Re: Something much BETTER that Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread Ramon F Herrera
On 9/28/2019 1:53 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 27, 2019, at 23:11, Ramon F Herrera wrote: What I need is simply to remove all traffic coming from the domains: icu, info, etc. That simple step would go a long way to solving m

Re: 3 Lines of Defense

2019-09-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.09.19 15:11, Ramon F Herrera wrote: After being away from system administration duties for a long time, I have returned. My current motivation is to bring down the SPAM in my private server. These are the 3 lines of defense: (1) Added the lines shown below to the file /etc/mail/sendmail

Re: Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28 Sep 2019, at 0:24, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Understood.  I'm definitely stopping and starting the spamd service. (Although it's called the spamassassin service, it is definitely starting and stopping spamd. I've done a ton of digging around.  I located: /usr/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.

Re: 3 Lines of Defense

2019-09-28 Thread Grant Taylor
On 9/27/19 2:11 PM, Ramon F Herrera wrote: After being away from system administration duties for a long time, I have returned. Welcome back. These are the 3 lines of defense: (1) Added the lines shown below to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. I strongly recommend using the mc (m4) based co

Re: 3 Lines of Defense

2019-09-28 Thread Vincent Fox
I had good success with greet pause set to 11 seconds. Empirically 5 seconds made little difference, but I could see a marked reduction at anything above 10 seconds. Longer than 15 didn’t give much further improvement though. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2019, at 08:39, Grant Taylor wrot

Re: Setting Threshold (Resolved)

2019-09-28 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 9/28/2019 9:38 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 28 Sep 2019, at 0:24, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Understood.  I'm definitely stopping and starting the spamd service. (Although it's called the spamassassin service, it is definitely starting and stopping spamd. I've done a ton of digging aroun

Re: Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:24:49 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: > Understood.  I'm definitely stopping and starting the spamd service. > (Although it's called the spamassassin service, it is definitely > starting and stopping spamd. > > I've done a ton of digging around.  I located: > > /usr/lib/syste

Re: Something much BETTER that Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28 Sep 2019, at 7:52, Ramon F Herrera wrote: [...] Thanks to Dominic for his suggestion, but being a newbie I am going to start with this approach. I happen to be a sendmail old timer as well and will eventually follow the recommendations to migrate to Postfix. Can a kind soul out there p

Re: Something much BETTER that Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread Ramon F Herrera
On 9/28/2019 12:18 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 28 Sep 2019, at 7:52, Ramon F Herrera wrote: [...] Thanks to Dominic for his suggestion, but being a newbie I am going to start with this approach. I happen to

Re: Setting Threshold (Resolved)

2019-09-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.09.19 00:21, Jerry Malcolm wrote: With my extra parameter added /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/bin/spamd --pidfile /var/run/spamd.pid -D -d -c -m5 -H --cf=required_score 4.0 On 9/28/2019 9:38 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: the "required_score 4.0" should be enclosed in quotes of apos

Re: ddos dnswl.org ?

2019-09-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 01:58:47 +0200 Benny Pedersen wrote: > RW skrev den 2019-09-28 01:26: > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:16:04 +0200 > > Benny Pedersen wrote: > > > >> Sep 27 00:17:51 localhost named[17415]: connection refused > >> resolving '_.45.list.dnswl.org/A/IN': 2a01:7e00:e000:293::a:1000#53

Re: Setting Threshold (Resolved)

2019-09-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28 Sep 2019, at 13:20, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 9/28/2019 9:38 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 28 Sep 2019, at 0:24, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Understood.  I'm definitely stopping and starting the spamd service. (Although it's called the spamassassin service, it is definitely starting and s

Re: Something much BETTER that Setting Threshold

2019-09-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28 Sep 2019, at 14:14, Ramon F Herrera wrote: On 9/28/2019 12:18 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 28 Sep 2019, at 7:52, Ramon F Herrera wrote: [...] Thanks to Dominic for his suggestion, but being a newbie I am going to start with this approach. I happen to be a sendmail old timer as well an