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SIGSEV upon conf reload

2004-05-27 by Cyril Guibourg

Hi list, Did someone experienced the same behaviour ? milter-greylist running fine for a while, updates done to greylist.conf and then process killed after

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1.3.4, syntax error in conf_yacc.y

2004-05-27 by Cyril Guibourg

I just download the tarball and fail to compile under FreeBSD: bison -y -p`echo conf_yacc.c|sed s/^ ([^_] {1, }_ ).*$/ 1/ ` conf_yacc.y conf_yacc.y:142.8:

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... At least this could be configurable. I filter viruses using milter-regex, it costs CPU but not memory, so I d prefer greylisting to take place after virus

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by Matthias Scheler

... No, it is *good*. Scanning for a virus is expensive. One of the reasons I m using milter greylist is that it keeps a lot of virus infected e-mails from my

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by Matthias Scheler

... And it is a bad idea anyway. Virus checking causes a lot of load on mail server. So it is good if milter greylist blocks virus even if that makes the

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by Matthieu Herrb

... I wonder how you d do that. Given how milter and greylists works, it looks impossible to me. Greylisting happens before the body of the message has been

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by manu@netbsd.org

... Mmm you are right, I m greylisting viruses while I thought I wasn t. That s bad, I d like to fix it. It could be fixed by sending the answer after the end

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milter-greylist-1.3.4 is out

2004-05-26 by manu@netbsd.org

From the Changelog: 1.3.4: DNS support in greylist.conf through the domain keyword Make the greylist timeout a config file option The other desirable features

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Dan Hollis

... Database still has problems: long email addresses are truncated. Is the database storage system going to change? You said you had given up on berkeley db.

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by milter@free.fr

... As the song goes I feel a change s gonna come (*) : http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5220253.html There is a coming merge of SPF and M$ Caller Id . At least

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by manu@netbsd.org

... Please show me a real-life situation where this triggers a real problem. ... It depends on the feedbacks about version 1.3.3. If people are happy with it

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Dan Hollis

... This is really it. He s thinking that his IP has been blacklisted in some RBL so he s trying again from another IP hoping that not all of them are

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Dan Hollis

... In order for honeypot to be useful it needs to be easy to deploy, like milter-greylist. E.g. not these spaghetti mess of other honeypot software. Hopefully

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wildcards in addr clause?

2004-05-26 by Dan Hollis

Is it possible to add wildcard support in the addr clause? E.g. addr *.someisp.com Adding some 100 s of addr clauses to cover all the dialup IP blocks we have

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DST

2004-05-26 by manu@netbsd.org

Dan Hollis wrote: [Honeypots] ... Yes, DST (Distributed Spam Traps) already does all of this. But there is no doc written yet, and the

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by manu@netbsd.org

... I m pretty convinced it s a real mail server that relayed the virus. I suspect it just accepted the virus from its internal domain and propagates it

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Matthias Scheler

... SPF records are not widely-used at moment. And my proposal would provide the same functionality with requiring SPF records. Kind regards -- Matthias

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Cyril Guibourg

... How do you tell this *is* a virus and *not* some MTA trying to deliver some infected message ? $ telnet vserver-raccourci.nexen.net 25 Trying

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by milter@free.fr

... This kind of DoS occurs not only with grey-listing but also with use of blacklists at the sendmail level. Now some spammers seems to do retry from other

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Jacques Beigbeder

... Everything, including spams and virus. ... I don t agree. I estimated 100 MORE connections per day per user. 5000 users = 500.000 more SMTP connections.

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... When you count 200k connections per day, do you count everything, or everything minus spam and viruses? If it s everything, then most of your connections

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Jacques Beigbeder

... May be but... If I look at my setting, I estimate there are 100 more SMTP connections per user per day due to greylisting. For a site with 5000 users (my

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... I can see only one explanation for that: it beileived x.x.x.x/0 was whitelisted. We could probably have a particular test to catch that, because nobody

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Matthieu Herrb

... I ve seen that too. I ve ended up with dnl Max connexions par secondes define(confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE,`10 ) in my sendmail.mc to limit the impact of

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Matthieu Herrb

... [...] ... Make the config file parser a bit more robust. I got caught a couple of times after manually adding a whitelist entry with a (unwanted) syntax

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Matthias Scheler

... What about auto MX whitelisting: If host.foo.bar delivers an e-mail from user@do.main an host.foo.bar is listed in the MX records of do.main don t

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... That s why I think this is just some evil assault which is not related to spam. I already saw floods of messages that knocked down my servers, and

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... (snip) ... Surely this is a DDOS, but it is not especially aimed at greylisting. With greylisting, it eats your memory, and if you use SpamAssassin, it

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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Cyril Guibourg

... This can be controlled by fixing the max number of childs and combined with connection refuse on high LA values you can dramaticaly mitigate any risk of

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is this a DoS?

2004-05-26 by Jacques Beigbeder

Hello, Last week, I installed milter-greylist for some email addresses. ... [ .... ] 222.136.25.31

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Cyril Guibourg

... Oooops, that make sense. I was into another galaxy when I wrote it, I m going to drink another coffee ;^) ... Yep, it s nice. ... Why not, I agree with the

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

... It would just not whitelist, and the message would go through greylisting. Not something really horrible. ... Oh, yes, good idea. In fact, per-user config

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Re: [milter-greylist] new features

2004-05-26 by Cyril Guibourg

... Hello, ... Imho this could end into another issue if for some reason reverse resolution is broken for a while (NXDOMAIN ?) how would whitelist code react

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new features

2004-05-26 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

Hi Now that the scallability problem has been somewhat handled, I think about pushing a new stable release. Of course this means testing latest 1.3.x code a

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milter-greylist-1.3.3 is out

2004-05-25 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

Hello everybody First I d like to thank Dan Hollis for taking care of this list, I m sure it will be a usefull place for improving milter-greylist.

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