Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hi all! I have a fairly standard set of smtpd restrictions implemented and generally I’m very happy with them (very low spam traffic and no headaches associated with SpamAssassin or DSPAM). However, once in a while a legitimate message is rejected because the other side has misconfigured HELO

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hi Noel, -Original Message- From: Noel Jones Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:29 PM If you're rejecting good mail more than "rarely", you should reevaluate your restrictions. In particular, most built-in HELO checks are likely to reject legit mail, and not terribly effective again

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-16 Thread Eugene R
Hello Noel, -Original Message- From: Noel Jones Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:20 AM You want to conditionally run some extra restrictions based on the outcome of prior restrictions? Some of the existing policy servers do weighted scoring, which gives very similar results. Co

Re: Conditional/soft smtpd restrictions

2015-01-17 Thread Eugene R
Hello, -Original Message- From: li...@rhsoft.net Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 7:29 AM > Actually the set I have is surprisingly effective and also surprisingly > good in keeping FPs low -- much, much better than anything I saw from SA > and DSPAM, and with virtually no server or m

Re: Email notifications to external address

2015-03-04 Thread Eugene R
Hello Iad, I have a user who would like to receive a notification message on her personal email account when she gets a new email message in > her postfix - based MailDir. She does not want the actual message, just a ping telling her to check her email. I'm finding a lot info on Google that

Re: Anti spam filtering tools

2015-03-05 Thread Eugene R
Hello, Your mileage likely will be different, but I stopped using (content-based) spam filtering tools altogether several years ago (previously used SpamAssassin and then DSPAM) in favor of a (rather conservative) set of Postfix smtpd restrictions (including Spamhaus DNSBL). One of the reasons

Re: Tracking down www-data email sender

2015-03-15 Thread Eugene R
Hi Robin, I once wrote a simple script that monitors network dump for outbound connections and coordinates them with responsible process (with command line) or HTTP access (with host and url) info. Maybe you will find it useful. (Should be very much FreeBSD-dependent). Best wishes Eugene --