Re: [Mimedefang] On pinheaded ISP's (sort of OT)

know that). None of my mail servers are open relays. But if you come to me with a complaint of spamming, I will ask you for proof in the form of headers. And if you can't supply that, well I'm sorry but I don't have the hours it might take to investigate the complaint otherwise. Lis

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

Hi, Just a thought. Is mimedefang running as user "defang"? Yes If so, is that user a member of the "mail" group (12 in your case)? Hmm... no but I don't see how that would hurt. I'll try it. Lisa ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other l

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

Hi, What about permission on /var and /var/spool directories??? /var is: drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Nov 8 2004 var /var/spool is: drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 28 13:13 spool Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ NOTE: If

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

r(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied I think maybe my thinking is screwey here? What might I have overlooked? Lisa Casey ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You m

[Mimedefang] What is this Mimedefang/Sendmail error?

my sendmail.cf file recently but I can't find what I might have done that might have caused this. Lisa Casey ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit

[Mimedefang] Problem fixed?

has been running on this box without problems for a long time, this problem of load averages suddenly occured and I'ld still like to figure that out but for now mimedefang is running again and I hope customer complaints about spam will start to st

Re: [Mimedefang] Puttting MIMEDefang spool on tmpfs

n jobs, etc. What else should I take a look at? There's nothing that I can think of right off hand that I have changed or added around that same time. I got a quote on Canit today, unfortunately my company can't afford to go that route just now :-(

[Mimedefang] Puttting MIMEDefang spool on tmpfs

Dee kernel: tmpfs invalid option If someone doesn't mind I need a little more help to get this working. Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. V

[Mimedefang] Creating & using a ram disk for Mimedefang's spool files

gested in http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html ?? If so, then how do I move (mount?) /var/spool/MIMEDefang to the RAMdisk? I suppose this is probably simple enough to do but I've managed to make myself nervous about trying it. Can someone here help me get this done? I'ld s

Re: [Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

Hi David, First question: do you have /var/spool/MIMEDefang on a RAMdisk? If not, fix it now! Next: It looks like you have 512MB of memory. You don't want to increase MX_MAXIMUM much beyond around 20, or the server will start swapping. I think moving /var/spool/MIMEDefang onto a RAMdisk i

Re: [Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

e box and I'll look at some of the other optimization ideas in the wiki. Lisa Casey ___ 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.mimedefa

[Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

g I have reverted my sendmail back to one that does not use mimedefang and mimedefang is not running. But my customers are really going to start complaining about spam. How can I figure out what is happening with mimedefang and fix it so I can use it again?

Re: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

rsion 3.0.1 running on Perl version 5.8.5 (I'm basically using MimeDefang to run Spamassassin). Guess I need more help then this to increase maxSlaves. Sorry. Lisa Casey ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the abov

[Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

ng is configured to have and should I increase that? If so, how? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ 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

[Mimedefang] Problem with Mimedefang

;ld go look at lines 295 and 382 to see if I could figure out the problem myself. What is meta Spamassassin tests??? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/160 - Release Date: 11/3/2005

[Mimedefang] Errors in /var/log/maillog

Hi, When starting MIMEDefang, I see errors like this in my maillog: Oct 5 11:14:12 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor[23220]: Slave 0 stderr: Failed to run meta SpamAssassin tests, skipping some: syntax error at (eval 81) line 295, near ") {" syntax error at (eval 81) line 382, near "; }" T

[Mimedefang] Adding footers or signatures to all outgoing email

open to ideas about drawbacks to this idea (i.e., why I shouldn't do it!). Thanks, Lisa Casey Netlink 2000 ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http:/

Re: mimedefang errors (was Re: [Mimedefang]spamassassin errormessages)

Hi Craig, Thanks for the help. I'd like to know what's in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh... OK... The main thing I have changed in here is MX_USER. Initially the script had it as @DEFANGUSER@ That didn't work, it complained there was no such user (my mimedefang user is defang). So I changed

Re: mimedefang errors (was Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin errormessages)

Hi, Lets go over this one more time, then if this looks right I guess I just need to go back over my whole setup starting at step 1. As for directory permissions/ownership I have this in /var/spool: # cd /var/spool # ls -l total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 defang defang 512 May 3 17:56 MD-Quarantine

mimedefang errors (was Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages)

Hi, I hope modifying the subject slightly in this thread is OK on this list, but this new subject line is more descriptive of the problems I'm curtrently experiencing. I added define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `mimedefang')dnl to sendmail.mc, regenerated and installed the cf, then restarted se

Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

Hi, I added define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `mimedefang')dnl to sendmail.mc, regenerated and installed the cf, then restarted sendmail and mimedefang. Now mimedefang is trying to scan messages (which it wasn't before) but is going into an error state: May 12 12:57:12 radius sm-mta[68449]: j4CGv

Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

Hi, Could someone please verify that I have Sendmail set up correctly to work with Mimedefang? It is Sendmail 8.13 so it has milter support already in it (and I have verified that). I put the following line in my sendmail.mc before using it to regenerate sendmail.cf: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefa

Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

Hi Jason, Are you sure no scanning is happening? Check email headers to see if the X-Scanned-By header is there. It just may not be logging vice no scanning. Yes, I'm absolutely positive. Here are the headers from your e-mail to me. The mimedefang/canit stuff is coming from you (or the mimedefa

Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

Hi David, If you are correct about the version number, that's your problem. SA 2.20 is incredibly ancient. The latest is 3.0.3. OK, solved that problem. With Spamassassin 3.03 mimedefang starts up just fine: May 11 16:28:01 radius mimedefang-multiplexor[18350]: started; minSlaves=2, maxS laves

Re: [Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

Hi again, The problem MAY be in the way mimedefang is being called (or not called) bt=y sendmail (it is sendmail 8.13). I have this (and just this) in the mc file I generated the sendmail.cf from. Is this all I need or did I miss something here? INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', S=unix:/var/sp

[Mimedefang] spamassassin error messages

d one post that suggested this was because the spamassassin cf files were installed into /usr/local/share/spamassassin instead of /usr/share/spamassassin So I copied everything that is in /usr/local/share/spamassassin into /usr/share/spamassassin but I am still getting these same error me

Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

Hi, I'm getting a lot closer now than I was! I reinstalled perl using what I found in ports, then I went to /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang and did a make (that worked) it installed all of the perl modules needed by mimedefang. A make install in /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang fails though like this: ===

Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

Hi, You're not installing from ports. To install from ports da as I said before: cd into /usr/ports/mail/ and then run "make; make install clean" radius# cd /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang radius# ls -l total 18 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 2464 Feb 11 00:52 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 103

Re: [Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

rong in trying to install this as a package and howe to do it right, that would be OK too :-) I'm going to CC this to the FreeBSD list in case someone on that list might be able to help. Thanks, Lisa Casey Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > I need to install Mimedefang on a FreeBSD 4.

[Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

here's no sendmail script therre). Is this where I should put my mimedefang init script? How will I know if this stops & starts mimedefang at the right times? I believe mimedefang should start up after Sendmail does and should be stopped before Sendmail is. Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No

Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

etc. Lisa Casey - Original Message - From: "Ben Kamen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Sigh, no I think it's probably me that doesn't understand. Mim

Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

2.48 I modified /etc/init.d/sendmail as my directions said to do. In /etc/init.d/sendmail there is: # Start daemons. /etc/init.d/mimedefang start Are you saying I should modify that to read /etc/init.d/mimedefang -U defang start ?? Thanks, Lisa Casey - Original Message - F

Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

lation of Mimedefang? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.18 - Release Date: 4/19/2005 ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMED

Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

ms like it stops then starts it no matter what it's status is. Somehow I don't think I want Mimedefang stopped & started every 5 minutes regardless what am I missing in my understanding here? Thanks, Lisa Casey Log snippet: Apr 21 11:12:21 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor

[Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor[12939]: Starting slave 0 (pid 12940) (1 running): Bringing s laves up to minSlaves (2) Apr 21 08:54:59 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[12946]: Multiplexor alive - entering main loop Does anyone have ANY idea what might have caused this to happen? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No viru

Re: [Mimedefang] How can I tell WHY this was rejected?

message is matching. Put this before your action_bounce(): action_quarantine_entire_message($report); Where would the message be quarantined to?? Thanks for the help, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.2 - Re

[Mimedefang] How can I tell WHY this was rejected?

mail so I can tell my user what he can change to keep this from happening again? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 ___ Visit http

Re: [Mimedefang] whitelist question

$IncomingWhitelist{'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'} = 1; Do I just put this at the very top of /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter ?? > At the top of filter_recipient: I don't have a section in /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter called filter_recipient. If posting my

[Mimedefang] whitelist question

hanks, Lisa Casey ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

[Mimedefang] Frustration...

lbox and run sa-learn on that as the forwarding will not get the original headers. There has to be a easy way to learn to use this and get it to do what I want but I can't really figure it out. Surely there are some other ISP's on these lists

Re: [Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

mimedefang-multiplexor.pid srw---1 defang defang 0 Nov 3 16:18 mimedefang-multiplexor.sock -rw-r-1 defang defang 6 Nov 3 16:18 mimedefang.pid srwxr-x---1 defang defang 0 Nov 3 16:18 mimedefang.sock Lisa Casey

Re: [Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

- Original Message - From: "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Lisa Casey wrote: > > > su -c 'cp examples/init-

Re: [Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

ild directory. The directions said: su -c 'cp examples/init-script /etc/init.d/mimedefang' in examples, there was not a file called init-script. There is an init-script.in which is what I copied over. This is the file I'm having the problem with. Lisa Casey > -- > David. &g

[Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

past this point, then it choked on '@SPOOLDIR@', but fixing this one up did the trick." My question is, what should I change @SPOOLDIR@ to? I have two directories for mimedefang in /var/spool, MD-Quarantine and MIMEDefang. Which one should go in here for