No, now since these docs will ultimately be the finished docs, changes are being integrated where they belong with reference to topic. I will call your attention to the pertinent topics or settings that were changed. On 12/30/02 12:07pm you wrote... >Brian, are new items in the documents always added at the bottom? > >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]
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