Re: RBL-type header checking

2001-06-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
Michael T. Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a filter in Python that scans for Received: lines and checks IP addresses found therein against a configurable list of RBL type services. It is in beta stages and definately under development, but it is very functional (doesn't crash

Re: RBL-type header checking

2001-06-08 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:02:23AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: I've written a filter in Python that scans for Received: lines and checks IP addresses found therein against a configurable list of RBL type services. It is in beta stages and definately under development, but it is very

Re: RBL-type header checking

2001-06-08 Thread Michael T. Babcock
http://www.fibrespeed.net/code/spamcheck.tar.gz 404 Thanks ... http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/code/spamcheck.tar.gz -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed

Re: RBL and ORBS

2001-02-09 Thread Scott Gifford
"Andrew Wafula" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I was at the ORBS site the other day and I saw that as from 1st Feb 2001 relays.orbs.org would be deleted. This may seem dumb but here goes :). Now, does it mean that we can no longer use it to check for open relays No, they just

Re: RBL and ORBS

2001-02-09 Thread Piotr Kasztelowicz
On 9 Feb 2001, Scott Gifford wrote: No, they just split it up, to make it easier to pick and choose the parts of ORBS that you want to use. Also I must add to my blacklist the new ORBS addresses to avoid to scan smtp of my servers Thanks for info Piotr --- Piotr Kasztelowicz

Re: RBL and ORBS

2001-02-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:47:06AM +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: Hello This may seem dumb but here goes :). Now, does it mean that we can no longer use it to check for open relays and if so what replacement do we have? I had said about the mor free time!!! But is this really

Re: RBL and ORBS

2001-02-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:55:07PM +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: On 9 Feb 2001, Scott Gifford wrote: No, they just split it up, to make it easier to pick and choose the parts of ORBS that you want to use. Also I must add to my blacklist the new ORBS addresses to avoid to scan smtp

Re: RBL gone crazy?

2000-12-14 Thread Edward S. Marshall
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, asantos wrote: I think this is interesting for this list: http://slashdot.org/yro/00/12/13/1853237.shtml That's a mail policy issue, not a mail server issue. Consider taking RBL-related issues to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's certainly on-topic for that list. It'll

Re: RBL

2000-11-20 Thread Mate Wierdl
msci.memphis.edu This should be relays.msci.memphis.edu. How did you enter these domains? Why did you enter both dul.maps.vix.com and dialups.mail-abuse.org What is the difference? Mate

Re: RBL

2000-11-20 Thread Jon Griffin
I think I entered the names that I got off of the anti-spam doc on qmail.org. I could have messed up also, thanks for the corrections. At 11:32 AM 11/20/00 -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: msci.memphis.edu This should be relays.msci.memphis.edu. How did you enter these domains? Why did you enter

Re: rbl users beware: MSN blocked

2000-11-15 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jon Rust wrote: Just got a call from an angry MSN user. http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8_512791,00.html jon It's too bad that companies can't set up two systems... one for people who don't want to receive this spam crap and one for customers who lack

Re: rbl users beware: MSN blocked

2000-11-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:58:30PM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: It's too bad that companies can't set up two systems... one for people who don't want to receive this spam crap and one for customers who lack clue. As well as us who actually want to collect spam (for research and investigation

RE: RBL

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RBL Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I did this setup and it did not work . tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1007 -g1007 0 25 \ rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21

Re: RBL

2000-10-20 Thread Dave Sill
Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I did this setup and it did not work . tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1007 -g1007 0 25 \ rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog \ -s100 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd [root@black(/var/log)]: smstart [x]

Re: RBL... Hmmm...

2000-09-18 Thread Duane L.
Believe me, I've been very tempted to blackhole .jp, .kr and don't forget .co.uk or .it but then I realized, for the most port the spam originates from the U.S. and uses an open relay in these countries to spam. I think the long term goal is to educate the admins of these foreign domains. A good

Re: RBL checks and header modification

2000-09-12 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Michael T Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a program that does the checks rblsmtpd does, except that it allows the modification of the message header instead of blocking the mail? Procmail, preferably in conjunction with rblcheck:

Re: RBL/MAPS/DUL etc. without rblsmtpd?

2000-08-30 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30 Aug 2000, at 8:24, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: Am i to understand that rblsmtpd's devlopment has ceased? I think DJB's page says some mention of that, and also instructs that the functionality has been introduced into tcpserver now.

Re: RBL/MAPS/DUL etc. without rblsmtpd?

2000-08-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Petr Novotny wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On 30 Aug 2000, at 8:24, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: | | Am i to understand that rblsmtpd's devlopment has ceased? I think | DJB's page says some mention of that, and also instructs that the

Re: RBL/MAPS/DUL etc. without rblsmtpd?

2000-08-30 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
You misunderstood the statement. rblsmtpd is now part of the ucspi-tcp package. See: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: Am i to understand that rblsmtpd's devlopment has ceased? I think DJB's page says some mention of that, and also

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Henry Baragar
Tonino, The RBL uses DNS, so if your DNS server is local then it is caching copies of the RBL list locally. Henry TAG wrote: Hi, Is there a way of keeping a local copy of the RBL lists and using those instead of trying to get it from the remote site - should this not speed things up - I

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread TAG
Henry Baragar wrote: Tonino, The RBL uses DNS, so if your DNS server is local then it is caching copies of the RBL list locally. Henry TAG wrote: Hi, Is there a way of keeping a local copy of the RBL lists and using those instead of trying to get it from the remote site -

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Henry Baragar
Tonino, I think I spoke too soon (only on my first cup of coffee)... Specific entries will have been cached if they have been seen before, but not necessarily the whole list. However, you can use DNS to get the complete list: see http://maps.vix.com/rbl/usage.html. Henry Henry Baragar

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +0200, TAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of keeping a local copy of the RBL lists and using those instead of trying to get it from the remote site - should this not speed things up - I also know that the list is updated all the time - but can

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: ! There are ways to get complete copies of some other RBL styled lists. Indeed. DJB himself said as much on the dns list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=95836494819286 ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ but what's a

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Farber
No, RBL onlt requires that you do that if you want certian levels of filtering (namely DNS). uscpi-tcp-88 has RBL built in.. www.qmail.org Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, RBL onlt requires that you do that if you want certian levels of filtering (namely DNS). uscpi-tcp-88 has RBL built in.. www.qmail.org But this program does a remote lookup each time. The original question

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Farber
The part I was zeroing in on was that you needed to sign a waiver to use the RBL. That is incorrect. You need to sign a waiver if you get the zone file via DNS zone transfers. I'm using RBL now and didn't sign a thing but I don't use the zone file. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
If you use a caching nameserver, frequent domains will automatically be cached for a given amount of time. If you read the entire website for the RBL (or other related lists) you'll find that they have subscription options ... basically you'd set yourself up as a slave server that downloads the

Re: RBL

1999-11-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Noah Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 11 November 1999 at 14:43:25 -0800 I am trying to set up the RBL for the first time. It just is *not* working. OK, first, here is the recommended startup line from the web site: tcpserver 0 25 tcpcontrol /etc/smtp.cdb /usr/local/bin/smtplog

Re: RBL

1999-11-12 Thread Noah Sutherland
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: What method of RBL are you trying to use? The standard qmail method requires running rblsmtpd, which I don't see you doing. There were some old patches to integrate the functionality into qmail; were you using those instead? I was trying the

Re: RBL, DUL, Shubs, woohoo

1999-04-22 Thread Evan Champion
Hi Doug, What is the *best* means to use the RBL, DUL, Shubs, and others, with qmail-smtpd and be able to allow our dialups to relay? tcpserver/tcprules will take care of the selective relaying, and rblsmtpd (available from ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/) will handle RBL for you

Re: RBL-Stats v1.0 Released

1999-03-24 Thread Scott D. Yelich
hey all, here is a quickie little program i wrote to see exactly what rblsmtp is doing for you, here is an example of the output: #!/bin/sh echo "RBL-Stats v1.0 by xs [EMAIL PROTECTED]" echo "" echo "checking your logfile, this'll take a few." cat $1|grep rblsmtp ~/.rbltmp.bak echo

Re: RBL-Stats v1.0 Released

1999-03-24 Thread Pavel V. Piankov
Hi, it looks like you have a very special Unix tho (: the scriptie worked fine for me. On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:48:25AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: Has anyone managed to get this to run? My /bin/sh doesn't do ~ expansion and the awk line appears tohave syntax errors with either the " or

Re: RBL(s)

1999-03-24 Thread Tim Tsai
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:55:05PM -0500, xs wrote: as anyone had the pleasure of dealing with some of the (excuse the language) ass pirates that refuse to fix their MTA(s) or work to get their sites taken out of the ORBS, RBL, DSSL, or DUL databases? We haven't had these types of

Re: RBL-Stats v1.0 Released

1999-03-24 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:48:25AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: blocked." echo "Great Hunt." rm ~/.rbltmp.bak #EOF Has anyone managed to get this to run? My /bin/sh doesn't do ~ expansion and the awk line appears tohave syntax errors with either the " or the ` or both.

Re: RBL-Stats v1.0 Released

1999-03-24 Thread ddb
Pavel V. Piankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 24 March 1999 at 14:43:47 +0300 Hi, it looks like you have a very special Unix tho (: the scriptie worked fine for me. On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:48:25AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: Has anyone managed to get this to run? My

Re: RBL(s)

1999-03-24 Thread craig
anyway, thats what the BS in ORBS stands for, Behavor modification System. I had an experience like this. I moved my email activity over to my own LAN, using qmail, from my newly upgraded account with a "real" ISP, using sendmail and fetchmail to do the ISP-related activity (via PPP dial-up on

Re: RBL-Stats v1.0 Released

1999-03-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Joel Eriksson wrote: Have you ever heard about symlink-in-tmp problems?.. That is a classic mistake. Erm, I haven't. Where would I read about such things, and other "classic" mistakes? R. -- Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. -- Sassan Tat