[IMGate] Re: IMGate status
On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 12:48:39, Michael Finn wrote: I haven't looked up IMGate for a while -- it just *works*. I noticed today the site (http://www.imgate.net/) is borked: Error establishing a database connection. Is this a temporary condition? Or has something more permanent happened that I missed? Probably just a transient issue, it looks OK now. -- r...@polylogics.comPessimist - Half Empty Rod Dorman Optimist - Half Full Engineer - Twice as big as it needs to be
[IMGate] Re: forcing customers to purchase your S-P-A-M service
On Monday, March 24, 2008, 11:32:26, Andrew P. Kaplan wrote: I have two boxes one with minimal spam protection and a second with tighter filters. The first box is offered free of charge the second is available to paying customers. The problem is that many customers have redirect to say comcast.net and others on the free box. When they get spammed this Imagate box is blacklisted. Mail of course is delivered to my Imail box, but OTHER people that have redirects to comcast and others don't receive their email. I am considering forcing any domain on the free box that has a redirects to external mailserver to sign up for my paid spam service. Any comments on this would be appreciated. Personally I don't see anything wrong with requiring spam filtering before being allowed to forward to somewhere else. That being said; for new users signing up theres no issue. Here's the terms, if they're unacceptable to you then please look elsewhere. For existing users I'd present it pretty much as you did above. Explain how blindly forwarding unfiltered mail can lead to a denial of service to all users on the box and give 'em a choice of: * signing up for filtering * removing the forward * deleting the account -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she encounters and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.-- Wizard of Oz
[IMGate] Re: opm.blitzed.org
On Monday, August 6, 2007, 12:31:53, Keith Kikta wrote: I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this but for the past couple days I have been seeing timeouts to opm.blitzed.org. Did you even bother to look at http://opm.blitzed.org ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two ways of constructing a software Rod Dorman design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. - C. A. R. Hoare
[IMGate] Re: Time Zone issues
On Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 02:33:45, Omar K. wrote: I would love to answer your question if I knew what it means and how to answer it :) http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#chroot_setup http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#no_chroot http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html#hamlet -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote. - Ambassador Kosh
[IMGate] Re: Time Zone issues
On Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 15:01:21, Omar K. wrote: It appears that there are time zone issues in my imgate machine. This is what shows in the log: Received: from imgate [imgateIP] by jeeran.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A96D2D01F6; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:52:13 +0200 This needs to be +0300 , now I believe the time zone on my freebsd machine is set correctly, but postfix is not putting it in the headers correctly, any ideas? First question, are you running postfix chrooted? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote. - Ambassador Kosh
[IMGate] Re: FW: Google Alert - window cleaning
On Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 11:12:33, Grant Griffith wrote: Guys, appears our IMGate is having some issues receiving these Google Alerts and I am not finding a real reason why. I know I could whitelist their servers, but I do not want to do that. Has anyone seen this and found another solution? Seen what? I didn't see a single postfix log entry in your posting. Look in the headers of the alerts you did receive to find out what sets of IP addresses they go out with and then search your logs to see if theres any evidence that they're trying to contact your machine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug /n./ Rod DormanAn elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of debugging, or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed.
[IMGate] Re: FW: Google Alert - window cleaning
On Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 11:56:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about it, google calendar notifications are not making it through our greylisting. Does anyone have a list of google mx servers (not gmail). Assuming that you are planning on white listing them what you need is a list of their servers that send e-mail which isn't necessarily the same as the list of servers that accept e-mail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behind every successful organization stands one Rod Dorman person who knows the secret of how to keep the managers away from anything truly important.
[IMGate] Re: Hotmail got black listed by several RBLs!
On Monday, April 16, 2007, 04:00:24, Omar K. wrote: ... Just an FYI, I am personally going to start whitelisting hotmail mail servers. How are you going to determine the IP addresses of all of hotmail's outgoing MTA's? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]There are two rules for success in life: Rod Dorman Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know.
[IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail
On Sunday, April 1, 2007, 04:39:56, Omar K. wrote: I am actually debating whether I still need my imgate or not. Still testing and have not migrated my heavy domains yet. Will keep list posted on my findings regarding load and spam. Having no experience with smartermail my comments don't carry a lot of weight but IMHO having a front end filter that eliminates most of the crap leaves more resources available for user oriented processes like POP, IMAP, WebMail, calendars, etc. regardless if what you're using. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hangers on though you be friends be more humble when asking for seconds. Katsuhito Masaki (Grandfather); Tenchi Muyo Episode 7
[IMGate] Re: helo_hostnames
On Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 13:59:16, Jacques Brouwers wrote:
I am having trouble with one of the lines in helo_hostnames.regexp
It seems to be catching the hostname
smtpout12-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.com.
Below is the contents from the regexp file.
I think its this one
(.*[0-9]{2,3}\-[0-9]{2,3}.*\.[a-zA-Z]*)
pattern matching string
--- ---
.*smtpout
[0-9]{2,3}12
\--
[0-9]{2,3}02
.*prod.mesa1.secureserver
\..
[a-zA-Z]* com
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A wise moral is hard to find
but a chicken lays an egg only once.
[IMGate] Re: SAV - servers refuse connectio from postmaster accounts
On Friday, May 19, 2006, 13:36:10, Paul Fuhrmeister wrote: I can not find this anywhere, I really have looked. Not very hard apparently :-) Our postfix / IMGate machines do SAV from a postmaster address. If a mail server won't accept mail from a postmaster address, the SAV fails, even if the from address is valid. How do I change the FROM address which postfix uses to do SAV? http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html Look at the last bullet under Limitations of address verification and you'll see the link to the address_verify_sender description http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#address_verify_sender -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behind every successful organization stands one Rod Dorman person who knows the secret of how to keep the managers away from anything truly important.
[IMGate] Re: brute force login ssh attacks
On Thursday, December 29, 2005, 11:52:41, Gerry wrote: ... Early tip I've been using, I login as a user and su to root. (I take it that su is the FreeBSD equivalent to sudo?) No, su is equivalent to logging in as root, once you've done that everything you do is done as root. sudo executes one command as root, it can also be tailored (man sudoers) to limit which commands a specific user or group can sudo. I do see occaisional: Failed password for root - How do I remove root from sshd access?? /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the default: #PermitRootLogin no I explicitly set the following on all BSD and Linux boxes I setup: Protocol 2 PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication no -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We've all heard that a million monkeys Rod Dormanbanging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
[IMGate] Re: brute force login ssh attacks
On Thursday, December 29, 2005, 16:16:57, List_Mail wrote: ok going thru mine i see that every line has a # in front of it. does that mean its not being used or is this one of those files that requires the # in front. Lines starting with `#' and empty lines are interpreted as comments. The convention in sshd_config is to include a commented out default value. I've gotten into the habit of explicitly setting any values I'm concerned with even if they're the default. Especially handy if the default is different across platforms or releases. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote. - Ambassador Kosh
[IMGate] Re: mta_clients_bw.map not working the way I expect
On Friday, November 11, 2005, 18:03:15, Paul Fuhrmeister wrote: So we can't block an entire class c? Note: 64.200.217.195 is *NOT* a Class 'C' address, its a Class 'A' address. If you're going to invoke classful nomenclature you're going to inherit all the other networking baggage that goes along with it. We analyze the spam and usually see them coming from ip's through out class c's. You should be able to lookup the IP address and find out who it was assigned to and what the CIDR block was. As someone else mentioned its 64.200.216.0/21 (assigned to Integrated Comm Concepts). One point of view says if its assigned to them then they're responsible and you should block the entire /21. A less draconian point of view says 2048 IP addresses is a fairly large chunk to block and you should just block one or more smaller chunks that cover the offending IP addresses. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subtlety is the art of saying what you think Rod Dorman and getting out of range before it's understood.
[IMGate] Re: Evaluating IMGATE and some questions....
On Monday, July 11, 2005, 11:49:05, Dave Beckstrom wrote: ... I don't have any users (except me) on our local network. My users are all over the Country and with many different ISPs. Except for a few users, who have ISPs that block port 25 and force the use of their email server, the rest of my users all send via our smtp server. Any ideas what to do in this situation? Require all 'outside' users to use the submissions port. This will also solve the port 25 blocking issue. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behind every successful organization stands one Rod Dorman person who knows the secret of how to keep the managers away from anything truly important.
[IMGate] Re: IMGATE List archived anywhere?
On Monday, July 11, 2005, 00:09:28, Dave Beckstrom wrote: Is this list archived anywhere that I can go read discussions that occurred before I subscribed to the list? Look at the headers of every list message/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only drug dealers and software companies Rod Dorman call their customers 'users'.
[IMGate] Re: WOT - Forcing iMail to use IMGate SMTP server for all sent mail
On Thursday, July 7, 2005, 12:37:40, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: ... Am I reading this wrong. Are you indicating you use A or CNAME records? In general you should use A records instead of CNAME records. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support for a lifetime.
[IMGate] Re: SPAM/zombie news: Rise of zombie PCs 'threatens UK'
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 05:50:43, Len Conrad wrote: ... It found that 25.2% of all the zombie machines it found were in the UK=20 compared to 24.6% in the US ... Hey! We're falling behind here in the States! Come on folks, remove those router access lists and disable all Firewalls and virus scanners. We gotta catch up :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]In theory, practice and theory are the same, Rod Dorman but in practice they are different.
[IMGate] Re: Apparently, this is the postfix book we've been waiting for..
On Sunday, February 6, 2005, 05:24:32, Len Conrad wrote: This book is very late, but the very techy German postfix guru authors have the technical ability to write the postfix book for experienced postfix admins. I've had mine on pre-order @ Amazon for many months. Since last Sept for me. The book is due this month. Got my fingers crossed :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subtlety is the art of saying what you think Rod Dorman and getting out of range before it's understood.
[IMGate] Re: issues with aol
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 15:27:01, NeoBlu wrote: ... We've seen AOL users report personal email notes that were one-to-one communications (family member to family member), as spam. Well I can see how one could consider When are you going to get a haircut? as spam :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]There are two rules for success in life: Rod Dorman Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know.
[IMGate] Re: Non PTR record server delivery
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, 19:36:40, Greg Talbot wrote: Mainly because of administration overhead. The residential clients are actually full blown Postfix/IMAP servers that support up to 100 users per location. What ISP are they using that has a TOS that permits running servers but doesn't allow them to request a static IP address? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote. - Ambassador Kosh
