Infinite-Monkeys got crazy?

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : brichter [mailto:brichter at INTERACCESS.COM]
>Envoyé : 15 mars, 2004 13:28
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Infinite-Monkeys got crazy?
>
>
>Hope I am replying to the group properly with this.
>
>Anyone know how to DISABLE outgoing mail RBL checks?
>
>We don't do any Spam Assassin analysis of outgoing messages and I had
>figured that counted for RBL's untill today when Infinite-Monkeys went
>south.  Our internal server that relays to the sendmail box running
>SA+MS+Sendmail was listing outbound messages as being RBL'ed.
>
>So now everyone is hot on me to make sure we can disable ALL 
>RBL checking
>for OUR internal servers coming through it.
>

This is a ruleset job.  

Ruleset tutorial:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/230.html

Ruleset section of the FAQ:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/207.html


>Thanks for any info!
>
>
>On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Howard Robinson wrote:
>
>> On 15 Mar 04, at 9:58, Julian Field wrote:
>> Julian,
>> Yes I have had to remove Infinite -monkeys from the spam list in
>> mailscanner.conf as everthing ( at least the ones I have looked at)
>> was being identified as spam by them/it. None were 'proper' spam.
>> Thanks to Nejc Skoberne for giving me a cllue what to look for.
>>
>> > This is the 3rd report of this I have seen this morning, 
>having not heard
>> > of anything like this for months. Looks like someone is 
>doing a DoS attack
>> > by getting everyone's servers listed in Infinite-Monkeys.
>> >
>> > Any similar reports of this from anyone else?
>> >
>> > At 09:34 15/03/2004, you wrote:
>> > >Hi list,
>> > >
>> > >an hour ago every mail (sent from localnet) that would go 
>through my
>> > >SA+Postfix+MS configuration was marked as spam - anyone 
>else experienced
>> > >this?
>> > >
>> > >--
>> > >Nejc Skoberne
>> > >Grajska 5
>> > >SI-5220 Tolmin
>> > >E-mail: nejc.skoberne at guest.arnes.si
>> >
>> > --
>> > Julian Field
>> > www.MailScanner.info
>> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>> >
>> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Howard Robinson
>> (Senior Technical Development Officer)
>> Harper Adams University College
>> Edgmond
>> Newport
>> Shropshire
>> TF10 8NB UK
>>
>> E-mail: hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk
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>>
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