Re: [milter-greylist] locking issue for autowhite list?
2009-01-23 by Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, ... manu Yes: the refcount on the greylist is useless, as only the sync thread manu actually use it. I suspect this can also cause troubles. No, the
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2009-01-23 by Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, ... manu Yes: the refcount on the greylist is useless, as only the sync thread manu actually use it. I suspect this can also cause troubles. No, the
2009-01-23 by Hajimu UMEMOTO
... manu In a private mail, reschauzier points me something I think is a bug. manu The greylist entries held in memory have a p_refcnt field, for reference
2009-01-23 by manu@netbsd.org
... Yes: the refcount on the greylist is useless, as only the sync thread actually use it. I suspect this can also cause troubles. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus
2009-01-23 by manu@netbsd.org
In a private mail, reschauzier points me something I think is a bug. The greylist entries held in memory have a p_refcnt field, for reference count. It avoids
2009-01-22 by reschauzier
... mean a ... that ... (dozens ... With single domain mx servers I mean a pool, cluster or farm of mx servers that all serve the same domain name. This is
2009-01-22 by Kai Schaetzl
... There is no such thing as a single domain mx server . I assume you mean a server cluster that handles mail for one company? And further assume that a
2009-01-22 by reschauzier
... wrote: A single database server will be able to handle a significant number of single domain mx servers. If that is not enough, the next step up will be a
2009-01-22 by manu@netbsd.org
... Spammers are actively trying to get around SpamAssassin. You have to keep rules up to date if you want it to keep being effective. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus
2009-01-22 by Michael Mansour
Hi, ... In Australia, Nigerian and other scams total over $32mill a year sent overseas. I d shudder to think how many get scammed in Europe and USA, but the
2009-01-22 by Mark Walker
... It s fascinating that milter-greylist still works as well as it does. It seems like it would be trivial for a spammer to make multiple attempts, and many
2009-01-21 by Petar Bogdanovic
... SpamAssassin is pretty popular too, but still (after nearly a decade of being freely available on SourceForge) very effective.. Petar Bogdanovic
2009-01-21 by Petar Bogdanovic
... Breaking hijacked threads costs me one keystroke, while trying to read and identify [1]polluted subject lines on my mobile phone is a PITA. Petar
2009-01-21 by manu@netbsd.org
... Yes, 15 minutes for normal people and 4 hours for cable/xDSL pools works great. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@netbsd.org
2009-01-21 by shuttlebox
... A *lot* less since I started using DNSWL. http://www.dnswl.org/ -- /peter
2009-01-21 by Kai Schaetzl
... Yeah, but you have to do this, anyway. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
2009-01-21 by Kai Schaetzl
... and for me, too! it has ... I don t have any experience with this. I block most dialup/dynamic stuff right-away with RBLs and so probably don t see much
2009-01-21 by shuttlebox
... I find that Exchange servers do this very often, that is try every MX with no delay. What is even worse is that it only tries one round and then no more.
2009-01-21 by manu@netbsd.org
... If your ennemy is a spamware operating on a botnet, retaining (IP, from, rcpt) in your greylisting database cost ressources to the ennemy: it has to keep
2009-01-21 by Kai Schaetzl
I ve just been reading this thread for a while and don t really have an opinion. But I developed two thoughts in the meantime. - Do we need that much
2009-01-21 by manu@netbsd.org
... Spam is a healthy business. People invest in developping - malware to take over the control of millions of machines - spam engines in order to work around
2009-01-21 by Petar Bogdanovic
... Similar setup, same problem.. ... Take a look at this session: postfix/smtpd[pid]: connect from unknown[ip] postfix/smtpd[pid]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
2009-01-20 by Petar Bogdanovic
... I really didn t get that one. Could you please explain? Petar Bogdanovic
2009-01-20 by manu@netbsd.org
... As I understand, the idea is to make it scale for such a setup. I have to confess I fear that it would make milter-greylist a valuable target for spammers.
2009-01-20 by Oliver Fromme
... Are there any real-use cases for that many servers using milter-greylist for a single domain? I don t think that something like that really exists. Best
2009-01-20 by Greg Troxel
I have been running milter-greylist from pkgsrc successfully on NetBSD/i386 4-stable with postfix 2.5.x for a long time. I also use spamass-milter. Recently
2009-01-20 by reschauzier
... This only works when serving multiple domains. As long as a single domain can be handled by one or only a handful of mx servers, the current
2009-01-20 by Oliver Fromme
Hello, Regarding a DB backend for storing greylist tuples ... What is the average ratio of creating tuples vs. looking up tuples in the list? In other words:
2009-01-20 by Emmanuel SCIEUR
Helo, My point of view is : -the DB API must be stable, efficient, reliable, and open. -the choice of DB is not important if the API is OPEN all DB should be
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... IMHO a milter is a little piece in the antispam machine it runs on the MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc) doing a great work at MTA level. In my experience users
2009-01-19 by manu@netbsd.org
... The plan is to allow using various backends, including the current in-memory storage. You will never have to switch to MySQL. At least I would not want to.
2009-01-19 by reschauzier
... milter-greylisting (its a milter) also you need DBA skills to manage such a cluster. The idea _is_ to change the spirit of Milter-greylisting -- towards a
2009-01-19 by manu@netbsd.org
... I already do it with LDAP: users have personnal white and blacklist and various other per-recipient settings that they can change on they fly using a web
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... I think that involving DB s Clusters change the spirit of milter-greylisting (its a milter) also you need DBA skills to manage such a cluster. If you want
2009-01-19 by reschauzier
... this http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik/fastdb/readme.htm as DB. All the 20 greylists have this dummy greylist configured as peer (only 1) and they send to
2009-01-19 by Sven Holz
... Uhh yeah you a right stupid question 8-) Mit freundlichen Gruessen || with kind regards Sven Holz
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... No, now a days a greylisting daemon only fordward 1 level of information, so in a multinode cluster there is no fordwarding storm. But changing the code
2009-01-19 by Sven Holz
... I think it´s a great idea to have master for the data. And from my experience parsing a large file is much faster then parsing a large database but I´m
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... Hi Eduardo, ... They are distributed in 5 countries and they process over 300 domains in clusters, not all servers process all domains. ... But the
2009-01-19 by reschauzier
Hi Eduardo, I agree that adding a simple embedded database backend such as SQLite does not add much to milter-greylist. The current code is more than adequate
2009-01-19 by reschauzier
Ok, mystery solved. I had installed the bind-libbind-devel package. Once replaced with bind-devel,the configure script detected bind9 properly. Thanks for the
2009-01-19 by Sven Holz
... Not directly the data but together with logfiles our bayesian filters and so on we use the touples to get a trend for which IPs could be access pools and
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... How do you user milter-greylist data to generate white/blacklist? If a server doesn t retry you blacklist it? Please it would be kind if you can give me an
2009-01-19 by Sven Holz
... Eduardo is right at this point I also do not believe in performance impacts but for data manipulation and processing a db would be nice. In our case we are
2009-01-19 by Eduardo Casarero
... Hi all ... Is really so important to have a DB backend? i ve more than 20 servers running milter-greylist and they dump the tuples only once a day. How
2009-01-19 by Sven Holz
Hi all ... if an db backend is included it would be nice to place config parts like whitelists, peers and so on also in the db... This would make it possible
2009-01-19 by Kai Schaetzl
... which version (milter and OS) exactly? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
2009-01-19 by Rene Luria
Thank you, we ve been experiencing the same problem here very often Hope this helps
2009-01-19 by Michael Mansour
Hi, ... Have you tried this against milter-greylist 4.1.10? Michael.
2009-01-18 by Techwolf
... Whatever you do, please make sure the setup will allow easy adding of postgresql. For small systems, using an embedded DB would be nice. -- Techwolf
2009-01-18 by Rick Knight
... Sorry Kai, I don t use a threaded view and didn t realize my message would show up in the same thread. Won t do it again. Rick