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 Topic: Losing honeypot entiesPosted: 20 August 2007 at 2:26pm |
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I am using 3.5.4.692.
why am I losing Honeypot entires? I have many email addresses in there, but they are all gone. This is the second time it happens. Only thing left on there is entries started with numbers and IP addresses. Edited by Stupid - 20 August 2007 at 2:43pm |
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Posted: 20 August 2007 at 6:36pm |
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Is this for SpamFilter ISP "standard" or "Enterprise"? If it is the "Standard" version, could you please check the \SpamFilter\domains\SFI\Filters.ini file, to see if the entry:
BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName has specified the full path + filename to the text file, and not just the filename? |
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Posted: 21 August 2007 at 9:16am |
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It did it again!!!
Standard. Here's how it looks like: BL_HoneypotBlockedIPsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\HoneypotBlockedIPs.txt BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\HoneypotBlockedIPs.txt |
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Posted: 21 August 2007 at 4:25pm |
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It's getting bad losing these. My Honeypot actually blocks majority of my spam. any idea?
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Posted: 21 August 2007 at 4:35pm |
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We've been re-checking the past bug fixes, and saw that the following one:
// New to VersionNumber = '3.5.4.700'; {TODO -cFix : In SFE, sometimes new entries were not being added to the autowhitelist table} could have actually caused a similar problem to other self-maintained lists as well, as the honeypot one. Could you please upgrade to the latest build of SpamFilter to see if the problem has already been fixed in the latest builds? |
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Posted: 21 August 2007 at 4:37pm |
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I guess I'll try that and let you know.
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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 9:49am |
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I am now on 704, but I lost again the email addresses in the honeypot!!!
Edited by Stupid - 22 August 2007 at 9:50am |
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Posted: 22 August 2007 at 5:48pm |
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Ok, I should have caught this before, but I was looking at only the presence of the full path name in your post, I was not looking at the filename itself.
This is the problem: BL_HoneypotBlockedIPsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\HoneypotBlockedIPs.txt BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\HoneypotBlockedIPs.txt You are using the same filename for both blacklists, so one is overwriting the contents of the other. Please note that those two files are very much different. The "Honeypot Emails" contains a list of email addresses. These email addresses are stored in whatever file you specify via the GUI, and is then stored in "BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName". Any emails sent to a recipient in that list will cause the IP of the sender to be blacklisted. This sender's IP will be added to the file specified in the "BL_HoneypotBlockedIPsFileName" field. By default, this file is handled internally by SpamFilter and is called "HoneypotBlockedIPs.txt". You will thus need to ensure that you use different filenames for the different lists. |
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Posted: 23 August 2007 at 9:18am |
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Where and how do I make this correction?
Edited by Stupid - 23 August 2007 at 9:20am |
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Posted: 23 August 2007 at 7:38pm |
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To keep the file names consistent, you should change the file used by the "Honeypot Emails" list. That can be done wither via SpamFilter's GUI, or by editing this line in the Filters.ini:
BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\NewFileNameHere.txt This file should contain the list of email addresses you want to use as hoenypots. |
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Posted: 24 August 2007 at 9:18am |
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If I do that, where do I add new email addresses that I want to use as honeypot?
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Posted: 24 August 2007 at 7:45pm |
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Either via SpamFilter' GUI, in the "Settings - Configuration - Black / White Lists / Honeypots" tab, or by entering them directly in the new file you should have created, specified by the entry:
BL_HoneypotEmailsFileName=C:\Program Files\SpamFilter\NewFileNameHere.txt |
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Posted: 27 August 2007 at 5:50pm |
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it seems this resolved the problem.
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