[MBF] Re: Abuse & Postmaster

2016-11-21 Thread Andy Schmidt
e to follow the chain up to the ultimate parent organization and readily find their official abuse contacts - it's not unusual for attempted spam filters to fail miserably and consider the individual IP block as missing an abuse contact. Best Regards Andy Schmidt 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suit

[MBF] Re: Help with PCRE

2016-08-26 Thread Andy Schmidt
Uh - okay. The problem is NOT the order (or the fact that the last item wouldn't have a whitespace character, which could be handled easily). The real problem is that a match will ONLY be made if every single "token" in your string is actually included in your list of alternatives. The problem

[MBF] Re: Help with PCRE

2016-08-26 Thread Andy Schmidt
rker Mail’s Best Friend Email : david.bar...@mailsbestfriend.com Web : www.mailsbestfriend.com Office: 866.919.2075 -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 1:26

[MBF] Re: Odd attachment header for an Excel file

2016-08-18 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi John, Actually - the "filename" parameter is assigned to the "Content-Disposition" headers - and that's where I'm used to see it (however, I admit to seldomly having reason to look for it): http://www.iana.org/assignments/cont-disp/cont-disp.xhtml I never noticed that parameter being added

[MBF] Re: Call external batch file from Declude

2016-05-11 Thread 'Andy Schmidt'
Hm - just consider the possibility that the problem is an INVALID "EOL" sequence. SMTP requires a CR/LF combination at the end of a line. But, some operating systems (like UNIX) just use a "LF", some just a "CR" (at some time MACs), and sometimes programmers accidentally code "LF/CR". There

[MBF] Re: MAILFROM detects no MX/A, even though it exists?

2015-10-25 Thread 'Andy Schmidt'
? David Barker Mail’s Best Friend Email : david.bar...@mailsbestfriend.com Web  : www.mailsbestfriend.com Office    : 866.919.2075 -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Thursday, October 22

[MBF] MAILFROM detects no MX/A, even though it exists?

2015-10-22 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I'm baffled. Have been using this test for years without problems. Yesterday I encountered the following for this one domain: 10/15/2015 22:35:22.515 q76f2000826a3f7e4.smd Doing envfrom type test on mardee.com. 10/15/2015 22:35:22.515 q76f2000826a3f7e4.smd Looking up MX/A record for

[MBF] Re: Outlook Virus

2015-08-24 Thread Andy Schmidt
This vulnerability occurs when it appears as though a MIME segment is occurring after the end of the MIME body (specifically, a MIME segment with a boundary other than the one specified appears in the MIME postamble). Outlook may see this as an attachment. Although technically valid, there is

[MBF] Re: winmail.dat but Outlook opened it as an Excel spreadsheet XLSX correctly

2015-08-21 Thread Andy Schmidt
Winmail.dat is attached by Outlook when you choose Microsoft's legacy RICH TEXT as the message format, instead of HTML (or Plain Text.) It predates SMTP, when there was a pre-Windows 2000 Microsoft Mail system for LANs... If I remember correctly, there is even a setting buried inside the

[MBF] Re: receiving issue

2015-08-19 Thread Andy Schmidt
As you probably expected, this email apparently was SENT FROM mailto:it1...@abc.com it1...@abc.com TO mailto:di...@xyz.com di...@xyz.com - but the previous entries for 3b4d08cb6087 would confirm that. My first guess would be that you have Imail connection filters or spam filters turned on

[MBF] Re: What new features would you like to see in Declude?

2015-08-19 Thread Andy Schmidt
Send BOUNCE(IFYOUMUST), virus notifications, and other messages from null sender to avoid bounce loops. Test sender alignment: MAIL FROM different than From: mail header Address book whitelisting that does NOT rely on Registry Keys HLM\software\softalk\WorkgroupShare\setup\DBType

[MBF] Re: SPF Records

2015-04-02 Thread Andy Schmidt
SPAM with good SPF records are actually helpful too. Since the spammer has now tied a certain IP address to a certain domain name, both the domain name and the IP address can now be added to blacklists which can be used in connection-level checks to refuse future emails outright.

[MBF] Re: SPF Records

2015-03-31 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Dave, We absolutely block on -all before we check anything else. And almost daily I encounter some third party mail server that rejects a registration email or a mailing list email form one of our clients, because the recipient is forwarding email between two email services. So there are

[MBF] Sender Whitelist

2015-01-04 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I have started to assign higher points to several tests, and then use some sender whitelists to offset the negative increase to hopefully prevent catching legitimate IP blocks who just happen to suffer abuse because of the nature of their business (including aol, google, hotmail and many

[MBF] Re: Gaunlet - using MS Resource Kit SRVANY tool

2014-11-19 Thread Andy Schmidt
your post on the 32bit question. We are running this on a 32bit box and now I'm wondering if we need to wait until David gets the 32 bit version out. thanks again john On 11/18/2014 11:07 AM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi John, Here the steps to set up the Gauntlet service without

[MBF] Re: DRGoutflow - system requirements?

2014-11-18 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Dave, What type of minimum processor and/or operating system is required? Is it a 64-bit application? D:\IMail\declude\Tools\drgoutflow.exe Results in: The image file D:\IMail\declude\Tools\DRGOutflow.exe is valid, but is for a machine type other than the current machine.

[MBF] Re: Declude Host Name Variables

2014-11-06 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi David, Let me make sure I understand correctly how these values are determined. Given: Connecting from: 100.1.2.3 3.2.1.100.in-addr.arpa = rdnshost.subdomain.rndsdom.com HELO helohost.subdomain.helodom.com MAIL FROM: mail...@mailhost.maildom.com What precisely would then

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-04 Thread Andy Schmidt
Dito! -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Michael Cummins Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 8:29 AM To: community@mailsbestfriend.com Subject: [MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns That all

[MBF] Re: DECLUDE vs. Address Book WhiteListing - Two bugs

2014-09-24 Thread Andy Schmidt
@mailsbestfriend.com Subject: [MBF] Re: DECLUDE vs. Address Book WhiteListing - Two bugs Hi Andy, Got it. Will have dev look at it and give you some feedback based on findings. David On 8/26/2014 11:06 AM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi, Address-book whitelisting is a crucial feature, as it puts

[MBF] Re: DECLUDE vs. Address Book WhiteListing - Two bugs

2014-09-24 Thread Andy Schmidt
: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:30 PM To: community@mailsbestfriend.com Subject: [MBF] Re: DECLUDE vs. Address Book WhiteListing - Two bugs Hi David, No difference, even in latest verison. Since

[MBF]Reminder: AHBL shut down

2014-04-03 Thread Andy Schmidt
http://www.ahbl.org/content/changes-ahbl Changes In The AHBL So, this has been a long time coming, but figured I'd make the announcement. I'm winding down the public DNSbl services of the AHBL. This means the dnsbl.ahbl.org, ircbl.ahbl.org, rhsbl.ahbl.org lists are all going away, as is

[MBF]Re: New Version of Declude

2013-11-22 Thread Andy Schmidt
Sorry - running 32 bit. Is the problem ONLY when you launch InvURIBL from within Declude - or do you have a problem just testing InvURIBL from a the Windows commandline? -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of

[MBF]Re: CommTouch

2013-11-21 Thread Andy Schmidt
We just need to get Sniffer back into API mode instead of the costly command line mode. -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:53 AM To: community@mailsbestfriend.com

[MBF]8.3 file names not created

2013-11-13 Thread Andy Schmidt
John – NOT reproducible on 2008 R2! One possible explanation is – someone turned off the 8.3 filename creation for performance reasons for THAT partition at some LATER date. That will NOT REMOVE any “old” 8.3 filenames created prior, but will not cease to create any NEW 8.3 filenames for

[MBF]Re: Working on using NOD32 as a scanner for Declude

2013-11-12 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi John, I know you tried the Dir /X and you saw spaces where the 8.3 should appear. Can you please elaborate? I just want to make sure you didn't accidentally try: DIR /X C:\Program Files\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe Naturally THAT would result in a blank field for ecls.exe, because

[MBF]Re: Working on using NOD32 as a scanner for Declude

2013-11-12 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi John, But that's to be expected!? If you ran DIR /X from within the ESET NOD32 Antivirus directory then it will indeed display a blank short name for ecls.exe because THAT name truly is LESS than 8+3 characters. If you are trying to find the short name for \ESET NOD32 Antivirus\, you have

[MBF]Re: Working on using NOD32 as a scanner for Declude

2013-11-12 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi John, I may be asking the obvious: But given that this is a new 64 bit system, any chance that you or some other admin had disabled 8.3 file name creation for that NTFS volume for performance reasons? THAT would explain how you could possibly have a LONG directory name but NO 8.3

[MBF]Re: Working on using NOD32 as a scanner for Declude

2013-11-11 Thread Andy Schmidt
John, Rather than guessing, just use the command link DIR command with the /X option. Start at the C: drive and then work your way through the two subfolders. The /X option will tell you the 8.3 MSDOS style name for each folder/file. Best Regards, Andy -Original Message- From:

[MBF]Re: Caution on using ZEN dnsbl.

2013-11-05 Thread Andy Schmidt
Yes, you'd have to use the -DYNA in the test name for specific return codes to let Declude know NOT to check past the most recent hop, e.g.: SBL ip4rzen.spamhaus.org127.0.0.2 7 0 CBL-DYNAip4rzen.spamhaus.org127.0.0.4 1

[MBF]Re: declude stops working

2013-11-04 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Daniel, I've had problems in the past - specially when larger mass mailings lead to thousands of vacation, bounce and delay messages hitting the server in a short time span. But there had also been times where individual emails caused crashes in either Imail or Declude. I had created a small

[MBF]Declude Addressbook Whitelist

2013-11-01 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I remember others discussing / running into problems with the Imail Addressbook Whitelist feature (“AutoWhitelist ON”) of Declude – so I wanted to share the final outcome. After we solved the problem of Declude not using the proper ODBC DNS, but rather relying on a certain Registry

[MBF]Re: Declude Addressbook Whitelist

2013-11-01 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Todd, So you’re saying the “all@” wildcard DOES work correctly for SmarterMail? (I didn’t make this clear before: the whitelist of individual email addresses DOES work under Imail – just not using the “all@” domain wildcard). If all@ works for SmarterMail, then that would be an even

[MBF]DNSBLchile

2013-10-29 Thread Andy Schmidt
Unfortunately, this is another activist black list that thrives to better the world against any practical considerations. The rule is that it's more important for valid emails to reach the intended sender than to block spam. For a list to be useful, we can't simply block Microsoft's servers.

[MBF]Addressbook Whitelist fails SQLSetConnectAttr

2013-08-06 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Dave, I just bought two support incidents - so I'd like to use ONE incident to debug this issue. Here the problem: - Declude v4.12.02 for Imail - Log message recurring through the day: DataBase Error = [Could not find file '(unknown)'. Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed ] Finish Address

[MBF]Re: anti-spam solutions for ms-exchange

2013-07-02 Thread Andy Schmidt
ORF You can even integrate it with Sniffer! From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Carl Wagar Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:31 AM To: community@mailsbestfriend.com Subject: [MBF]anti-spam solutions for ms-exchange Does anyone have a

[MBF]Re: Great News!!

2013-07-02 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi Dave, What a relieve! Let us know about your business plan and how we can pay our share to facilitate bug fixes and advances. Best Regards, Andy From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013