Re: [spamdyke-users] MAILER-DAEMON Flood

2016-11-07 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
This doesn't look like it's email originating from your system. Instead, it looks like spamdyke has accepted the message and then qmail is doing the rejection. My guess is that it passes through spamdyke with an invalid destination user. Qmail then tries to reject it. You can avoid this by

Re: [spamdyke-users] TLS reason: TIMEOUT

2016-10-12 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Don't you need a private key file as well? Mine has: tls-certificate-file=fullchain.pem tls-privatekey-file=privkey.pem On 10/12/2016 03:31 PM, marek--- via spamdyke-users wrote: I read an old thread on this problem, but did not see a solution. # spamdyke -v spamdyke

Re: [spamdyke-users] Fail2ban integration

2016-07-25 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
ld show the IP address right after the username, separated by a space. (NOTE: I haven't compiled or tested this change, proceed with caution...) -- Sam Clippinger On Jul 22, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org <mailto:spamdyke-users

[spamdyke-users] Fail2ban integration

2016-07-22 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Sam, Is there a way to get spamdyke to log invalid authorizations in a manner that fail2ban can use? My host has been hit continuously with brute-force attacks. Unfortunately, the logs only have: Jul 22 18:54:43 tardis spamdyke[26727]: [ID 702911 mail.info] FILTER_AUTH_REQUIRED Jul 22

Re: [spamdyke-users] ip-in-rdns-keyword - are hyphens supported?

2016-05-06 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Faris, Looks like it does. From the documentation in the section on Reverse DNS: When matching an IP address in an rDNS name, spamdyke looks for the IP address in many forms; for example, if the IP address is 11.22.33.44, spamdyke will look for the following patterns in the rDNS name (the

[spamdyke-users] Progress Report

2015-12-15 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Sam, I've started a discussion on the OpenIndiana developer's mailing list about Spamdyke and generated a lot of interest. I know you're working on divorcing Spamdyke from Qmail and also supporting IPv6. How is this work progressing? It seems that IPv6 seems to be a sticky point for

Re: [spamdyke-users] Weird behavior with TLS and auth-level=always

2015-08-26 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
show the AUTH lines in every case. How did you install qmail? Is this netqmail or Plesk or QTP or? -- Sam Clippinger On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org mailto:spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org wrote: Sam, Yes I'm on 5.0.1. I've

Re: [spamdyke-users] Weird behavior with TLS and auth-level=always

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
to make sure you're on that version before I spend time chasing a bug that's already fixed. :) If you are on 5.0.1, could you post your configuration file that shows how to reproduce this? That'll probably save me quite a bit of time. -- Sam Clippinger On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Gary

[spamdyke-users] Weird behavior with TLS and auth-level=always

2015-08-21 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Sam, If I use qmail with smtp auth, then spamdyke announces STARTTLS capabilities, but if I have spamdyke do it then it doesn't. It's there and works, but it isn't announced in the ehlo response. gary@abby ~ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect tardis.genashor.com:587 -starttls

[spamdyke-users] Spamdyke auth problems resolved

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
I use port 22 for non-auth mail and 587 for TLS with auth mail. On 587 I ended up using postfix because I could never get spamdyke working. It always failed valid authorizations. I was putting together a new server and I decided to take another look. The problem ended up in the

Re: [spamdyke-users] Spamdyke auth problems resolved

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
to let it go. If spamdyke can forward connections from port 25 to port X while doing all the filtering it does now, it should work nicely with just about any other mail server. -- Sam Clippinger On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

Re: [spamdyke-users] Moving from GreyLite

2015-06-19 Thread Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users
Phil, The greylisting feature of Spamdyke kicks in after whitelisting and blacklisting operations. If these operations don't specifically reject or accept the incoming email then it is chosen for greylisting. I suggest you scan it's features from the spamdyke homepage. It sounds like it

Re: [spamdyke-users] broken hunter_seeker URL

2014-11-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, Do you have a repository of your current filters that you're willing to share? Or do I need to download the hunter_seeker package periodically? Gary On 11/05/2014 09:08 AM, Sam Clippinger wrote: Looks like some Apache config entries didn't make it to the new server when I set it up,

Re: [spamdyke-users] Avoiding greylisting delays by making many exceptions

2014-11-04 Thread Gary Gendel
I also remember this discussion but it was quite a while ago. I had subsequently removed greylisting as well with no noticeable increase in spam. I did add Sam's hunter_seeker script and it did make a difference. However, I haven't seen any new websites added to that blocklist so I wonder

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-09 Thread Gary Gendel
I tend to agree. The lists I've chosen have been the result of many years of tuning. Actually shlink.org wasn't even in my radar and isn't on many of the multi-rbl test sites so I need to test it. I'd be curious to hear about Sam's blacklist setup. Gary On 03/09/2014 09:24 AM, Dossy

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Almost all of my uncaught spam comes from two domains: colocrossing.com hostnoc.net The latter usually has the ip address in the rdns so you can trap it that way, but I just block them entirely. With these two out of the way, and barracudacentral and zen.spamhaus, my users see almost no spam.

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread Gary Gendel
I tend to agree, however, it does depend on the ordering. I found that there are a lot of duplications on the list so the first one tends to get the most hits. My list consists of b.barracudacentral.org zen.spamhause.org I've tried others, but the others I've added only add a very small

[spamdyke-users] Small difference in 5.0.0

2014-01-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, Not an issue but you should mark down that 5.0.0 treats the spawned program argument differently than 4.x. In 5.0.0 I have to explicitly specify the fully qualified path to qmail-smtpd where 4.x found it in the PATH. Gary ___ spamdyke-users

[spamdyke-users] Version 5?

2014-01-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, Just curious to see how things are coming? Sounds like you may have expanded the scope of this release based upon some of the recent group discussions. Gary ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

[spamdyke-users] hunter seeker and rsync

2013-12-10 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, Thanks for this addition to spamdyke's capabilities. I back up my system daily using rsync and it seems to re-copy many of the traps each time. Are you touching these each time a message comes in regardless of it being blocked? Gary ___

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-22 Thread Gary Gendel
Faris, I thought there was a spamdyke flowchart somewhere, but my mind must be playing tricks because I couldn't find it. Logically, it would seem to me that order would be: Check all whitelists, if found then accept the mail Check all blacklists, if found then reject the mail It it passes

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-22 Thread Gary Gendel
:09 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 11/19/2013 04:46 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Spamdyke does clean up these files periodically (as set by graylist-max-secs) I don't believe this is entirely true. Spamdyke will honor/see these expirations only if/when another email is sent after this time has elapsed

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-22 Thread Gary Gendel
Whoops! I read the comment which was obviously wrong. :O On 11/22/13, 9:13 PM, BC wrote: On 11/22/2013 7:09 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: My graylists do get constantly pruned but others seem to have old ones remaining. Then again, my graylist-max-secs is set to 1296000 (one day) which

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-19 Thread Gary Gendel
It's my understanding (which may be faulty) that spamdyke always creates a 0 byte file the first time it gets mail from the domain. When it sees another email from that domain (after the prerequisite graylist-min-secs delay) then it puts the sending server into the file and allows the mail to

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread Gary Gendel
Prefetch is evil and is disabled by default in illumos based distributions (in newer versions it is enabled for scrubs since these are sequential in nature and can get a performance boost). I'm talking about the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC). This uses various metrics such as lru to

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Well sort of... With ZFS this happens automatically because the file information is cached in the ARC RAM unless forced out. I'm currently running a 91% cache hit rate on this server which runs file, web, streaming, and mail services. It's running OpenIndiana (hipster) and has 4G RAM with 4

Re: [spamdyke-users] So close and yet so far...

2013-10-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/21/2013 01:48 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: I have some good news and some bad news... The good news: spamdyke version 5.0.0 is done, tested and ready. The biggest new feature is recipient validation -- spamdyke uses the qmail's configuration files and duplicates qmail's logic to determine

[spamdyke-users] Hard error return

2013-09-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, I suppose that all rejects are sent back as temporary failures. Is it possible to select specific ones and send back as permanent? For example, I have two spam sites that pound my server daily over several years. Do you think sending back permanent errors will dissuade these sites or

Re: [spamdyke-users] rDNS always shows up as unknown

2013-08-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Did you set dns-server-ip in your spamdyke.conf file? If so, it it pointing to the right server? On 08/23/2013 04:58 AM, JP Kelly wrote: I am using spamdyke 4.3.1+TLS+CONFIGTEST+DEBUG+MYSQL[haggybear.de] On Plesk 11 CentOS 5 All of the reverse DNS entries show up as unknown even though I can

[spamdyke-users] hunter seeker filters

2013-08-13 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, I just started playing with your hunter-seeker script. Is there a repository where the latest hunter-seeker filters can be downloaded? I don't know how often you and others update them, but new filters would be a nice thing to share. Also, any unblacklistable domains that have been

Re: [spamdyke-users] hunter seeker filters

2013-08-13 Thread Gary Gendel
Clippinger On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Sam, I just started playing with your hunter-seeker script. Is there a repository where the latest hunter-seeker filters can be downloaded? I don't know how often you and others update them, but new filters would be a nice thing

[spamdyke-users] Unabated spam

2013-08-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi all, Anyone else see a growing number of spam that just breezes through spamdyke and spamassassin? They are short (10 lines of content), emails that contain shortened URLs in them. An interesting thing is that many come from machines with common domain prefixes. For example:

[spamdyke-users] Next Release

2013-06-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Sam, Any plans to release your work to reject invalid users in Spamdyke to prevent backscatter? This would be the (hopefully) the last needed piece of the system for me. Gary ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

Re: [spamdyke-users] Timer for objects in blacklist

2013-03-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I do something similar for my ip blacklist. I have a honeypot that, if it receives email. it adds the sender's ip to the blacklist with a timestamp in a preceding comment. If I get another email from that server, it just updates the comment so the expiration gets extended. I run a nightly

Re: [spamdyke-users] Timer for objects in blacklist

2013-03-26 Thread Gary Gendel
but it should be easy to figure out what needs to be done from the included Jamfile. Feel free to use it, modify it, or throw it away as needed. :) Gary On 03/26/2013 11:05 AM, Denny Jones wrote: Interesting concept. Care to share your script? -Original Message- From: Gary Gendel g

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking DHCP addresses

2013-02-08 Thread Gary Gendel
On 02/08/2013 01:19 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 02/08/2013 10:16 AM, Lutz Petersen wrote: Again: It is a very _bad_ idea to block hosts with the keyword dhcp in the rdns name. A lot of static hosts (hostingcenter etc.) have this keyword in their rdns and they all are static.

Re: [spamdyke-users] Need Paid Assistance Referral

2012-09-26 Thread Gary Gendel
Kevin, Qmail looks for the environment variable RELAYCLIENT, if that is set, then qmail will happily relay. My guess is that something upstream or downstream from spamdyke is doing the dirty deed. For example, if you use tcpserver, check it's

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamassassin not running with spamdyke's access-file

2012-07-28 Thread Gary Gendel
On 7/28/12 1:09 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: A potential problem just occurred to me though. QMT uses the (preferred default) submission port 587, and includes a qmail-smtpd patch which forces authentication (export REQUIRE_AUTH=1). While spamdyke wouldn't typically be used on the submission port

Re: [spamdyke-users] DNS resolver and cache

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm in the same situation as you. The only reason I decided to move from djbdns is because it doesn't handle IPV6 without patching. Since my ISP has started providing IPV6, and saw that unbound was already in OpenIndiana's repository, I figured that this is the time to see if was an

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting effectiveness?

2012-07-12 Thread Gary Gendel
On 7/12/12 1:18 PM, BC wrote: On 7/12/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I use an internal caching DNS server as a DNS forwarder for spamdyke's dns requests. This way I only need to query outside once, and subsequent spam bursts from the same server are rejected by

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting effectiveness?

2012-07-11 Thread Gary Gendel
On 7/11/12 1:50 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 07/11/2012 10:40 AM, BC wrote: On 7/11/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I've disabled graylisting on a few domains that are sensitive to timely delivery. They haven't complained about any increase in spam. You might try doing

Re: [spamdyke-users] FW: Spamdyke /Qmail

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Are you sure that there is nothing already bound to port 25? On 6/14/12 6:26 AM, Doug Eggleton wrote: Currently trying to get Spamdyke configured on Plesk 10.4/Qmail . It works on port 587 but not port 25. Instead we get error messages saying The server responded: spamdyke

[spamdyke-users] Request for enhancement

2012-04-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Since spamdyke runs on an unmodified qmail setup, it seems that a good addition would early detection of non-existing users. This will fix the backscatter problem that is inherent with qmail by rejecting email before queuing rather than bouncing them.

Re: [spamdyke-users] Request for enhancement

2012-04-27 Thread Gary Gendel
pulled a few converts to the spamdyke fold. I guess the next piece of the puzzle with be ipv6 support. Of course that means that the rbl sites need to support this in a consistent fashion. Gary On 4/27/12 2:05 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/27/2012 10:54 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Since spamdyke runs