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10-Dec-2013

Database corrupted?
It looked as if the previous entry (02-Dec-2013) wasn’t complete when accessed, it missed the beginning showing the mail stats vor November. Text was all bol and green. Not as I entered it….
It makes a difference in what mode the edit form showed up. In Visual mode, the first part didn’t show either, all text bolded; swithing to HTML mode shows <strong><span> and </strong></span> tags around the text. If the edit form comes up in HTML mode, it’s all Ik – except when swithing to Visual mode, and the same thing happened…
Fount the cause: a missing double quote in the header:
<strong><font color=”red> doesn’t work.<strong><font color=”red”> does 🙂
Lessons learned:

  • Don’t hurry your posts (take your time)
  • Check before publishing (preview)

    • Nothing new. I know I should have….

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    02-Dec-2013

    Abusing mailservers down, or blocked?
    Since I blocked a number of mail servers – open relay, or hacked – the number of spam messages has dropped significantly:
    PMAS statistics for November
    Total messages    :   1085 = 100.0 o/o
    DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
    Relay attempts    :     78 =   7.1 o/o (Files: 30)
    Accepted by PMAS  :   1007 =  92.8 o/o (Files: 30)
      Handled by explicit rule
             Rejected :    303 =  30.0 o/o (processed),  27.9 o/o (all)
             Accepted :    256 =  25.4 o/o (processed),  23.5 o/o (all)
      Handled by content
            Discarded :    196 =  19.4 o/o (processed),  18.0 o/o (all)
         Quarantained :    219 =  21.7 o/o (processed),  20.1 o/o (all)
            Delivered :     33 =   3.2 o/o (processed),   3.0 o/o (all)

    This is really is the amount for November…Exactly a year ago, the total number was almost 10 times as high. At the beginning of November, I blocked one site (67.53.119.2) that caused malfunction of mail – sending a massive amount of messages in a short time. At least. it looked that way, but it turned out is was merely a matter of bad requests, since after I did, there were a number of messages from the router telling me something was blocked – It wasn’t even mail. Just a bogus message. I just wondered why it passed the filter first, DoS protection is enabled so it shouldn’t have passed.
    After that, trouble was over with above result.
    Few relay attempts as well. None of the files exceeds 4 blocks (2KB), possibly for the same reason.
    Found a few web abusers – and blocked them.