RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam not scanned by JunkMail, found out why

2004-06-17 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
Yes, and I am considering that or putting in a IIS front door (in addition to my backup MX which is already IIS) and then using the other program that I can not think of the name right now. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Declude.JunkMail] Interesting Spam Article

2004-06-17 Thread Bridges, Samantha
Interesting Spam Article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1608663,00.asp?kc=ewnws060904dtx1k0 700599 Samantha Bridges Communications Technician Macomb Intermediate School District 44001 Garfield Road Clinton Township MI 48038-1100 (586) 228-3300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.misd.net

[Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
Hi- Many of my users are personnel agencies that send and receive a lot of resumes as attachments. Some of these attachments are fairly large. I'm having a growing problem with processor usage. Does Declude scan attachments? Is there a way to turn that off? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc. ---

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Ideas on Unique New SPAM Test

2004-06-17 Thread Scott Fisher
That would be interesting. I see the surbl.org people are working with a phish url list, that I sure wouldn't mind having the ability to scan against. Scott Fisher Director of IT Farm Progress Companies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/16/04 10:30PM URL lookups. Just a guess of course. I would prefer

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
Many of my users are personnel agencies that send and receive a lot of resumes as attachments. Some of these attachments are fairly large. I'm having a growing problem with processor usage. Does Declude scan attachments? Is there a way to turn that off? That shouldn't be an issue -- for example,

[Declude.JunkMail] Declude and Spam Review

2004-06-17 Thread TCOnline Internet Support
I was wondering is there a way to change what the Spam Hold button is pointing to in Spam Review. I am currently running Declude Hijack v1.75 and the held e-mails are being sent to the Hold2 folder and not Hold. I have not been using Spam Review much and wanted to start using it to check if the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
Hi Scott- When this happens, I usually see about three Declude processes, each in the 25% - 30% neighborhood, and several more showing smaller percentages. Also, I see the usual Sniffer, SMTP, POP, and IMAP, all much lower. -d - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Mike Hyslip
I know others have mentioned higher CPU load with body searches and the like, and most like searching through the entire attachment text for matches to a filter? Just a guess here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and Spam Review

2004-06-17 Thread TCOnline Internet Support
Yes I understand what Hijack is doing but I wanted to use Spam Review to easily view the e-mails and send back to the spool folder if they are valid instead of manually having to check each file individually. Isaias Hernandez Internet Tech Support 979-775-6239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Rick Davidson
I use a filter that searches for attachments and causes the email to bypass further filter tests. For example my filter is called BYPASS and contains lines like these: BODY 0 CONTAINS .PDF BODY 0 CONTAINS Content-type: application/msword BODY 0 CONTAINS Content-Type: application/pdf BODY 0

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and Spam Review

2004-06-17 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
SpamReview is not intended to be used with Hijack, rather it is intended to be used with Declude JunkMail. Do you understand what Hijack is doing if there are messages in Hold2? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
When this happens, I usually see about three Declude processes, each in the 25% - 30% neighborhood, and several more showing smaller percentages. Also, I see the usual Sniffer, SMTP, POP, and IMAP, all much lower. Do you have a lot of BODY or ANYWHERE filters (the most CPU intensive tests in

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
OK, it,s in place. Let's see what happens. Thanks! -d - Original Message - From: Rick Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments I use a filter that searches for attachments and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
I just watched it build, max out, and decline. One instance of Declude, then two, then three, all in the 25%+ range. As soon as it dropped to two Decludes, Queue Manager came right in at 30-40%, then the cycles dropped as QueueManager dropped down. -d - Original Message - From: R.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
I have one BODY filter that is about 7K in size maybe 200 lines. That's it. -d - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments When this happens, I

[Declude.JunkMail] New Test possibility

2004-06-17 Thread smb
Scott, With Declue removing the data between the in HTML messages to get the correct wording. Deasdsdasdadlude = Declude. Would a test that counts and/or totals the number of characters between a single asd or all the aaa's in a message be a viable ne test. I notice a fair amount of spam

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
One instance of Declude, then two, then three, all in the 25%+ range. As soon as it dropped to two Decludes, Queue Manager came right in at 30-40%, then the cycles dropped as QueueManager dropped down. It does sound like it is the large files that are causing the problem. One option would be to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
OK, the BODY filter is off. If the problem continues, I'll set the log level to debug and turn the filter back on. -Dave - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Matt
Scott, I've got a lot more BODY filters than Dave has, though I don't feel that they are excessive. I probably have about 1,500 BODY searches, but with SKIPIFWEIGHT they only run about 25% of the time. If Dave is using Declude Virus, I would also look there for the issue. Anything besides

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
Hi, Matt- We're running Declude JunkMail and Hijack. No AV on the mail server, primarily to keep the load down. We have a firewall antivirus appliance and a gateway server to take care of that. -d - Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New Test possibility

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
With Declue removing the data between the in HTML messages to get the correct wording. Deasdsdasdadlude = Declude. Would a test that counts and/or totals the number of characters between a single asd or all the aaa's in a message be a viable ne test. That is a good idea (and one we're already

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
Matt- My body filters only catch about 4% of messages, but I don't know how often they are run. Is htere a convenient way to tell? -d - Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Scott Fisher
I haven't found any easy way to tell. The information is in the logs at high level. But I can chime in that SKIPIFWEIGHT bypasses about 80% of my e-mail that is obviously spam. TESTSFAILED ENDS for friendly domains/revdns drop off about 8% of e-mail that is most likely not spam, leaving about

[Declude.JunkMail] Content Rules plus/vs. Sniffer?

2004-06-17 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hey Matt: One question - I know that you have been spending a lot of time programming content filters. I'm curious whether you are using Sniffer and whether you found that you needed all those filters to improve detection over Sniffer rules (which then makes me wonder why they are not made part

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Rick Davidson
I am not sure which Imail release included the log anylizer, 8.1 I think, if you have that version you can run the anylizer on your declude log files and just select unknown log lines It is a dirty way to do it but it gives you the info you are looking for Rick Davidson National Systems Manager

[Declude.JunkMail] Per-user alert messages

2004-06-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've looked in the documentation and haven't found (can't find :-) if it is possible to have a per user alert message. We need to build the messages with custom values (fields) from a database. TIA, Rod -- Roderick A. Anderson Project Manager Technology Services Management Group

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Doherty
Hi Scott- My body filter runs last. It's set now to skip messages with attachments (Thanks, Rick Davidson for that one!). SKIPIFWEIGHT is just above my delete weight. I tried to derive from the daily report and WAMLOG how many times the filter runs, and my best guess is that it runs for around

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and attachments

2004-06-17 Thread Matt
Statistics will give you a general idea. We generally hold messages at a score of 10 or 13, but we stop processing custom filters using SKIPIFWEIGHT when the score reaches 25 and we separate those messages from the others since we feel +99.99% confident that they are spam and this allows us to

[Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT for external tests

2004-06-17 Thread Ken Weise
Is there a way to use the SKIPIFWEIGHT option for external tests? There are some nice external plugins for JunkMail, but I would like not to run them on mails that all ready meet our hold weight. Thanks! Ken Weise Econocaribe Consolidators, Inc. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT for external tests

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
Is there a way to use the SKIPIFWEIGHT option for external tests? No, that option only applies to filters. There are some nice external plugins for JunkMail, but I would like not to run them on mails that all ready meet our hold weight. Thanks! We are considering an option that would allow you

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Content Rules plus/vs. Sniffer?

2004-06-17 Thread DLAnalyzer Support
Andy, I know I am not Matt, but I wanted to chime in here. We have a lot of body filters and we use sniffer as well. Mostly because we can quickly code rules to block spam that is coming in at that momemnt instead of waiting for a rule base update. Also, not all of the spam we get ends up

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Content Rules plus/vs. Sniffer?

2004-06-17 Thread Matt
Andy Schmidt wrote: Hey Matt: One question - I know that you have been spending a lot of time programming content filters. I'm curious whether you are using Sniffer and whether you found that you needed all those filters to improve detection over Sniffer rules (which then makes me wonder why they

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Content Rules plus/vs. Sniffer?

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recommend that everyone buy Sniffer, and it's not just because I think Pete is a swell guy :) Ditto, and it is because I think that Pete's a swell guy and, well, Sniffer is a pretty darn good product too! ;-) Seriously, though,

[Declude.JunkMail] IP4R DNS lookup

2004-06-17 Thread TCOnline Internet Support
I was wondering how reliable the ip4r lookups are. There seems to be a lot of SPAM that is only failing one of the ip4r test (SORBS, SBL, AHBL, etc) and no more of the test, hence delivering the SPAM. Is it safe to increase the weight of all these test to my deletion weight in order to stop them

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Content Rules plus/vs. Sniffer?

2004-06-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 17, 2004, 4:23:10 PM, Matt wrote: snip/ M I recommend that everyone buy Sniffer, and it's not just because I think M Pete is a swell guy :) The check is in the mail ;-) _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Hijack question

2004-06-17 Thread Nick Hayer
Scott - Is it possible to get Hijack to run after DJMP? This would help me to better manage my backup mailserver - Thanks -Nick Hayer --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Hijack question

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
Is it possible to get Hijack to run after DJMP? This would help me to better manage my backup mailserver - The only way to do that would be if you are also running Declude Virus, you could use the AVAFTERJM ON option to force Declude Virus to run after Declude JunkMail, which also forces

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] IP4R DNS lookup

2004-06-17 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I have used filters to summarize categories of ip4r and other tests. All the open relay tests will fail ONE filter. So whether one or 4 black-lists say it's an open relay - it will only get ONE weight. All the DUL/DUHL will fail ONE filter. So, whether a dial-up or dynamic port is listed

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Hijack question

2004-06-17 Thread Nick Hayer
On 17 Jun 2004 at 17:47, R. Scott Perry wrote: Perfect. Thanks! -Nick Is it possible to get Hijack to run after DJMP? This would help me to better manage my backup mailserver - The only way to do that would be if you are also running Declude Virus, you could use the AVAFTERJM ON

[Declude.JunkMail] TESTSFAILED END Question

2004-06-17 Thread DLAnalyzer Support
I seen this post below and wanted to implement the TESTSFAILED to exit out of one of my body filters based on if another test was already triggered. Is the below line correct (assuming REVERSEDNSFILTER is one of my filters that occurs before the filter I put the below line in)? TESTSFAILED

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] TESTSFAILED END Question

2004-06-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
I seen this post below and wanted to implement the TESTSFAILED to exit out of one of my body filters based on if another test was already triggered. Is the below line correct (assuming REVERSEDNSFILTER is one of my filters that occurs before the filter I put the below line in)? TESTSFAILED END

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] IP4R DNS lookup

2004-06-17 Thread Darrell \([EMAIL PROTECTED])
It depends on the IP4R tests. For example SBL/XBL is very reliable and I weight them high. However, most the of the IP4R tests we weight low/medium. Darrell Check out

[Declude.JunkMail] Weight Ranges

2004-06-17 Thread Goran Jovanovic
Scott, How much extra processing to an e-mail does adding a bunch of weight range statements like: WEIGHT1019 weightrange x x 10 19 WEIGHT2029 weightrange x x 20 29 WEIGHT3034 weightrange x x 30 34 WEIGHT3539 weightrange x x 35 39 I really just want these just to report on from the logs