Re: A message from the Fedora Board to all of our users

2010-06-27 Thread dexter
On 27 June 2010 02:00, Jon Stanley jonstanley gmail.com wrote: We welcome and encourage the community (that means YOU!) to participate constructively in these discussions by joining the list and providing input. Thanks for the invitation :-) and I'd like to reciprocate. We welcome and

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday, June 25, 2010 00:50:10 JD wrote: I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are there any watchdogs on this list that tell top posters to stop it? Umm, how about maybe take a look at:

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Julius Smith
Some points: * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear * Top posting makes it easier to respond to only one point of many * For the blind listening to text-to-speech reading of the page, top-posting is the only way to go * I vote for top-posting, including quoted snippets

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread steve
On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't like think killfile. I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick google search yielded some old threads leading up to no solutions or

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread steve
On 06/27/2010 02:05 PM, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't like think killfile. I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick google search yielded some old

pulseaudio: how to mute front speakers only

2010-06-27 Thread Frank Elsner
Hi, I want to mute the front speaker if my laptop only but keep the headphones output active where my amplifier is connected to. But when i click on the loadspeaker symbol in the panel and select mut both frontspeakers and headphone output get muted. Any pointers to a solution welcome.

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 00:35 -0700, Julius Smith wrote: * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear Oh rubbish, it's just the easiest solution for the laziest. Nothing to do with efficiency. * Top posting makes it easier to respond to only one point of many Doesn't make

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 08:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Do you know of any MTAs able to share outbound queues that would account for this? The issues I mentioned have cropped up on a few lists, but it hasn't been me analysing it. I seem to recall that this list and yahoo were two culprits. --

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/27/2010 06:11 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 08:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Do you know of any MTAs able to share outbound queues that would account for this? The issues I mentioned have cropped up on a few lists, but it hasn't been me analysing it. I seem to recall

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 17:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: I use greylisting on all mail servers that I administrate and I specifically use one that maintains a list of well known smtp servers such as yahoo - it's a rather substantial list and maintained so that pretty much obviates your point #1.

Re: A message from the Fedora Board to all of our users

2010-06-27 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:32 AM, dexter dex.m...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the invitation :-) and I'd like to reciprocate. We welcome and encourage the board contributors (that means YOU!) to participate constructively in these discussions by joining the User list. Have been subscribed for

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/27/2010 06:39 PM, Tim wrote: I don't mind people suggesting it, or implementing it well. But it should be advised with the appropriate precautions that you will need to manually add some overrides. And unless you monitor logs (many won't), or hear about problems in some other way

Re: Evolution Update Fails

2010-06-27 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 06/27/2010 02:30 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The system has informed me via the Update Applet that evolution needs to be upgraded to 2.30.2-1, but the upgrade fails with these messages: could not do simulate: empathy-2.30.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64 requires

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't like think killfile. I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick google search yielded

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 19:35 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 00:35 -0700, Julius Smith wrote: * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear Oh rubbish, it's just the easiest solution for the laziest. Nothing to do with efficiency. I like the unconscious irony of

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Calling all net nazis... Sheesh! On 06/27/2010 02:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Friday, June 25, 2010 00:50:10 JD wrote: I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are there any watchdogs on this

Re: F13 - Advanced Volume control

2010-06-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Federico Marziali federico.marzi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to the list again... While I'm still fighting with the display and nvidia drivers, I've come across another problem on my Sony Vaio, this time with the sound capture. Basically I can't get any of my

Re: Native ZFS in Fedora?

2010-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/uptake-of-native-linux-zfs-port-hampered-by-license-conflict.ars The CDDL does not restrict modification and release of the ZFS source code which is publicly available as part of OpenSolaris. The ZFS code can be modified to build as a CDDL

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: THANKS! I have implemented the above recommendations as well as a few other advices in this posting. Thanks to all who participated - all very interesting to know how others have tackled the their spam issues. I will report how it all

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/26/2010 12:00 PM, g wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: snip I'm running 64-bit 3.1 with enigmail 1.01 with no problem. interesting. [note link below] 1.01? or do you mean 1.0.1? makes me wonder why enigmail folks came out with enigmail 1.1.1 and do not have a 64 bit version for

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
DKIM signed emails: Not directly anti-spam but very related. Major outbound MX mail is generally signed by DKIM (or domainkeys). While I am not yet making rejection decisions on sigatures that fail - I do have my mail client color them green/red when a DKIM/DK sig is good/bad. I also

Error: Starting Virtual Machine Manager

2010-06-27 Thread Jim
FC13/KDE Trying to start virt-manager And I get this Error Message below, What now ?? The network is running okay on br0 . I tried to run gconf-cleaner, but I get the same Error Message. Error Message: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server; some

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread stan
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:57:31 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: I like the unconscious irony of if the context is clear. The *only* justification for top-posting is to be able to include the entire history of the thread in such a way as not to force the reader to deal

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 10:59 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: maybe you should have a look at; http://enigmail.mozdev.org/news/index.php I was just curious to see if I could get T-Bird and enigmail to ignore the version warning. AFAIK, enigmail has never really supported 64-bits. The only way in the

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/27/2010 11:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/27/2010 10:59 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: maybe you should have a look at; http://enigmail.mozdev.org/news/index.php I was just curious to see if I could get T-Bird and enigmail to ignore the version warning. AFAIK, enigmail has never

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't like think killfile. I keep hearing about this, how does one do

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 07:25 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: Calling all net nazis... [Please don't top-post on this list. Didn't you get the memo? :-] If you read the OP's message you'll see his solution is entirely local to each user. It has no effect on the list itself or on the list archives

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 10:53 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't like

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 20:09 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 17:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: I use greylisting on all mail servers that I administrate and I specifically use one that maintains a list of well known smtp servers such as yahoo - it's a rather substantial list and

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread (was:Top posting)

2010-06-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Robert, On Sunday 27 June 2010 08:53 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: If there are posts you don't

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: THANKS! I have implemented the above recommendations as well as a few other advices in this posting. Thanks to all who participated - all very interesting to know how others have tackled the

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2010 09:49 AM, Remi Collet wrote: Le 26/06/2010 16:32, Steven Stern a écrit : Enigmail's help files indicate that it may have something to do with getting a version compiled to be compatible with your distribution. As far as I can tell,

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:45 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: THANKS! I have implemented the above recommendations as well as a few other advices in this posting. Thanks to all who

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: good so far, but I will report back in a couple more days... I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything about how this is implemented into sendmail... so, what is

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 10:06 AM, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:45 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: THANKS! I have implemented the above recommendations as well as a few

Re: Evolution Update Fails

2010-06-27 Thread Frank Elsner
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:26:57 +0100 Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On 06/27/2010 02:30 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The system has informed me via the Update Applet that evolution needs to be upgraded to 2.30.2-1, but the upgrade fails with these messages: could not do simulate:

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything about how this is implemented into sendmail... so, what is your take on this? yum install milter-greylist and possibly

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/27/2010 03:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything about how this is implemented into sendmail... so, what is your take on

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything about how this is implemented into sendmail... so, what is your take

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything about how

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/27/2010 11:31 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Robert, On Sunday 27 June 2010 08:53 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote: On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 01:23 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that are

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 27 June 2010 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: While viewing any message in the thread, press the letter k on the keyboard. It's a shortcut for Message-Ignore Thread. A red circle with a diagonal slash will appear at the top of the thread, and you won't see that thread again.

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 04:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sunday 27 June 2010 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Would it be a worthwhile feature request? Then I would file an RFE on the bugzilla. Curious - How would you want it to behave differently than marking it as junk mail ? -- users mailing list

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 27 June 2010 01:59 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/27/2010 04:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sunday 27 June 2010 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Would it be a worthwhile feature request? Then I would file an RFE on the bugzilla. Curious - How would you want it to behave

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:59:37 -0400 Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 06/27/2010 04:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sunday 27 June 2010 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Would it be a worthwhile feature request? Then I would file an RFE on the bugzilla. Curious - How would

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Remi Collet
You are correct, I stand corrected. The enigmain main page only states 32-bit, but when you click on the download page you can get the 64-bit version. addons.mozilla only provides extensions for official package. And mozilla only provides 32 bits build of Firefox. All 64 bits package are only

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/27/2010 04:23 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Looks like I am running to a couple of problems: 1) Starting greylist-milter daemon: a) # service milter-greylist restart Stopping Milter-Greylist: [ OK ] Starting Milter-Greylist:

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/27/2010 04:49 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: This is the audit log of milter-greylist: type=AVC msg=audit(1277670351.513:52178): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=30048 comm=sendmail path=/var/run/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock dev=sda3 ino=4114571

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 05:37 PM, Remi Collet wrote: You are correct, I stand corrected. The enigmain main page only states 32-bit, but when you click on the download page you can get the 64-bit version. addons.mozilla only provides extensions for official package. And mozilla only provides 32 bits

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread jdow
From: Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com Sent: Friday, 2010/June/25 14:46 I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers of the offending email spammmers and add these respective IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, but I am beginning to suspect that these headers

Re: Frustration -- can't find the icon picker application on m system??

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:54 -0400, William Case wrote: What is the name of the little application that pops up when you are trying to pick a new icon in a launcher ? Dunno about current Fedora, but with Fedora 9, the whole thing starts off from gnome-desktop-item-edit. So, I might suggest

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... That's gotta be a huge list. And won't some of them be spam sources, anyway? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:11 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: With GreetPause I am already causing a small delay which works very well for those spammers/bots which are in violation of the standards. However, I have carefully singled out all major email MX outbound hosts for 0 greet pause. But

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 10:53 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: While viewing any message in the thread, press the letter k on the keyboard. It's a shortcut for Message-Ignore Thread. Does that have the benefit of also killing off thread hijacking? ;-) (Where someone replies to a message, instead

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2010 09:47 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... That's gotta be a huge list. And won't some of them be spam sources, anyway? Maybemaybe

Re: Thunderbird shortcut for Ignore thread

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 17:28 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: IIRC, KMail has (or had) a feature that would mark any new messages in such a thread as having been read on arrival. Good for the blood pressure. And bad for the brain... You can't tell apart the ignored and unread, from the has been

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 09:47 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... That's gotta be a huge list. And won't some of them be spam sources, anyway? Not huge at all - I'm

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 10:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/28/2010 09:47 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: Maybemaybe not I just checked the logs from one client. There were multiple spam with email addresses of yahoo.com, yahoo.co.jp, and

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/27/2010 10:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: This one particular client doesn't use whitelists and they don't experience any delays in delivery from those domains simply because they have been populated in the DB and due to the frequency they connect those records don't expire. Oh, FWIW, there

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2010 10:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: I prefer the obvious and simple 'outbound MX host' ... IMHO, using a patently incorrect terminology only leads to confusion, mis-understanding, and results in ignorance when someone who doesn't know any better or know the difference takes what you

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, June 27, 2010 07:25:31 Dale J. Chatham wrote: Calling all net nazis... Sheesh! Are you calling me a nazi? Why? I offered a technical solution that can basically remove most of the top/bottom posting problems in an automatic way, fitting the preferences of each user individually

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2010 10:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/28/2010 10:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: I prefer the obvious and simple 'outbound MX host' ... IMHO, using a patently incorrect terminology only leads to confusion, mis-understanding, and results in ignorance when someone who doesn't know any

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:17 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... That's gotta be a huge list. And won't some of them be spam sources, anyway?

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:22 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:11 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: With GreetPause I am already causing a small delay which works very well for those spammers/bots which are in violation of the standards. However, I have carefully singled out all

Re: A message from the Fedora Board to all of our users

2010-06-27 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Jon Stanley jonstan...@gmail.com wrote: There have been recent discussions on this list surrounding the fact that users feel left out of the Fedora decision making process. As the Fedora leadership, we'd like to do nothing more than engage the user community as

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread jdow
From: Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/June/27 19:08 On 06/27/2010 09:47 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... That's gotta be a huge list.

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
Genes MailLists: So if you're gonna gray list - please whitelist all the standard ISP outbound mx hosts ... Tim: That's gotta be a huge list. And won't some of them be spam sources, anyway? Genes MailLists: Not huge at all - I'm doing this for the outbound MX's of trusted mail

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread jdow
Passing SPF means nothing. That simply means that the email was sent from an address the sender's MX record says is OK for sending email through it. So an SPF that allows the entire Internet to use the mail relay still passes. If an email does NOT pass SPF it's probably a good guess that it is

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 20:30 -0700, Craig White wrote: have them send a dummy e-mail, wait 5 minutes and then send the important e-mail or wait 15 minutes. Hardly a big deal. Do you really spend 15 minutes making someone wait around while you're trying to conduct business that should only take a

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2010 11:56 AM, Tim wrote: Only a few thousand? What do you think is a huge list? And that's just your list of mail servers for one service... What about the other ISPs, the thousands of them? Having a look at the SPF records gmail.com. 300 IN TXT

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread James Matthews
Using open source tools is one thing. Google uses a combination of open and closed source anti spam tools. Since Gmail is so popular google is able to sample spam and learn to protect it from the get go On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/28/2010

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2010 12:57 PM, James Matthews wrote: Using open source tools is one thing. Google uses a combination of open and closed source anti spam tools. Since Gmail is so popular google is able to sample spam and learn to protect it from the get go Too bad they don't seem to have outbound

Fedora 12 end-of-life and rolling our own Fedoras (Re: Fedora 11 End of Life)

2010-06-27 Thread Joel Rees
On Jun 25, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This announcement is a reminder that as of 2010-06-25, Fedora 11 has reached its end of life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 11 were made in advance[1] of this date.