Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MyDoom / Novarg

2004-01-28 Thread Mike K
Search Google and you'll see that many others seem to think they're viri only too. And of the legit zips I examined on my system they don't have those sequences. Irregardless I block all executable attachments anyways at my mx. This was strictly for the ones that are bypassing my mx records and

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] evaluating declude

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Jim, I think everyone here will agree that Declude is largely a hands-on product, at least until you get it tweaked right. I used to fool around with it almost daily, although in recent weeks this tinkering is much less necessary thanks to the hard work and generosity of some other list members

[Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist questions

2004-01-28 Thread John Carter
Does WHITELISTFILE allow entries for IP, TODOMAIN, and/or ANYWHERE whitelisting? Or are only from addresses/domains allowed? If it doesn't, is there conflict in having some WHITELIST IP and WHITELIST TODMAIN entries in the global.cfg and a WHITELISTFILE entry in the $default$.junkmail? BTW, have

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist questions

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
Does WHITELISTFILE allow entries for IP, TODOMAIN, and/or ANYWHERE whitelisting? Or are only from addresses/domains allowed? Only from addresses are currently allowed. If it doesn't, is there conflict in having some WHITELIST IP and WHITELIST TODMAIN entries in the global.cfg and a WHITELISTFILE

[Declude.JunkMail] Test order of execution? Time taken per test?

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Currently I have my ip4r tests running first, then the rhsbl's, then the badheaders, base64, comments (etc.) tests. Then come the fromfiles and last come the filters. Is there a more efficient way to order this, or do I have it wired, more or less? The way its set up now the filters often go

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Test order of execution? Time taken per test?

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
Currently I have my ip4r tests running first, then the rhsbl's, then the badheaders, base64, comments (etc.) tests. Then come the fromfiles and last come the filters. Do you mean that is the order they are listed in in one of your config files? That will not affect the order they are run in.

[Declude.JunkMail] Hey Scott - Here's a feature request

2004-01-28 Thread Greg Foulks
Scott, I found this website and thought that it would be really cool if you guys could write a program like this challenge/response that worked with Declude spam. I would absolutely pay for it! http://about.mailblocks.com/features/challenge.aspx Greg --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hey Scott - Here's a feature request

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
The challenge/response has some fundamental problems. These include auto notifications, newsletters, automated website ordering acknowledgments and so forth. I think the consensus is it is not acceptable to use. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Hey Scott - Here's a feature request

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
I found this website and thought that it would be really cool if you guys could write a program like this challenge/response that worked with Declude spam. I would absolutely pay for it! http://about.mailblocks.com/features/challenge.aspx We actually started work on this a while back, but

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hey Scott - Here's a feature request

2004-01-28 Thread Kami Razvan
Greg: Just one word... NO Please don't do it and don't ask for it. C/R systems, in my opinion, will soon kill online commerce - either automatic receipts have to be changed or C/R system has to go. At our company we started blocking EarthLink C/R systems.. Imagine getting 500+ C/R's from people

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I think the consensus is it is not acceptable Then let mine be the only opposing voice. I think because of Declude's weight features, Challenge/Response would be a very valuable and very usable option. Any messages with LOW weight pass. This addresses your concern of breaking

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Test order of execution? Time taken per test?

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Yes, that's the order they are in in global.cfg I had totally forgotten about running those tests in parallel. Thx for the info! Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Greg Foulks
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I like the concept I also agree with all of con's that have presented. It would be nice if there was someway we could automate the whitelist. What about this spin? What if Declude took the email address that the internal user was sending to and put it

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
That is what AutoWhite for Declude does. However, that does not lesson any of the problems with C/R software. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Foulks

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Charles Frolick
I can see it as a viable option for grey items using weighting, but it still doesn't answer the licensing problem. You could also use the existing action of bounce (I know it has changed), just let them know that the mail is rejected, or you can use attach. There are options that already exist in

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Sanford Whiteman
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I like the concept I also agree with all of con's that have presented. It would be nice if there was someway we could automate the whitelist. You may want tolookatJohnT.'sAutoWhite

[Declude.JunkMail] BOUNCE action

2004-01-28 Thread Greg Foulks
So if I wanted to BOUNCE after a certain weight is there a way to incorporate the FORGED check that Declude viruses uses. This way if the return address is forged the bounce is not sent out. Greg --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] BOUNCE action

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
If a messages is quarantined or deleted by Declude Virus, JunkMail will never see it. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Foulks Sent: Wednesday, January

[Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo

2004-01-28 Thread TC Online Support
What are the best test weights to use for scanning e-mails from AOL and Yahoo. We are catching many valid e-mails and many SPAM e-mails are going through. We have been getting many complaints from customers about blocking valid e-mails that we have been temporarily whitelisted the domains.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BOUNCE action

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
How does AUTOFORGE work? How does it know that the senders email address is forged? That is a Declude Virus option that checks with a server here to see if the virus that was detected is a forging virus. Since spam caught by Declude JunkMail does not contain a virus, it is does not apply to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] BOUNCE action

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
It is only used in Virus when a virus is found that is known to forge via the virus.cfg file listing FORGINGVIRUS. Please review the virus manual for more information. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BOUNCE action

2004-01-28 Thread Greg Foulks
Let me rephrase... How does AUTOFORGE work? How does it know that the senders email address is forged? Greg John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: If a messages is quarantined or deleted by Declude Virus, JunkMail will never see it. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo

2004-01-28 Thread Nick Hayer
Would you mind posting your global.cfg? Redact whatever you want private. With that maybe some good suggestions can be made -Nick Hayer From: TC Online Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.JunkMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo

2004-01-28 Thread TC Online Support
This is our global.cfg file. Isaias Hernandez -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo Would you mind

[Declude.JunkMail] DUMBAVFILTER ip4r ?

2004-01-28 Thread Markus Gufler
I've no experience on setting up a ip4r list but maybe it's an idea to create a list of IP-Adresses that are known to send out virus-warnings back to forged recipients. So we have a chance to filter out part of this unnecessary NDRs and Virus warnings with declude junkmail. Such a system

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DUMBAVFILTER ip4r ?

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
I've no experience on setting up a ip4r list but maybe it's an idea to create a list of IP-Adresses that are known to send out virus-warnings back to forged recipients. So we have a chance to filter out part of this unnecessary NDRs and Virus warnings with declude junkmail. FIVETENKLEZ does

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DUMBAVFILTER ip4r ?

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
Great idea Markus. Thanks for stepping forward to set it up and host it. ;-) John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Gufler Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo

2004-01-28 Thread Chuck Schick
Isaias: You did not say what weights you hold and delete on. But here are a few things. You need to really clean up your global.cfg file 1.) osirusoft.com is dead I believe - you may want to replace these with SORBs 2.) Monkeys.com is also dead 3.) Wirehub is also dead. 4.) IPNOTINMX should be

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Test for SPAM from AOL, Yahoo

2004-01-28 Thread Nick Hayer
Isaias, I suggest you start with a fresh global cfg.. many tests you have listed are now dead. http://www.declude.com/Release/177/GLOBAL.CFG [I am assuming you are running the latest beta] Add in your filters that you had created and I believe you will see a great improvement.

[Declude.JunkMail] Rbl

2004-01-28 Thread Kurt McClain
All mail from our domain is failing with the following message: X-RBL-Warning: DSN: Not supporting null originator (DSN) how do I get this cleaned up. Our server is accepting null senders?? Kurt --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

[Declude.JunkMail] Log File

2004-01-28 Thread Keith Johnson
What would cause extra CR in the middle of a line in the Virus or Declude log files or incomplete line entries? We have a Parser that runs through to pull out info, however, at times it will encounter the above and have to skip the entries. Thanks for the info. Keith --- [This E-mail was

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DUMBAVFILTER ip4r ?

2004-01-28 Thread Matt
I've been building a content filter for this myself, the only problem is that my friends don't tend to get viruses and therefore I don't tend to get any sent directly to my account. The way that I am dealing with this is giving any positive identifiers a weight equal to our hold weight so

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Rbl

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
All mail from our domain is failing with the following message: X-RBL-Warning: DSN: Not supporting null originator (DSN) how do I get this cleaned up. Our server is accepting null senders?? That test is not run in real time (as it would be wasteful of resources). You can go to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Log File

2004-01-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
What would cause extra CR in the middle of a line in the Virus or Declude log files or incomplete line entries? We have a Parser that runs through to pull out info, however, at times it will encounter the above and have to skip the entries. Thanks for the info. That would depend on what log

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Rbl

2004-01-28 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/detail.php?domain=lakesnet.netsubmitted=1 070148902table=dsn This is why, although I was able to send to your postmaster account with a null sender from the command line. - Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Todd Holt
Is it true that AutoWhite only works on WebMail? Could someone elaborate on the AutoWhite functionality, because I must have missed something to think would cover these C/R issues. I do like the idea of C/R only for grey area messages. This would virtually eliminate the complaints of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
There are 2 different items. AUTOWHITELIST is a Declude feature that works with a users address list that is kept in Web Messaging. AutoWhite for Declude is an external program that is designed for Declude JunkMail as an external test. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Challenge/Response with Declude

2004-01-28 Thread Matt
Todd, Two things. 1) AutoWhite != AUTOWHITELIST ON 2) You don't want to have an auto-responder that handles messages that might come from forged addresses. I think the bottom line here is that although you don't mean to do this, C/R would create a problem for other administrators that are

[Declude.JunkMail] Mydoom.b

2004-01-28 Thread Jeff Kratka
When I have gone and checked my F-Prot to see if the most recent version of Mydoom is covered with the most recent virus definitions it only shows Mydoom.a in the virus list. Is there another way to find out if the definitions are fully up to date? I have the DOS version and it is update every

[Declude.JunkMail] Strange message not marked as SPAM:

2004-01-28 Thread Rick Baranowski
Wanted to see if anybody could make any sense of this email that came through. It had no subject, no from and no recipient. We have Declude set to mark the subject with SPAM: if a weight of 20 is reached. Didn't mark it at all. We have been received a couple of these over the last couple of weeks.