Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:06:23 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: No need to stretch the term large. That's a throughput of more than 1 mail per second -- 100k SMTP connections per day. And that is without any local caching at all. With caching, the throughput would be

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Andy Dills
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Karsten Br�ckelmann wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 00:19 -0400, Andy Dills wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The most important argument for me to keep it enabled by default is simple. Small organizations and home users DO NOT have the knowledge

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 14:07 +0100, RW wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:06:23 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: No need to stretch the term large. That's a throughput of more than 1 mail per second -- 100k SMTP connections per day. And that is without any local caching

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 2010-06-12 15:20, Andy Dills wrote: 300,000 queries per day...per server? per CIDR? What is the delimiter? Because there is certainly no single IP generating 300,000 queries per day. That is probably your problem... use a central DNS resolver and your query count will instantly decrease

More large spam....

2010-06-12 Thread Charles Gregory
I got another 1MB spam today. I still don't want to kill my system by attempting to scan every large mail that comes in. Has there been any progress on an 'option' to scan only text portions of mail past a certain size limit and/or scan only the first X bytes? The former is preferable

Re: Increase in scan time from 3.3 to 3.3.1

2010-06-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:32:05 -0400 Chris Conn cc...@abacom.com wrote: In a followup to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/spamassassin/users/151470; Is it possible to set the priority on RBL rules to run after rules, or not at all if shortcircuited? RBL test are done in parallel, and

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Andy Dills
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 2010-06-12 15:20, Andy Dills wrote: 300,000 queries per day...per server? per CIDR? What is the delimiter? Because there is certainly no single IP generating 300,000 queries per day. That is probably your problem... use a central DNS

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 10:09 -0400, Andy Dills wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Because there is certainly no single IP generating 300,000 queries per day. That is probably your problem... use a central DNS resolver and your query count will instantly decrease

Re: More large spam....

2010-06-12 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please do not hijack a thread. Please do not hit Reply, if you do not intend to reply and contribute to that thread. Removing all quoted text and changing the Subject does *not* make it a new thread or post. (Hint: In-Reply-To and References headers.) On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 09:50 -0400, Charles

Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread andrewj
I am migrating to a new server with SpamAssassin. I have a well-known email address which is a common spam target, and I want to set it up so that only addresses on my whitelist are allowed, everything else is automatically blacklisted. How do I set this up? Thanks Andrew -- View this message in

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread Evan Platt
On 06/12/2010 08:20 AM, andrewj wrote: I am migrating to a new server with SpamAssassin. I have a well-known email address which is a common spam target, and I want to set it up so that only addresses on my whitelist are allowed, everything else is automatically blacklisted. How do I set this

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread andrewj
Evan Platt wrote: Why are you accepting e-mail to that address in the first place? You should have your MTA not accept the mail in the first place. I want to accept email on that address from certain trusted users. I want to block everything except the whitelist. can I do this? Andrew --

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, andrewj wrote: I am migrating to a new server with SpamAssassin. I have a well-known email address which is a common spam target, and I want to set it up so that only addresses on my whitelist are allowed, everything else is automatically blacklisted. How do I set this

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread Dave Pooser
On 6/12/10 10:59 AM, andrewj andr...@andrewj.com wrote: I want to accept email on that address from certain trusted users. I want to block everything except the whitelist. can I do this? Do you want those users whitelisted globally, or just for that specific address? If globally is fine, then

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 08:59 -0700, andrewj wrote: Evan Platt wrote: Why are you accepting e-mail to that address in the first place? You should have your MTA not accept the mail in the first place. I want to accept email on that address from certain trusted users. I want to block

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:20:57 -0700 (PDT) andrewj andr...@andrewj.com wrote: I am migrating to a new server with SpamAssassin. I have a well-known email address which is a common spam target, and I want to set it up so that only addresses on my whitelist are allowed, everything else is

Re: Set for Whitelist Only?

2010-06-12 Thread Benny Pedersen
On lør 12 jun 2010 17:59:51 CEST, andrewj wrote I want to accept email on that address from certain trusted users. I want to block everything except the whitelist. can I do this? Andrew whitelist_from fr...@example.net blacklist_to yourownaddr...@example.com when friend write to you scores

Re: List of cell phone company hosts

2010-06-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Marc, Am 2010-06-11 10:23:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Also - I'd like to make a list of host names where email from celll phones comes from. Does anyone have a list of domain name or host names where cell phone email is sent from? One of the spamers domains are mymetropcs.com

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Andy Dills, Am 2010-06-12 10:09:03, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: That's why I'm asking how the limits are designed. In the past I had problems a certain other blacklist wanting money. We were using a central resolver. Their thresholds were based on queries per IP, not network.

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 6/11/2010 8:00 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 11.06.10 10:42, Andy Dills wrote: After recently upgrading to a new mail cluster with SA 3.3.1, we were contacted (at every imaginable POC address) with a solicitation to purchase access to utilize the Spamhaus blacklists, or they'll stop

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 6/12/2010 7:09 AM, Andy Dills wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 2010-06-12 15:20, Andy Dills wrote: 300,000 queries per day...per server? per CIDR? What is the delimiter? Because there is certainly no single IP generating 300,000 queries per day. That is probably

Re: Should Spamhaus default to disabled?

2010-06-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:08 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: I can't see as how the CEO of Spamhaus is making out like the CEO of your typical public company, so knock it off. There is nothing wrong with a for-profit organization running an open source division and making sales