Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What is this about ??

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
I've gotten serveral of these the past few minutes. Below are the full headers ..I'm assuming they are trying to relay ??? It's hard to say what spammers are doing when they aren't sending a real spam to someone. They may be making relay attempts, they may be checking to see if you have

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] What is this about ??

2003-12-02 Thread Omar K.
I've got an IMGate machine in front of my imail/declude, and ive set it up to drop any connection where anywhere in the SMTP header/banner it claims an IP or a domain of mine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Tuesday,

AW: AW: [Declude.JunkMail] More ATTACH and MAILBOX questions

2003-12-02 Thread Guhl, Markus (LDS)
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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with

2003-12-02 Thread Pete McNeil
I recommend a simple scheme of simple characters and escape sequences. Borrowing from our Message Sniffer rule coding, how about _ as a space, and if you really need the _ character itself then you use \_. Then you also have to use \\ when you want the \, but that's a small price to pay and it's

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with

2003-12-02 Thread Pete McNeil
Ha ha ha! plop... (laughs his head off) |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Landry |Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:22 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with | | |Oh, yes, now it get it...

[Declude.JunkMail] Interesting.. Now PGP is used

2003-12-02 Thread Kami Razvan
Title: Interesting.. Now PGP is used Hi; Interesting spam Now they are using PGP code Just in case you are adding negative weight for PGP - something to keep in mind. Regards, Kami -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, your request for notification for the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] sniffer

2003-12-02 Thread Keith Anderson
It's not worth paying the subscription fee, in my opinion. I have a client that's paying for it, and it doesn't catch very much that isn't already caught somewhere else. I am considering Maps too. But it's $1500/yr. Anyone using them? --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] sniffer

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Smith
Sniffer's well worth the $300.00 per year. That breaks down to less than $1.00 per day. It catches content that some RBLs don't catch. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Anderson Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:28 AM

[Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Robertson
I just set up spamchk and was wondering if anyone can share some fine-tuning info with me? Updated keyword lists and such? I tried subscribing to their list but all I get back is an Invalid Syntax email from their mail server. Cheers, Matt

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread Andy Schmidt
It appears that you may have forgotten to mention the TEXT of the error message that appears in the logs. Knowing what error is reported may be the key in pin-pointing the cause. Best Regards Andy --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Ivey
The messages are as follows: Error; failure opening (message ID) in the declude junkmail file Error opening mime file (message ID) in the declude antivirus file Sorry for the generic message, but the log files are gone. === Daniel Ivey GCR Company / GCR Online Voice: 434 -

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
The messages are as follows: Error; failure opening (message ID) in the declude junkmail file Error opening mime file (message ID) in the declude antivirus file Sorry for the generic message, but the log files are gone. The best way to determine what is happening here is to use the debug mode.

[Declude.JunkMail] possible request for feature

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Grotjan
Can there be a way for a filter to fail all or nothing. For instance, everyone seems to be receiving spam with no subject, and fake tags such as gkslthsjewl. I receive thousands of these messages a day, all from different spammers. I have been filtering on the two characteristics, and it

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Ivey
Scott, The problem seems to have corrected itself. However if the problem occurs again, this will be the first thing that I do and I will email them to you. Thanks for the help Scott. Daniel === Daniel Ivey GCR Company / GCR Online Voice: 434 - 570 - 1765 Fax: 434 -

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Chuck Schick
Matt: At what weights do you hold and delete? I will share my config file with you with the caveat that I am still fine tuning. I have been running Spamchk in production mode for about a month and have had excellant results. I turned it off for a day when I was trying to reduce some of the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] possible request for feature

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
If I could somehow define a filter that will only fail if all instances in the filter are true I could set up... SUBJECT 0 ISBLANK BODY0 STARTSWITH g and delete on this filter file alone. This is something that we are looking into. :)

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Nick Hayer
Matt - What I did was in the beta version set a max weight and a min weight to be returned. [I have it set now at 8 and -2 respectivly.] Then let it run and check the log file to see what is failing - adjust accordingly. I ended up reducing the scores for failures in the ini by ~50+%

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] possible request for feature

2003-12-02 Thread Burzin Sumariwalla
I actually noticed ramp up to the holiday, followed by a large increase over the holiday weekend. The most popular single spam involved a city in France and a hotel chain. This even beat out the ever popular enhancement of body parts category. Burzin At 12:09 PM 12/2/2003, you wrote: BTW,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH

2003-12-02 Thread Bill Landry
Matt, I was noticing that you are using END in this file. How is that feature enabled? When I add END to any of my files, it seems that JunkMail just skips the entire files. Is there something that you need to add to the global.cfg to enable this filter feature? Bill - Original Message

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with

2003-12-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
newbieOooh! Scott, how about you *just* implement in the next interim full regexp text processing like product X along with MIME decoding like product Y, MIME error handling like product Z, with a whole new filtering grammar that lets us specify the layer of decoding at which the text filter line

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Starts with

2003-12-02 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
ROLLING EYES Of course, I have to take blame for this since I started the thread. NOT! John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Bramble
Bill, I haven't seen an absolute confirmation that this functionality works yet as I haven't yet integrated this filter into my system using the new code. The END functionality though is something that Scott said he would include along with MAXWEIGHT, MINWEIGHT, SKIPIFWEIGHT, and some

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH

2003-12-02 Thread Frederick Samarelli
MINWEIGHT How does that work? - Original Message - From: Bill Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH Thanks Matt, I was able to accomplish what I wanted using MINWEIGHT. Bill -

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Bramble
Fred, It's probably best to go back and reference the follow up posts to that thread. This isn't going to be anywhere near as common as MAXWEIGHT, but it provides the same sort of functionality for negative weighted tests (limits total scoring and ends processing of a filter when that

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BODY STARTSWITH

2003-12-02 Thread Bill Landry
I use it the exact opposite to MAXWEIGHT, which allows me to set a minimum weight that I do not want a filter weight to go below. For example: MINWEIGHT-5 will tell JunkMail not to apply a weight lower then -5 to the message, even if the actual weight is lower then -5. HTH, Bill -

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Gufler Markus
I just set up spamchk and was wondering if anyone can share some fine-tuning info with me? Updated keyword lists and such? I tried subscribing to their list but all I get back is an Invalid Syntax email from their mail server. hmm... I've tried to un- and the subscribe without any

[Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT possible bug?

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Bramble
Scott, Ok, I have finally gotten around to modifying my filters to use some of the new features. It definitely is having an impact on my processor from what I can see. I think I have uncovered a bug or bugs though in terms of how thresholds are calculated and how it affects processing and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What is this about ??

2003-12-02 Thread David Barrett
Also it seems that declude is claiming that 216.204.154.7 has no MX. DnsStuff.com reports: Actually, that's a server of yours, which you've let Declude JunkMail know about. How do I tell it not to know about it and my web servers as well? So they dont fail the MX test. This stops some mail from

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] What is this about ??

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
Also it seems that declude is claiming that 216.204.154.7 has no MX. DnsStuff.com reports: Actually, that's a server of yours, which you've let Declude JunkMail know about. How do I tell it not to know about it and my web servers as well? So they dont fail the MX test. That's not the problem --

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Robertson
Markus wrote: hmm... I've tried to un- and the subscribe without any problem. Thats because you're using the link that works :-O. Go to the installation instructions here http://www.spamchk.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2 And try the subscribe link on that page. You'll get a

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamchk fine tuning?

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Robertson
A couple of posters offered some help on this, where I don't have the original messages (they're at home and I'm at work). The FP rate is fairly heavy on spamchk so far... including bagging about half of the traffic on this list today. I'm sure its something easily fixed. I'd love to see a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT possible bug?

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
Ok, I have finally gotten around to modifying my filters to use some of the new features. It definitely is having an impact on my processor from what I can see. I think I have uncovered a bug or bugs though in terms of how thresholds are calculated and how it affects processing and logging.

[Declude.JunkMail] ATTACH action question

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Robertson
I'm using the attach action rather than holding, bouncing etc. Every month I prepare a report for my customers that tells them how much mail got delivered, how much got blocked etc. If an item is given an ATTACH action, does Imail ever see it? Does Declude attach and deliver directly?

[Declude.JunkMail] My External Plus Program

2003-12-02 Thread Bill Morgan
Hi, I have a per-user external plus program that I wrote that is very handy to whitelist or blacklist based on e-mail addresses or subject lines. The program is very small (54K) and in my case, does not add any processing time to message delivery. If you would like to take a look or give it a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ATTACH action question

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Robertson
Thanks for the clarification, Scott. Cheers, -- --- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com --- -- --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT possible bug?

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Bramble
Scott, I was on 1.76i28 but upgraded as suggested, and I was able to verify that the filter is now hit when the score is within the difference in points from the SKIPIFWEIGHT and it is logged. I'm not totally sure if this perfectly represents the original issue, though I tried to mimic the

[Declude.JunkMail] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Ivey
Greetings, I have been having a little problem since about 2:00 pm yesterday afternoon. I noticed that the spool directory was a little large. I then cleaned out the spool. However it started building back up immediately and I noticed that now, I am constantly getting errors in both my

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Virus] Problems with Errors in Logs

2003-12-02 Thread R. Scott Perry
I am constantly getting errors in both my declude junkmail and declude antivirus logs. What errors? As soon as I delete the logs, they appear again with more errors. Unfortunately, deleting the log files won't fix a problem. Is your hard drive full? Are you processing a much higher volume of

[Declude.JunkMail] Spammers unleash e-mail worm

2003-12-02 Thread Bill Landry
Here we go again: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNewsstoryID=3924996section=news Bill --- [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 unsubscribe, just send an E-mail

[Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild

2003-12-02 Thread Richard Farris
A friend of mine at Safe-t.net in Mt. Vernon Ohio just called me and said his spool in Imail is loading up and holding all messages..He thinks the Declude has stopped working...Imail tech support not available.. He has rebooted the server several times with no luck.. Declude log is not showing

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild

2003-12-02 Thread Glenn Brooks
possible dns not resolvingtry changing DNS in Imail and restart smtpworks for mine sometimes... gb At 12:06 AM 12/3/2003 -0600, you wrote: A friend of mine at Safe-t.net in Mt. Vernon Ohio just called me and said his spool in Imail is loading up and holding all messages..He thinks the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild

2003-12-02 Thread Glen Harvy
Give him a ring and tell him to uninstall declude. Only takes a second or two. I'd ring him but it would be a very very expensive call :-) _ Glen Harvy Aquarius Communications for all your Internet Needs. Phone 9977 3788 Fax 9977 3844 -Original

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild

2003-12-02 Thread Dave Doherty
He's OK. - Original Message - From: Richard Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:06 AM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild A friend of mine at Safe-t.net in Mt. Vernon Ohio just called me and said his spool in Imail is loading

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Server Gone Wild

2003-12-02 Thread Brian T
This is Brian Thompson with an update: Mail server appears to be back up and running. Thanks for all the help. Still don't know what the problem was, but my declude log shows no entries from 4:23 pm until 11:58 pm. - Original Message - From: Glen Harvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: