[xmail] Re: (nearly) got the handle !?

2004-06-16 Thread Goesta Smekal
On [Wed, 16.06. 13:54], Goesta Smekal wrote: > > Actually I'm about to write a filter checking if the HELO domain exists. Hints > from Davide are welcome :-) ( for example, wyh doesn't xmail do this in the > first place ? ) > > stay tuned ... ... well, some nightly hacking and coding and my fil

[xmail] Re: 1.20 out ...

2004-06-16 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] S=F6nke Ruempler wrote: > > It's ok. I get that too. It's the TLS data associated with the main=3D2= 0 > > thread, and it is intentionally never freed. It's not a leak since it > > is a=3D =3D20 > > one-time allocation. I really do not know what is going on in you

[xmail] Re: 1.20 out ...

2004-06-16 Thread Sönke Ruempler
> It's ok. I get that too. It's the TLS data associated with the main=20 > thread, and it is intentionally never freed. It's not a leak since it > is a= =20 > one-time allocation. I really do not know what is going on in your=20 > machine. After RSS was ~60MB: * addr=0x080be6b8 size=892

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Tracy
At 11:54 6/16/2004, lac wrote: >It's funny that the main reason why I'm running my own mail server is the >spam. I like having a complete control over creating disposable email >accounts. If I buy something from Amazon I create '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >account. When I get spam addressed to '[EMAIL P

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread lac
--- Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:24 6/16/2004, lac wrote: > >Of course 1. and 2. are not feasible for about 99% of broadband users who > >want to run a legitimate mail server. Static address and RDNS is out of > the > >question (an ISP usually charges a busisness rate for this) > > I

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread John Kielkopf
lac wrote: >--- Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I can't speak for anyone else, but I've found that denying service to >>"dynamic" addresses (based on RDNS patterns) to be a very effective tool >>for reducing both spam and virus traffic. Since most (not all, as has been >>pointed out he

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Wim Verveen
>=20 > 1) Getting a static IP address from their provider so that you can > whitelist the address > 2) Getting "non-generic" RDNS assigned by their provider [...] Of course 1. and 2. are not feasible for about 99% of broadband users who want to run a legitimate mail server. Static address and RDN

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Tracy
At 10:24 6/16/2004, lac wrote: >Of course 1. and 2. are not feasible for about 99% of broadband users who >want to run a legitimate mail server. Static address and RDNS is out of the >question (an ISP usually charges a busisness rate for this) I think your percentage is a little high (I find the

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread lac
--- Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't speak for anyone else, but I've found that denying service to > "dynamic" addresses (based on RDNS patterns) to be a very effective tool > for reducing both spam and virus traffic. Since most (not all, as has been > pointed out here in the past) dyn

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Tracy
At 05:41 6/16/2004, Goesta Smekal wrote: > We are facing a dramatic increase of SMTP traffic due to that. Since > there is >no attachment AV doesn't get it. Since there is no 'normal' sign of spam (like >multiple recipients, junk characters etc.) spamfilters are unlikely to get it >either. I ca

[xmail] Re: email to mailing list delivered several times

2004-06-16 Thread Roman Dusek
At 18:34 14.6.2004, you wrote: >On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Roman Dusek wrote: > > > >If you look inside some slog file, you'll see "End of socket stream data" > > >errors, that means that the connection has been dropped while XMail was > > >trying to read data from the remote SMTP server. If this data ha

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Goesta Smekal
On [Wed, 16.06. 13:12], Achim Schmidt wrote: > Hi Goesta, > > if you are running Spamassassin, some rulesets for stopping those mails > are described right here: > > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=5832097&forum_id=57381 > This is exactly the way I _don't_ want to do

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi Goesta, if you are running Spamassassin, some rulesets for stopping those mails are described right here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=5832097&forum_id=57381 good look, Achim Am Mi, 2004-06-16 um 11.41 schrieb Goesta Smekal: > Hi list, > anybody else annoy

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Goesta Smekal
On [Wed, 16.06. 11:41], Goesta Smekal wrote: > > *) why does RDNS not check ? > > *) where can we put a filter to do so ? pre-data sounds promising > I just read RFC 822 (again) and the HELO command should pass the domain. So, Davide, is it the contents of this HELO string that ends up as sender

[xmail] get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread Goesta Smekal
Hi list, anybody else annoyed by right-wing political spam produced by hosts infected by Sober.G ? (well it maybe a local problem to german speaking users ... anyway it might spread) We are facing a dramatic increase of SMTP traffic due to that. Since there is no attachment AV doesn't get it.

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-16 Thread Alex Young
I knew XMail recreated the numbered folders on start-up. I took if for granted that as it recreated the numbered folders it would also recreate the other two. I found the problem when I compared the problematic XMail server to the other one which was still running fine. -Original Message---

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-16 Thread Rob Arends
Yes I agree that $mailroot/spool/local and $mailroot/spool/temp are documented and exist in distribution, but the problem occurs when someone wants to clear out the spool they kill all the folders under $mailroot/spool Yes I agree, if you don't know what your doing (and you kill too many folders)