Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-27 Thread phil
> That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mail, > your users are paying you, so that they can receive _their_ mail. Either > them come from dial-up or not. There are some services we choose to offer to our customers and there are some services that we choose not to off

Re: Virtual Domain/Users not working proeprly

1999-01-27 Thread Mate Wierdl
Hi, This is what we want to archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]localuser1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]localuser2 [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] @virtual.com anotherlocaluser Do this 1) Put virtual.com in rcpthosts 2) Put the following in virtualdomains virtual.com:

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-27 Thread l41484
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Racer X wrote: > There is no such thing as the "right" of a user to all the services an > ISP provides. The user is entitled to what he's paid for. That's it. > If the ISP wishes to charge extra for certain services, or to refuse to > offer certain services, that's that. T

"solutions for spam"

1999-01-27 Thread Racer X
There is no such thing as the "right" of a user to all the services an ISP provides. The user is entitled to what he's paid for. That's it. If the ISP wishes to charge extra for certain services, or to refuse to offer certain services, that's that. The customer is free to go elsewhere. This is

Re: Virtual Domain/Users not working proeprly

1999-01-27 Thread Jose Luis Painceira
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, root wrote: > This is what we want to archive: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > @virtual.com anotherlocaluser > > How do we go about this i've added the domain virtual.com to rcpthos

Re: Virtual Domain/Users not working proeprly

1999-01-27 Thread shell
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, root wrote: > Hi, > > This is what we want to archive: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > @virtual.com anotherlocaluser > > How do we go about this i've added the domain virtual.com

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread phil
Sam Somebody write: > Nope. You cannot receive just the header, send an SMTP rejection, then > expect the sender to stop sending you the rest of the message, unless you > drop the socket as well. But, when you do that, the sender is likely to > get a broken socket error, which gets interpreted

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
"Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This part is not true. You only need to receive the _header_, and can > > still return the appropriate rejection code after your check. This > > Nope. You cannot receive just the header, send an SMTP rejection, > then expect the sender to stop sending you the

Virtual Domain/Users not working proeprly

1999-01-27 Thread root
Hi, This is what we want to archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @virtual.comanotherlocaluser How do we go about this i've added the domain virtual.com to rcpthosts, locals but how do you do the rest

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Sam
Len Budney writes: > Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Because in order to do that, you have to receive the message > > first... > > This part is not true. You only need to receive the _header_, and can > still return the appropriate rejection code after your check. This Nope. You cannot r

Re: Newbie configuration

1999-01-27 Thread craig
>I'm quite new to Linux, and very new to setting up mail so please >bear with me if these are stupid questions. I've got a one user >dial-up box, retrieving mail from my provider using fetchmail. I'm >pretty sure I'm not doing this the right way. I've got two files in >control/ > >me: >mymadeupdom

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 27-Jan-99 Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote: > > Well now I am seeing something in my kaos queue...but they're not > delivering... > > kaos-root /usr/local/lib/lookup$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread > 27 Jan 1999 20:15:32 GMT #84893 198455 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, then why are people wasting their time rejecting mail from > > dialups? Just scan email header for each envelope recipient, and > > reject emails with >25 "BCC" recipients... > > 1) Because in order to do tha

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Samuel Dries-Daffner
Well now I am seeing something in my kaos queue...but they're not delivering... kaos-root /usr/local/lib/lookup$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread 27 Jan 1999 20:15:32 GMT #84893 198455 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Jan 1999 20:16:08 GMT #84895 198455 <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread budney
"Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [About why spammers must use long BCC lists] > No, it's true because they operate from 28.8 dialups. Getting some spam through beats getting no spam through (to the spammer). Read on. > >Efficient: On a Pentium under BSD/OS, qmail can easily sustain > >

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 27-Jan-99 Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote: > > > And logs look good on ella... > > Jan 27 20:03:52 6C:ella qmail: 917467432.923986 starting delivery 6117: > msg 4640 > to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 27 20:04:26 6C:ella qmail: 917467466.080066 starting delivery 6120: > msg 4315 > to remote [

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:12:18PM +, Sam wrote: > Len Budney writes: > > > > Current economics of spam pretty much prevent anyone from sending > > > out spam with one envelope recipient per copy. With the name of the > > > game being "send as many copies as you can before you get thrown > >

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Sam
Len Budney writes: > > Current economics of spam pretty much prevent anyone from sending > > out spam with one envelope recipient per copy. With the name of the > > game being "send as many copies as you can before you get thrown > > off"... > > That's true largely because spammers are fairly c

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Samuel Dries-Daffner
Well, don't see any sendmail processes kaos-root /var/adm$ ps -ef |grep sendmail root 9571 6638 0 11:53:28 pts/62 0:00 grep sendmail And telnet to port 25 seems ok (though i don't know what syntax to use) ella 4% telnet kaos 25 Trying 144.91.3.21... Connected to kaos.mills.edu. Escap

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > > What will you match on then? > > Current economics of spam pretty much prevent anyone from sending > out spam with one envelope recipient per copy. With the name of the > game being "send as many copies as you can before

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 27-Jan-99 Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote: > > Ok simple question...too foggy to fix on my own :) > > I have two machines: ella (IRIX) and kaos (Solaris), both have qmail. > > I want to send mail to a user on kaos from a user on ella. > > Mail seems to leave ella, and doesn't bounce... > > ...

Help unsubscribing

1999-01-27 Thread Matthew Bloch
Okay, I've tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], replied to the confirm message, I'm still on the list and I don't know who runs it. Sorry to bug everyone but my mailbox keeps filling up and I don't have time to read it all... -- Matthew

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > FWIW, we charge $5/mo extra for a static IP. Some ISPs charge less, some > charge more, some give it away, some don't offer it. Over here they charge $100 or more. - -- Luca Olivetti http://www.luca.ddns.org UNETE A LA HUELGA EUROPEA DE INTERN

rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-27 Thread Samuel Dries-Daffner
Ok simple question...too foggy to fix on my own :) I have two machines: ella (IRIX) and kaos (Solaris), both have qmail. I want to send mail to a user on kaos from a user on ella. Mail seems to leave ella, and doesn't bounce... ...but doesn't get delivered on kaos... What should be in the re

Linuxberg from tucows

1999-01-27 Thread Martin
Yes,...you can get Linux softawre from tucows at :- http://alpha1.Linuxberg.com Also note that Qmail is available :- http://alpha1.Linuxberg.com/conhtml/ser_mail.html Regards...Martin

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread l41484
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote: > From: Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > :> > Not all prejudice is bad. > : > :Yes it is. > > It really isn't, however this isn't the forum for that discussion. > Prejudice is the wrong word here anyway. Prejudice == judgement before > evide

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Selective filtering is ALL about pattern-matching. > > Correct, which is why it is flawed. If pattern matching were applied > uniformly, then soon all spam will be 100% 822-compliant, and will > originate o

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > (Forgive me! One last one...) Me too. :) > James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My suggestion to you would be to get a static IP. > > You're quite right. Please make your check payable to "Len Budney" > and mail it c/o "Maya Design Group, 21

Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selective filtering is ALL about pattern-matching. Correct, which is why it is flawed. If pattern matching were applied uniformly, then soon all spam will be 100% 822-compliant, and will originate only from hosts with valid MX records, and with exact

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:02:37PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > (my last post in this thread...sorry for getting caught up in it) > > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_ > > > rather than _causation_, is mighty risk

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
(Forgive me! One last one...) James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My suggestion to you would be to get a static IP. You're quite right. Please make your check payable to "Len Budney" and mail it c/o "Maya Design Group, 2100 Wharton Street, Pittsburgh PA, 15203". Len. -- Take away th

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Paul J. Schinder
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:02:37PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: } } Judging all mail from dialups, though, based on the "track record" of } such mail, is the fallacy of reasoning from the general to the } specific. The track record of dialup mail for me is that it's all spam. So every time I get on

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > > > And all the crime I've experienced was perpetrated by "those people." > > > That's why I ready my pepper spray whenever one of "them" comes near > > > me. > > >

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
(my last post in this thread...sorry for getting caught up in it) Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_ > > rather than _causation_, is mighty risky business. > > I'm prejudiced against sendmail, and in favor of djb'

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
Jeff Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > >True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_ >rather than _causation_, is mighty risky business. > > It isn't prejudice, it is prevention. Prejudice is defined, in part, as "a le

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > Lots of filtering rules rely on _legitimate_ grounds for discarding > email: RFC non-compliance, illegitimate or invalid DNS information, > etc.. Discarding mail from dialups involves _violating_ the RFC > (assuming the modems have proper A records) based

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Adam D. McKenna writes: > From: Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > :> > Not all prejudice is bad. > : > :Yes it is. > > It really isn't, however this isn't the forum for that discussion. > Prejudice is the wrong word here anyway. Prejudice == judgement before > evidence, which

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > > And all the crime I've experienced was perpetrated by "those people." > > That's why I ready my pepper spray whenever one of "them" comes near > > me. > > Oh, come on...this sounds like the same BS logic tha

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Len Budney writes: > And all the crime I've experienced was perpetrated by "those people." > That's why I ready my pepper spray whenever one of "them" comes near > me. A statement which would be particularly ironic if you happened to be a member of a minority group. Not that we can tell from

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Adam D. McKenna
From: Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :> > Not all prejudice is bad. : :Yes it is. It really isn't, however this isn't the forum for that discussion. Prejudice is the wrong word here anyway. Prejudice == judgement before evidence, which isn't what is happening here. The judgement has happe

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Jeff Hayward
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: True, but even factually-based prejudice, when based on _correlation_ rather than _causation_, is mighty risky business. It isn't prejudice, it is prevention. The analogy I use is communicable disease - it is universally acknowledged (at least in the

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > > > Most other anti-spam measures have a technical > > > foundation...Blocking dialups doesn't. IMHO, it comes dangerously > > > close to racism. > > > > ...it's a reasona

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:19:33AM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > > > Most other anti-spam measures have a technical > > > foundation...Blocking dialups doesn't. IMHO, it comes dangerously > > > close to racism. > > >

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Len Budney
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > > Most other anti-spam measures have a technical > > foundation...Blocking dialups doesn't. IMHO, it comes dangerously > > close to racism. > > ...it's a reasonable prejudice, since all of the non-relayed spam I > g

qmail-lint-0.52

1999-01-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter Haworth writes: > Shame on you for not using strict! I'm an old BASIC programmer from way back. I *like* not having to declare variables. :) > Without this patch, if a user's home directory produces more than one warning, > the second and subsequent warnings show the previous error co

Re: Problem with qmail-pop3d - ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

1999-01-27 Thread Chris Nelson
I believe that the checkpassword program upon successful authentication chdir()s into the user's homedir before execing qmail-pop3d. -Chris On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Martin Staael wrote: > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:55:03 +0100 > From: Martin Staael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Deliv

Re: Building new mail system

1999-01-27 Thread Brian S. Craigie
On 22-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not at all. There's two functions. There's two ways to order the functions. > > 1) A before B > 2) B before A > > striping and mirroring > > 1) mirror the stripes > 2) stripe across the mirrors Ah! I think I see what you mean. I'll need to try that

Re: how to reduce traffic on list...

1999-01-27 Thread Fred Lindberg
If you just want to lurk, I've got a daily digest of the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sincerely, Fred (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)

Re: Unable to run qmail-remote from resource exthaustion PERMENENT error?

1999-01-27 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:57:04 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: >loss or bounce? Important semantics: bounce from the MTA point of view. Loss from the subscribers point of view. Point: This is a temporary error and should not result in a bounce. No big deal, but easy to fix. IMHO, since qmail does n

ezmlm moderation request replies don't work

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Wettone
This may be slightly off topic, but I'm having trouble getting ezmlm to respond to moderation requests. I've already sent a copy of this message to the ezmlm list. I am running qmail-1.03 with ezmlm-0.53 and ezmlm-idx-0.313. I am already running another (unmoderated) mailing list on the same serv

Problem with qmail-pop3d - ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

1999-01-27 Thread Martin Staael
Hi I'm having a problem with qmail-pop3d. There is no problem starting qmail-pop3d via tcpserver, but when a user logs into POP3 it says unable to scan $HOME/Maildir. How do I tell qmail-pop3d where the users mail directory is?? In the qmail-pop3d.c file it only reads argument 1 which is "./"

Re: Mailbox size question

1999-01-27 Thread Abel Lucano
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Iain Hardcastle wrote: > People, > > In doing some consulting work for an ISP, I need to specify a mail > server. > > Could all you ISP techs please respond with a good figure for sizing a > mail account? I mean if you are going to offer mail, on average, how > much would y

again: maildir question: why chdir()?

1999-01-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
maildir.5 states: A program delivers a mail message in six steps. First, it chdir()s to the maildir directory. why? I'd like to avoid to have to do a chdir() inside a library or force a chdir() outside of that library. I assume this has to do something with NFS, but i don't under

Re: qmail-lint-0.51

1999-01-27 Thread Peter Haworth
> I've uploaded qmail-lint-0.51 to www.qmail.org. It now has a -v flag > which prints a more verbose explanation of why something might be a > problem. Shame on you for not using strict! Without this patch, if a user's home directory produces more than one warning, the second and subsequent war

qmail Digest 27 Jan 1999 11:00:17 -0000 Issue 533

1999-01-27 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 27 Jan 1999 11:00:17 - Issue 533 Topics (messages 20945 through 20977): getpwnam() bug in freebsd-2.2.8 affects qmail 20945 by: "Paul J. Schinder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unable to run qmail-remote from resource exthaustion PERMENENT error? 20946 by: "Fred Lindberg

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Bo Fussing
> Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > >Most other anti-spam measures have a technical foundation. Invalid domain, > > header field syntax error, no or incorrect reverse DNS, etc. Blocking dialups > > doesn't. IMHO, it comes dangerously close to racism. > > The term is "prejudice", not racis

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:26:35AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:19:32PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > > On 18-Jan-99 05:51:16, Chris Johnson wrote something about "Re: Three solutions >for spam". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus: > > > > > I've alw

Re: Unable to run qmail-remote from resource exthaustion PERMENENT error?

1999-01-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > On 26-Jan-99 16:06:07, Fred Lindberg wrote something about "Unable to run >qmail-remote from resource exthaustion PERMENENT error?". I just couldn't help >replying to it, thus: > > Testing ezmlm stuff on a 486/32MB I ran

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:19:32PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > On 18-Jan-99 05:51:16, Chris Johnson wrote something about "Re: Three solutions for >spam". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus: > > > I've always wondered why Dan doesn't have an MX record for koobera (though > >