[spamdyke-users] noob question

2009-08-03 Thread Les Fenison
I just installed spamdyke on my server running Plesk 9.2.2 I can not tell if it is actually running as it is logging nothing. I blacklisted my own IP for a test and it didn't stop me from sending, of course I was authenticated so maybe that was normal. I am starting out conservative with noth

[spamdyke-users] Question about syslog entries

2009-08-04 Thread Les Fenison
I noticed that some entries in the syslog show DENIED_ and others FILTER_ for example DENIED_RDNS_MISSING and FILTER_RDNS_MISSING It is obvious and also documented what the DENIED_RDNS_MISSING means, but what about FILTER?? And after running some stats, I found that the number of hits with F

[spamdyke-users] Problem with TLS and SSL

2010-07-27 Thread Les Fenison
I am having trouble doing smtp and smtps both. I am only able to do one or the other. If I set tls-level=smtp, smtps on port 465 will not connect but I can do tls on port 25 if I set tls-level=smtps I can do smtps but can not do tls on port 25. Shouldn't I be able to run both? Am I missi

[spamdyke-users] Trouble with SSL

2013-10-10 Thread Les Fenison
The docs say SSL and TLS are the same thing but I think we all know better.. I am not an expert so I am not sure of the differences except that when in Outlook configuring the send/receive settings, we have a choice of None, SSL, or TLS. TLS succeeds, SSL fails until I make this change.. tls

Re: [spamdyke-users] Trouble with SSL

2013-10-11 Thread Les Fenison
guration files. In your smtps_psa file, use a configuration file that contains "tls-level=smtps". In your smtp_psa file, use a configuration file that contains "tls-level=smtp". Then signal xinetd to restart and you should have it! -- Sam Clippinger On Oct 10, 2013, at 1

[spamdyke-users] Excluding some IPs from RBL checks?

2013-10-14 Thread Les Fenison
Is it possible to exclude some IP addresses from RBL checking? One of Google's servers was blacklisted this morning in baracudacentral.org and it is causing problems for my customers. -- Les Fenison www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com <https://www.deltatechnicalservice

Re: [spamdyke-users] Excluding some IPs from RBL checks?

2013-10-15 Thread Les Fenison
On Oct 14, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Les Fenison wrote: Is it possible to exclude some IP addresses from RBL checking? One of Google's servers was blacklisted this morning in baracudacentral.org <http://baracudacentral.org> and it is causing problems for my custom

Re: [spamdyke-users] So close and yet so far...

2013-11-07 Thread Les Fenison
This is a plesk 11.5.x server running qmail. In /var/qmail/users/assign, the user is popuser The path in the 5th field is /var/qmail/mailnames/domainname.com. The permissions on those folders are 700 and owned by popuser and group popuser The alias account's home is /var/qmail/alias. The own

[spamdyke-users] Outbound spam prevention

2013-12-10 Thread Les Fenison
up on because of this. -- Les Fenison www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com <https://www.deltatechnicalservices.com> l...@deltatechnicalservices.com (503) 610-8747 ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/m

Re: [spamdyke-users] Outbound spam prevention

2013-12-10 Thread Les Fenison
hours to figure how to stop it, although they weren't being created as fast as yours. Scanned all PC's with Malware Bytes and didn't find any process that could be definitely identified as the culprit, but removed anything suspect. Ron On 12/10/2013 9:35 AM, Les Fenison wrote: I

[spamdyke-users] Questions about qrv

2014-05-30 Thread Les Fenison
According to the list of files in the docs, I am missing some. Is it necessary to have them all? I am missing these... /var/qmail/control/envnoathost /var/qmail/control/percenthack I am running the Plesk version of qmail which doesn't provide those files. I have specified the path to the s

Re: [spamdyke-users] Questions about qrv

2014-05-30 Thread Les Fenison
dyke-qrv will use them if they exist, otherwise it will assume the default values. However, if you're using Plesk you don't need spamdyke-qrv at all. The built-in Plesk filters already check for valid recipients before they allow a message to be accepted. -- Sam Clippinger

[spamdyke-users] New problems with spamdyke

2014-10-29 Thread Les Fenison
these processes are growing rapidly out of control? Les Fenison www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com l...@deltatechnicalservices.com (503) 610-8747 ___ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke

Re: [spamdyke-users] New problems with spamdyke

2014-10-30 Thread Les Fenison
ent: 10/30/2014 5:00:43 PM Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] New problems with spamdyke On 10/29/2014 03:40 PM, Les Fenison wrote: I have been running spamdyke for years and never had a problem until today. I am running version spamdyke 5.0.0+TLS+CONFIGTEST+DEBUG. What is happening is that the

Re: [spamdyke-users] Avoiding greylisting delays by making many exceptions

2014-11-20 Thread Les Fenison
I also have some interesting graylisting stats and I have the number of graylisted attempts that never got accepted later on a retry. I am wondering what the order is for spamdyke rule checking. Is rdns missing and resolved tested before or after graylisting? A 16 hour sampling of the log sh

[spamdyke-users] Error in log

2014-11-27 Thread Les Fenison
have a file called ip-in-rdns-keyword-blacklist.conf So it does exist. The permissions are exactly as they are for all my other config files in the same directory. I don't understand why I am getting this error. Les Fenison www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com l...@deltatechnicalservices.com (503

[spamdyke-users] IP Blacklist being ignored

2014-12-01 Thread Les Fenison
) encryption: (none) reason: 250_ok_1417461211_qp_32676 And thousands more like these. Am I incorrect in thinking that 216.1.205. would be the same as 216.1.205.0/24 Les Fenison www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com l...@deltatechnicalservices.com (503) 610-8747

[spamdyke-users] Just tried 5.0.1 but something is still missing

2015-05-18 Thread Les Fenison via spamdyke-users
I finally got around to installing version 5.0.1 and then with excitement I did a telnet to port 25 and typed ehlo hoping to see that long awaited 250-STARTTLS and... it wasn't there. Did I miss something in the configuration switches or settings?___

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2015-06-05 Thread Les Fenison via spamdyke-users
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[spamdyke-users] Spamdyke's graylisting killing my cpu

2015-06-07 Thread Les Fenison via spamdyke-users
I have noticed a very high cpu load lately when tmpwatch runs and it takes forever to finish. Then I found out why. the /var/tmp/graylist.d directory was HUGE.After removing it, tmpwatch now takes less than a minute to run. It use to be 6 hours So, what is the best practice? The