Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-18 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:33:31AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: Still, is it too much to ask for looking at things from many angles or backing up claims with any kind of statistics or science instead of personal gut feelings? Where/how would one collect such

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-04-17 6:54 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: the hard facts are that EVERY site using a dedicated spamfilter (own appliance or external service) have different IP's for MX and outgoing mail Not if they are using said spamfilter service for relaying their outbound mail

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2012 14:13, schrieb Charles Marcus: On 2012-04-17 6:54 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: the hard facts are that EVERY site using a dedicated spamfilter (own appliance or external service) have different IP's for MX and outgoing mail Not if they are using said

postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Claudius
Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds the IP of the server receiving outgoing mail to postgrey_clients.db It's still a little unfinished but working fine on my server. There's room for improvement though (IPv6 missing, rsyslog spawning and lastline

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 11:48, schrieb Claudius: Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds the IP of the server receiving outgoing mail to postgrey_clients.db It's still a little unfinished but working fine on my server. There's room for improvement

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Sam Jones
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:50 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 11:48, schrieb Claudius: Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds the IP of the server receiving outgoing mail to postgrey_clients.db It's still a little unfinished

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 17.04.2012 11:50, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 17.04.2012 11:48, schrieb Claudius: Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds the IP of the server receiving outgoing mail to postgrey_clients.db It's still a little unfinished but working fine

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 12:09, schrieb Robert Schetterer: Am 17.04.2012 11:50, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 17.04.2012 11:48, schrieb Claudius: Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds the IP of the server receiving outgoing mail to postgrey_clients.db

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:12:53PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 12:09, schrieb Robert Schetterer: Am 17.04.2012 11:50, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 17.04.2012 11:48, schrieb Claudius: Hi, as nobody seems to have a working solution I built a little Perl script that adds

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 12:38, schrieb Henrik K: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:12:53PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: how do you act with us as example? you are sending a message to me to MX barracuda.thelounge.net well, you whitelist barracuda.thelounge.net but you will never receive any message from our

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:42:16PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 12:38, schrieb Henrik K: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:12:53PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: how do you act with us as example? you are sending a message to me to MX barracuda.thelounge.net well, you whitelist

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 12:47, schrieb Henrik K: the majority has outgoing and incoming on the same IP? in which world are you living? Statistics speak for themselves. Come back with hard facts instead of your FUD. are you really too stupid not use the term FUD as long you are not understand what

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Claudius
On 2012-04-17 12:04, Sam Jones wrote: And I would add that an inbound MX does not necessarily === the same outbound server a domain would use. Typically anti-spam gateways or hosted services used inbound on one IP, whereas outbound mail coming from another IP and server. Just imagine

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:54:10PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the hard facts are that EVERY site using a dedicated spamfilter (own appliance or external service) have different IP's for MX and outgoing mail So? Postpals also looks at whole /24 subnets and also can compare sender/recipient

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Claudius
On 2012-04-17 12:09, Robert Schetterer wrote: what about using some tecs from here http://mailfud.org/postpals/ Thanks for the link, that's pretty much what I was looking for. Guess I'll have to improve my search engine skills ;) -- Claudius

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 13:05, schrieb Henrik K: Some people actually test theories before calling them nonsense. You haven't made a single point why there would be non-benefits in running postpals. maybe you should have read my replies? you are sending to the MX you are whitelisting the MX

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: Just imagine whitelisting a shared, spammy server because a domain is hosted on it. Naturally it will probably come through greylisting in the end anyway, but I'd not go out of my way to make it easy on them! It's fine to imagine many

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 13:37, schrieb Henrik K: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: Just imagine whitelisting a shared, spammy server because a domain is hosted on it. Naturally it will probably come through greylisting in the end anyway, but I'd not go out of my way to make it

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:29:23PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: you are sending to the MX you are whitelisting the MX wonderful, the MX is mistly not the outgoing server you are receiving a spam-message your user has a autoreply with bad luck you are whitelisting the spamming server So a

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Henrik You do realize that the whitelisting should only apply to direct MTA rbl/greylisting/ptr/etc rules? If that's your _only_ defence, then yes I guess you should not use postpals. if you think it makes sense for you do it but realize that others have more

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Henrik K: Hopefully by now people realize that your practical expierience is questionable. my practical expierience is managing some hundret domains with 15.000 RCPT since years - so stop your idiotic personal attacks while nobody attacked you until you creeped

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 17.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Henrik K: Hopefully by now people realize that your practical expierience is questionable. my practical expierience is managing some hundret domains with 15.000 RCPT since years - so stop your idiotic personal

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.04.2012 14:00, schrieb Henrik K: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:53:50PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Henrik K: Hopefully by now people realize that your practical expierience is questionable. my practical expierience is managing some hundret domains with

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:06:34PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 14:00, schrieb Henrik K: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:53:50PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Henrik K: Hopefully by now people realize that your practical expierience is

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:55:05PM +0200, Claudius wrote: On 2012-04-17 12:04, Sam Jones wrote: And I would add that an inbound MX does not necessarily === the same outbound server a domain would use. Typically anti-spam gateways or hosted services used inbound on one IP, whereas

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Henrik K h...@hege.li: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: Just imagine whitelisting a shared, spammy server because a domain is hosted on it. Naturally it will probably come through greylisting in the end anyway, but I'd not go out of my way to make it easy on

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:44:49PM -0400, Patrick Domack wrote: Why bother whitelisting any ip address? I have my system flag the outgoing and incoming email address. Am I defensive or stupid for wondering what's the point of your question? Surely people whitelist all kinds of things with

Re: postgrey outgoing mail whitelister

2012-04-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:33:31AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: Still, is it too much to ask for looking at things from many angles or backing up claims with any kind of statistics or science instead of personal gut feelings? Where/how would one collect such data? My mail stream differs from