point it out to my friend and noticed the cursor didn't change... i.e. the a href= tag was missing or malformed... So we laughed. But have you tried it with the most common

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Ben Kamen
is that's what seems to be crapping on the net lately. I got few of those - but not too many... Interesting notes... thanks.. begin:vcard fn:Ben Kamen n:Kamen;Ben adr:;;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:O.D.T. - S.P. x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.benjammin.net/ version:2.1

[Mimedefang] [OT] bogus (?) SBL listing

2005-11-23 Thread Ben Kamen
SORBS is presently listing my IP space (/29) inside a TDSmetro static allocation (69.128.98.0/24). TDS knows. SORBS has an email into them. But other places are now falsely blocking me.. If any of you are having problems for no apparent reason, this might be why and I thought I would share

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: vacation as autoresponder for non-user

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Kamen
I figured it out... works pretty well.. TTFN, -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 url:http://www.benjammin.net/ version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Visit

[Mimedefang] OT: vacation as autoresponder for non-user

2005-11-17 Thread Ben Kamen
Anyone ever do this with vacation? Please let me know offlist, I can't quite make this work the way it should seem to do it.. Thanks, -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

[Mimedefang] OT: Aliases | message processing

2005-11-01 Thread Ben Kamen
Has anyone ever written a script to process email's from the aliases file via | command? I know this is little OT, but the sendmail list is usually bogged. I'd like to make a bouncer and another script to forward from a non-user email addy to me and respond back to the original sender. (which

[Mimedefang] Thoughts and a little help..

2005-10-27 Thread Ben Kamen
I've been noticing SPAM coming in tagged with the date of like 1/29/2003 has anyone else been seeing this?? So I thought it might be prudent to have a rule in mimedefang that bounces a message older than what most queues would have long since given up on..like a month. Does this info (the

Re: [Mimedefang] MX - 127.0.0.1

2005-09-13 Thread Ben Kamen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, this case http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040412/069931.html is rapidly falling out of favor. In fact, ibase.com has fixed that somewhat. I'm worried in particular about the novice Exchange admin who has misconfigured his Active Directory

Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Email web form exploits

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Kamen (mobile)
I have similar online scripts I wrote but included timed posting limits... i.e. No more than 5 per IP per 24hr period... You may want to consider implementing similar safeguards.. --Ben -- Ben Kamen - www.benjammin.net ___ Visit http

[Mimedefang] Spam's in Base64

2005-09-03 Thread Ben Kamen
I'm noticing a lot more spams coming through base64 encoded lately... does mimedefang decde and then filter or filter then decode? Otherwise, that would make all the filters kinda useless... anyone? Thanks, -Ben ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org

Re: [Mimedefang] smtp spoofing

2005-06-02 Thread Ben Kamen
David F. Skoll wrote: Super-Dome wrote: how can i disallow use of my domain from outside network using *From address of my domain. You cannot. Really... hehehe... that's what SPF was for to a large extent... but since you can't FORCE ISP's and companies to hire admins instead of

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