UPDATE: [server administrivia/geek] Things Done to E-Mail, Sherlock Holmes

[lwood]

We're getting fairly well slammed by the latest spamming worm to make the rounds -- a disk filled up with the records of these asshats' spam, which is Not Okay in my world, dammit.

As a result, snugharbor.com and all four dozen (sheesh) domains hosted through, near, around, etc it have been given SPF entries in their DNS records. Our mail server now checks for proper SPF records and implements greylisting on unproven senders.

Update: These checks, and several others, weren't actually being checked because I goofed the configuration file. If you say "permit this mail," the program rightly does not then go on to check the seventeen other rejects and checks you have in place. So, now we're actually checking against lists of known open relays as well as actually implementing the SPF and greylists I already said we had. Go, me.

Impact on users is projected to be minimal, save a slight delay in receipt of mail while the greylist does its thing. If it's otherwise, you know where to go. 8-)

In other news, Greyhaven has picked up the "Sherlock Holmes" bug -- specifically the TV series from the UK filmed in the 80's. I'd caught a few of these with mendou when she was the Designated Stray Person, and they're still good. I wouldn't dream of downloading copies for my amusement, nor anything else I might care about, either. BitTorrent is a fascinating technology, by the way, and for any of my own (purely legal, I assure you) downloads, I recomment Azureus, which is Java and runs on both Mac and PC.

-- Lorrie

Comments

[shantak.livejournal.com]

Heh, heh, AB. I miss cable.

And you.

*hugs*

Shanta

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*hugs!*

-- L

[thorolf.livejournal.com]

Nothing quite liks spam, spam, eggs, bacon and spam, is there? I've been playing tag with some teenage goit in Nevada who's been sending viral e-mails to a couple of the pubilc e-mail addresses here at the Museum. Feh.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Please update your #)*$%(& anti-virus software, or we will reprogram your computer in the traditional Viking fashion, namely spear-chucking and axe-throwing until the undesired behavior ceases, followed by a silicon blood-eagle.

Have a nice day!

-- Lorrie ;)

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Oh goody! As the proprietor of one of the four dozen, thank you!

I told you I sued a cell phone spammer, right? And they settled for $512.50?

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh goody! As the proprietor of one of the four dozen, thank you!

Well, I'm trying anyway -- the documentation for the greylisting server is only available by either strange perltastic invocations or by actually reading the source, and was much more difficult than the pages raving about it on teh Intarweb led me to believe.

I realised when scanning the mailing list archives and discovering that the author's idea of doco was, "what? just read the source!" that I had to get hardcore.

But I persevere, because if you think yourinbox is bad, well, mine's up to 80% spam, and that's Just Not Okay.

-- Lorrie

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I told you I sued a cell phone spammer, right? And they settled for $512.50?

Nope. Story! Story!

-- Lorrie