Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 21

2007-09-20 Thread BC
On 9/20/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The disk access is very slow in compared with memory (ram) access. In the file of options per user, there is only users with specific options, the default option is only 1 line where the admin can manipulate default actions. I'm not programmer, but

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 29

2007-09-27 Thread BC
On 9/27/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DENIED_OTHER means spamdyke did not reject the message; qmail did. spamdyke noticed the rejection and logged it. Hi Sam - Would it be possible to change the above log line info to read DENIED_BY_OTHER to better imply that spamdyke didn't do it? Thanks,

Re: [spamdyke-users] graylisting

2007-10-03 Thread BC
On 10/3/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok but i must add a directory on /var/qmail/spamdyke/graylisted/ Like gmail.com It's not done automactly?I must do with all the domains i want receive emails from? You tell spamdyke the DOMAIN for which the greylisting will occur. For example, I have

Re: [spamdyke-users] clamav with spamdyke

2007-11-22 Thread BC
On 11/22/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows how can i do that after spamdyke scans the email if it's listed or not on a rbl. You need to read the documentation. Spamdyke does not 'scan the email'. Spamdyke is *better* than spamassassin and clamav in the way that it BLOCKS most

Re: [spamdyke-users] Spamdyke seems to cause a change in, networktraffic that crashes my ADSL Routers

2007-12-30 Thread BC
Andrew - I know I'm running off in weird directions, but a couple of questions: What OS are you running and how much RAM do your machines contain? Bucky ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

[spamdyke-users] Performance uber alles

2008-02-08 Thread BC
On 2/8/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One important thought: have you tried installing a caching name server on your mail server? That's usually the single biggest thing you can do to improve performance. .. and it is EASY to do. Heed this advice! Bucky

[spamdyke-users] The Rational Approach

2008-02-08 Thread BC
On 2/8/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally disagree with DJB's position about strictly interpreting the RFCs -- I believe software should strictly follow RFCs when producing output and loosely follow them when accepting it. This is a highly rational approach. DJB ought to look

Re: [spamdyke-users] The Rational Approach

2008-02-08 Thread BC
On 2/8/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally disagree with DJB's position about strictly interpreting the RFCs -- I believe software should strictly follow RFCs when producing output and loosely follow them when accepting it. This is a highly rational

Re: [spamdyke-users] Simple Perl Spam Statistics Contribution

2008-02-16 Thread BC
On 2/16/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allowed: 425 Denied : 9968 % Spam : 95.91% Thank you very much for this, Ken. 96% spam. How sad... Bucky ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

[spamdyke-users] Minimalist Servers

2008-04-28 Thread BC
On 4/28/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, the server in question is a PII/266/512 (try not to laugh too hard). Hey! I have two P2 machines as backup servers, but the primary server is a P1/150/128 (10 years old next month) that is showing some overloading strains but otherwise has run

Re: [spamdyke-users] Graylisting - how effective it really, is?

2008-05-09 Thread BC
On 5/9/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So - graylisting - how effective it really is for you? The only spam blocking I use presently is spamdyke with graylisting. Pre-spamdyke I was getting 1000 spams/day into my personal mailbox. Since installing spamdyke with graylisting I get 3-4

Re: [spamdyke-users] New version: 4.0.0

2008-07-14 Thread BC
Bravo and Thank You!!! On 7/14/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long, long last, the moment we've all been waiting for! spamdyke version 4.0.0 is now available: http://www.spamdyke.org/ ___ spamdyke-users mailing list

[spamdyke-users] How qmail works...

2009-05-04 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam, for a very excellent explanation of how it all works. Have you considered writing an MTA to replace qmail which can use spamdyke? Looking forward to the next version... Bucky On 5/4/2009 spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: When a message is delivered to a stock

[spamdyke-users] ERROR: Unable to write... Broken Pipe

2009-06-01 Thread BC
Found several of these messages sporadically in the ../maillog file today: [date/time/machine] spamdyke[57524]: ERROR: unable to write 26 bytes to file descriptor 1: Broken pipe Any ideas where I should start looking? Thanks, Bucky ___

[spamdyke-users] Ancient email address

2009-06-01 Thread BC
A small bit of education for me, please... In September 2002 (!) for 2 weeks I used a TEMPORARY email address of say xyzzyx(at)purgatory.org. After those two weeks I deleted the 'for sale' ads for which that email address was used. The server on which that 'for sale' ad, and therefore my

Re: [spamdyke-users] ERROR: Unable to write... Broken Pipe

2009-06-02 Thread BC
On 6/2/2009 spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: You don't need to worry about this. The sender disconnected. It is a common thing to see in the logs. There's no error. Thank you very much! Was worrying I'd have to engage a plumber... Bucky

Re: [spamdyke-users] Databases revisited

2009-10-22 Thread BC
Hi Sam - That is a pretty good synopsis of what he is doing. Doesn't he claim to find *any* sought after data in no more than 7 seeks? Maybe I misread that somewhere. :) My take on the below would be that if spamdyke remains a qmail-only spam blocker, then going with a cdb-based database

Re: [spamdyke-users] Databases revisited

2009-10-25 Thread BC
I'm not a savvy programmer, so consider that when reading my comments. On 10/23/2009 spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I'm thinking that no database might just be the best for this particular application (spamdyke). I don't know where people get the idea that databases provide

[spamdyke-users] What firewalls do you use?

2010-08-22 Thread BC
Was wondering what firewall programs you folks use with your OS/qmail/spamdyke setups? For example, for years now I've used FreeBSD/qmail/spamdyke with the ipfw firewall. I'm planning to change from ipfw to pf (which comes from OpenBSD) as the firewall. They work in fundamentally different

Re: [spamdyke-users] reject-identical-sender-recipient - how, it works?

2011-01-12 Thread BC
kudos to Eric. He is right - it is very counter intuitive. Spamdyke blocks 98.9% of spam and doing as Eric suggested got rid of another 1%. On 1/12/2011 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Another method of rejecting this sort of spam (forged from addresses) is to blacklist

[spamdyke-users] Thinking out loud

2011-03-12 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam, for puzzling this out on-list. Always interesting to see how a programmer's mind works. Bucky On 3/12/2011 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: So, two bugs. I'll get them fixed. :) Thanks for reporting this! ___

[spamdyke-users] Spamdyke!

2011-05-06 Thread BC
Sam - we all have to earn a living and know that Spamdyke is a labor of love-alone for you (and for US!!!) We all appreciate to the tips of our toes, what you've created here. Thank you very much! On 5/6/2011 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I'm sorry the fixes have

Re: [spamdyke-users] Help with spamdyke...

2011-06-10 Thread BC
There is something else amiss here, from my reading of the logs. If there is gobs of memory available, then do as Sam suggests and allocate a LOT - say 300mb to the softlimit and retest. I'd wager there will still be troubles. On 6/9/2011 11:54 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote:

Re: [spamdyke-users] Problems with outgoing SPAM

2011-07-18 Thread BC
Is this what the tar pit option in qmail is suppose to do? On 7/18/2011 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I would like to know if spamdyke can block relay if the client is trying to send a lot of email in a small period of time or something else that can ease this

Re: [spamdyke-users] Graylist performance

2012-07-08 Thread BC
On 7/8/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I think that the simplest way of matching up messages would be if the log messages contained the Message-ID field from the email headers. I checked the TODO.txt file, and Frank beat me to the request: Log the Message-ID field so

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting effectiveness?

2012-07-09 Thread BC
Then why am I not getting hammered with spam? Is it the failed-reverse-lookup that is saving me? On 7/9/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Overall, I suspect Eric suspects what I also believe -- graylisting isn't effective any more.

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 62, Issue 6

2012-07-10 Thread BC
How interesting. Well, whatever the reason I still only very occasionally get any spam, yet when I look at the maillog there are countless attempts to send me span each day. One in particular that is amusing is to one email address I used exactly ONE time 10 years ago. There are hundreds

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting effectiveness?

2012-07-11 Thread BC
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 the same to see the effect. I expect that the various rDNS filters,

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting effectiveness?

2012-07-12 Thread BC
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 local lookups to the cache. This

[spamdyke-users] DNS resolvers and local caching

2012-07-13 Thread BC
I know that a local DNS server is virtually required for good performance with spamdyke. Am curious what you don't like about djbdns? Or what you like better about unbound? unbound looks interesting and is available to me via the FreeBSD ports collection. On 7/13/2012 11:00 AM,

Re: [spamdyke-users] Greylisting Effectiveness

2012-07-13 Thread BC
Right. But the bottom line is that spamdyke is still doing a fabulous job of blocking spam by whatever filter is doing it. Thanks. On 7/13/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Well, remember the filters run in a specific order. Graylisting is one of the very last

Re: [spamdyke-users] DNS resolver and cache

2012-07-16 Thread BC
Any good reason to NOT use djbdns, then? I'm not opposed to switching if there is a GOOD reason to switch. I run a tiny mail server with essentially one customer - me. On 7/16/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: I can't think of any good reason to use djbdns any

[spamdyke-users] Where to run the caching DNS resolver

2012-09-01 Thread BC
A novice question perhaps, but does it matter much where one runs the local caching resolver? I have a LAN with IP 10.x.x.x and simply use 10.0.0.1 as the local IP for the resolver. My understanding is that any local IP can be used so long as it can be reached by those functions needing

Re: [spamdyke-users] Where to run the caching DNS resolver

2012-09-01 Thread BC
I think I understand what you are saying. My local LAN is quite simple: only one *nix box and it sits between the internet source and the rest of the machines on my LAN. That one box contains two NICs - the public (WAN-side NIC) and the private (LAN-side NIC) and runs spamdyke (as well as

Re: [spamdyke-users] Where to run the caching DNS resolver

2012-09-02 Thread BC
On 9/2/2012 8:44 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: That's how I started as well. :) You might want to consider putting an IPCop (or other suitable firewall) host on your perimeter. I think it's the next logical step for your situation. Whew, good to know I'm on track. Running

Re: [spamdyke-users] Where to run the caching DNS resolver

2012-09-03 Thread BC
This is probably over my head. From my reading about a DMZ, that would require using a 3rd NIC on the host machine, right? I have a mobo NIC that I'm not using presently and could assign it an address of say, 10.10.0.1 (the LAN is 10.0.0.1) Presently, everything that is running on the

[spamdyke-users] Replying Quoting

2012-09-17 Thread BC
A favor please. Can we trim up the responses a bit? They are almost all requoting. Thanks. ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 11

2012-12-24 Thread BC
Sam has made this very simple to do by following the directions. Takes only minutes. On 12/24/2012 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Yes. In the documentation folder, there is a file named UPGRADING_version_3_to_version_4.txt that lists exactly what options need to

[spamdyke-users] Blocking @ru

2013-06-13 Thread BC
A previous poster asked about blocking entire domains and asked if something like @ru would block all @.ru mail. It seemed that Sam chimed in and said it wasn't intended to do so, but does apparently work. Well, it doesn't... In my blacklist_senders file I've tried both @ru and @.ru and

Re: [spamdyke-users] Blocking @ru

2013-06-15 Thread BC
Ooops. That is exactly the problem. The envelope sender is someone else. Sorry... On 6/15/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Are you sure the envelope senders end in .ru? In other words, the log messages from spamdyke should show from:xxx...@yy.ru. If the .ru is

Re: [spamdyke-users] Next Release

2013-06-15 Thread BC
This just boggles the mind. Thank you for continuing to work on spamdyke, Sam... On 6/15/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Yes, I am still trying to get that finished. The testing is taking forever -- there are 237K test scripts for that feature alone and each one

Re: [spamdyke-users] Spam getting past, ip-in-rdns-keyword-blacklist-file?

2013-08-11 Thread BC
On 8/11/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Aug 10 08:18:38 C2Q_Q9400 spamdyke[64027]: ALLOWED from: (unknown) to: [myemailaddress] origin_ip: 5.248.89.179 \ origin_rdns: 5-248-89-179-broadband.kyivstar.net auth: (unknown) Simply use the standard Blacklists. This IP

Re: [spamdyke-users] Spam getting past, ip-in-rdns-keyword-blacklist-file?

2013-08-11 Thread BC
Thank you very much. I'll add those and see what happens. On 8/11/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Sorry - was too fast. Here is what you need to add in your spamdyke.conf: dns-blacklist-entry=bl.spamcop.net dns-blacklist-entry=zen.spamhaus.org

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 75, Issue 4

2013-08-12 Thread BC
H. Just checked both whitelist files and nothing in them relates to localhost or anything else that would have allowed this that I can tell. Clearly the rDNS name was shown as localhost. Aug 11 13:40:50 C2Q_Q9400 spamdyke[73552]: ALLOWED from: (unknown) to:bc...@purgatoire.org

Re: [spamdyke-users] 127.0.0.1

2013-08-13 Thread BC
Gulp. Could I be spamming myself? On 8/13/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: It looks like the originating IP address was 127.0.0.1, which is your server. In other words, this log entry is for a message that was generated by something on your server. The

Re: [spamdyke-users] 127.0.0.1

2013-08-14 Thread BC
On 8/14/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Gulp. Could I be spamming myself? On 8/13/2013 11:00 AM,spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: It looks like the originating IP address was 127.0.0.1, which is your server. In other words, this log entry is for a

Re: [spamdyke-users] spamdyke-users Digest, Vol 75, Issue 9

2013-08-17 Thread BC
On 8/17/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Does your server have an IPv6 address? It's possible something is accepting incoming connections on an IPv6 interface and tunneling back into the localhost interface for software that doesn't support IPv6 (i.e. spamdyke and

[spamdyke-users] Blacklisting 127.0.0.1

2013-08-18 Thread BC
How about if I put 127.0.0.1 into the blacklist_ip file? Potential downsides? ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users

[spamdyke-users] ip-in-rdns-keyword-blacklist-file

2013-10-02 Thread BC
This spam got through today (after being graylisted 8 minutes): Oct 2 13:53:25 C2Q_Q9400 spamdyke[66462]: ALLOWED from: (unknown) to: b...@purgatoire.org origin_ip: 24.227.125.250 origin_rdns: rrcs-24-227-125-250.se.biz.rr.com auth: (unknown) encryption: (none) reason:

Re: [spamdyke-users] ip-in-rdns-keyword-blacklist-file

2013-10-03 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam. That is a subtlety which I missed in reading the really excellent documentation! On 10/3/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Close... but you need a leading dot if you want it to match a domain name instead of looking for the keyword in the middle of

[spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread BC
Does anyone use some sort of RAMdisk or memory disk to hold the graylist? I just did a 'du' on my graylist and it takes up 85mb of space. I'm trying to reduce the amount of hard drive accesses going on. ___

[spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread BC
Darn Thunderbird update...changed my default settings. Here was my question: Does anyone use some sort of RAMdisk or memory disk to hold the graylist? I just did a 'du' on my

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
You actually answered another question I had as well. I noticed in my latest server-build, that the 'top' command shows an additional line that I'd not seen on the previous server: Mem: 36M Active, 29M Inact, 206M Wired, 5647M Free ARC: 59M Total, 12M MFU, 45M

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
You are doing what I want to do. Which RAMdisk program are you running? Do you have a script that flushes the RAMdisk contents to disk periodically, so the info on the hard disk doesn't get too stale between reboots? Could you share your init Script(s)

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
The other question I forgot to ask... With zfs and 4G RAM running, the prefetch is automatically disabled. Did you make the loader.conf change to enable prefetch caching anyway? Thanks. On 11/1/2013 11:00 AM,

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
. On 11/01/2013 03:02 PM, BC wrote: The other question I forgot to ask... With zfs and 4G RAM running, the prefetch is automatically disabled. Did you make the loader.conf change to enable prefetch caching anyway

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-22 Thread BC
Interesting. I've been doing it this way - should I stop? # time to delete old, empty graylist entries older than 15 days (empty files empty directories) find /var/qmail/antispam/graylist/ -type f -mtime +15 -print

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-22 Thread BC
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 is probably shorter than most.

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-23 Thread BC
On 11/23/2013 8:55 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Having said that, I've come to the conclusion that graylisting isn't worth it to me. I disabled graylisting several months ago, and haven't really noticed any less effectiveness. Measuring the effectiveness of

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-23 Thread BC
On 11/23/2013 9:39 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: But what is the "cost of graylisting"? Graylisting delays a legit email by X amount of minutes. Is that the pain of which you are talking? Yes. I realize that the impact of the delay is infrequent, but when

Re: [spamdyke-users] 0byte graylist entries

2013-11-23 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam. spamdyke is a wonderful spam blocker! On 11/23/2013 2:43 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: For what it's worth, I agree. Graylisting was designed to stop spam coming from spambots on infected home PCs --

Re: [spamdyke-users] New version: spamdyke 5.0.0

2014-01-28 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam. Will spamdyke do IPv6 records as well? On 1/28/2014 8:42 AM, Sam Clippinger wrote: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... spamdyke version 5.0.0 is now available! Get it here: http://www.spamdyke.org/ This version is a major update that adds 12

[spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-06 Thread BC
One of the RBLs I'm using is bl.mailspike.net. Today they started listing an IP which 100 other blacklists don't have listed. Then it delisted it, then it put it back, then delisted it again - all over the course of a couple of hours. Now blacklisted again. What other free, RBL services are

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread BC
three don't catch even a tenth of what Barracuda catches. -- Sam Clippinger On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:05 PM, BC bc...@purgatoire.org mailto:bc...@purgatoire.org wrote: One of the RBLs I'm using isbl.mailspike.net http://bl.mailspike.net. Today they started listing an IP which 100 other

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread BC
Do I need to sign up to use b.barracudacentral.org? I've been looking around their website... On 3/7/2014 2:11 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: 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

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread BC
Okay, thanks. It told me to register, which I did... then it disappeared into a black hole (probably preparing to spam me into the next century :). The about info said if you don't register the IPs from which you'll be making inqueries, they might add that IP to the blacklist. Gulp.

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread BC
available. Just add dns-blacklist-entry=b.barracudacentral.org http://b.barracudacentral.org to your spamdyke config file. -- Sam Clippinger On Mar 7, 2014, at 3:23 PM, BC bc...@purgatoire.org mailto:bc...@purgatoire.org wrote: Do I need to sign up to use b.barracudacentral.org? I've been

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-07 Thread BC
On 3/7/2014 3:25 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: Actually, the order of the options doesn't matter. spamdyke queries all of the RBLs simultaneously and uses the first positive response it gets from the DNS server. Okay, thanks for that bit. ___

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-08 Thread BC
On 3/8/2014 7:03 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: TL;DR: if you null-route every IP that HostNoc owns, it will make a dramatic difference to the amount of spam you see. Angus, To what does the TL;DR refer? How are you null-routing all those IPs? With spamdyke somehow? Bucky PS - this is a

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-08 Thread BC
On 3/8/2014 7:18 AM, Lutz Petersen wrote: Instead make this spamdyke.conf Settings: dns-blacklist-entry=bl.mailspike.net This is the one causing all sorts of mischief lately - blacklisting and unblacklisting legit and non-spamming IPs rapidly. What is wrong with barracuda? You said it

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-08 Thread BC
Okay, thanks for the excellent explanation and I know how to null route an IP at the firewall. On 3/8/2014 7:58 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: BC wrote: On 3/8/2014 7:03 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: TL;DR: if you null-route every IP that HostNoc owns, it will make a dramatic difference

Re: [spamdyke-users] RBLs

2014-03-09 Thread BC
On 3/9/2014 1:21 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: plus my private list that's generated by the hunter_seeker script. My private list has blocked about 4.5 times more connections today than the DNS RBLs. Sam - Is a functionality that could be built into spamdyke with a .conf configuration option?

Re: [spamdyke-users] No TLS with openssl elliptic curve cipher suites / pfs perfect forward secrecy

2014-03-28 Thread BC
On 3/28/2014 12:47 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: I'm also wondering, should 2048 and 4096 key lengths also be included? As of January 1, 2014 key lengths of 1024 are not to be allowed for new installations going forward. Newly issued certs have to be for a minimum of 2048 bit keys.

Re: [spamdyke-users] New problems with spamdyke

2014-10-30 Thread BC
On 10/30/2014 6:09 PM, Les Fenison wrote: Still wondering what we are to use for encryption now that SSLv3 is vulnerable. What are most people doing? Leaving the submission port vulnerable by leaving SSLv3 available and securing all the rest of the ports?Or just giving up on email

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

2014-11-04 Thread BC
At the suggestion of others here, I turned OFF greylisting last year, after having used it for years before that. My spam level didn't increase one bit. I think the RBL sites are pretty good at identifying spam originations, so I use thatmethod now. On 11/4/2014 12:55 AM, Quinn Comendant

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

2014-11-04 Thread BC
make a difference. However, I haven't seen any new websites added to that blocklist so I wonder whether that is as effective as it used to be. On 11/04/2014 02:03 PM, BC wrote: I don't have a link to the conversation, but I literally turned off greylisting and turned on using RBLs at the same

Re: [spamdyke-users] Error in log

2014-11-27 Thread BC
Same error here ona new build. No time to pursue it presently. Curious about the solution as well. On 11/27/2014 7:21 PM, Les Fenison wrote: I keep seeing this error in the log every few minutes... Nov 27 18:03:32 zeus spamdyke[28831]: ERROR(check_ip_in_rdns_keyword()@filter.c:919):

Re: [spamdyke-users] Error in log

2014-11-28 Thread BC
Thank you, Sam! I'll go through my .conf file, too and remove the offending stuff. On 11/28/2014 2:49 PM, Sam Clippinger wrote: Found the problem -- very obscure! The structure of your configuration file is tickling a small bug so it adds an empty value to the end of the list of

Re: [spamdyke-users] New version: spamdyke 5.0.1

2015-05-01 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Thank you, Sam. For so much work on this update, a measly 0.0.1 version bump belittles it. On 5/1/2015 11:36 AM, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: spamdyke lives! spamdyke version 5.0.1 is now available: http://www.spamdyke.org/ This version fixes a ton of bugs, including a number

Re: [spamdyke-users] Softlimit messages

2015-06-20 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Wow. So for example, the starting linefor my smtpd-run file looks like this: exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -4v -R -l $LOCAL \ and I can simply change it to this: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -4v -R -l $LOCAL \ with impunity? On 6/20/2015 5:12

Re: [spamdyke-users] IPv6 Question

2016-05-05 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
That is what I figured. Thanks, Sam. On 5/5/2016 6:30 AM, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: Right now, spamdyke has no support for IPv6 at all, so it can't understand that nameserver line. However, the only consequence should be that error message -- it shouldn't have any trouble

Re: [spamdyke-users] softlimit error

2016-05-05 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
A, the ulimit limits. I'd forgotten about those and was focusing on the "softlimit" word in the error. Thanks, Sam. On 5/5/2016 6:35 AM, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: You're correct that those messages are related to limits, but not the ones softlimit can set. Those

[spamdyke-users] IPv6 Question

2016-05-04 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Using FreeBSD here. In addition to my normal IPv4 connection, I have an IPv6 tunnel set up via Hurricane Electric. Also use unbound as my local DNS cache resolver for resolving both IPv4 & IPv6 addresses and it has been doing both for over a year now. spamdyke doesn't seem to like the

[spamdyke-users] softlimit error

2016-05-04 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Now that I've set log-level=excessive, I can see these two errors that spamdyke is spitting out a lot: May 4 13:54:52 Xeon_Right spamdyke[18726]: ERROR(undo_softlimit()@spamdyke.c:3226): data segment hard limit is less than infinity, could lead to unexplainable crashes: 34359738368 May 4

Re: [spamdyke-users] spam with rDNS resolving to "localhost"

2016-08-09 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
I've got 127.0.0.1 in my "blacklist_ip" file and the system seems to be working fine. On 8/9/2016 4:02 AM, Faris Raouf via spamdyke-users wrote: Dear all, We’re having problems with spam being allowed in from IPs with rDNS resolving to “localhost”. This gets past the reject-empty-rdns

[spamdyke-users] Spamdyke Port Maintainer for FreeBSD Ports

2016-08-17 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
While installing spamdyke on my latest FreeBSD build machine, I saw this notice: Message from spamdyke-5.0.1_1: ===> NOTICE: The spamdyke port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the

[spamdyke-users] Real Time Blacklists

2016-08-17 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
I'm building out a new server box and figured it is time to revisit my configuration files, including spamdyke.conf. In 2014 I included some dns-blacklist-entry="entries...". But in 2015/2016 my configuration didn't include any. What say the congregants about the efficacy of RBL usage with

Re: [spamdyke-users] Localhost relaying denied

2016-10-03 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
On 10/3/2016 6:58 AM, Faris Raouf via spamdyke-users wrote: dns-blacklist-entry=b.barracudacentral.org Comment out the above and try it again. ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

Re: [spamdyke-users] MAILER-DAEMON Flood

2016-11-08 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Well, I have spamdyke-qrv installed and turned on in spamdyke.conf, but am still getting stuff like this (maillog): Nov 8 21:48:51 33a45916-5b78-11e6-a0e5-0cc47a6975be spamdyke[17138]: ALLOWED from: filenkokir...@shopon.net to: sergushk...@bk.ru origin_ip: 10.0.1.15 origin_rdns: (unknown)

[spamdyke-users] MAILER-DAEMON Flood

2016-11-07 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
It hasn't risen to the level of DDOS, yet, but I'm getting many hundreds of these messages per night (and it is now continuing during the day). They look like this: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at purgatoire.org. I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address,

Re: [spamdyke-users] MAILER-DAEMON Flood

2016-11-07 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
Thank you very much. I'll look into that. On 11/7/2016 9:13 AM, Gary Gendel via spamdyke-users wrote: 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

Re: [spamdyke-users] TLS and LibreSSL

2018-06-04 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
. -- Sam Clippinger On May 26, 2018, at 2:42 PM, BC via spamdyke-users mailto:spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org>> wrote: Will spamdyke compile with TLS using the LibreSSL libraries? ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org

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

2020-09-28 Thread BC via spamdyke-users
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 that - oh well, I will give it a shot! I use this technique