[spamdyke-users] Spam rejection statistics ?

2022-09-14 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I have been using SD since 2009 but have only been keeping decent records of spam that makes it through to my server since 2015: 20151,003 20163,734 20177,999 20183,566 20192,921 20207,463 202110,209 20227,997 so far As you can see I have become lazy

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking variations on a "From: " field

2020-09-28 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Bucky, On 2020-09-29 00:19, BC via spamdyke-users wrote: On 9/28/2020 7:51 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote: You need to block by header contents as it offers more wildcards: https://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#HEADERS From:* Hmm . . I thought I had tried

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking variations on a "From: " field

2020-09-28 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Marcin, On 2020-09-28 23:22, Marcin Orlowski via spamdyke-users wrote: Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote on 28.09.2020 06:34: People, I have tried a few different options but mails like these are still getting through:   From: "Mark Milton" I want to block all email

[spamdyke-users] Blocking variations on a "From: " field

2020-09-27 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I have tried a few different options but mails like these are still getting through: From: "Mark Milton" I want to block all email addresses that start with "mmilton01" - I presume it is possible but I haven't had any success so far . . Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box

[spamdyke-users] Can I get SD going with IndiMail

2020-03-29 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Sam, I am gradually getting organised to change my netqmail installation over to IndiMail: http://www.indimail.org but have struck problems with getting SD working with it. It looks like SD is hard-coded to expect stuff to be in: /var/qmail What files does SD need from qmail? Is

Re: [spamdyke-users] ip-whitelist-entry Not Working

2018-06-10 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Eric, On 2018-06-04 04:41, Eric Broch via spamdyke-users wrote: can you have a comment (# philsdiscourse) on your IP whitelist entry line? maybe, remove '#philsdiscourse'  and see what happens. Same problem - thanks anyway. P. On 6/3/2018 12:05 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users

[spamdyke-users] ip-whitelist-entry Not Working

2018-06-03 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I am trying to use my host qmail server as a relay for a docker container that is running on the host but mails are not being accepted - I have this in spamdyke.conf: ip-whitelist-entry=172.17.0.6 # philsdiscourse and I see this in the logs: Jun 4 03:53:59 prix

[spamdyke-users] unknown exit code from validation command, code 255: /usr/local/bin/spamdyke-qrv

2018-04-25 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I think I have seen this a couple of times recently: Apr 25 18:03:22 prix spamdyke[6851]: ERROR(filter_recipient_valid_inner()@filter.c:3085): unknown exit code from validation command, code 255: /usr/local/bin/spamdyke-qrv I haven't updated the code for a long time - maybe I should

Re: [spamdyke-users] SD Stats Report #3 - more spam getting through - CORRECTION

2017-04-20 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
ou can block "To: undisclosed-recipients" with the header blacklist filter, if that's really how it appears in the message headers. I'll give that a shot. Blocking emails with no "To" line in the header isn't something spamdyke can do right now, sorry! OK. Thanks! Phil. -- Sam

[spamdyke-users] SD Stats Report #3 - more spam getting through

2017-04-18 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, It has been almost a year since the last report - here is the updated GD Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GqinPR2mA0Jz-uTZ2zVJgutpiDl62HNbn2gWGNpd7Tk/pubhtml Unfortunately the amount of spam getting through the SD filtering, then seen by me and being moved to

Re: [spamdyke-users] Second SD Stats report - spamdyke-qrv SUCCESS!

2016-05-08 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, On 2016-05-06 13:10, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote: Sam, On 2016-05-06 02:50, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: You may need to recompile spamdyke-qrv with excessive output and run it with two "-v" flags to see the details you need. You don't need t

Re: [spamdyke-users] Second SD Stats report

2016-05-05 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
livery to jackspratt is still attempted . . Thanks, Phil. -- Sam Clippinger On May 4, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: People, Last year I reported some stats after I had been using SD for about a month and now I have a second se

[spamdyke-users] Second SD Stats report

2016-05-04 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, Last year I reported some stats after I had been using SD for about a month and now I have a second set - unfortunately I forgot to increase the number of backlogs for logrotate and I lost a few months of data to compare delivered spam to but the latest stats are from 100 days of

Re: [spamdyke-users] recipient-blacklist-file=FILE with RegExes?

2015-12-30 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
and do a nightly cron job that produces both of the needed files from the master file . . Thanks again! Phil. That should do it! More info here: http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#REJECTING_SENDERS -- Sam Clippinger On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:54 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-u

Re: [spamdyke-users] recipient-blacklist-file=FILE with RegExes?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I thought of starting a new thread but the question relates to this discussion so I thought I would revive it - see inline comments: On 2015-06-21 04:57, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote: Sam, On 2015-06-21 03:12, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: Regex support

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-10-12 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
for this post, but I would consult them taking advantage of the conversation can be locked via e-mail comes without sender? I'm getting a lot of spam that has this pattern. Best regards, Paul 2015-10-03 1:05 GMT-03:00 Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org>: Sam, On 2015-10

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
On 2015-10-02 15:42, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote: Sam, On 2015-09-26 01:12, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: The header blacklist file has a different format from the sender blacklist file, so just copying entries from one to the other won't work. You need to provide

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
ber of lines offends my sensibilities . . this works: [FR][re][op][ml]*:*iskysoft.com* Also, sorting this issue out forced me to sort out the rDNS problem for my main web server - so thanks for that too! Regards, Phil. -- Sam Clippinger On Oct 2, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Philip Rhoades via spam

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-10-01 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
or example). -- Sam Clippinger On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: Sam, On 2015-09-15 07:27, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: Actually, no. The sender-blacklist-* and recipient-blacklist-* filters operate on diff

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-09-30 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Martin, On 2015-09-26 22:10, Martin H. Sluka via spamdyke-users wrote: Sam wrote: For testing, you certainly can use telnet -- I do it all the time. Tip: You might want to have a look at Swaks (Swiss Army Knife for SMTP, http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/). I find it very convenient

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-09-25 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
it? Thanks, Phil. -- Sam Clippinger On Sep 13, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: Sam, On 2015-09-14 11:38, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: I'm not entirely sure I understand your question... if the Reply-To address is always t

[spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-09-13 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, One variety of spam that is successfully delivered to me has a different "From:" addresses but the same "Reply-To:" address - I can't see a way of blocking these mails in the conf file via the "Reply-To:" address - is it possible? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking "Reply-To:" addresses

2015-09-13 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
Rhoades via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: People, One variety of spam that is successfully delivered to me has a different "From:" addresses but the same "Reply-To:" address - I can't see a way of blocking these mails in the conf file v

[spamdyke-users] Some stats after a couple of months; NotInFromWhiteList; Calling External Program

2015-08-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, Here are some stats after a couple of months of happy Spamdyke usage - thanks! If I had remembered to set the logrotate number higher I would have had more data but I think the last 31 days is sufficient to illustrate some things: Total spamdyke lines in maillog files for the last

Re: [spamdyke-users] Softlimit messages

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
undo hard limits set by the ulimit program, but it can (and does) undo softlimit. -- Sam Clippinger On Jun 20, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org wrote: People, I played around with the logging verbosity and found if I used debug mode I saw

[spamdyke-users] Softlimit messages

2015-06-20 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I played around with the logging verbosity and found if I used debug mode I saw suggestions (commands!?) in the log about remove the softlimit function from the start script for qmail-smtpd - while I was trying to sort out the last bug that was preventing eQmail from working, I did

Re: [spamdyke-users] recipient-blacklist-file=FILE with RegExes?

2015-06-20 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
On Jun 19, 2015, at 9:09 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org wrote: Sam, See inline comments: On 2015-06-20 11:53, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: You're correct spamdyke does not support regexes for any of its options, but you can use a wildcard

Re: [spamdyke-users] Moving from GreyLite

2015-06-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
or a filter like spamdyke. -- Sam Clippinger On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org wrote: People, I have been using GreyLite for many years but it hasn't been supported for quite a while - I think it is time to update to SpamDyke . . but I have

[spamdyke-users] recipient-blacklist-file=FILE with RegExes?

2015-06-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, As well as using GreyLite I have done my own thing for many years with qmail-qfilter and a Ruby script (it started off as a Ruby learning exercise . . ) - anyway for my white and black lists I was able to have in the plain text files things like: ad...@phillipsfinancial.com.au

Re: [spamdyke-users] recipient-blacklist-file=FILE with RegExes?

2015-06-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
as the mail body and do whatever I wanted before accepting the mail. Header filtering doesn't support regexes either, but it does use globbing to allow more wildcard options. Right. Thanks, Phil. On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

[spamdyke-users] Moving from GreyLite

2015-06-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users
People, I have been using GreyLite for many years but it hasn't been supported for quite a while - I think it is time to update to SpamDyke . . but I have some questions - first one: I looked at the SpamDyke web site and it is still not clear to me - it says 'connection-time means spamdyke