[qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin upgrades - implications

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Samples
Hi all - I am new to this list, but use qmailtoaster from a previous life Need some advice, since qmailtoaster packages it's own spamassassin, I am on v.3.14 and would like to upgrade to 3.1.5. Are there any contra-indications to upgrading via CPAN? Thanks much

[qmailtoaster] maildrip, er maildrop --- mailfilter

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Samples
Here is a stderr dump with VERBOSE turned on, I don't see what's wrong with this match rule, but maildrop says it doesn't match. Any ideas? Matching /^X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=![0-9]+\.[0-9]+! / against X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06,

Re: [qmailtoaster] maildrip, er maildrop --- mailfilter

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Samples
Jake Vickers wrote: Mark Samples wrote: Here is a stderr dump with VERBOSE turned on, I don't see what's wrong with this match rule, but maildrop says it doesn't match. Any ideas? Matching /^X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=![0-9]+\.[0-9]+! / against X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0

Re: [qmailtoaster] Squirrelmail

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Samples
I have had quite a few of these recently, the spammers are resorting to whatever methods they can to get by. Jake Vickers wrote: Michael Handiboe wrote: Stanley Robins wrote: hi all I am receiving complaints that when my users receive emails in squirrelmail they see white box and cannot

Re: [qmailtoaster] maildrip, er maildrop --- mailfilter

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Samples
need to match \w or whatever the regex expression for Maildrop may be. -MA Jake Vickers wrote: Mark Samples wrote: Here is a stderr dump with VERBOSE turned on, I don't see what's wrong with this match rule, but maildrop says it doesn't match. Any ideas? Matching /^X-Spam-Status: Yes, score

[qmailtoaster] Re: your mail

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Samples
Of course if one gets a lot, it could be a problem, one solution I use is putting this type (once the domain is confirmed and some whois data as well as who owns he IP address space) in the badmailfrom of qmail. Stearns Blacklist (if it wasn't so huge) stops a bunch of this at connection time.

[qmailtoaster] vpopmail + permissions + httpd

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Samples
Anyone know (before I hose something) if adding the setgid bit on the vchkpw group will effect mail delivery on qmail? The reason, I am pondering the idea of moving websites to the same directory as the domains, I want to run httpd as vpopmail.vchkpw so it can access this via apache. Has

Re: [qmailtoaster] vpopmail + permissions + httpd

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Samples
. The webserver could run under user=vpopmail,group=vchkpw, and web and below would have g+rws so this directory could be maintainable. Erik On 9/27/06, Mark Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know (before I hose something) if adding the setgid bit on the vchkpw group will effect mail delivery

Re: [qmailtoaster] Mailfilter question

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Samples
I gave a modified mailfilter to Jake last week, I have been using it for about 2 weeks, it is working here, just need some confirmation. Jake is supposed to test it and verify it this week. Erik Espinoza wrote: Nope. FYI:

[qmailtoaster] Stearns / badmailfrom

2006-10-08 Thread Mark Samples
Anyone used this? Stearns provides a badmailfrom file for use with qmail. I do not know if it is something in my setup, while all appears to work, it also slows down the ability to send mail. There may be a parameter I can change to alleviate the slowness when sending outgoing mail I am

Re: [qmailtoaster] Updates Q?

2006-10-08 Thread Mark Samples
I think they are fine the way they are, some updates need runtime, before general release, doing it the way you do at least will mean that whoever downloads it, knows it is in testing. Erik Espinoza wrote: Greetings, Would people prefer updates to move from devel to the main site faster or

Re: [qmailtoaster] Spamassassin user preferences

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Samples
Quinn Comendant wrote: I also was wondering about this. With unix accounts + sendmail every user has their own SA config file at ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. But with vpopmail I don't think SA knows where to look for the file. I think the best option is to move all SA configuration into

Re: [qmailtoaster] [REQUEST I NFO] Spamassasin autoremove

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Samples
Erik Espinoza wrote: Mattias, This is a simscan 1.2 thing. If you're using all the latest packages, spam with 12+ settings would work just fine. I gave Jake a copy of my mailfilter mods to stress test (actually, it should work w/o stress testing, the major things I did different was just the

Re: [qmailtoaster] MYSQL help

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Samples
Craig Smith wrote: Hi there, I'm currently working on a setup and scripts that will give our company a failover server that we can immediately switch to in the event of failure without clients ever knowing it was off. I am planning of putting this in the wiki if people are interested. As

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtp gateway

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Samples
That would be. yes! 1) Make an MX record for whatever server(s) you want to do this with that point to your qmail-toaster 2) for the domain you want to do this for, assign that new MX record as it's mail exchanger. 3) Add an entry into smtproutes for that domain, format:

[qmailtoaster] tcpserver

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Samples
With all of the discussion on rbl's and utilization of such, also with the recent changes in spammers counter measures, in particular, the recent 'bayes poisoning' attempts (specifically random text with an image, if this is run through spamassassin, and learned as spam, the text portion will

Re: [qmailtoaster] how to do this?

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Samples
See topic 'tcpserver' maybe I should have been more descriptive, it is an effort to try and address this. My idea is if one is going to do an rblcheck anyway why not address this at the /var/qmail/supervise/smtp/run level with tcpserver. What I am thinking is the rblcheck comes after the

[qmailtoaster] OOPs... Re: [qmailtoaster] tcpserver

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Samples
I have to correct myself... :-[ The rbl checks are done at the 'run' script level Mark Samples wrote: With all of the discussion on rbl's and utilization of such, also with the recent changes in spammers counter measures, in particular, the recent 'bayes poisoning' attempts (specifically

Re: [qmailtoaster] Changelog for spamassassin and qmail-toaster

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Samples
I would hold on the spamassassin, it appears they have already released 3.1.7, 3.1.6 apparently had a major problem (saw this on the spamassassin site the other day, 3.1.6 has only been out, I believe less than a month) Michael Amster wrote: What are the changes in 1.3.3 of spamassasin-toaster

[qmailtoaster] Kinda has something to do with qmail

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Samples
Does anyone know of any downloadable dul lists for stateside dsl/dialup. In particular verizon and swsmell (er swbell)? Looking for some blocklist info on dul and have run into very little as far as dul - QmailToaster

Re: [qmailtoaster] Kinda has something to do with qmail

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Samples
Dairenn Lombard [EMAIL PROTECTED] - BroadSpire Systems Administration Dept. BroadSpire, Inc. - http://www.broadspire.com/ Security, Scalability Automation -Original Message- From: Mark Samples [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:14 PM To: qmailtoaster-list

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow pop3 login

2006-11-05 Thread Mark Samples
Erik Espinoza wrote: Great, i'll keep telling anyone using BIND to not to :-P I am personally looking for an alternative to BIND. I just don't like djbdns :P I have used bind, powerdns, djbdns. Out of all three, both powerdns and djbdns separate the cache from the authoratative portion,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Exporting thunderbird's junk filters

2006-11-18 Thread Mark Samples
I have thought about this also, seems like one could get the source for T'bird, their filters are really very good, haven't had time to look into it though. Eric Shubes wrote: Guillermo Villasana wrote: I was wondering. Is there a way to export the thunderbird's junk filters and add them

[qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
Hi all - Long time no speak... I have a server, I have had to move (re-colocate), it is my own, in specific, the reason I ask is for my own dns purposes, I seem to believe even though I may have only a /29 at my current location, I still want to run my own dns so I can update it as needed and

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
Vince Callaway wrote: I'm running several servers on dynamic IP's. The reverse DNS is not important for those. Your upstream provider should be able to provide you with a mail server you can relay through. QT is setup to do that with no issues. I am using freedns.afraid.org. I am not

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
that it is checked if there is a ptr record for an ip, but not if the content matched the email domain.. This would be quite a problem otherwise, as far as I know, only one ptr per ip is allowed.. The other thing is, what makes static ip's a bad thing? JP - Original Message - From: Mark

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
know, only one ptr per ip is allowed.. The other thing is, what makes static ip's a bad thing? JP - Original Message - From: Mark Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns Vince

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns ALSO...

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
This also describes what I originally was inquiring about any way, Classless Reverse DNS, described in RFC 2317, the 'technical name' eluded me at the time, but this description describes my earlier question and colocation. Mark Samples wrote: I think the key term in the portion that pertains

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
that match. Viola. Erik On 2/10/07, Mark Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - Long time no speak... I have a server, I have had to move (re-colocate), it is my own, in specific, the reason I ask is for my own dns purposes, I seem to believe even though I may have only a /29 at my current

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
provider is allowing you to run dns for your ip addresses, and you own a domain wehre is the problem. Simply set A records, and PTR records that match. Viola. Erik On 2/10/07, Mark Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - Long time no speak... I have a server, I have had to move (re-colocate

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-11 Thread Mark Samples
records help, I am intressted, but as far as my knowledge goes, the only test is if there is a ptr record at all.. JP - Original Message - From: Mark Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster

Re: [qmailtoaster] Users can't send mails due to RBL / PBL / CBL

2007-03-06 Thread Mark Samples
One thing that could be overlooked... Making the following assumptions: 1) You configuration is using blocklists (blacklists), i.e. you have in /var/qmail/control/blacklists, an entry, e.g. '-r cbl.abuseat.org -r ... -r ...' On the blacklist entries, these '-r xxx' is used by rblsmtpd to

[qmailtoaster] djbdns...

2007-04-08 Thread Mark Samples
Is it just me or has anyone else just gotten the current djbdns-1.0.5 as an html script off of the server? Used 'current-download-script.sh' to get current files, retried, just on djbdns with same results both individually and w/the script. The SRC rpm is only 74 bytes long and contains html