And for a lot of legitimate senders, too. MTA hosts are responsible for
inbound mail, but MUAs are completely at liberty to send email directly =
to
recipient MTAs - and, in fact, most modern ones that are full-featured =
do
just that.
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The Transport Provider message is - perhaps only coincidentally - used =
by
Outlook. If these senders are using Outlook, it is stating that the =
mail
type for the recipient is not a supported type. (Address book entries
normally are normally of type SMTP). Given that the problem occurs =
only
this might have been discussed before, but is the fact that the code supports
CIDR-format address ranges in spammers.tab (and, I
would guess, elsewhere) intentionally undocumented? is it broken?
-tmike
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in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was Content-Type: text/plain
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I enhanced my inline spam filter recently so that it checks the IP addresses of URLs
in messages against spammers.tab, and boy
does it weed out the crap! Was I just slow in thinking of this, is this already a
feature in existing spam filters that are used
with xmail's filter mechanism?
-tmike
I work around the former problem by changing all of the x_LOG_FILE #defines so that
each set of logs has its own
(individually-securable) directory, e.g:
#define FILTC_LOG_FILE filtc SYS_SLASH_STR filtc
(the distribution would have simply said, #define FILTC_LOG_FILE filtc)
(filtc
soapbox
this is a software maintenance issue. labeling it 116 denotes the first version with
which it is compatible; this is the correct
way to label such changes (altho, granted, maybe 115 should actually be 13, and
perhaps the format of the labels should have been
chosen so that they could
I implemented these quite some time ago myself in order to judge their real-world
efficacy. (I know you specificially asked for no
input on the sanity of your premise, but here it is nonetheless :) )
Many valid, non-spamming MTAs use unverifiable text in HELO/EHLO (e.g., an internal
hostname
just to get this out of the way - 192.168.1.11 (which is nonroutable) is =
not the actual external IP of the xmail box, right?
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Sent: Thursday 28 August 2003 1:03 PM
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I saw no direct way to accomplish this, and ended up adding (at the end of
v1.16::SMTPSvr.cpp::SMTPDoIPBasedInit()) code to perform
this check by calling USmtpSpamAddressCheck(SMTPS.szClientFQDN)
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In windows, it enables Unicode support for the pathname. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/naming_a_file.asp
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functionally a very minor issue, but toward the squashing of future bugs =
and making the code more bulletproof, I'd like to suggest a
change to the handling of the first line of smtp message files. This =
suggestion also applies to other places where strtok() is
used.
SMTPSubmitPackedFile()
that is a valid path; using that \\? business enables some path-handling extensions in
the OS, (super-long paths for one, as I
recall)
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: [xmail] Re: @@FILE
that is a valid path; using that \\? business enables some path-handling extensions in
the OS, (super-long paths for one, as I
recall)
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ok, here are the details for a simplified implementation -
first, I share the directory on the server that contains the spammer list and modify
its permissions so that I can write to some of
the files in it from the machine userID that I normally use (my dev box).
on the dev box, I use a
and all that is easier than clicking a button in my program?
that question compares implementation vs usage, not exactly the same =
thing... but yes, it is easier. I don't have to run an
external program to do it, or find the log entries in question. I =
simply click a button while looking at
well, I didn't go into why we use it, just how it was implemented...
outlook's built-in block list does not, of course, affect the global spammer list
maintained by xmail and is geared toward blocking
spam for individual users. our interest was in having point-of-use global spammer
blocking;
The big difference here, is that Outlook's block sender, still requires you to
download the mail. If Xmail blocks the mail, then
the sender gets a non-delivery report (and hopefully ceases sending) and the user does
not download (perhaps over 56k) the mail.
true, altho if we happen to be
instead of using a log file tool to add spammers, I added a button on =
the toolbar in Outlook that adds the MTA of any message to the
spammers list on the server. completely handy.
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that's not what he meant, exactly. correctly-designed programs running =
under UNIX that need superuser privileges use that privilege
only to initially access protected resources, and then divest themselves =
of the extra rights once they have done whatever it was
they needed them for. UNIX
Running on Windows, I have found it to be very helpful to include =
xmail's version number on the following:
- service name
- service display name
- registry keys used for startup options
Doing so permits deployment and installation testing of new releases on =
the production server without
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Any comments on these are welcome.
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http://www.tmike.com
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has anyone actually looked at the error they get if an smtp session is
refused because of a spammers.tab entry? i get a -171 instead of the
correct error.
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