Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
(Nevertheless, it is not time to advertise FreeBSD as a desktop
alternative.)
This is not so much about FreeBSD, as the Unix+X11 combination in
general. It does not provide the fully integrated system the typical
end-user, coming from a Windows or Mac perspective, expects.
Matthias Buelow writes:
This is not so much about FreeBSD, as the Unix+X11 combination in
general. It does not provide the fully integrated system the typical
end-user, coming from a Windows or Mac perspective, expects. That it
nevertheless works well enough for persons with a technical
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Or the city administration of Munich, which intends to move its
Windows desktops to a Linux/KDE-based installation.
Why not just burn taxpayer euro in a bonfire? It would have the same
end result and it would be faster.
Well, if you just run a set of 1-3 applications, and
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Jeremy C. Reed writes:
Being able to run a desktop for over a hundred days without reboots,
without annoying continuous software failures, without worry of malicious
(or anoying) pop-ups, virus, and malware, and being able to quickly do my
desktop work is a good reason
Matthias Buelow writes:
Well, if you just run a set of 1-3 applications, and don't do anything
else with the computer, there shouldn't be much of a difference.
True, if those applications run identically on both platforms.
Apart from making a political statement, the advantage is
of course
Kevin Kinsey writes:
I'm guessing *you* are atypical in this.
I know that I am not. About 95% of all problems with Windows machines
are experienced by about 5% of the user base. The rest of the world has
no problems.
Most of our Windows boxes are rather stable. But our FreeBSD ones are
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Matthias Buelow writes:
And your point is..?
I can see that FreeBSD marketing has a long way to go.
To where?FreeBSD is not marketed in any particular way - on purpose.
No one wants to do it, so no one will do it.
jerry
I want to, and frequently do, market
From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop.
Agree and disagree. While FreeBSD is well suited for the server, it's also
well suited for the desktop. That doesn't mean that we should be stressing
the desktop to those shopping for servers, instead
On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Johnson David wrote:
From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop.
Agree and disagree. While FreeBSD is well suited for the server, it's
also
well suited for the desktop.
Anthony had the same misguided opinion in the
Johnson David wrote:
Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix shops. But
that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the desktop
today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop FreeBSD.
MacOS X is the Desktop BSD. It is available today, and it
Matthias Buelow writes:
MacOS X is the Desktop BSD. It is available today, and it works
better than anything else at being a desktop. Considering the sorry
state of integrated desktops on Unix today (i.e., Gnome and KDE) and
compare it with Windows, do you really think that will convince
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:14 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Johnson David wrote:
Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix shops. But
that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the desktop
today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Robert Marella wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:14 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Johnson David wrote:
Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix
shops. But
that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the
desktop
today. We need to
Robert Marella wrote:
MacOS X is the Desktop BSD. It is available today, and it works
better than anything else at being a desktop.
Does it work on my intel hardware?
And your point is..?
mkb.
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Robert Marella writes:
Does it work on my intel hardware?
Two basic responses, one right, one wrong:
Wrong: Of course it does, you idiot! Don't you know anything about
hardware?
Right: FreeBSD easily supports the full range of Intel microprocessors
and virtually all Intel motherboards and
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Not in public it doesn't. That is irrelevant to the discussion.
FreeBSD does not work on my PPC HW either.
Score: 12 out of 100. The meeting is over, and a security guard will
show you the door.
Try again.
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Matthias Buelow writes:
And your point is..?
I can see that FreeBSD marketing has a long way to go.
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On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 04:34 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Robert Marella wrote:
MacOS X is the Desktop BSD. It is available today, and it works
better than anything else at being a desktop.
Does it work on my intel hardware?
And your point is..?
mkb.
Market share!
What
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Not in public it doesn't. That is irrelevant to the discussion.
FreeBSD does not work on my PPC HW either.
Score: 12 out of 100. The meeting is over, and a security guard will
show you the door.
Try again.
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
That depends on the OS to which you compare it. In isolation, FreeBSD
works on the desktop, just as most UNIX operating systems do, but in
comparison to Windows or the Mac, it's a rather sorry excuse for a
desktop. But no OS can do it all, no
Matthias Buelow writes:
And your point is..?
I can see that FreeBSD marketing has a long way to go.
To where?FreeBSD is not marketed in any particular way - on purpose.
No one wants to do it, so no one will do it.
jerry
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From: stheg olloydson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now as to the need to change the logo, to quote the announcement,
This character sometimes treated with misinterpreted in the
religious and cultural context. Over the years, the only
complaints
From: stheg olloydson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now as to the need to change the logo, to quote the announcement,
This character sometimes treated with misinterpreted in the
religious and cultural context. Over the years, the only complaints I
have ever heard have come from America's
http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?216.136.204.119
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:49:11PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?216.136.204.119
This list can't fix it, talk to postmaster.
Kris
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:49:11PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?216.136.204.119
This list can't fix it, talk to postmaster.
I posted the same in previous thread, then mailed postmaster:
=snip=
But it may
cause a lot of bounces and
At 12:44 PM 12/22/04, you wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:24:59PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
I hope this isn't too common a question. I couldn't devise a good set of
keywords to use Google.
I just received a new machine to replace my ancient server/gateway. I
decided the best way to go was
Dear Administrator,
you are always SPAM by my spam filter.
please check this URL
http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=freebsd.orgip=216.136.204.18
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:40:29PM +0900, Koichi Mori wrote:
Dear Administrator,
you are always SPAM by my spam filter.
please check this URL
http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=freebsd.orgip=216.136.204.18
Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you believe there is a
problem with mail
I want to add an anti-spam solution to sendmail. I was wondering what
solution you chose for server side anti-spam and how well it works for you.
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Sean Murphy wrote:
I want to add an anti-spam solution to sendmail. I was wondering what
solution you chose for server side anti-spam and how well it works for
you.
A few months ago I tried amavisd-new in the Sendmail Dual configuration
with clamav for antivirus and SpamAssassin for spam.
I
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Sean Murphy wrote:
I want to add an anti-spam solution to sendmail. I was wondering what
solution you chose for server side anti-spam and how well it works for you.
milter-greylist in combination with clamav-milter, a few select DNSBLs,
and entries in access.db
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:19:31PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
Is it bad for a production server to maintain 5.3 stable vs. release?
See the handbook for discussion of this issue.
Kris
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Can you give more info, like what operating systems are you ruining on
your hard drive and i assume you have 2 primary fat partitions right?
so yo u have to have access to make a third one
one thing you have too keep in mind is when it asks to install FreeBSD
boot manager, say yes, sorry can't
I recently started rejecting about 99.9% of incoming spam *without* using
challenge-response or other load-increasing methods. For details, read:
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterMailWithPostFix
In a nutshell, before implementing this plan, I was receiving about 600
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:40:28PM -0400, Thomas Farrell wrote:
First your going to need a licensed version of sometype of
antivirus application you can always get freeB's but they will eventually
run out. some of the AV for BSD are panda, kaspersky,. macfee, and Sophos
fprot . Both Fprot
Any comments on a good anti-spam app that works with sendmail for a mail
server?
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:35, Chris wrote:
Any comments on a good anti-spam app that works with sendmail for a mail
server?
Yeah, try SpamAssassin. I've been using it since January, and have almost
zero SPAM delivered to my inbox now. I think in all that time it has only
had one false
Chris wrote:
Any comments on a good anti-spam app that works with sendmail for a mail
server?
Yes. You can have a look at messagewall its in the ports.
www.messagewall.org
Been using it for the past year now and it's works just fine.
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:35:45AM -0500, Chris wrote:
Any comments on a good anti-spam app that works with sendmail for a mail
server?
I'd highly recommend MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) combined
with SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org) and ClamAv
(http://www.clamav.net
and so I see no need for mailmonitor at
all.
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From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: Anti-Spam app for sendmail
Any comments on a good anti-spam app that works with sendmail for a mail
+clamav for virus/malware. clamav is an open source
antivirus which works great for me
For spam, I use spamassasin called from within mimedefang.
Fer
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I received spam from these addresses and they got my name from the mailing
list. Is there a way to report these names?
(subject came in from [kde-freebsd])
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marion N. Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Joshua Lewis
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Hi Joshua,
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:41:32 -0700 (PDT) UTC (6/6/2004, 7:41 PM -0500 UTC my
time), Joshua Lewis wrote:
J I received spam from these addresses and they got my name from the mailing
J list. Is there a way to report these names?
J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
J Marion N. Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED
or...
hello yar,
i am not sure what this message is all about.
1) did i just misunderstand?
2) was this intended for someone else? or
3) is someone sending spam and faking that you are the sender?
cheers,
epi
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Begin forwarded message:
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:02:24 +0800
From: [EMAIL
Dude,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/ is a valid URL, because yar is indeed a
committer.
this said, something (read: mailer-daemon error) tells me that
yar's e-mail below (bottom) is not quite right. haven't bothered to open
the attachement and don't really see the point,
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Remko Lodder typed:
Try to delete them and update your virusscanner regularly and you would
be fine ;-)
Or stick to FBSD and you won't have to run any AV scanner at all :)
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On Tuesday, 11 May 2004 at 9:34:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am getting hundreds of spam with return addresses on it from MY server..
the ip addresses are different and they didn't originate from my server .
now I am getting notices from AOL and other they are going to stop
excepting
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I also have a woman getting mail from a sick person with the address
and return the same as her address. the police, FBI, are no help..
That may change.
You probably know this already, but Received headers are your friend.
PWR.
I am getting hundreds of spam with return addresses on it from MY server..
the ip addresses are different and they didn't originate from my server .
now I am getting notices from AOL and other they are going to stop
excepting mail from me...while this is no loss to me, I see a problem
here
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:34:25AM -0700 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am getting hundreds of spam with return addresses on it from MY server..
the ip addresses are different and they didn't originate from my server .
now I am getting notices from AOL and other they are going
I am running my mail server. I have notified the ISP's and thanks for the
term I was looking for joe-job
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Freebsd-Questions
Subject: Re: spam
antispam 451
is [EMAIL PROTECTED] here
Also on the subject of spamassassin a lot of junk is still getting through,
is there a FreeBSD specific spam assassin configuration tutorial or howto?
I don't think so. I can't imagine what would be FreeBSD-specific
about any such configuration
which is running
on the same box and which has spamassassin and some other anti-uce filters
in place.
Also on the subject of spamassassin a lot of junk is still getting through,
is there a FreeBSD specific spam assassin configuration tutorial or howto?
Thanks.
Dave
How can I do that?
Of course, I can make a program that decides where each message starts and
where it ends, save it in a file and then filter it with spamassassin and
with the filtered file use grep to find X-Spam-flag: YES to discard this
message.
I think it is too complicated
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Peter Schuller wrote:
How can I do that?
Of course, I can make a program that decides where each message starts and
where it ends, save it in a file and then filter it with spamassassin and
with the filtered file use grep to find X-Spam-flag: YES to discard
Hello, FreeBSD gurus!
I have a system that uses procmail spamassassing to filter spam, but
there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated
its filter and received a lot of spam messages.
Now, we have his inbox and about 9000 messages which are spam and
messages he wants
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
Is it possible now to filter the already received messages and
discard the spam from them?
How can I do that?
Hav him open the messages using an MTA which performs it's own spam filtering,
such as Mozilla or Apple's Mail.app. Use that MTA to zap and delete the spam
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, albi wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:03:09 -0500 (CDT)
Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a system that uses procmail spamassassing to filter spam, but
there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated
its filter and received a lot
I'm trying to Install
Qmail-scanner
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
Amavisd-new
on my 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD mail box running qmail and courier-imap
but I can't seem to find the file
Time-HiRes-1.51.tar.gz
from a whole bunch of ftp sites. I checked some of the sites
for example
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:42:34PM +0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to Install
Qmail-scanner
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
Amavisd-new
Time-HiRes-1.51.tar.gz
from a whole bunch of ftp sites. I checked some of the sites
for example
Anyone else recieve this Spam?
Abuse reports filed..
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www.jvds.com - Root on your own box
www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company
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From: Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:02:55PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
Anyone else recieve this Spam?
Yes.
Abuse reports filed..
Ditto.
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:42:34PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to still install these programs?? I tried installing just
after doing a #cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile
Did you do a 'make index' after cvsup'ing? As p5-Time-HiRes is
currently at version 1.55 in ports.
* Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-18 11:02]:
Anyone else recieve this Spam?
Abuse reports filed..
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:02 pm, Rus Foster wrote:
Anyone else recieve this Spam?
Abuse reports filed..
Here we go again.
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:02:55PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
Anyone else recieve this Spam?
Abuse reports filed..
Yes, I have reported it to postmaster, and expect that he will (at
least) be banned from all FreeBSD mailing lists. Spamming is no more
acceptable just because the content
dnl
dnl DNS based black hole lists come and go on a regular basis
dnl so this file will not serve as a database of the available servers.
dnl For that, visit
dnl
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists/
dnl Uncomment to activate
Dear Sir :
I have a machine with tow nic cards. I can set them with both fixed IP ,or
one fixed IP and another dynamic ip with DHCP ,but i can not set them both
with
dynamic IP though DHCP at same time . Would you pls tell me how to config it
the best regard
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:08, Ed Budd wrote:
It's a virus (my AV calls it Worm.Gibe.F). I bet most of the list gets
these occasionally.
Heh, yeah, I'm getting it 3 times a day at least. Same goes for the mydoom A
variant. It's quite anoying to have your mailbox flooding with these
Assuming you have:
deviceuhci
deviceohci
deviceusb
deviceums
compiled into your kernel,
can you test the mouse with
any success through
sysinstall - configure - mouse?
Check this page for some more det's:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/usb-mouse.php
HTH,
Christopher Hollow
Chungwei
don't use Windows, but whether these emails are just spam
or if it is my fault.
If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it
gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit. The
reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2 accounts
Windows, but whether these emails are just spam
or if it is my fault.
If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it
gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit. The
reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2 accounts,
mine
use Windows, but whether these emails
are just spam or if it is my fault.
If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it
gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit.
The reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2
accounts
out of their comfort zone
to try something else seems to be nigh impossible :). But at least I feel
better about what I've configured so far... it's now time for me to learn
more about stopping spam at my server. I believe there was a thread about
this not too long ago. Off I go.
aaron
Luke
). In short my concern is not that me or my wife will run
this, sense we don't use Windows, but whether these emails are just spam
or if it is my fault.
Not your fault at all. The 'net is being plauged at the moment by a
series of Windows worm programs that attempt to spread themselves
through e
the extent of my knowledge.
No problem here. The first question is: do you have your mail users in a
mysql database or they are in the system ?
If they are in the system use dspam_2mysql to generate the table for
dpsam from the passwd file, and use dspam_genaliases to generate the
spam
Hi
I read this tread, great idee to add a spam feature.
so i do it, install with the ports.
I work with sendmail, no mysql db behind.
make install done.
chance the Mlocal Setting, add aliases, and restart sendmail.
Now Message it's comming up to me, but when i send a email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED
in a
mysql database or they are in the system ?
I don't quite understand your question. I would like to
filter spam from/at my primary nameserver, ns1.thought.org.
There aren't any real user accounts on NS1; it's just me
and an admin account, and of course, root. Other
Hi,
I will be out of offices until February, 22nd. I will
read your message when I'm back.
For any web-related content request or feedback, please contact Kadjo
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For any press/interview inquiry please contact Jacques Le Marois
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For icons related stuff,
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May be other
mail daemon or some additional tools for sendmail?
Thanks,
Olga
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May be other
mail daemon or some additional tools
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May be other
mail daemon or some
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:13:16AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:44:25AM -0500, matthew wrote:
I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering. Spamassassin is
also highly recommended for site use. I tend to dislike DNS-based
filtering because it has a high rate of false positives, and it
causes your users to lose legitimate
just wasn't
keeping up with the latest craze of random word spams. Fortunately, I
had a 26,000-spam corpus with which to train bogofilter, so it's
already working quite well. It seems to be learning the random word
spams gradually.
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to provide a spam lookup, so far the content of my inbox has droped by a fair few
hundered emails and founs five viruses (3 days :D).
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mean, same thing goes with a user
unknown.
So Alice knows the email was not lost. She is now aware of why,
hence the http://url in the error mesg. And now Alice can contact
her admin, and figure out why that ip/block is spewing spam
at me/us/blacklist users.
So in summary, dns blacklists do
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:13:16 -0800 (PST)
Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May be other
for several years,
but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA just wasn't
keeping up with the latest craze of random word spams. Fortunately, I
had a 26,000-spam corpus with which to train bogofilter, so it's
already working quite well. It seems to be learning the random word
spams
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:57:29AM -0500, matthew wrote:
So Alice knows the email was not lost. She is now aware of why,
hence the http://url in the error mesg. And now Alice can contact
her admin, and figure out why that ip/block is spewing spam
at me/us/blacklist users.
To repeat, most
any information at all.
She is now aware of why, hence the http://url in the error mesg. And
now Alice can contact her admin, and figure out why that ip/block is
spewing spam at me/us/blacklist users.
Sure. Alice _could_ do that. But if she doesn't, Bob loses
legitimate mail.
So in summary
At 04:18 a.m. 16/02/04 -0500, you wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May
At 2004-02-16T09:13:16Z, Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What tools can anybody
advice to stop it?
My writeup on the subject starts at:
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterSpam
and includes information on DNS
Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
Let's imagine that Charles gets a bounce notification, but it doesn't
reach his threshold for doing anything more about it. Bob loses
legitimate mail.
Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The
other day a client tried to send an e-mail that
Hi David,
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:53:40 -0800 UTC (2/16/2004, 11:53 AM -0600 UTC my time), David
Brinegar wrote:
D Bounce messages are typically not good enough to avoid this. The
D other day a client tried to send an e-mail that exceeded my ISP's
D limit and was told something like mailbox is
Gary defends qmail:
It delivers a bounce called QSBMF, and to my knowledge is the only
MTA that does.
Those messages are like idiot lights, without the brevity. But
qmail is besides the point -- most bounce messages are pretty weak.
They work okay if the reader is computer literate.
I like
reading your mail; then I waded into the
long README and felt nearly overwhelmed. I've used mysql
to set up several message boards,, but that's about the
extent of my knowledge.
I've been using /etc/mail/access that catches tons of
spam. It would
Here's how I have spam assassin setup on my mail server. I installed spam assassin using
perl's CPAN module, so I'm not sure how different it is from the ports install.
You need to have the spam assassin daemon (spamd) running. I imagine the port installs a
startup script in /usr/local/etc
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