RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Don't know about the proper syntax for baregrep, but for the standard UNIX grep for Win32, the following would give you an accurate count: grep -c Final.*828931 c:\imail\declude\sniffer\logfile.log Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Agree wholeheartedly! Bill From: Dean Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:18 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! You know, I just don't get where all of the doom and gloom comes from. Yes, it

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Thomas, if your company cannot afford the rather small monetary increase, and you are running that close to the edge, then maybe you should not be in business. I for one am glad to hear the SNF is adding resources and has mapped out a list of future feature enhancements. Please quit your

RE: [sniffer] Large amounts of spam still getting through

2005-10-14 Thread Landry William
We do exactly this at our Postfix gateways, it's called greylisting. See http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/. You may want to consider setting up a gateway in front of your IMail server that supports greylisting. Bill -Original Message- From: Mike Nice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Have you checked out ImailSnifferUpdateTools.zip? It contains detailed instructions and can be downloaded from http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.html Bill From: Glenn \ WCNet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:43 PMTo:

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Strange, the script does not leave any temp files in my spool directory. Bill -Original Message- From: George Kulman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:55 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates There seemed to be a problem

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Did you happen to comment out or not change either of the following variables in your script to point to the correct drive\directory paths?: SET SnifferDrive=c: SET SnifferDir=c:\imail\declude\sniffer Which cause the calls to these variables later in the script's execution to fail:

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
My only suggestion for QM is to disable DNS Cache and Failed Domain Skipping, both of these caused problems for me in the early 8.xx versions, so I have just left them off. As far a the thread settings, that really depends on how many messages you process per day. You may find some guidance in

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
Hmmm, a day and a half later this shows up on the list...??? Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:51 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert... My only suggestion for QM is to disable DNS Cache and Failed Domain

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
Well, after a second look (reviewing the headers), it looks like the message got hung-up in the convoluted mess of internal mail gateways that Siemens maintains (which I have no control over). Sorry for the noise...! Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Monday, January

RE: [sniffer] Weak rule removal work...

2005-01-04 Thread Landry William
Thanks Pete, these are the kind of proactive notification I wish some of our other vendors followed. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:35 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Weak rule removal work...

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase ktk82hrr

2005-01-04 Thread Landry William
Yep, just checked mine rulebase too, went from 17mb to just under 25mb. Things still appear to be functioning okay. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:49 PM To: Computer House Support Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase

RE: [sniffer] Hello - New to sniffer

2004-12-30 Thread Landry William
Bennie, I will send you my updated scripts and a couple of necessary open-source utilities off-list (hopefully you can receive zipped executable files - let me know if you don't receive my off-list message). Also, as Pete mentioned, we have had some discussion on the list the past couple of days

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Landry William
will also continue to receive the notifications where ever you were getting them before. Woody Fussell Wilbur Smith Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:08 PM To: 'sniffer@SortMonster.com

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Landry William
: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions I agree on the simplicity, just thought it would be a bonus not to involve sortmonster with the address changes. Woody -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Wednesday, December 29

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Attached is an updated instructions file to fix some typos and missed information. I'll send out another update after receiving feedback from others. Bill --- This message and any included attachments are from

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Message Thanks for all of the suggestions, Matt. See my comments below: -Original Message-From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:17 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: Re: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructionsBill,I

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Message John, since you have not implemented a trigger program alias yet, would you be willing to test the setup instructions and provide feedback? Bill -Original Message-From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:30 PMTo:

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Landry William sniffer@SortMonster.comSent: Mon Dec 27 12:36:06 2004Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer UpdatesOn Monday, December 27, 2004, 12:46:19 PM, Landry wrote:LW Are folks taking advantage of the "wget" c

RE: [sniffer] Conditional Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
Curl is an awesome application that we also use for automating downloads. Wget also supports conditional downloads based on time/date stamp when using the -N switch. In ether case, please also use the compression support built into each application, the sniffer rulebase files can be compressed

RE: [sniffer] Change in coding policies

2004-12-22 Thread Landry William
Title: Message -Original Message-From: Chris Ulrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] OK, being a new (and very happy) customer ... For example, we will be introducing rules that watch for bounces that contain large numbers of failed addresses - indicating a probable dictionary attack /

[sniffer] Sniffer rulebase download server down?

2004-12-03 Thread Landry William
Title: Sniffer rulebase download server down? Pete, I am no longer able to download my rulebase files on either of our Sniffer servers. When I execute my download script, I immediately get: gzip: LicenseID.new.gz: unexpected end of file Is the rulebase download server down? Thanks for

RE: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version?

2004-11-19 Thread Landry William
So far so good... Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version? Hello Sniffer Folks, I am curious to know how many folks have been

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 02:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool Hmmm, that's strange, since I use SrvAny, as well. And it has worked with all Sniffer updates since the first persistent version

RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137890 for simplified instructions. Bill -Original Message- From: Andy Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:26 AM To: 'Keith Johnson' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup Hi Keith, It's

RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup See http://support.microsoft.com

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-10-31 Thread Landry William
Hmmm, that's strange, since I use SrvAny, as well. And it has worked with all Sniffer updates since the first persistent version was released. Also, my Parameters registry entry does not look anything like yours: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sniffer\Parameters]

RE: [sniffer] Rulebase download script

2004-10-30 Thread Landry William
Sure, executing the script via the e-mail notification would work fine. However, in that case you will not really need to test that the rulebase file has changed, so you could remove the -N switch from the wget line. Bill -Original Message- From: Sheldon Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-28 Thread Landry William
Here is what I've been using for several months now, compiled from the original Sniffer autosnf.cmd file and suggestions found on this list: = rem First, get the updated rules file from the web site. wget -N http://www.sortmonster.net/Sniffer/Updates/rulebase.snf -O rulebase.new.gz

RE: Re[5]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release

2004-10-28 Thread Landry William
It should be included in the zip/gzip file you downloaded. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:28 PM To: Pete McNeil Subject: Re[5]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release Hi, I have no .cfg in the sniffer

RE: [sniffer] New test version 2-3.0i7

2004-10-18 Thread Landry William
This is from Pete's message of 10/14/2004, announcing Version 2-3.0i5 to the Sniffer list: MDaemon users should see a significant improvement in performance. Please let me know if this is true. The reason is that since most MDaemon system integrate Message Sniffer through the content

RE: [sniffer] New beta v2-3.0i4

2004-10-12 Thread Landry William
It works for me. Bill -Original Message- From: Frederick Samarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] New beta v2-3.0i4 Link not working - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-19 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've actually been thinking very strongly of reorganizing the rule group IDs recently. Especially in light of the new changes we've made with robots et al. The accuracy of the Experimental IP group has gone up considerably -

[sniffer] Sniffer misses NIGERIAN type spams

2004-09-19 Thread Landry William
Title: Sniffer misses NIGERIAN type spams Pete, I am wondering why Sniffer has such a problem detecting the so-called NIGERIAN types of spam. It seems that I have been forwarding several of them daily to the spam@ address for weeks, but Sniffer still consistently misses them. There must be

[sniffer] Increase in FPs

2004-09-15 Thread Landry William
Title: Increase in FPs I have seen a fairly substantial increase on false positives today. I have submitted several FPs to the false@ address. Has there been a big change in the core rulebase today? I wouldn't think that upgrading to the new code this morning would cause this, would it? Bill

RE: [sniffer] Increase in FPs

2004-09-15 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LW I have seen a fairly substantial increase on false positives today.  LW I have submitted several FPs to the false@ address.  Has there been LW a big change in the core rulebase today?  I wouldn't think that LW upgrading to

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

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: [sniffer] Spam submissions

2004-07-28 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LW Pete, I put together a little script that modifies the Q*.SMD file LW for identified spam messages that were held in my spam directory, LW but were not tagged by Sniffer, and can forward a copy of these LW messages to your

RE: [sniffer] Declude configuration

2004-06-14 Thread Landry William
Here is a sample of what I use: = SNIFFER-TRAVEL external 047 M:\IMail\Declude\TPA\Sniffer\YourLicenseID.exe YourAuthCode 05 0 SNIFFER-INSURANCE external 048 M:\IMail\Declude\TPA\Sniffer\YourLicenseID.exe YourAuthCode 10 0 SNIFFER-AV-PUSH external 049

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
Pete, am I correct in assuming that the configuration file (snfrv2r3.cfg) should also be renamed for your license ID, as well? Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
Thanks Pete! One other question. I am now downloading my rulebase files as .gz files (much faster downloads now). Are you prepared to receive our log file uploads either zipped or gzipped? Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
It seems to be working fine for me. I have it running as a service, per Matt's instructions using the W2K resource kit files, and it has been running fine all day. Bill -Original Message- From: Frederick Samarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! I am having problems getting it started from the command prompt. - Original Message - From: Landry William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
! When I do it the window pop-up is blank - Original Message - From: Landry William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:59 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! Fredrick, I stopped the Sniffer service and tested from

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! Is this by design - Original Message - From: Landry William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:08 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official

RE: [sniffer] F-Prot and netsky

2004-02-24 Thread Landry William
Title: Message ClamAV works very well, and is lightening fast when run daemonized (clamd).It's also hard to beat the price! I run is along with F-Prot and McAfee's uvscan, and Clam seems to keep up with the commercial scanners as far as virus updates. Bill -Original