Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
One of my users just started getting slammed. This one user, out of 400+ is getting a dictionary attack that's overwhelming all my spamd process slots. Doing this on the spamd side would make simply stopping this really simple -- even programmatically (i.e. automatically). Manually, even wit

Re: [sa-list] RE: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > >> I'm looking for an easy way to override ALL scanning (NOT scoring) > >> for a specific user. > > See my previous message. I don't see an easy macro in procmail for the > current effective UID, nor do

Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > At the moment, that's a hack in the system-wide procmailrc that I don't > > know how to do, since the only thing procmail knows about userspace is > > "dropprivs="yes"", a

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:26:54PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I'm running procmail with dropprivs=yes. There's no easy procmail thing > for (getpwnam($<)) and I do NOT feel like firing up perl on every message > to evaluate that just to figure out if I should fire up the C program

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: At the moment, that's a hack in the system-wide procmailrc that I don't know how to do, since the only thing procmail knows about userspace is "dropprivs="yes"", and there's no

Re: [sa-list] RE: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Coffey, Neal wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to override ALL scanning (NOT scoring) for a specific user. This needs to be done in whatever you're using to call SpamAssassin (postfix, exim, sendmail, etc). This shouldn't be a difficult

Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > At the moment, that's a hack in the system-wide procmailrc that I don't > know how to do, since the only thing procmail knows about userspace is > "dropprivs="yes"", and there's no translation for an easy way to equate

Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:59:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to override ALL scanning (NOT scoring) for a specific user. Don't send mails for that user to SA. At the moment, that's a hack in the system-wid