Re: [Mimedefang] Patch to mimedefang...

2006-01-14 Thread nathan r. hruby
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, David F. Skoll wrote: [snip] is probably not in the cards. One of the biggest complaints from people who've tried MIMEDefang is the number of Perl modules it requires. [snip] These people have obviously never installed RT :) MIMEDefangs' pre-requisites are perfectly

Re: [Mimedefang] Patch to mimedefang...

2006-01-14 Thread David F. Skoll
Philip Prindeville wrote: I suppose for people using RPM's with yum or smart, it might be different. The best way to handle that is to package the different filters in their own RPMs, and then *those* RPMs can specify the correct dependencies. So you know that if you want to use

Perl dependencies (was Re: [Mimedefang] Patch to mimedefang...)

2006-01-14 Thread David F. Skoll
nathan r. hruby wrote: These people have obviously never installed RT :) Heh! We use RT here. Actually, if you really want to discover some dependency hell, try Catalyst plus Template Toolkit. Catalyst is a wonderful MVC-based Web development suite---gorgeous to use, but an absolute bear to

[Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I'm running Mimedefang/Spamassassin on a Redhat server with Sendmail. This has all been running fine for a couple of years now. Suddenly, this morning my customers were unable to send e-mail. Looking at /var/log/maillog, I saw lots of entries such as this: Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee

Re: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 14/01/06, Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Mimedefang/Spamassassin on a Redhat server with Sendmail. This has all been running fine for a couple of years now. Suddenly, this morning my customers were unable to send e-mail. Looking at /var/log/maillog, I saw lots of

RE: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
From: Lisa Casey Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:16 AM I'm running Mimedefang/Spamassassin on a Redhat server with Sendmail. Which versions? What sort of hardware (cpu type, speed, memory size) How many average messages/day? This has all been running fine for a couple of years now.

RE: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
Try running, 'md-mx-ctrl rawstatus' 'md-mx-ctrl load' is also useful, and human readable. The various other commands described in 'man md-mx-ctrl' may also help provide some insight into what is going on. For example, 'md-mx-ctrl slaveinfo 0' will tell you which pid is assigned to slave 0.

Re: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, Also - how do I find out how many slaves Mimedefang is configured to have and should I increase that? If so, how? Check your startup script. I looked in the startup script: /etc/init.d/mimedefang The only things in there that have to do with slaves are: # MX_SLAVE_DELAY=3 #

Re: [Mimedefang] Including archetypal filters to include in release?

2006-01-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
Damrose, Mark wrote: FYI: I added an example of using Net::CIDR::Lite to the Helo testing wiki at http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?UseHeloToCatchSpam Hmm Found some issues (shortcomings, whatever) with the API to Net::CIDR::Lite. First is that when you pass it bad

Re: [Mimedefang] Including archetypal filters to include in release?

2006-01-14 Thread James Ebright
Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I'm interested in the answer about the reverse DNS as well, BTW. Regards, KAM BTW: In the case where there is no rDNS for an incoming connection... what would be the approximate false positive rate be if we were to refuse those connections (unless of course they were

Re: [Mimedefang] poor performence from SA

2006-01-14 Thread James Ebright
Umm.. maybe you should try posting this to the SA list then.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm fed up with SA ! ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore

RE: [Mimedefang] validating 'possibly forged' helo IP's?

2006-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
Speaking of rDNS, check out this log entry (user name and sub-domain, obfuscated as 'fred'). Jan 10 09:09:02 intrepid sendmail[31995]: k0AH8pZE031992: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1001/1001), delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=151951, relay=mailhost.cotse.com.

Re: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

2006-01-14 Thread Rick Aliwalas
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Also - how do I find out how many slaves Mimedefang is configured to have and should I increase that? If so, how? Check your startup script. I looked in the startup script: /etc/init.d/mimedefang The only things in there that have to do

Re: [Mimedefang] Including archetypal filters to include in release?

2006-01-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Thanks for the stats! If the user is authenticated... why would there not be a rDNS entry for their IP?? I guess if they are roaming but we usually recommend a webmail setup for most of those customers that fit the typical user profile, others know enough they don't need to call and make