doon says morning all. Still pre-coffee. But I am awake and at the office, ready to hack... :)

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Dec 02, 2008 - 01:40PM

JingleBetty  says Morning!
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:17PM

doon says i dunno about the planet. Working on a quick script to troll RBLs to see if any of our mail clusters are blacklisted..
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:18PM

doon says non geek translation of the above... Automated way of checking servers on the internet to make sure that our outbound mail servers aren't
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:21PM

doon says listed anywhere as spam sources. Which due to the amount of users we have, has been known to happen..
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:23PM

tremaine says has anyone ever used spamassassin for alerting? ie, a second instance that doesn't impact mail delivery and uses stricter rules?
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:32PM

doon says well we autoscan all outbound for virii, and autoblock, alert. The problem with SA is that what level do we set it to?
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:33PM

doon says if looking at the average outbound mail stream from joe-sixpack (our average user). Most if it would score 8+ on SA
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:33PM

doon says since the majority of it are forwards, chain letters, etc...
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:34PM

tremaine says *nods* still pondering this one. I have a few thoughts, but as usual it's a complicated problem
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:34PM

doon says most of the time we get blacklisted it isn't for large spam runs (we detect and mitigate those pretty quickly).
Dec 02, 2008 - 02:36PM

N1njaWut
Dec 02, 2008 - 03:22PM

andrzejn says good morning
Dec 02, 2008 - 03:26PM

tremaine says congrats, you spawned a blog post - blog.ddiction.com/?p=2639
Dec 02, 2008 - 03:26PM

tremaine says
Dec 02, 2008 - 03:59PM

doon says woohoo I feel special and touched.
Dec 02, 2008 - 03:59PM

doon says one of the ideas that has been floating around in my head has to be work on something like that.
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:00PM

doon says Been working on an automated abuse type system.
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:01PM

doon says i've looked into abacus, but would prefer it to be web based a la RT.
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:01PM

doon says so I have been hacking together little tools to do that
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:01PM

doon says once it was set, was looking to then expand on my mail parsing stuff.
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:02PM

doon says but with 6-8 million lines of logs to eat/ digest it was a bit harder to coorelate amongst everything.
Dec 02, 2008 - 04:03PM

doon says anyway, I pretty sure the non techie friends eyes have rolled back into their heads by now so I will stop

doon says morning all. Still pre-coffee. But I am awake and at the office, ready to hack...

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