My take on the Gray test was that hits there would not generally reach a strict standard of spam, but to those that consider most if not all advertising in E-mail to be spam, then blocking based on that would be good. Lots of what I consider to be legitimate ads land in that category, probably more than half the hits.

I think this classification really just gives the admin the control over how strict it is instead of it just being a less reliable test that is scored lower. Naturally, that may not matter in a particular setup, but it matters in mine because this is a lot of the stuff that I am trying to pass.

Matt



Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

Nick:

Here's an example from my global.cfg to test the very-generous demo setup of Sniffer:

# It provides content inspection. See www.sortmonster.com
#Note that the only value normally returned for our non-registered version is 0=clean and 63=bad
SNIFFER external nonzero "D:\MailSniffer\sniffer2.exe xnk05x5vmipeaof7" 8 0


#Malware & Scumware Greetings - Rules associated with greeting exe's where you agree to spam for them. Rules associated
#with dangerous message content or known virii. NOTE: this group is not intended as a virus scanner!... but it is intended
#to capture those that can be obviously spotted in order to enhance virus scanning capabilities on some systems... for example,
#our updates _may_ be faster in some cases provided we hear about a filterable virus/worm early enough.
SNIFFERMALWARE external 55 "D:\MailSniffer\sniffer2.exe xnk05x5vmipeaof7" 99 0


#Grey Hosting - Domains and Tracking links used by bulk hosters that send legit as well as reported spam content.
#chtah etc... Block first, white-rule later. We don't go out and hunt these hosters down, rather when a message is reported
#to us as spam if the links/sources etc... are from a grey hosting facility then we _may_ create a generalized rule for that
#spam within this group. Some rules end up in this group after repeated experiences with them which lead us to the "grey hosting" conclusion. SNIFFERGREY external 60 "D:\MailSniffer\sniffer2.exe xnk05x5vmipeaof7" 3 0


You would of course set the weights to whatever you like. You would also need the appropriate action settings in your global.cfg and/or $default$.junkmail files, e.g:

SNIFFER WARN
SNIFFERMALWARE WARN
SNIFFERGREY WARN


I got this information from the sortmonster.com support pages, plus, Pete McNeil's previous posts in this forum.

Andrew 8)

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Pete -


From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 >One thing you should definitely do with sniffer is to weight group 60
 >lower than the others. Group 60 is the gray hosting group which will
 >cause many false positives if not countered with appropriate white
 >rules. If you make this adjustment you should see very few false
 >positives.

I would if I knew how..; actually I do not know what "Group 60 " is or better said how I could score differently. Is it because I am only uing the demo setup?

Note: - I am *very* happy with Sniffer. Especially since I am only using the demo. Thanks for making it available!

-Nick Hayer


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