Also, just to double check, the noxmail.exe has yesterday's date on it. John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:NoX-List- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Milburn > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NoXMail] New beta version posted > > > I posted a new beta version of No-X-Mail this morning at the following > address: > > http://www.noxmail.com/imail/noxbeta.zip > > I found a memory leak that was not terribly serious and did not occur on every > message received, but it could lead to system resource/memory reduction after > many thousands of messages. I would therefor recommend that you install this > update as soon as possible. Please check the docs referenced below FIRST > though. > > There have been a couple of other changes... > > The held message rejection notice features were changed. The SPAMMESSAGE > and > ADULTMESSAGE values have changed. There is now a re-done DEFAULT > (internally > generated) rejection message setting, a one line text setting and an external > file setting. > > Please see CONFIGURATION.PDF for details on the SPAMMESSAGE and > ADULTMESSAGE > values. You will probably need to change your SPAMMESSAGE and > ADULTMESSAGE > settings BEFORE installing the NOXMAIL.EXE file because they will act > differently. If you are using these values to send messages to users when > messages are held, then change these values to: > > ADULTMESSAGE DEFAULT > > SPAMMESSAGE DEFAULT > > Then see if the default messages are suitable and if they are not, you can > define your own. The default messages were re-done to make them more user > friendly. > > I also added the capability to have rejection messages for specified users to > sent to a defined administrator or supervisor (responsible person) instead of > the user. The defined 'responsible person' can decide if they should be > retrieved and delivered to the user. > > Please the section on "Special Whitelist Processing Commands" in the > WHITELISTS.PDF file for details on how this is done. > > There were a couple of other minor changes to the scoring methods, and an > experimental test was added (not yet documented) to check for some non-english > character set spams. > > You can add a penalty value by adding to your NOXMAIL.NOX file... > > NONENGLISH 2 (or whatever value you want) > > The message is then checked to see if characters are used that are typically > used in foreign languages and if there are enough of them, the NONENGLISH > penalty score you define will be added to the SPAMSCORE. > > I am also experimenting with some different mechanisms for detecting 'spams in > progress'. I have noticed that most of the spams that get through here come to > several accounts within a few minutes. Then 10 or 15 minutes later they may > come to a few more accounts in a different domain. A lot of them appear to be > done using legitimate mail accounts and have very few indicators of spam and > the Declude tests seldom indicate any problems either. A good example of these > are the Nigerian scams. While these do not account for a significant > percentage of all spam received, it is now sort of a challenge to me. So few > spams are getting through now that when even one comes in, it makes me mad > and > I want to figure out how to detect it! Of course, I could just work on a > 'mind-reader' program ;-) > > > -Brian > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Solid Oak Software] > > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nox-list%40mail.noxmail.com/ > Removal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @noxmail.com l.com --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Solid Oak Software] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nox-list%40mail.noxmail.com/ Removal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
