[juneau-lug] Re: SPAM filtering...

  • From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:38:55 -0900

We get a fair amount of mail over 10 mb so it would be a problem to me.
Also, I looked into updating sendmail yesterday.  The default install after
updates/security patches is 8.12.3.  Current is 8.12.7.  One of the readmes
says to create a user & group called smmsp so that sendmail no longer has to
run as root.  It recommends using id #25 but that's already taken by default
on SuSE systems.  Don't know if that's just a "convention" since sendmail
listens on 25, creating a semi-logical identity relationship or if it's
something used by the system at some deeper level.  They didn't say what to
do if it was already taken however so I presume that it's not that critical.
What stumped me though, is what to do w/the password.  Is SOP to leave it
blank and assign a nul shell to the account?  If not, how does sendmail know
how to log in?

...Kevin
-------------------
Kevin Miller 
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
Administrator
155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Myron Davis [mailto:myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:49 AM
>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: SPAM filtering...
>
>
>Hi James!
>
>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, James Zuelow wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Myron Davis" <myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> > I ran MIMEDefang and ran into limitations w/ large 
>emails... I wonder
>> > if ACS is going to have the same problem.  It could have been my
>> > ulimits though...
>> 
>> What size e-mail are we talking about?
>
>Mainly 10+mb emails (plus overhead from the 7-bit encoding)... maybe
>ACS doesn't even allow messages that big so there would never be a
>problem...
>
>-Myron
>
>
>> 
>> I've never run anything like it, and I'm curious.  (Might 
>stop some of the
>> spam that gets sent to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  I do have some 
>experience with
>> antivirus scanning, but the thing to watch out for there are 
>compressed
>> files.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
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