Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-25 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:49PM -0700, Jon Rust wrote: Must be a spam house, or MS software is really just THAT broken. :-) I have sometimes more than 10 tries a day from one host because of temp rejects for stray newlines. I usually place those in my local RBL for a permanent reject.

stray newlines (was Re: effectiveness of DUL)

2000-08-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Markus Stumpf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:49PM -0700, Jon Rust wrote: Must be a spam house, or MS software is really just THAT broken. :-) I have sometimes more than 10 tries a day from one host because of temp rejects for stray newlines. I usually place

effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread M.B.
Occasionally someone will ask how well the DUL or RBL works and some people throw out: DUL caught 105 items RBL caught 33 items Just how do you determine how many it caught? Do these denies get logged to tcpserver's log?? (when tcpserver is of course run w/ -v option) Thanks, mike.

Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting M.B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Occasionally someone will ask how well the DUL or RBL works and some people throw out: DUL caught 105 items RBL caught 33 items Just how do you determine how many it caught? Do these denies get logged to tcpserver's log?? (when tcpserver is of course run

Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread Jon Rust
Oy! This thread made me curious so I was grepping through my smtpd logs. As they were streaming down the screen, it seemed like there were an awful lot of a particular address. 195.25.12.67 and 75 seemed to be showing up every line almost. In fact, in less than 3 days of logs I show those

Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread Jon Rust
To add some perspective... the total of all messages blocked by RSS and DUL was ~48,000 over that same period (the last 3 days). Those 2 IPs accounted for close to 39,000 of those. OT for the thread... DUL accounted for 350 of the denials. jon

Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:09:50PM -0700, Jon Rust wrote: Oy! This thread made me curious so I was grepping through my smtpd logs. As they were streaming down the screen, it seemed like there were an awful lot of a particular address. 195.25.12.67 and 75 seemed to be showing up every line

Re: effectiveness of DUL

2000-08-24 Thread Jon Rust
Thanks for the advince Chris. I appreciate it. However, I do use the -b flag, so mail is being blocked: @400039a208a80b375874.s:@400039a1ba8124896a9c rblsmtpd: 195.25.12.67 pid 30954: 553 Open relay problem - see URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?195.25.12.67 Must be a spam