Re: Design of spamd

2011-12-01 Thread Boudewijn Dijkstra
Op Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:02:38 +0100 schreef Han Boetes : Boudewijn Dijkstra wrote: Op Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:54:37 +0100 schreef Han Boetes : > At the moment all spamd greylisting cares about is, "does it retry > connecting?" Unfortunately a lot of spammers do a spamrun and > simply try sending a

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-30 Thread Han Boetes
Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:00:27 +0100 > Han Boetes wrote: > > > So for some reason passtime is ignored on my machine. I've tested > > this with telnet quite extensively. And after 3,4,5 attempts in a > > minute or so the address is whitelisted. > > What version of OpenBSD are y

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:00:27 +0100 Han Boetes wrote: > So for some reason passtime is ignored on my machine. I've tested > this with telnet quite extensively. And after 3,4,5 attempts in a > minute or so the address is whitelisted. What version of OpenBSD are you running? Does it do this without

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-30 Thread Han Boetes
Boudewijn Dijkstra wrote: > Op Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:54:37 +0100 schreef Han Boetes > : > > At the moment all spamd greylisting cares about is, "does it retry > > connecting?" Unfortunately a lot of spammers do a spamrun and > > simply try sending a spam message or 10 and then move on to the > > nex

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-30 Thread Boudewijn Dijkstra
Op Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:54:37 +0100 schreef Han Boetes : At the moment all spamd greylisting cares about is, "does it retry connecting?" Unfortunately a lot of spammers do a spamrun and simply try sending a spam message or 10 and then move on to the next smtp server on their list and that get's t

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-29 Thread Han Boetes
Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Have you looked at greyscanner in ports. I didn't realize there is an updated version. The original I used for some time missed almost every spammer. Then I started scripting something simple myself. I'll have a look at it. # Han

Re: Design of spamd

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:08:52 +0059 Han Boetes wrote: > So spamd would use the stuttering time to figure out if the ip is > not on an rbl, if the dnsname is reverse resolvable, if the helo > is valid, if the sender is not matching silly pattern, etc etc and > then decide what to do with the attempt

Design of spamd

2011-11-29 Thread Han Boetes
At the moment all spamd greylisting cares about is, "does it retry connecting?" Unfortunately a lot of spammers do a spamrun and simply try sending a spam message or 10 and then move on to the next smtp server on their list and that get's them white listed in a matter of seconds. Not really a prob