Re: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections
Actually, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 machine that I built for testing, so I'll check this out tonight and let you know if I can reproduce it. -- Sam Clippinger Shane Bywater wrote: Hi, I tried increasing my qmail's softlimit to 8000 as per Sam's recommendation but that didn't help. Same errors are reported and all SMTP connections are rejected. I'm guessing I may be the only one running Spamdyke 4.0.2 on a FreeBSD 4.7 server so this is why no one else has this issue but if anyone can offer some suggestions on what to try next that would be appreciated. Would a older version of libgnugetopt package, which was necessary to install for the configure script to complete correctly, create this issue? I just used version 1.2 which was found in the ports directory. Regards, Shane Bywater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:24:52 -0400 From: Shane Bywater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections To: spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, I'm attempting to run Spamdyke 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 4.7 and I'm experiencing problems such as the following errors: ERROR: Illegal value for option greeting-delay-secs: 5 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option idle-timeout-secs: 60 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-max-secs: 1814400 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-min-secs: 300 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) I'm no mathematician but I think 5 is between 0 and 2147483647 and the other values should be fine as well. Any idea why I'm getting these errors? Also, when I actually try using Spamdyke my mail server rejects all SMTP connections even when I have filter-level=allow-all in /etc/spamdyke.conf Here's the first part of /etc/spamdyke.conf showing how I assigned the values. # Sets spamdyke's overall filter behavior. # Available values: allow-all, normal, require-auth, reject-all # Default: normal filter-level=allow-all # Delays the SMTP greeting banner for SECS seconds. A value of 0 disables this # feature. # Default: 0 greeting-delay-secs=5 # Limit incoming messages to NUM recipients. A value of 0 disables this # feature. # Default: 0 #max-recipients=NUM # Drop superuser privileges and run as USER instead. # Default: none #run-as-user=qmaild Here's the important half of my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd file: exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -h -p -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 25 \ /usr/local/bin/spamdyke -f /etc/spamdyke.conf \ /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/local/bin/properplop \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Any suggestions on how to get Spamdyke running correctly would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Shane Bywater Message: 3 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:42:20 -0500 From: Sam Clippinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections To: spamdyke users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed My first thought is that your memory limit for spamdyke/qmail is probably too low. For some reason, instead of causing out of memory errors, low memory seems to cause very strange malfunctions. Try editing your run file to increase the value for softlimit to something much higher (e.g. 8000), then restart qmail. -- Sam Clippinger Shane Bywater wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to run Spamdyke 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 4.7 and I'm experiencing problems such as the following errors: ERROR: Illegal value for option greeting-delay-secs: 5 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option idle-timeout-secs: 60 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-max-secs: 1814400 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-min-secs: 300 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) I'm no mathematician but I think 5 is between 0 and 2147483647 and the other values should be fine as well. Any idea why I'm getting these errors? Also, when I actually try using Spamdyke my mail server rejects all SMTP connections even when I have filter-level=allow-all in /etc/spamdyke.conf Here's the first part of /etc/spamdyke.conf showing how I assigned the values. # Sets spamdyke's overall filter behavior. # Available values: allow-all, normal, require-auth, reject-all # Default: normal filter-level=allow-all # Delays the SMTP greeting banner for SECS seconds. A value of 0
[spamdyke-users] Blacklist
FYI Sam, Your ISP has been listed on a blacklist... :-) http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx and put in 208.110.65.146 This is a new list I added a couple weeks ago, and I finally realized I hadn't been getting any messages from the list... I'd take it off, but lately, I've been getting bombed with spam, and it's actually getting pretty annoying. I'm trying to figure out a way to ask you how spamdyke could help with what I'm seeing. It's a slight twist on what I've seen in the past that Spamdyke has be very helpful in blocking... I think there's a way to add something, either to Spamdyke, or maybe an external script, that could not only solve this problem (I'd be shocked if I was the only one seeing this) but also improve filtering overall... I'm just not sure how to clearly put it in an e-mail. :-) Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
[spamdyke-users] Also
I'm still not getting e-mails from the list... I've added the mail server's IP to whitelisted IP's, but I'm not even seeing an attempt to deliver in the logs... I tried to re-signup, but I got an e-mail that said I was already signed up? I'm thinking my account got put on hold from bounces due to the blacklisting??? Thanks! Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
Re: [spamdyke-users] Blacklist
Yeah, I saw that the other day, when your subscription to the mailing list was suspended. I would have sent you an email to let you know about the problem but... :) The blacklist entry is actually against my data center -- apparently the blacklist provider has concluded that they host spammers. According to their site, the entry should expire in 7 days. -- Sam Clippinger Michael Colvin wrote: FYI Sam, Your ISP has been listed on a blacklist... :-) http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx and put in 208.110.65.146 This is a new list I added a couple weeks ago, and I finally realized I hadn't been getting any messages from the list... I'd take it off, but lately, I've been getting bombed with spam, and it's actually getting pretty annoying. I'm trying to figure out a way to ask you how spamdyke could help with what I'm seeing. It's a slight twist on what I've seen in the past that Spamdyke has be very helpful in blocking... I think there's a way to add something, either to Spamdyke, or maybe an external script, that could not only solve this problem (I'd be shocked if I was the only one seeing this) but also improve filtering overall... I'm just not sure how to clearly put it in an e-mail. :-) Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
Re: [spamdyke-users] Also
I did see your response...I was watching the archive's online. :-P Thanks for un-suspending me. I got this one via the list, so all's well. Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamdyke-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Clippinger Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:35 PM To: spamdyke users Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] Also Yes, your subscription was suspended. I've unsuspended it manually, but in the future you can change your subscription options on the list info page: http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users My response to your previous email (which you didn't receive): I saw the blacklist entry the other day, when your subscription to the mailing list was suspended. I would have sent you an email to let you know about the problem but... :) The blacklist entry is actually against my data center -- apparently the blacklist provider has concluded that they host spammers. According to their site, the entry should expire in 7 days. -- Sam Clippinger Michael Colvin wrote: I'm still not getting e-mails from the list... I've added the mail server's IP to whitelisted IP's, but I'm not even seeing an attempt to deliver in the logs... I tried to re-signup, but I got an e-mail that said I was already signed up? I'm thinking my account got put on hold from bounces due to the blacklisting??? Thanks! Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
Re: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections
I found the problem. gcc on FreeBSD (at least versions 4.7 and 2.2.2) doesn't seem to use the same format specifiers for parsing 64 bit integers that every other Unix uses. Everything compiles without errors, but when spamdyke loads the integer values from the configuration file and tries to evaluate them, it ends up with mostly-uninitialized values. The final values are random (depending on the values left in memory by the operating system when spamdyke started) but they typically fall well outside the acceptable ranges. I've updated the configure script to detect this situation and work around it. I'm testing the changes now and I'll release a new version tomorrow morning if the scripts don't reveal any errors. -- Sam Clippinger Sam Clippinger wrote: Actually, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 machine that I built for testing, so I'll check this out tonight and let you know if I can reproduce it. -- Sam Clippinger Shane Bywater wrote: Hi, I tried increasing my qmail's softlimit to 8000 as per Sam's recommendation but that didn't help. Same errors are reported and all SMTP connections are rejected. I'm guessing I may be the only one running Spamdyke 4.0.2 on a FreeBSD 4.7 server so this is why no one else has this issue but if anyone can offer some suggestions on what to try next that would be appreciated. Would a older version of libgnugetopt package, which was necessary to install for the configure script to complete correctly, create this issue? I just used version 1.2 which was found in the ports directory. Regards, Shane Bywater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:24:52 -0400 From: Shane Bywater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections To: spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, I'm attempting to run Spamdyke 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 4.7 and I'm experiencing problems such as the following errors: ERROR: Illegal value for option greeting-delay-secs: 5 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option idle-timeout-secs: 60 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-max-secs: 1814400 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option graylist-min-secs: 300 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) I'm no mathematician but I think 5 is between 0 and 2147483647 and the other values should be fine as well. Any idea why I'm getting these errors? Also, when I actually try using Spamdyke my mail server rejects all SMTP connections even when I have filter-level=allow-all in /etc/spamdyke.conf Here's the first part of /etc/spamdyke.conf showing how I assigned the values. # Sets spamdyke's overall filter behavior. # Available values: allow-all, normal, require-auth, reject-all # Default: normal filter-level=allow-all # Delays the SMTP greeting banner for SECS seconds. A value of 0 disables this # feature. # Default: 0 greeting-delay-secs=5 # Limit incoming messages to NUM recipients. A value of 0 disables this # feature. # Default: 0 #max-recipients=NUM # Drop superuser privileges and run as USER instead. # Default: none #run-as-user=qmaild Here's the important half of my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd file: exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -h -p -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 25 \ /usr/local/bin/spamdyke -f /etc/spamdyke.conf \ /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/local/bin/properplop \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Any suggestions on how to get Spamdyke running correctly would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Shane Bywater Message: 3 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:42:20 -0500 From: Sam Clippinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] Illegal value for multiple options and rejecting all SMTP connections To: spamdyke users spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed My first thought is that your memory limit for spamdyke/qmail is probably too low. For some reason, instead of causing out of memory errors, low memory seems to cause very strange malfunctions. Try editing your run file to increase the value for softlimit to something much higher (e.g. 8000), then restart qmail. -- Sam Clippinger Shane Bywater wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to run Spamdyke 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 4.7 and I'm experiencing problems such as the following errors: ERROR: Illegal value for option greeting-delay-secs: 5 (must be between 0 and 2147483647) ERROR: Illegal value for option idle-timeout-secs: 60 (must be between 0 and 2147483647)
