[sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Jorge Asch
Has something happened lately (in the last 24-48 hours). Normally, I get small amounts (less than 10 a day) of spam that fail to be detected by my combination of Message Sniffer and Spam Assasin (most of the times Message Sniffer is the one that get all the messages that Spam Assasin fail to det

Re: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 10:42:40 AM, Jorge wrote: JA> Has something happened lately (in the last 24-48 hours). Nothing significant that I can see except for a higher than usual spike in spam through the evening hours last night. JA> Normally, I get small amounts (less than 10 a day) of spam

RE: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
I have also noticed an increase in the amount of spam that got through, mainly on gatewayed domains. I did forward a bunch in the last 18 hours, hopefully that will help. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

Re[2]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 11:48:58 AM, John wrote: JTL> I have also noticed an increase in the amount of spam that got through, JTL> mainly on gatewayed domains. I did forward a bunch in the last 18 hours, JTL> hopefully that will help. What's interesting is that we're not seeing the increase i

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Computer House Support
To Pete, et al FYI, we monitor our mail sever and spam filtering pretty closely, and we have not noticed any increase in spam getting through lately. All seems normal here. Michael Stein Computer House www.computerhouse.com - Original Message - From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
By examples, you do mean names or types of client? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Pete McNeil > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:50 AM > To: John Tolmachoff (Lists) > Subje

Re[4]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 11:58:45 AM, Computer wrote: CHS> To Pete, et al CHS> FYI, we monitor our mail sever and spam filtering pretty closely, and we CHS> have not noticed any increase in spam getting through lately. All seems CHS> normal here. That news is helpful, good, and bad. Helpful

Re[4]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
Let's try both - we don't know what we're looking for yet. Feel free to send them off list if you wish. Thanks, _M On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 12:06:25 PM, John wrote: JTL> By examples, you do mean names or types of client? JTL> John Tolmachoff JTL> Engineer/Consultant/Owner JTL> eServices For Y

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
p7ehr11u20040729151948 D158b005f017cd629.SMD 203 0 Clean 0 0 0 146136 Here is the sniffer log file for the attached message that did not get caught. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

Re[4]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 12:21:53 PM, John wrote: JTL> p7ehr11u 20040729151948 D158b005f017cd629.SMD 203 0 JTL> Clean 0 0 0 146136 JTL> Here is the sniffer log file for the attached message that did not get JTL> caught. You may simply not have this rule yet

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Would the new attached fall under the same rule? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Pete McNeil > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:56 AM > To: John Tolmachoff (Lists) > Subject:

[sniffer] FIN File

2004-07-29 Thread Keith Johnson
I found a .fin file in my sniffer directory and didn't know if anyone knew what it was and how it is produced. It is dated several days ago. Thanks for the aid. Keith This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sort

RE: [sniffer] FIN File

2004-07-29 Thread Landry William
It's an orphan, you can safely delete it. Bill -Original Message- From: Keith Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] FIN File I found a .fin file in my sniffer directory and didn't know if anyone knew what it wa

Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 1:23:11 PM, John wrote: JTL> Would the new attached fall under the same rule? Yes. It looks like the same domain is involved. I've launched a compile of your rulebase - you should be updated very quickly. In this case it seems that you started receiving these a few da

Re: [sniffer] FIN File

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 1:28:45 PM, Keith wrote: KJ> I found a .fin file in my sniffer directory and didn't know if anyone KJ> knew what it was and how it is produced. It is dated several days ago. KJ> Thanks for the aid. An orphaned .FIN file represents a message scan that was completed by

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Should I continue to forward spam that is not caught then? I problem I have, is on the gatewayed domains, which are running Exchange, Exchange strips out the Header that Declude puts in, making it difficult to see what happened and caught by what tests. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner e

Re[8]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 2:52:07 PM, John wrote: JTL> Should I continue to forward spam that is not caught then? Always send spam that is not captured to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If these keep coming through even after your update then we need to hunt for why they are not being tagged... If you fin

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Landry William
That's strange, our Exchange server does not strip off any of the Declude headers. Bill -Original Message- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately) Should I

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Let me clarify. On the spam that is gotten through, but is to a non-existent user, which then Exchange creates a NDR and attaches the spam to it, of which I get a copy of the NDR, if I look at the headers of that spam message that is now attached to the NDR, the header lines for all other servers a

[sniffer] Reporting Spam

2004-07-29 Thread Tom Norton
Hi I have Alt-N MDaemon 7.1.2 Installed with Message Sniffer. I get any users who find that they have spam in their folder to move it to a public folder called 'Missed Spam'. How can I automatically get MDaemon to send these messages to SortMonster? Thanks Tom Norton Network Manager - Taunton

Re[8]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Let me clarify. On the spam that is gotten through, but is to a > non-existent user, which then Exchange creates a NDR and attaches > the spam to it, of which I get a copy of the NDR, if I look at the > headers of that spam message that is now attached to the NDR, the > header lines

RE: Re[8]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
That is besides the point. Any yes, I am going to be implementing that as soon as I have the time too. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman > Sent: Thursday,

Re: [sniffer] Reporting Spam

2004-07-29 Thread Jorge Asch
I have Alt-N MDaemon 7.1.2 Installed with Message Sniffer. I get any users who find that they have spam in their folder to move it to a public folder called 'Missed Spam'. You might want to ask this instead on the Alt-N's mailing lists... you don't have to be specific. Just ask if it's possi