Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7 Final?

2007-01-09 Thread Matti Haack
Guten Tag Kevin, am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 um 02:30 schrieben Sie: K Chris Norman wrote: You know, it's a good think I didn't want historical data too far in the past! From the stats page: * Note: historical data is only available back to Sep 4, 2003* LOL. j/k. Perhaps that date

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
I understand what PB is now, but I'd still like to be able weight test and give each e-mail a final spam score. I envision it working like PB. The user weights each test. After each test, its score is added to a total, and if the total ever surpasses a user-defined limit, testing stops and

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7 Final?

2007-01-09 Thread Kevin
Matti Haack wrote: Total number of blocked spams is 0 - I assume that this will be calculated onec a day. But then the output should be totalnumber+BlockedSpamtoday Actually it comes from the history table, something thats still getting worked on. The default was 1 Million but that was

[Assp-user] Forged HELO for valid domains

2007-01-09 Thread M. Waseem Sindhu
I'm using ASSP v1.2.6 on my shared hosting server. I've come to know that ASSP is logging almost every sender domain as Forged HELO. I did a PING for the mentioned domain and I think it should not be a Forged HELO. Following are some lines from maillog.txt... Jan-9-07 03:27:04 Connected:

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Bennett Lee
I understand what PB is now, but I'd still like to be able weight test and give each e-mail a final spam score. I envision it working like PB. The user weights each test. After each test, its score is added to a total, and if the total ever surpasses a user-defined limit, testing stops

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Marrco
(4) is working fine. (7) stops after a few minutes. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Marrco
(4) is working fine. (7) stops after a few minutes. (8) seems fine thx fritz, you're da man ! - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share

Re: [Assp-user] Forged HELO for valid domains

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: I want to know that (1) what is the rule of marking domains/hosts as Forged HELO a local domain is usually a forged helo and (2) how can I fix it? there is an exclusion list in section Sender

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Actually, I sorta figured out the score only after I built the spamdb earlier this evening and finally got spam-prob to show something other than 0, .5, and 1. However, I still don't see any way to specify weight or adjust the 0.6 limit. And I'd really like to see more tests with scoring,

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
(8) seems fine Please look for ClamAV performance, I am actually quite proud, that the rework of the ClamAV integration works so nicely. It is fast and it is catching 100%. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Pascal Dreissen
Hi Fritz, I second that, works pefect right now. It also catches the eicars :) Well done, good job! Is saw also that the stream setting was lost from the gui, do we only need to set the AV Bytes now ? (8) seems fine Please look for ClamAV performance, I am actually quite proud, that

Re: [Assp-user] Moving ASSP to another server

2007-01-09 Thread Bob Coffman Jr - Info From Data
No need. just copy the spam.db file, there is nothing os or install specific about the spam.db. Correct. While I run ASSP on low end PIII type machines with little (256MB) RAM, I run the spamdb rebuild over Samba from a beefy Windows server. Although - the file is called spamdb on my ASSP

Re: [Assp-user] what is this?

2007-01-09 Thread Wim Borghs
2007/1/8, Andreas Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we never got an answer to this. Is he screwed? Or what does he need to do to fix it? Just delete some spam messages or? Make sure you have Spam Control Use Subject as Maillog Names disabled. (Wouldn't this option better be in the Collecting

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: For example, user sets a limit of 100, and weights HELO at 90 and spam bomb at 15. If a server fails HELO, the e-mail isn't rejected, but if it also fails spam bomb (90+15100), then it's spam.

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: Is saw also that the stream setting was lost from the gui, do we only need to set the AV Bytes now ? Yes, and I made a new default: 100k

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Fritz Borgstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: For example, user sets a limit of 100, and weights HELO at 90 and spam bomb at 15. If a server fails HELO, the

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Matti Haack
Please look for ClamAV performance, I am actually quite proud, that the rework of the ClamAV integration works so nicely. Yes you should be really proud. 100% working for me at the first glimpse. Matti - Matti Haack - Hit Haack IT Service Gmbh Poltlbauer Weg 4, D-94036 Passau +49 851

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Hi George, As others have already explained, ASSP has nothing to do with POP. ASSP only sits between your incoming connection and your SMTP port. In your case, you are using Merak, and have been using Pop before SMTP to perform relay authentication. I had been doing the same thing. I agree

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Eric B. wrote: Hi George, As others have already explained, ASSP has nothing to do with POP. ASSP only sits between your incoming connection and your SMTP port. In your case, you are using Merak, and have been using Pop before SMTP to perform relay authentication. I had been doing the

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Pascal Dreissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Fritz, I second that, works pefect right now. It also catches the eicars :) Well done, good job! Is saw also that the stream setting was lost from the gui, do we only need to set the AV Bytes now ? Does this

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread Evan
Micheal wrote: My suspicion is related to the known issue with Win32 and Net-DNS 0.59. I think you are seeing negative PTR lookups because Net-DNS is timing out. Could you try to downgrade to 0.57? Downgrade complete. Will have same high-network-activity conditions again later this week, and

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric B. wrote: Hi George, As others have already explained, ASSP has nothing to do with POP. ASSP only sits between your incoming connection and your SMTP port. In your case, you are using Merak, and have been

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Matti Haack
Does this mean that the new ClamAV integration is no longer taking up huge amounts of CPU resources? If so, do we just use the new default settings for this? Yes. Works for me at the moment without issues. Matti - Matti Haack - Hit Haack IT Service Gmbh Poltlbauer Weg 4, D-94036 Passau

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Eric B. wrote: I haven't checked recently, but at the time when I was installing/learning ASSP, there was no documentation that I could find that related specifically to how the popb4smtp functionality worked in ASSP. I had to read through the code and run sample tests to figure out

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread brougham Baker
From: Evan Eggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sample IP addresses from earlier today reported as PTRmissing by ASSP, but having valid PTR according to dnsstuff are: 208.61.234.147 151.124.247.101 199.230.26.212 Perhaps DNSStuff is more persistent but when i tried using NSLookup from the command prompt of

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
brougham Baker wrote: From: Evan Eggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sample IP addresses from earlier today reported as PTRmissing by ASSP, but having valid PTR according to dnsstuff are: 208.61.234.147 151.124.247.101 199.230.26.212 Perhaps DNSStuff is more persistent but when i tried using

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread brougham Baker
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 208.61.234.147 151.124.247.101 199.230.26.212 Perhaps DNSStuff is more persistent but when i tried using NSLookup from the command prompt of a windows workstation they all timed out. I tried known-good addresses and they worked properly.

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
brougham Baker wrote: The known good ones answer instantly as I would expect (they are also not my ISP's servers and are unlikely to be cached by me at a least). It's just the above addresses that didn't answer for me. I tried using UDP, switching to TCP resolution does get answers eventually-

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: I think that the difference (from my understanding at least) that Bennett is asking for is a weighting for individual tests for individual emails. Yes, I understand and that can be

Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing?

2007-01-09 Thread brougham Baker
- Original Message - From: Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 09 January 2007 16:58 Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Incorrect PTRmissing? brougham Baker wrote: The known good ones

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Fritz Borgstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: I think that the difference (from my understanding at least) that Bennett is asking for is a weighting for individual

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Eric B.
Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric B. wrote: I haven't checked recently, but at the time when I was installing/learning ASSP, there was no documentation that I could find that related specifically to how the popb4smtp functionality worked

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Eric B. wrote: Well - not really. I was (and am) very clear on the difference between POP and SMTP, and was very well aware that ASSP was purely an SMTP proxy and had nothing to do with POP. What I had found confusing was how ASSP integrated with a POP server to allow for Pop before SMTP.

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Patrick Neill
Working fine on Windows 2000 Server. Appears much quicker at sending Files through ClamAV than previous versions. On a Pentium 1000 Processor Utilization still peaks at 100%, although only very briefly. Very useable now in my opinion. One observation: Whitelisted e-mails don't seem to pass

Re: [Assp-user] Moving ASSP to another server

2007-01-09 Thread Kevin
Bob Coffman Jr - Info From Data wrote: Although - the file is called spamdb on my ASSP machines, not spam.db. There's no difference in the naming convention on Windows, right? It's actually configurable in the admin interface. I renamed all my files to follow the same conventions. Kevin

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
So then the lack of understanding is with what POP before SMTP is, and/or how it works. I don't know what you mean by fileformats here. Sometimes.. No, ASSP does not use a different approach to POPb4SMTP and it states clearly, that it will use the file the mailserver maintains. Somebody

Re: [Assp-user] Is 1.2.7.1 (7) crashing

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Is there (or could there) be a way to enable ClamAV for whitelisted users? It is coming, also for Nonprocessing. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Fritz Borgstedt wrote: Sometimes.. No, ASSP does not use a different approach to POPb4SMTP and it states clearly, that it will use the file the mailserver maintains. Somebody then followed the given advice and wrote something for Merak and I included that as an option. It is one of the

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Charles Marcus
Thanks for filling in the blanks for me. I've never used POP before SMTP, but now I have a better understanding of how it works with ASSP. ) I've never used it either, and would not do so, since it is supposedly a security risk (not sure on the whys and hows). -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Bennett Lee
I think that the difference (from my understanding at least) that Bennett is asking for is a weighting for individual tests for individual emails. LOL...yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. I spent all this morning confused and looking back over PB and all the ASSP settings, until I

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Bennett Lee wrote: LOL...yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. I spent all this morning confused and looking back over PB and all the ASSP settings, until I finally re-read the PB wiki to find out that PB is exactly what I thought--a score that applies to the server. I'm still

Re: [Assp-user] POP and Port 110

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Charles Marcus wrote: I've never used it either, and would not do so, since it is supposedly a security risk (not sure on the whys and hows). Most likely because it could be tricked by IP spoofing known clients. - Take

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
I thought--a score that applies to the server. I'm still interested in the individual e-mail score--it just makes sense to me. Would you believe me, that you are wrong. I described the possibility of using scoring to combine tests very early. There is a reason, that I put in the *score only*

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Agreed, however, like I said, that kind of kills the concept of using the PenaltyBox in that case for the actual purpose for which it was intended. How can you say that? My purpose was absolutely to have both functions in it - why would the *score only* option exist anyway? Look into the

Re: [Assp-user] Weight per test scoring

2007-01-09 Thread brougham Baker
From: Fritz Borgstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May be Doug will say something, he is the one I believe who uses it (besides me). That what? Uses the PB to block persistent idiot ip addresses? I do too. What feature do you mean? Bro

[Assp-user] Process order

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Krüger
Hello, I am sitting here and reading the process order for an email when it runs trough ASSP, and i was wondering what these things is, and what they do? * PenaltyExtreme - Penalty Box extreme blocking * ForgedHELO - forged HELO detection (built-in) * DoRBLCache - caching and reuse

[Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Wright
Can anyone advise what the repercussions may be from enabling the Fake 250 error in Validate Local's options? I would like to enable LDAP Validation, but I am concerned it will block legitimate email that was misaddressed. And also it may make it harder to troubleshoot. Also, does the

Re: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr (mobile)
Think about. If you enable the fake, no misadressed adresses will ever be reported back to the sender. -- ME2 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Greg Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, Jan 9, 2007 8:33 pm Subject: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP This is a multi-part message in

Re: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Wright
Yeah, which was why I asked if it was able to work in with the PB. I don't want to be so heavy handed if I can avoid it. Im also interested in IF i do decide to be heavy handed, does the faked 250 error result in any unusual conditions? I would like to learn from the list's experiences, rather

Re: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Greg Wright wrote: Yeah, which was why I asked if it was able to work in with the PB. I don't want to be so heavy handed if I can avoid it. Why do you want to do this? First, you are violating RFCs governing how MTA behave. Second, you are potentially making debugging valid email problems

Re: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Wright
Hi Michael, First up, thank you for considering my question, i've been a member for a long time, and the group is lucky to have your assistance. I want to do this because daily I get hundreds (or more) non-deliverable emails delivered from servers all across the internet to email addresses here

Re: [Assp-user] Fake 250 with LDAP

2007-01-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Greg Wright wrote: I want to do this because daily I get hundreds (or more) non-deliverable emails delivered from servers all across the internet to email addresses here that don't exist. The kind of thing that happens when your domain is used by the spammers as the From: address. So my ASSP,