Topic: MessageWall - VERY Effective against Spam, Virus/Attactment

[Tivon Coles]

I've been really impressed with messagewall its very effective and seems to be very low on resource.

if anyone is interested in using messagewall please ready the info below

you can dl Craig Fosters Beta from here:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/cfoster/beta/messagewall/
there are a couple of little things that need to be changed, contact me if you need any help.

Anyway
I've been talking to one of the tech people at dsbl (the main spammers DB that MW uses) Fred pointed out a couple of things about message wall. One was just an intersting fact, that one of the co-founders of dsbl co-wrote messagewall.

the other was the that because the last stable version of message wall was written over a year ago(if it works well don't fix it I say there are a couple of dsbl server names in the profiles files that no longer exist
these lines are
dnsdcc=1,aa.dcc.dsbl.org
dnsdcc=1,ba.dcc.dsbl.org
you will find this in the hight level profiles (Extreme...etc)

I would also look at removing all dnsbl entries in these files others other than
dnsbl=1,list.dsbl.org
dnsbl=1,multihop.dsbl.org

and also  add in
dnsbl=1,relays.ordb.org

Any others and you might start running in to the problem of it not using the blacklists at all.

I'm also looking at writing a web interface to make it a little easier to configure, any suggestions on areas you would like to configure please let me know.

If I come across anything else that might be of interest I'll keep everyone posted.

[guestHH]

Interesting......

please do put effort in this.

thx

[Cyrus Bharda]

Tivon,

Any luck with the web interface?

Cyrus Bharda

[Anonymous]

please hlep me!!
i can't find the path that  add dsbl server names .
could you help me ?

[webster]

wow i wrote that a while back

those are found in the
/var/services/messagewall/profiles  dir... depending on which profile you are using (that will depend on what version of messagewall you have installed)... if you view the messagewall.conf file in /var/services/messagewall/ it will have the different profiles it uses for different things.

I am still using messagewall but have taken a lot of dependency away from it and loosened it up a lot... i now use it just for attachment filtering and use spamassassin to get rid of all spam... which is awsome providing its set up right.

messagewall is good but only for certian things especially with the latest viruses which fake addresses...it bounces the message  and that just creates more traffic mulitple times ... you are best to have a look at my other posts

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20397.0

and more importantly
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20493.0

hope this helps.

Catch Ya
T

[Anonymous]

ya!
thank you
i had add smed ^^