* David F. Skoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "The Trend Micro patent explains technology that scans e-mail and
> Internet data transfers for viruses at gateways and servers, before
> the data arrives at a desktop computer."
>
> Does anyone have prior art for gateway virus scanning prior to 1997?
Old pr
* David F. Skoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cyrus is definitely a much more "serious" server, and I do miss the
> shared mailboxes. (We worked around it with Dovecot by creating
> special users and giving access to the appropriate people: All the
> salespeople get to access "shsales", for example.)
The
* Shayne Hardesty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From reading Dovecot's site (dovecot.org) it looks promising.. It can
> use mbox or maildir, and is written to be fast and secure. I'm just
> wondering if it's ready for prime time yet.. Anyone here use it on a
> fairly busy server (500+ users)? If so please
* Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I first start clamd and then,
>> sudo clamd PING
> I don't get a PONG back.
>
> In fact the documented commands don't seem to work at all. What am I
> doing wrong?
Talk to the socket:
perl -MIO::Socket::UNIX -we \
'my $s = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(shift
* Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm curious if anyone has configured a mail server with a sound card
> to make different noises or tones based on different kinds of mail
> received. It would be interesting to walk into the server room and
> know the health of the system or the mix of the tra
* David F. Skoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have my virus handling set to discard viruses, and I didn't even
> know about the phish signatures until today.
I use the clamav-virusdb mailing list to keep an eye on what ClamAV
is blocking:
http://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-virusdb
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* Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I would rather use "hostname/port" than "hostname:port" to prepare for
> >the miraculous day when IPv6 is widely used. :-)
>
> What do IPv6 URL's do instead of using the :port syntax?
Well, for SMTP, "domain equivalent" addresses have square brackets
around
* Kevin A. McGrail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Before I jump on that bandwagon, I'd like to know if it causes any
> legit MTAs to fall over dead as well.
I would most certainly assume that certain MTA fail to handle the RFC
properly, and fail if a multiple line greeting is encountered. Old
versions of E
* Chris Gauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm on Redhat Linux 9 for the OS, latest kernel, etc. (through RHN
> update). MIMEDefang version is 2.43, Spamassassin 2.63, and ClamAV
> 0.72. This problem was fairly consistent when using the embedded perl
> interpreter, the MD multiplexor would crash at almost
* Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Be careful with single point of failure. I believe many here have
> noted that it's better to just have an independent greylist db on
> each relay.
With a global database handle, one can disable greylisting, though you
also need a) warnings if the connection is down
* Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems that when I am connecting remotely to my Sendmail machine
> using SMTP Auth, it still temp fails my mail. How do I make it so that
> my mail sent using SMTP Auth is not tempfailed, but sent immediately?
Consult the Sendmail macros for the auth_* data
* SRAR Mail Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hm. Sophos had MyDoom-A pegged at 4:45 PM (PST) Jan. 26. IIRC, Clam
> caught up about 7:00 PM that evening.
Incorrect, ClamAV was blocking "MyDoom-A" first as "Worm.SCO.A", well
before Sophos.
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* Network Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Aaaa, block ALL incoming unroutable IP addys at the router. You should
> not permit an IP from the 192.168.. 10... ( can't remember that other
> one just now ) and 127.0.0.1. I do know of an ISP in my area that does
> route 'local' IP's and permits customers to d
* Michal Jankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> sub dummy {}; Archive::Zip::setErrorHandler(\&dummy);
Why not just:
Archive::Zip::setErrorHandler(sub {});
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* Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What happens to a server if it is logging via tcp and the syslog-ng
> receiving it can't keep up writing to disk? In the past I've seen
> local unix socket connections kill named and sendmail when syslog
> couldn't keep up - and of course there was no log about
* Jon R. Kibler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The only thing I have left to suggest is on the machine that isn't
> logging, run syslogd in debug mode and see if it is ever getting the
> log requests.
Have the usual syslogd caveats been covered yet?
1. Some syslog varients *really* want tabs, not spaces i
* Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I know this, and it's not quite what I was getting at. I'm perhaps
> guilty of excessive indirection in attempting to highlight that a
> script which attempts to
>
> *send mail*
> when
> *the mail server is malfunctioning*
>
> may have larger issues
* Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think to be on the safe side, the script should also check to make
> sure it was able to send the alert mail correctly, and email you if it
> didn't... :-)
The swatch utility has a 'throttle' option, which should be used to
limit notifications. Your log reportin
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ... 5.0 is the threshold I'm using site-wide to move mail into a
> > "Junk Mail" folder (I reject during the SMTP conversation if the
> > score is 15 or up)...
>
> Huh? How do you do that? I don't get a SpamAssassin score until after
> the DATA phase, at
Code to block wildcard DNS and other related ruminations in the thread
starting at:
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-September/016911.html
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* Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This sounds cool. Despite the always mentioned problem, when Mail
> clients connect to the server directly - like in my case. Is there a
> way to determine, if the message came in through sendmail's MTA (Port
> 25) or MSA (Port 587) channel?
Sendmail knows wh
* Fulano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jan 21 10:38:43 nina mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Global
> symbol "$FoundVirus" requires explicit package name at /etc/mail/mimedefang-
> filter line 614. Global symbol "$FoundVirus" requires explicit package
> name at /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter line 712.
* alan premselaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm not sure how to get the filter times into the syslog like that
> however, i'd be willing to help in anyway I can.
Perhaps something like the following in mimdefang-filter:
use Time::HiRes ();
after installing Time::HiRes if needed and enabling syslog s
* Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How common is it for MTA's to not send a:
> helo or etrn commnad?
Not very common at all; usually these sorts of logs come from monitoring
systems like Big Brother or Nagios that connect to see whether something
is listening, then disconnect without issuing any
* Chris Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The wonderful thing about the SpamAssassin scoring system is that none
> of us had mailers that refused all e-mail from the Internet when a
> certain DNSBL went offline by listing the entire Internet as a spam
> source. Sites that used the DNSBL's directly in sen
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