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Uceprotect, a good guy or a bad guy?

August 13th, 2008 by bfebrian
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There are some users reported to me that emails to certain domains are being rejected. After further check, I realized that the emails are being blocked by uceprotect.
This is the error message
—– Transcript of session follows —– … while talking to
some.domain.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
blocked
using dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net; Net xxx.xxx.0.0/16 is UCEPROTECT-Level2 listed
because [...]

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    Annoying Email Signatures

    November 27th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    More and more I received emails with very very long signature. That, for me is annoying.
    Most of the signatures are “company policy” that will be added automatically everytime the employees send an email.
    That what happen, if management involved in email signature. Very long, boring and annoying signature.
    This is just an example about annoying email signature.
    The [...]

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    AntiSpam Server Configuration

    August 28th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    From the MailScanner mailing list,  I found out that one user have created this wondefull page that listed all necessary resources that you need to block spam.
    You can find all the resources in AntiSpam Server Configuration
    This simply one stop solution  for you to find out how to block spam.
    I just want to add onething, which [...]

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    Goodbye Rules_du_jour, Welcome sa-update

    July 18th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    I’ve been using Rules_du_jour for years now, and a very happy rules_du_jour user.
    But since the ddos attack on rule semporium, I had severals problem on updating my SARE rulessets.
    Since spamassassin version 3.x, spamassassin come with a little script called sa-update. Sa-update actually works like rules_du_jour script, to look for a new rulesets and [...]

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    Lotus Domino as MX servers?

    June 20th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    When I jump to Chris Linfoot’s Blog, I found that he created a poll for what kind of MX servers that his visitors using (everyone invited to vote too).
    The choices is:

    Lotus Domino
    MS Exchange
    Appliances
    Open Source (Linux with sendmail, etc)
    Managed Service
    Others

    What surprisingly for me is that many voters choose Lotus Domino for their MX server. Out of [...]

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    Autoreply meet Autoreply

    June 20th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    This morning I found a funny things about Auto-reply (or out of the office) feature that can be found in many mail server.
    What happen, if at least two people who join in a mailing list activate their Auto-reply feature?
    Long subject with “Autoreply: Autoreply: Autoreply: Autoreply: Autoreply: ”
    This happen today in one of my mailing list.
    Annoying, [...]

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    RulesDuJour Problem

    June 16th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    After recently spammer attack on http://www.rulesemporium.com/, I got the following error when trying to update the RulesDuJour rules. The error similar like this:
    Lint output:
    [23588] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in /etc/mail/spamassassin/72_sare_redirect_post3.0.0.cf”: <HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” CONTENT=”0.1″>
    [23588] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in “/etc/mail/spamassassin/72_sare_redirect_post3.0.0.cf”: <META HTTP-EQUIV=”Pragma” CONTENT=”no-cache”>
    [23588] warn: config: failed [...]

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    Spammers Strike Back: Under Attack!

    June 8th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    Yesterday, I saw that my rules_du_jour program not running as usual. I can’t connect to http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and my rules_du_jour command return “Got 504 from SARE Abused Redirect Subject Ruleset for SpamAssassin (post3.0.0) at http://www.rulesemporium.com/…”
    From the mailscanner mailing list, I found out that rulesemporium is not the only one who under attack, so is spamhaus.org, uribl.com, [...]

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    Network World: ‘Spam King’ arrested in Seattle

    June 4th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    A Good news to start the day.
    A Seattle man was arrested Wednesday morning for illegal spamming activities.
    I think all spamming activities is illegal.
    The indictment charges Robert Alan Soloway and his company, Newport Internet Marketing, with fraudulently selling broadcast e-mail products and services that amounted to spam. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of [...]

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    A new great feature in MailScanner (beta)

    May 29th, 2007 by bfebrian
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    Julian Field (the author of MailScanner) now recently releasing a new beta version of MailScanner, the new beta version is 4.60.6.
    Able to compress attachments into a zip file.
    This feature can work on both incoming and outgoing emails.
    There are many third party software that sells this kind of features with expensive prices, but MailScanner will [...]

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