RE: My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-24 Thread Marwan Sultan
k express to use SMTP user/password > > with mail.clinet_domain.com as incoming/outgoing. > > > > even if they send from x...@client_domain to ad...@mydomain.com > > both are in same server, I will still receive it as SPAM. > > (They are sending from outlook.) > >

Re: My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: > they configure their outlook express to use SMTP user/password > with mail.clinet_domain.com as incoming/outgoing. > > even if they send from x...@client_domain to ad...@mydomain.com > both are in same server, I will still rec

RE: My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-23 Thread Marwan Sultan
Dear Dr. Matthew., When my client or any clients uses the web mail that i have configured, then everything works fine NO spam problems and email will be received by hotmail, gmail and vise versa. I found out that this particular client complaining because they use outlook

Re: My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/10/2010 01:10, Marwan Sultan wrote: > if I check that domain in mxtoolbox.com > it complains "Warning - Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner" > could it be the SMTP banner flagging the mail as spam? This is certainly possible. It would add spam points on my serve

Re: My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
(the domain they send > from) to hotmail/yahoo..etc.. > flagged as spam! i have googled and found most of problems about forward, > reverse DNS. > for me PTR, reverse DNS matchs the domain name. all the 8 domains matchs > reverse, PTR. Since you didn't provide an example DS

My mail server flagged spam!

2010-10-20 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello list.. Well! im kinda lost here.. I have like 8 domains hosted in my server. FreeBSD 7.2R, sendmail, openwebmail, spamassassin, milter all installed. I have few customers complaining that thier emails (the domain they send from) to hotmail/yahoo..etc.. flagged as spam! i have

Re: Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread perikillo
pr=kern/146792 > a "fix" is also in the report >> I have a spam gateway running: >> >> spamassassin >> clamavis >> amavis >> apache+mailgraph >> postfix >> bacula client >> apcupsd client >> >> My server is running freebsd

Re: Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/06/2010 09:40 AM, perikillo wrote: > Hi my friends I have a big issue that I still cannot track what is > causing that my server stop working. > may be this bug? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/146792 a "fix" is also in the report > I have

Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread perikillo
Hi my friends I have a big issue that I still cannot track what is causing that my server stop working. I have a spam gateway running: spamassassin clamavis amavis apache+mailgraph postfix bacula client apcupsd client My server is running freebsd 8.0-p2 AMD64. Raid-1. Copyright (c) 1992-2009

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-09 Thread Jorge Biquez
. Otherwise instead of help that organization will be giving more problems besides the ones they have. I will try openwebmail. Thanks a lot. At 01:54 a.m. 08/08/2010, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-08 Thread Marwan Sultan
Its www.openwebmail.org NOT opewebmail - typo :) If you need any help setting things up for your non-profit organization, let me know. > > > Hi.. > > For WebMail that has everything you want: > www.opebwebmail.org > > For pop3 : > qpopper > > For S

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-07 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is good. all the above is available from ports, I would recommend a manual install for openwebmail instead of ports so you can follow and know how things work

Re: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-07 Thread Depo Catcher
Anti-virus, the only free one I know about is calm av. Should work on FreeBSD: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ and /usr/ports/security/clamav spamd is a black/white list spam filter. I also heard SpamAssassin is good, but can't find it in ports. For mail I like Courier-imap. It&#

Re: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-04 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and > anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after > installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). [snip] Do not

Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-04 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). I have been working with it for some years but I am not an expert at all. I need to help

{Spam?} Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Boosten
On 5 jul 2010, at 18:16, Modulok wrote: > Hopefully this doesn't get too garbled by various mail clients: > > Internet > | > FreeBSD router > | > (tagged frames) > | > switch > || > vlan1 vlan2 > || > hostAhostB > > Criteria: >- HostA must never directly t

Sendmail and spam/antivirus

2010-06-22 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I have a small machine with Freebsd 7.3, it is running sendmail for a few email accounts. I'd like to implement, the easiest and most secure way to do it since machine is on a remote place where I have not access, I'd like to implement a spam filter and an antivirus. I

Re: Fixing the spam from MPCUSTOMER.com

2010-06-10 Thread Chip Camden
t; > The larger the number of 'victims' I can show _actual_proof_ of, the more > of a reaction I'll be able to stir up. > > The 'fun-and-games' -- They are in out-and-out violation of that mostly > *useless* piece of legislation known as CAN-SPAM. Their *

Fixing the spam from MPCUSTOMER.com

2010-06-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
- They are in out-and-out violation of that mostly *useless* piece of legislation known as CAN-SPAM. Their *forgery* of the "From: " line to show the address of the mailing-list is a clear violation of 15 USC 7704 (a) (1). What's even -more- fun, is that they are going to shoot themse

Re: [#24513755] spam from mpcustomer.com

2010-05-22 Thread Fbsd1
postmaster here is the whois info on mpcustomer.com as you can see there is a phone number to call. Why haven't you called to report this problem? Registration Service Provided By: UK2 Group Contact: hostmas...@westhost.com Visit: http://uk2group.com Domain name: mpcustomer.com Registrant Cont

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread John
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:00:27PM -0500, John wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:59:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: > > > I have done a monkey-simple spam t

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread John
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:59:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: > > I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have > > a dozen or more user accounts that haven

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote: > I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have > a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over five > years and get dozens of spam hits every day. I

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "John" == John writes: John> Grr. I just expired the first address, at four hours old, and John> IMMEDIATELY got a bunch Pfizer spams that were just delayed... John> This is certainly not an easy nut to crack. If it were easy, they wouldn't need entire teams of people at $LARGE_ISPs to

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
e size. > John> I already have two dozen entries.) > > You'll have a lot of collateral damage. I've worked with a lot of > schemes over the years for spamfighting. A lot of spam is sourced > inside corporate or educational choke points, meaning that a spam > message fro

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
e size. > John> I already have two dozen entries.) > > You'll have a lot of collateral damage. I've worked with a lot of > schemes over the years for spamfighting. A lot of spam is sourced > inside corporate or educational choke points, meaning that a spam > message fro

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:46:41PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote: > > This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the > > print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf > > public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to w

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote: > This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the > print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf > public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to work. > > What is the best solution to be able to add to my spammers table

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
age. I've worked with a lot of schemes over the years for spamfighting. A lot of spam is sourced inside corporate or educational choke points, meaning that a spam message from inside a company would block all remaining mail from that company. So, for this to work, you really need to time

Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread John
I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over five years and get dozens of spam hits every day. I had been just sending them all to /dev/null with a sendmail alias. It seems to me that thes

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > >> - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP > >> based that's the place to block. > > > > I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. > > But even

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles my logs. What I meant was that if you want to block IPs or ranges of IPs

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which > > I get brute force ssh attacks. > > This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning > answer: > > - why not let your firew

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning answer: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block.

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which > I get brute force ssh attacks. > > HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: > > # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you > # need to do it, here's how > #sshd : .evil.c

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
unctionality -- eg. sendmail will > > apparently go through all of the stages of accepting an incoming e-mail > from > > a denied host, right up to the 'MAIL FROM...' section of the SMTP > transaction > > where it will respond with a 500 permanent failure error code

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht writes: > I'm very grateful for all advice, but I'm still unsure > why denying ssh access to a particular host via /etc/hosts.allow > is a bad idea. As far as I recall, the reason the warning was added to the manual was that it's fairly heavy on resources to implement that way

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
f the SMTP transaction > where it will respond with a 500 permanent failure error code. [admittedly > this does have the benefit that the other side will then immediately give up > trying to send the message if it's playing by the RFC rules. (Most spam-bots > don't, of co

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
#x27;s playing by the RFC rules. (Most spam-bots don't, of course.) Otherwise, you'ld get the remote side retrying the message several times an hour over the next 5 days before it timed out and gave up. Also, apparently in older ssh there was DenyHosts option, but no longer in the curr

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
from IPs I know, preferably static IPs. Given that there are more than one general blacklists out there that list unwanted behavior, and that we have ports that make use of these lists, I wonder if we can use a list (in this case, for spam) effective for blocking ssh connections. This means: in

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
> where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it > this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static > IPs. > > Given that there are more than one general blacklists out there that > list unwanted behavior, and that we have

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Judd
are very strict, in fact, if the remote IP is "unknown" meaning, I don't know where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static IPs. Given that there are more than one general

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Kaya Saman
David Southwell wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good i

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread David Southwell
> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which > I get brute force ssh attacks. > > HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: > > # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you > # need to do it, here's how > #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny > > Why is it not a good idea?

denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good idea? Also, apparently in

Re: [SPAM] FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-11-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/30 Matt Szubrycht : > That's not normal... but then, what is these days? > You probably saved some webpage instead of the actual iso (or whatever other > format you were trying for) > > As old video games used to say: 'Try again?' > > Cheers, > Matt > > On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton

Re: [SPAM] FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-11-03 Thread Matt Szubrycht
That's not normal... but then, what is these days? You probably saved some webpage instead of the actual iso (or whatever other format you were trying for) As old video games used to say: 'Try again?' Cheers, Matt On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote: Hi my name is Cl

Re: [?? Probable Spam] Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Andrey O.Sokolov wrote: I tried both variant on both NIC - fxp and em The result doesn't change ;( You should post to net@ and maybe the maintainer will help you. Include pciconf. Perhaps off topic, but why are you interested in priority tags, since FreeBSD will silently ignore them? I deve

Re: [?? Probable Spam] Re: Network card Intel and 802.1P tag

2009-08-05 Thread Andrey O.Sokolov
У Ср, 2009-08-05 у 20:41 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis пише: > >> Is the vlan hardware processing enabled? > > > > How I can enable this processing? > > > > "ifconfig em0 vlanhwtag" enables vlan processing in hw > "ifconfig em0 -vlanhwtag" disables vlan processing in hw > Maybe one these will work c

Interesting tool (was SPAM: Re: Newsletter 4 - Abris de jardin et portails)

2009-07-17 Thread Matthias Apitz
alu avec [IMG] > moteur intégré et donc invisible. Consultez le site > Fruit d'une collaboration avec un www.ac-verandas.ch > ingénieur spécialiste en motorisation,[IMG] > ce

Re: Spam from your domain

2009-04-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Roberto : > Hello. I'm receiving a lot of spam e-mails that links to your domain like to > different pages like: > http://11.a21a15.free-bsd.org/6f8n1jb6n97.html > and many others. Can you stop this ? They sends mail to me > through my website. Thanks for

Re: Spam from your domain

2009-04-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Roberto wrote: > Hello. I'm receiving a lot of spam e-mails that links to your domain like to > different pages like: > http://11.a21a15.free-bsd.org/6f8n1jb6n97.html > and many others. Can you stop this ? They sends mail to me > through

Spam from your domain

2009-04-23 Thread Roberto
Hello. I'm receiving a lot of spam e-mails that links to your domain like to different pages like: http://11.a21a15.free-bsd.org/6f8n1jb6n97.html and many others. Can you stop this ? They sends mail to me through my website. Please answer me. Thanks, Ro

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [SPAM:##] Greater tool is easy to get AGJ81

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:22:27 -0800 "Jason Irwin" wrote: >In accordance with the University Winter Closure schedule, I will be >out of the office Friday, December 19th - Monday January 5th. I will >check voice mail and email upon my return in January. Wonderful; another misconfigured OoO program

Out of Office AutoReply: [SPAM:##] Greater tool is easy to get AGJ81

2008-12-24 Thread Jason Irwin
In accordance with the University Winter Closure schedule, I will be out of the office Friday, December 19th - Monday January 5th. I will check voice mail and email upon my return in January. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Clark
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:11:36 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: The best solution *by far* that I have found for spam (using Postfix) is mail/postfix-policyd-weight. It rou

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:11:36 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: The best solution *by far* that I have found for spam (using Postfix) is mail/postfix-policyd-weight. It routinely rejects 50 to

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nerates almost no >> complaints. This does help obfuscate the valid/invalid addresses because all >> mail is accepted as far as the sender is concerned until the IP is blocked at >> the network layer. >> >> The usual complaint is from an remote office that has 12 real es

RE: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
rk layer. The usual complaint is from an remote office that has 12 real estate agents behind a single IP, all with Outlook set to check mail "sooner than now." :-) The best solution *by far* that I have found for spam (using Postfix) is mail/postfix-policyd-weight. It routinely rejects

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
nd a single IP, all with Outlook set to check > mail "sooner than now." :-) > > Mike SpamAssassin also has a backscatter feature, you just have to enable it. It tags backscatter and hands it off to procmail. From there you can easily do whatever you want with the tagged mail i

RE: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> The term coined for this type of mail is "backscatter". > > There is no easy solution for this. The backscatter article on > postfix.org, for example, caused our mail servers to start rejecting > mail that was generated from PHP scripts and CGIs on our own systems, > which makes no sense. The

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:59:17AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages > > from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is > > using my email address in spam from multiple windows mac

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
the entire internet abides by these > > rules[*], use > > of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely > > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. > > I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. > My mail provider publishes SPF recor

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. When this happens I

I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Edwin Groothuis
> In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages > from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is > using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip > addresses. When this happens I enable the "move all messages

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
net abides by these > > > rules[*], use > > > of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely > > > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. > > > > I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. > > My mail provider

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being re

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: --On Thursday, October 16, 2008 09:01:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address i

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
; that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation. Actually that wasn't a joke, some people do cite that as the reason why SPF helps with backscatter, that spammers will leave your domain out of the "mail from&

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, RW wrote: SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. The main problem resulting in backs

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, RW wrote: SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. The main problem resulting in backscatter happens when forged spam from

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:58:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi__: > > > Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a > > cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope > > that spammer

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam fr

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers,

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows mach

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
d DKIM can discourage but not entirely > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectatio

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
timate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread RW
DKIM can discourage but not entirely > > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. > > I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. > My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expect

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from > email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my > email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. > The end

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
is using my |> email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. |> The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that |> others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a |> solution that I don't have. |> |&

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from > email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my > email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addr

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, October 16, 2008 09:01:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses.

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Yury Michurin
t; In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from > email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email > address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end > result is that I am getting the bounce messages.

I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm

Re: {Spam?} Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:37 PM 9/8/2008, Michael wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual machines. What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines under FreeBSD? I'd just like to here what has worked, or what has not worked. I find it easier t

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Matthew Seaman schrieb: > If you're using sendmail as your MTA, then look at > implementing the following features in your $(hostname).mc: Would that mean a file called /etc/mail/pukruppa.net.mc in my case? Since I get # hostname pukruppa.net or do I

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Sorry, I forgot to post to the list! Matthew Seaman schrieb: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >> Steve Bertrand schrieb: >>> Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > >>>> for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my >>>&g

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Pratt
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hello, for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Matthew's message beat me to the response but I had typed one. There are some great

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Steve Bertrand schrieb: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The only way to tell for certain is to review

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 1) How is this possible? Forging email headers is trivial. You can

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Steve Bertrand schrieb: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hello, for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). How have you identified that they are actually being delivered by

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:40 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail > > server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own > > ([EMA

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hello, for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). How have you identified that they are actually being delivered by your server itself? It

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Jason C. Wells
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hello, > > for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail > server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > 1) How is this possible? > 2) What can I or do I have to

Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hello, for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 1) How is this possible? 2) What can I or do I have to do against it? I am running a quite plain sendmail setup from

{Disarmed} Re: {Spam?} {Disarmed} Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:49 PM 8/15/2008, Tom Stuart wrote: I have tried doing the forwarding via /etc/mail/aliases and it worked identically as it was with the /root/.forward. The mail does go through but gets delayed 5+ minutes, however when I send mail interactively using mailx or mail commands the receiving m

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: SCSI RAID on FreeBSD 7.0, where is the array?

2008-07-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:53 PM 7/30/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick reply! I created the array in the Adaptec BIOS and confirmed it with an XP installer disk, which gave me the option to install to the array as I had named it. I have to apologise for not having the actual dmesg handy but i

Re: {Spam?} Re: SCSI RAID on FreeBSD 7.0, where is the array?

2008-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the quick reply! I created the array in the Adaptec BIOS and confirmed it with an XP installer disk, which gave me the option to install to the array as I had named it. I have to apologise for not having the actual dmesg handy but identifies the disks much like the example below,

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