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Hash: SHA1
Hello,
MIMEDefang 2.76 is available at http://www.mimedefang.org/download
(Yes, we are still actually doing MD development! :))
Changelog follows.
Regards,
David.
2015-03-27 David F. Skoll
* MIMEDefang 2.76 RELEASED
2015-03-24 David F
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:39:59 -0400
Joseph Brennan wrote:
> if (open(IN, '<', './INPUTMSG')) {
> while () {
> # stuff it into a variable?
> }
> close(IN);
That works, as does this which does it all in
one slurp and avoids repeated string appends:
my $slurped;
if (open(IN, '<', '.
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:13:54 -0400
Scott Galambos wrote:
> What is the easiest way to extract a copy of the text body of a
> message (INPUTMSG) into a variable?
A couple of good starting points:
man MIME::Entity
man MIME::Body
and of course:
man mimedefang-filter
Regards,
David.
_
Hi,
This line:
> Mar 5 16:36:16 ant sm-mta[3694]: t25GaFwa003694: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> relay=hostname.roaringpenguin.com [x.x.x.x], discard
indicates that you have a DISCARD entry somewhere in your access
map (probably /etc/mail/access)
Regards,
David.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:17:42 -0500 (EST)
Justin Edmands wrote:
> I wanted to know if I could use mimedefang to strip
> out .DOC, .DOCX, .XLS, and .XLSX files (or any applicable file type)
> if they contain a macro.
Yes. Stripping attachments is explained in the mimedefang-filter page.
The impor
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:26:17 -0500
John Von Essen wrote:
> Would
> Connect:IPv4 REJECT
> Also work?
No. Sendmail only prefixes IPv6 addresses, not IPv4.
I can't understand why you don't simply use iptables rules or the
equivalent; it's far simpler and more efficient.
Regards,
David
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:29:16 -0500
"John Von Essen" wrote:
> But yes, I never even thought of that, I could use MD on the mail
> server and implement the reject/allow logic. I was just trying to see
> if there was a native way to do it in sendmail. If I had 2nd NICs on
> all the servers, I could
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:19:34 -0500
John Von Essen wrote:
> Any thoughts, the filtering gateways only have 1 NIC. Worst case, I
> can put a firewall on the mail server, but I didn’t want to have to
> do that. Is there a way to make sendmail deny everything by default?
You're using MIMEDefang, rig
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:13:31 -
"Steve Hanselman" wrote:
> I've just run strace over a session and it would appear that
> spamassassin modifies the umask, which probably explains the issue (it
> also depends which tests you have enabled in spamassassin if you grep
> the tree).
What version of
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:41:14 -0700
Peter Nagel wrote:
[Some very good comments]
Yes, I can see how MIMEDefang misbehaves if you're trying to sign
something. I'll definitely look at fixing the behaviour.
Regards,
David.
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:00:51 -0500
Anne Bennett wrote:
> In the meantime, are there any well-known and recommended
> modules that I could add to MIMEDefang to help with this?
Sure. Mail::DKIM::Signer if you want to DKIM-sign your mail.
Our MIMEDefang filter contains this routine:
use Mail::DK
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:51:14 -0500
"Dale Moore" wrote:
> The routine in sendmail/srvrstmp.c where I suspect the bug
> resides is a small 2800 lines long.
Ah, you think it's 2800 lines long. Run it through the C preprocessor to
expand all the horrible macros.
The MILTER_REPLY macro alone is mor
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:01:27 +0100
Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> It turns out that $Sender isn't the email address of From: header in
> those cases, instead $Sender is set to the email address of the
> Return-Path header.
Strictly speaking, $Sender is whatever the other end used in the
MAIL From:<...>
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 13:06:29 -0500
"Dale Moore" wrote:
> Client: Helo naughtywords
> Mimedefang filter_helo: return('REJECT', 'I do not like
> naughtywords'); Server: 220 somehost.cs.cmu.edu Hello
> someclient.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.x.x], pleased to meet you
> Client: Mail From:
> Mimedefang filter_se
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:13 -0500
Ben Kamen wrote:
> What's the config option so that sendmail accepts mail to a user's
> "Full Name" field?
There's a really ancient Sendmail configuration directive that makes it
look at the gecos field of /etc/passwd.
define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`true')dnl
htt
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:49:10 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> From looking at the code, I think maybe I should have a return
> status on my function so I've added return 0; If I'm right, I think
> perhaps the man page could be a bit more effusive on that point?
Well, it currently reads:
Th
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:12:42 -0400
"Dale Moore" wrote:
> I will have some patches I would like to submit.
> Where should I submit them?
Please post them to this list; I'll grab them. If they are large,
then please send directly to me at
Regards,
David.
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:17:13 -0500
Richard Laager wrote:
> Is there a virus scanner you'd recommend for use with MIMEDefang on
> Linux?
No, not really. I'd recommend not running Windows which reduces your
exposure to viruses by 99%.
And rather than any sort of virus scanner, I'd simply block a
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:33:44 +0100 (BST)
"G.W. Haywood" wrote:
> In my opinion ClamAV is more or less useless for anything other than
> the phishing signatures etc. for which I use it.
Seconded. ClamAV has become almost completely useless since the
Sourcefire and then Cicso acquisition. It's a
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:26:30 -0600
Nels Lindquist wrote:
> Has anyone done much on this front? If so, what's your experience?
I experimented with Sane Security signatures. They are far better
than the official ClamAV signatures (which are next to useless), but I
would stick to the virus ones.
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:08:31 +0200
Frank Doepper wrote:
> Unfortunately saslauthd does not log the IP address.
Ah. This apparently is a long-standing problem:
http://objectmix.com/sendmail/760733-getting-ip-address-failed-authentications.html
I believe if you increase the Sendmail log level t
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:40:42 +0200
Frank Doepper wrote:
> is there a way to detect a failed smtp auth in Milter?
No, not as far as I know. If you want to block brute-force attacks,
your best bet is something like fail2ban.
http://www.fail2ban.org/
Regards,
David.
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:43:44 -0400
Anne Bennett wrote:
> But that uses a global variable that assumes that the same
> slave will be used for the filter_begin and filter_end calls
> - I thought we were supposed to be very careful about such
> global variables.
In the mimedefang-filter(5) man page
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:12:03 +0200
Marcus Schopen wrote:
> I'd like to use "action_quarantine_entire_message" for messages
> containing attachments with bad_filename, but not sure where to place
> the quarantine command. Is "sub filter_bad_filename" the right place?
You can do it there, or you
Hi,
There is apparently some demand for a systemd unit file for MIMEDefang:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789768
I replied to that ticket at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789768#c10
If anyone is using MIMEDefang on a Linux distro that uses systemd and
would like to h
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:50:53 -0400
Justin Edmands wrote:
> From a combination of your responses I was able to shed some light on
> a few things.
Also, make sure that your filter explicitly sets:
$SALocalTestsOnly = 0;
Otherwise, all of the network tests (URIBL, DNSBL, etc.) are disabled.
Hello,
> MIMEDefang can check the message during relay phase. This is the
> ability of Milter.
We have answered your questions to the best of our ability. Please do not
post any followups on this list; the topic is closed.
Regards,
David.
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NOTE: I
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:58:03 +0700
Cương Bùi wrote:
> Could you tell me why?
The Sendmail milter implementation only allows filtering for mail that
comes into the MTA via SMTP. Once a message is in the queue, it's too late.
Regards,
David.
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NOTE:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:32:18 +0700
Cương Bùi wrote:
> I've done some tests. I found that OpenEMM just creates email files
> and puts it into queue.
Well, you need to get OpenEMM not to do that. MIMEDefang can only
see messages that come in via SMTP. So you need to take up this issue
with the O
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Hello,
MIMEDefang 2.75 is available at http://www.mimedefang.org/download
Not too many changes...
Regards,
David.
2014-05-21 David F. Skoll
* MIMEDefang 2.75 RELEASED
* Many cosmetic improvements to watch-multiple
On Wed, 21 May 2014 01:07:53 -0500
Cliff Hayes wrote:
> I don't know how long this has been going on but I just noticed that
> about 1% of emails going through our system are being assigned zero
> points/hits and blank tests/names.
Maybe those message actually don't hit any tests?
> I don't k
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:08:22 -0400
Jeffrey Starin wrote:
> We are new to perl and certainly MIMEdefang and could use some
> hand-holding.
If you are new to Perl, I strongly recommend hiring a contractor who
is familiar with Perl to do the work you need. What you want to do
is moderately complex
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:08:43 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> On a related note, anyone know a quick way to handle modifying
> subjects like this so I properly modify it?
> Important Mailing List Notification
> re:[=?utf-8?B?MjHkuJbnuqropoHkuYjnlLXlrZDllYbliqHvvIzopoHkuYjml6DllYblj6/liqHvvIE=?
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:32:48 -0400
Jeffrey Starin wrote:
> Can MIMEdefang extract from, subject and attachment to a database or
> otherwise parse it so another process can then examine those parts?
Yes, certainly.
All you need to do is supply the Perl code to make all of that happen. :)
Regard
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:30:49 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> We apologize for the inconvenience but the cause of the issue rests
> squarely and solely on your email provider. We recommend you
> consider a free Google account available at http://www.gmail.com/.
I like the logic but wonder wha
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:27:18 +
Michael Lazar wrote:
> 1) An email with an encrypted ZIP file is received
> 2) Copy the attachment and use action_external_filter to decrypt the
> attachment and re-compress it
> 3) Rename the new attachment to a static name (i.e. clear.zip)
> 3) Add the newly d
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:05:29 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> A standard for user interfaces??? What planet do you expect that to
> happen on?
which was more-or-less the response of the DMARC authors. I summarize
it as:
"The problem is too hard to fix correctly, so we will pretend to fix
it in a h
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:32:48 -0400
Joseph Brennan wrote:
> The madness has spread to AOL effective yesterday 4/22.
Ah well. The intersection of "AOL users" and "MIMEDefang members"
is empty. This is not entirely unexpected. :)
These moves, by the way, will have the effect of rendering DMARC c
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Hash: SHA1
Hello,
I regret to inform Yahoo users that they may no longer post to any mailing
list hosted on lists.roaringpenguin.com.
The reason is a recent policy change by Yahoo to their DMARC policy that
makes third-party servers reject mailing list traffic
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:35:19 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> - All the various recipients that acknowledge p=reject reject the
> mail as forged
That's the part I don't understand. Mail from my list will not have
a yahoo.com envelope sender. And if I remove the DKIM header, what basis
could t
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:27:58 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> However, we are seeing an issue with the change_sender(); function.
> Specifically, here's a test from my Yahoo! account to an autism
> mailing list. Even though smfi_chgfrom appears to have worked, when
> the email is parsed by mail
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:43:22 +0100
Lars Bjærris wrote:
> sub filter_relay {
>
> my ( $ip, $name, $helo) = @_;
> if (relay_is_blacklisted($ip, ‘zen.spamhaus.org’)) {
> return(‘REJECT’, ‘You are listed in zen.spamhaus.org’);
> }
> }
You don't return anything meanin
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:45:46 +
Andrew Watkins wrote:
> I should tighten up on our extension blocking.
Talking of extension blocking, I found a very nice tool called "lsar"
that's part of the "unar" package. This is packaged in Debian
("apt-get install unar") and source is available here:
h
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:46:49 -0400
wbr...@e1b.org wrote:
> We haven't seen an increase in virii detected by McAfee or Symantec
> on servers downstream from our CanIt system. Maybe that's because
> blocking the unsafe extensions kills them before we even call ClamAV.
I've attached the statistics
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
Jason Englander wrote:
> Personally and professionally I've used ClamAV (via clamd) for a
> long time. I actually used to be a "team member" pre-Cisco,
> pre-SourceFire.
Post-Cisco, ClamAV seems to have greatly declined in usefulness.
It catches hardly a
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:16:53 +0100 (CET)
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> use the Net::DNS resolver and query the blacklists. mimedefang.pl has
> the skeleton how to query.
I also maintain a nice CPAN module:
http://search.cpan.org/~dskoll/Net-DNSBL-Client-0.205/
that can help.
Regards,
David.
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:50:22 +0100
Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> main::rebuild_entity() called too early to check prototype
> at /usr/pkg/bin/mimedefang.pl line 805.
I have a patch in our git repo to fix this; just haven't done a new
MIMEDefang release yet.
diff --git a/mimedefang.pl.in b/mimedefang.
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:26:29 -0800
"Web Analysts" wrote:
> My own postings to one of my Mailman lists is being rejected. My
> outbound message is using my own SMTP server and Mailman is on the
> same fedora machine. How can I fix this? This is maddening
Well, something in your filter is calling a
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:30:35 -
"Jon Rowlan" wrote:
> It just makes sense for me to RBL check the sending servers because
> that is where the problem is and indeed we are finding these sending
> servers listed on RBL servers - ours does not seem to get blacklisted.
MIMEDefang is written in Pe
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:19:01 +0100 (CET)
Kees Theunissen wrote:
> I found this old message when I was searching my mailboxes for
> malformed "Content-Disposition" MIME headers.
> Note that the "name=" field in the Content-Disposition header above is
> also wrong. This should be a "filename=" fiel
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:53:41 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Which is definitely your prerogative. But if the software contains
> community contributed enhancements, fixes, etc. is that a reasonable
> decision to make unilaterally?
I do not care if it's reasonable or not. I am the malevolent
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:08:38 +0100 (CET)
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> > what would be a good way to implement rate-limiting for outbound
> > mails per sender e.g. 50 recipients per smtp_auth sender per hour?
> I do this in filter_begin. There I detect the sender, assign a
> "SenderID" based on differ
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:13:04 -0800
John Nemeth wrote:
[David Skoll]
> } The best way to make a platform fail is for developers to
> } boycott it.
> I'm certainly not a fan of the "walled garden" which is a
> major reason why I have an Android phone, but I'm pretty sure that
> ship has sailed
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 23:11:35 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > No technical reason, I suppose, but I have a giant hate-on for
> > Apple. :)
> >
> > http://david.skoll.ca/blog/2010-05-18-anti-apple.html
> You might be shooting yourself in the foot.
Shooting *myself* in the foot? How so? It's
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:17:19 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Is there an obvious reason that Mimedefang isn't used with MacOS?
No technical reason, I suppose, but I have a giant hate-on for Apple. :)
http://david.skoll.ca/blog/2010-05-18-anti-apple.html
Anyone is free to port MIMEDefang to M
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:27:15 +0545
Prabin Acharya wrote:
> I know my mail server is loose in terms of security
Well... you need to fix that first, don't you think?
Regards,
David.
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NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the a
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:28:51 +0100
Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> I like to use different configuration files for authenticated and
> non-authenticated users.
> ($hits, $req, $names, $report) =
> spam_assassin_check('/etc/mail/sa-mimedefang.cf');
MIMEDefang uses a persistent Mail::SpamAssassin ob
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:06:08 +0800
cc wrote:
> My question is, how come I couldn't find "This message ..."
> in mimedefang's sources?
Something in your filter is munging the email. You need to post your
filter for us to make any sense of what's going on.
Regards,
David.
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:48:01 +0100
Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Hmm, maybe you pointed me to the problem. Very strange, that this
> sometimes work even if it's not supposed to work. Well I guess I
> could store all changes via Storable and then pull them in
> filter_begin.
Yes, you will need to do t
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:23:17 +0100
Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> That's pretty weird now, because I have added an md_syslog
> instruction before those recipient changes dumping what is being
> changed so I know they are being run.
Where are you calling action_add_recipient? It can only be called
fro
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:35:11 +0100
Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Same result, only local delivery.
I'm not familiar with Postfix, but this does sound like a Postfix bug.
I would post on a Postfix list because I think most of the people on this
list are Sendmail users...
Regards,
David.
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:06:43 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> If I want to add a header via:
> $entity->head()->add('Received', "some-multiline-folded-text");
MIME::Head is really a Mail::Header and it wants to take care
of folding the line on your behalf. You have to give it a long unfolded
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 21:16:24 -0500
Scott Galambos wrote:
> Can anyone recommend some values for these on a new SMP 64bit server
> with about 6GB of memory and 8GB of swap? I don't know what to put
> here now. Maybe leave it unlimited?
I would leave it unlimited. Why are you attempting to l
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:46:13 -0500
Scott Galambos wrote:
> I specify values [for RSS_MAX, etc] and I get the following. Very
> strange.
The values you specify must be too low, then. If it fails when
you *don't* specify resource limits, maybe the default limits are
too low --- check the output
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:00:42 -0500
Scott Galambos wrote:
> Anyone seen this before?
> module DBI: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/DBI/DBI.so: failed to map
> segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
> at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
No, never. Our commercial CanIt system is b
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:24:53 -0700
Mark Costlow wrote:
> Is it OK to call read_commands_file() from filter_relay? When I do, I
> get this error:
Ah, no, sorry. I forgot... Sendmail does not assign a Queue-ID until
the MAIL FROM: stage.
> I think the man page said it can only be called from fi
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 you don't have to
write them.
Regards,
David.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:16:16 -0600
Ben Kamen wrote:
> > Nov 22 13:43:22 cornelius mimedefang.pl[11099]: rAMJhIGv015058:
> > Message contains more than one Subject: header: > subject line which I removed for this post>
You should not call read_commands_file from filter_end. It should only
be c
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:07:59 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Well, can we cheat? [about parsing Received: headers]
You can if you like.
Also, I don't think MIME::tools is the right place for that sort
of header parsing. I think it belongs in Mail::Header so you might
want to get in touch wit
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:25:24 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> does. Any chance of fixing new() and build() to allow one to set
> views like Content-Disposition, Content-Transfer-Encoding,
> MIME-Version, X-Mailer, etc. to undef and have that do the right
> thing?
Maybe... can you detect the di
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:15:03 -0700
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I was looking on CPAN for ARF modules, and just saw the
> Email::ARF::Report module by Ricardo Signes.
> Unfortunately, it uses Email::MIME which isn’t method-compatible with
> MIME::Entity (et al).
If you don't mind the bloat, you
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:30:17 -0500
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> 3 - Has anyone written description of all the extensions and a short
> what/why description? If not, I'll take a pass at it. (example
> below).
The bad filename extension list in the default MIMEDefang filter is
old, crufty, unmai
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:46:32 -0500
Richard Laager wrote:
> What's the best way to debug this?
Try setting $MaxMimeParts to 0 temporarily and seeing what falls
out of the logs.
I agree that the code is pretty ugly and we should have a proper way to
distinguish a parse error from a too-deeply-nes
Hi,
We've run into a malformed MIME virus that has a structure like this:
=
To: some...@example.com
Subject: Payroll Received by Intuit
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--boundary"
-
Hi, all,
Has anyone noticed that ClamAV does a pretty poor job lately of
catching viruses? Here are a few days' worth of statistics from a
reasonably-busy mail server cluster:
Total messages scanned: 25 814 586
Viruses detected by ClamAV: 32 147
Viruses missed b
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:39:19 +0200
jm130794 wrote:
> We found this message in Mailing List archive :
> http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2012-February/036486.html
That could be it. However, newer versions of MIMEDefang (as of
version 2.74) do not invoke smfi_setsymlist unless
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:13:10 +0200
jm130794 wrote:
> All works fine during few hours and suddenly, we get this error in
> logs :
> Milter (mimedefang): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
We run several very busy scanners on Squeeze and are
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Hash: SHA1
Hi, all,
I guess I should have flagged this release note as a potential
incompatibility:
> * Do not invokve smfi_setsymlist unless "-y" option to
> mimedefang is given. smfi_setsymlist leaks memory in versions
> of Sendmail prior t
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Hello,
MIMEDefang 2.74 is release and is available at
http://www.mimedefang.org/download
Changelog since 2.73 follows.
Regards,
David.
2013-05-27 David F. Skoll
* MIMEDefang 2.74 RELEASED
2013-05-25 David F. Skoll
* Increase
On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:35:28 +0200
Renaud Pascal wrote:
> well, after all wasn't SPF an idea from Microsoft, a gang of squares
> thinking they're geeks...
SPF was created by Meng Wong of pobox.com, not by Microsoft. Microsoft
had it's own invention called "Caller ID for Email" that was later
me
On Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:57 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Couple of questions: Is the SHA computed over the header or the
> entirety of the message?
Entire message.
> $dkim->PRINT($entity->as_string());
I'm not sure how that would handle SMTP line endings. It's been a while
since I wrote
On Thu, 09 May 2013 21:43:43 -0400
"Kevin A. McGrail" wrote:
> Thanks for that info. Out of interest, it doesn't look like you use
> ADSP. Any reason why or why not?
No reason; just never bothered. And I think ADSP has been downgraded
to "experimental" because DMARC is taking over.
> I'd als
On Thu, 9 May 2013 12:14:40 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> And DKIM support for verification is in SpamAssassin, but I'm not
> seeing any support for signing in MimeDefang.
It is very easy to add. Use the Mail::DKIM::Signer and Mail::DKIM::TextWrap
modules from CPAN. This is in our filter a
On Thu, 2 May 2013 16:55:38 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Would it be possible to add a flag that allows the parse_* methods to
> succeed in the absence of body text?
Nope, no plans to do that.
Regards,
David.
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On Thu, 2 May 2013 11:27:44 +0200
Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Now I miss some kind of command to do that within MIMEDefang. $sender
> is read only I assume.
If you are running Sendmail 8.14.0 or newer, you can call
change_sender(...) from filter_begin or filter_end. It's not supported
on Senmdil 8
On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:58:56 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:48 AM, David F. Skoll
> wrote:
> > DKIM is useful for letting you know that a message has been relayed
> > through a responsible organization's server.
> Since when did Y
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:39:57 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> How does one normally construct a MIME::Entity from the stream
> off-the-wire?
I use MIME::Entity->build(...), but I'll have a look at why
new(...) seems to be misbehaving.
Regards,
David.
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On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:50:21 -0500
tim wrote:
> When doing a "perl Makefile.PL" command (as root user) for the
> rps-mail-eventreporter I get an error message of:
This won't answer the question you asked, but... RPS::Mail::EventReporter
is not required for MIMEDefang.
Regards,
David.
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:51:50 +0200
Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Is there a way to define some sort of over-global variable that is
> consistent for one SMTP session between all of the mimedefang
> processes?
No, but you can store persistent state in a file. See the
MAINTAINING STATE section of mime
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:26:08 +0200
Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Why four result elements? The manpage says
> md_check_against_smtp_server returns only two.
Ah... the man page is wrong. I will fix it.
Regards,
David.
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:22:37 -0500
Ben Kamen wrote:
> 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.
DKIM is useful for letting you know that a message has been relayed
through a responsible organization's server.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:14:15 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> 1) When a spammer uses SPF, recipients KNOW the spammer domains and
> servers and automatically block them.
Eventually. But when spammers register domains and throw them away
after a few hours' use, it can be difficult to keep u
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > SPF is completely useless in the following sense: Rejecting mail
> > because of SPF "fail" will absolutely cause valid mail to be
> > rejected. You (and I) may say "Tough luck for domains that publish
> > broken SPF records", bu
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:43:05 +0100
Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> I'll try to remember your advice should I ever come across a
> properly set up LDAP server.
LoL! :) You win the Quote of the Week prize!
Regards,
David.
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- On Tue, 3/26/13, t...@phoenixsoftware.de
> > - The easiest way for that is SMTP call-ahead aka
> > md_check_against_smtp_server.
> A much better way is to access the user database directly.
Yes, but that may not be possible
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:45:31 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- On Tue, 3/26/13, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > Attempting to deliver to nonexistent recipients is by far the most
> > common cause of backscatter, and doing an SMTP call-forward on the
> > ultimate destin
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> 3) Forwarding services shouldn't be randomly probing the ultimate
> destinations.
I disagree strongly (assuming we remove the noise word "randomly")
Attempting to deliver to nonexistent recipients is by far the most
common cause
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:53:34 -0700 (PDT)
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Although this will issue a QUIT when an error is returned, it does
> NOT do so when the transaction succeeds to the point where 'DATA' is
> normally issued. There are at least two blacklisting DNSBLs that
> track systems that trac
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:30:31 -0400
James Curtis wrote:
> md_check_against_smtp_server($sender, $recip, "localhost", "192.168.1.10");
You are throwing away the return values from that function. You need
to assign them to some local variables like this:
my ($retval, $code, $dsn, $text) = md_chec
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:28:16 -0400
James Curtis wrote:
> I guess I need a mimedefang-filter and Perl for dummies book.
There are plenty of pretty good "Intro to Perl" books; check the O'Reilly
site. As for intro to MIMEDefang, you could have a look at slides from a
talk I gave (a long time ago)
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