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Grex > Helpers > #130: Grex System Problems - Winter 2003/2004 |  |
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davel
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response 143 of 384:
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Jan 8 21:44 UTC 2004 |
Re 140: so it relates to your elbow, Rane?
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naftee
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response 144 of 384:
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Jan 8 22:32 UTC 2004 |
re 141 "humerous" is not funny either.
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rcurl
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response 145 of 384:
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Jan 8 23:44 UTC 2004 |
...some people sure don't have senses of humer...
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mynxcat
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response 146 of 384:
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Jan 9 02:21 UTC 2004 |
Backtalk doesn't allow a fw to delete posts from items, even if the post was
by the fw himself. (FWs can delete complete items though)
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keesan
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response 147 of 384:
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Jan 9 03:41 UTC 2004 |
How do I turn off procmail? Today I got two spams address to @grex.org but
nothing from real people including McNally who sent me the text mail.
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aruba
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response 148 of 384:
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Jan 9 04:00 UTC 2004 |
One way is just to rename the .forward file in your home directory. For
instance, type "!mv .forward .forward.old".
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sholmes
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response 149 of 384:
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Jan 9 04:00 UTC 2004 |
I think you can turn off procmail by removing that line in .forward which
refers to procmail or simple solution is to just rename .forward to a
different name for some time. like mv .forward bkp.forward.
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sholmes
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response 150 of 384:
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Jan 9 04:02 UTC 2004 |
148 slipped in.
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keesan
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response 151 of 384:
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Jan 9 04:41 UTC 2004 |
I put a # in front of the line in .forward to disable it - is that right?
I since today I got two more spame to @grex.org I just sent myself one more
test mail to keesan@grex.org.
The friend who got back bounced mail said it was bounced on Jan 3 with a 'host
name lookup failure for cyberspace.org'. When was our domain name problem
fixed? Perhaps the spammers have some way to get through that real people
don't know about?
I have not had any bounced mail when I mailed to my grex account from another
account in the last two days.
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bhoward
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response 152 of 384:
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Jan 9 05:01 UTC 2004 |
I *think* sendmail respects # as a comment character in .forward, but
I have encountered other mailers in the past that didn't. I think it
is better to move the .forward to a different file name if you aren't
using it right now.
I've observed no domain problems for the last few days now, not even in
asia (for some reason, dns on servers I frequent in Japan and Hong
Kong took a bit longer than the US based ones I use to notice the dns
corrections).
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keesan
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response 153 of 384:
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Jan 9 14:42 UTC 2004 |
After I put # in front of the line in .forward, and also after I renamed it
.forward.bak, I got both my test mails and also four of the spams that would
normally have gone into the bulk or other spam folders. Anyone want to take
a look at my .forward.bak (or .forward) file to see what stupid thing I might
have done to it last time I added a few filters? Thanks all.
But four spams slipped by whatever filter was causing the problem. I have
saved two of them in case they are helpful.
Do I need to make my .forward file readable somehow (chmod +x .forward)?
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keesan
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response 154 of 384:
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Jan 9 15:35 UTC 2004 |
I got my grex mail fixed just in time. Today I got a bounced mail at my
temporary address which I sent to someone using a service that uses spamcop's
blackhole list. I would greatly appreciate someone helping me to fix my spam
filter here so my box does not fill up with trash.
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aruba
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response 155 of 384:
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Jan 9 16:38 UTC 2004 |
Sindi - that error message your friend got sounds like it was during the
period when a lot of people were reporting domain lookup problems on both
grex.org and cyberspace.org. I still don't know what caused that - it was
only cyberspace.org that changed registrars.
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gelinas
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response 156 of 384:
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Jan 10 02:56 UTC 2004 |
named on grex was running but not, apparently, working. I restarted just
before the machine went down for the mail problem, IIRC. Apparently,
we dropped out of puck.nether.net's config files, while named wasn't
responding.
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naftee
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response 157 of 384:
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Jan 10 14:14 UTC 2004 |
IRC
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keesan
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response 158 of 384:
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Jan 10 16:32 UTC 2004 |
I am getting mail okay now and have started a new .procmailrc file and am
sending myself a test mail every time I add a filter but I would still
appreciate people telling me what I did wrong with .procmailrc.old so I won't
do it again. How do I filter (with one filter): viagra, v-i-a-g-r-a,
v!iagra, v1agra without filtering all my mail to a bulk folder?
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kip
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response 159 of 384:
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Jan 10 16:54 UTC 2004 |
I'm not certain, but I believe it was just a manner of poor luck and timing
that the DNS issues occured about the same time and were the real cause of
your mail issues.
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keesan
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response 160 of 384:
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Jan 10 17:12 UTC 2004 |
The DNS problems were in addition to my mail filter problems. I started
getting mail yesterday a minute after I removed my filter.
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kip
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response 161 of 384:
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Jan 10 18:24 UTC 2004 |
Hmmm, okay then. May I suggest you add something like this to your filter
file near the top:
LOGFILE=/a/k/e/keesan/mail/procmail.log
Or whereever you would like to point that file.
That will give you a file that records the From:, date, Subject: and eventual
file or destination for every email procmail handles. Very useful for
tracking these types of issues down.
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keesan
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response 162 of 384:
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Jan 10 18:53 UTC 2004 |
Thanks, but I think I would fill up my disk quota quickly if I logged all my
spams. Jeremy found my problem - I added five filters without a * before
^Subject. I restored my old .procmailrc and will test that i can send myself
mail every time I change it.
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kip
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response 163 of 384:
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Jan 10 21:54 UTC 2004 |
That's true, procmail averages about 150 characters per log entry for me
at my home domain and last month I had a little over 16,000 emails, so the
whole month's procmail log was just under 2.5 million bytes. That would
chew up the quota here pretty fast.
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mcnally
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response 164 of 384:
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Jan 10 22:47 UTC 2004 |
*if* you left it on..
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keesan
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response 165 of 384:
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Jan 11 01:00 UTC 2004 |
I have a very long filter set up and all four of the spams that arrived in
the last two hours were of the XOCPT she swims bananas type with five lines
of nonsense words before the HTML. I have not found any way to filter them
- any ideas?
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i
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response 166 of 384:
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Jan 11 12:42 UTC 2004 |
Dialing in to 761-3000 several times in the past few days, i've gotten
NO CARRIER disconnects as soon as the modems are done with their training
tones. Dialing in to 761-3451 gets me in normally when this happens.
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ryan
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response 167 of 384:
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Jan 12 19:18 UTC 2004 |
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