[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
We zip ours nightly and save for 30 days just to make sure we don't miss anything in reviewing the hold queue. In practice, a week may be enough, but two is probably preferable. Darin. - Original Message - From: "Phillip Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Message Sniffer Community" Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:00 PM Subject: [sniffer] Re: New purchase question Roger, Thanks for the info, that is a good way to deal with the mass spam storage. Do you ever have the requirement to go back through the SPAM that you have saved? How long do you save it and do you just delete it after a certain date? How do your clients ask you or what do you do to retrieve a possible real message that might have been considered spam? If sniffer never makes a false positive I guess it is no big deal just to delete the spam, but on the rare chance there are false positives I would sure hate to delete an important message. This mail server supports about 60 domains so having all of the spam in one folder is a bit of a mess. VOPMAIL allows for individual mailbox agents so I guess somehow I could have a bat file for each user or pass parameters to a bat file, but I hate to think about that one. Going through each mailbox on the server to enter the agent commands will be a real pain timewise. Wondering what other VOPMAIL users do out there if there are any of us left. Phil At 12:14 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: >This is how I do it, although there may be better ways. > >I create a scheduled task to run a batch file called spam.cmd that >runs from within the spam folder. This copies the spam caught that >day into a dated folder. That way I can delete old spam, and keep >the folder organized. This seems to work well, with imail, but if >there are probably better ways out there. > >Here is my batch file > >REM This portion gets the date >FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO ( > SET MM=%%F > SET DD=%%G > SET =%%H >) > >REM This portion creates a folder with todays date MM-DD- >mkdir %MM%-%DD%-%% > >REM moves the current files into the dated folder. >move *.smd .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ >move *.GSE .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ > >Hope thats of help. > >Roger # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
I do keep the files just in case something gets flagged and a client asks me to look. As a single domain I imagine that this is easier to deal with. I keep my spam folders up to a month, but I don't script the delete I just manually remove them any time I happen to be in the folder. So I tend to have about two months worth. If my clients suspect that an email is getting flagged in error, they just email me with the address. Since we are a smaller business that works well. Usually I just do a windows search, but am tempted to try the grep command for windows, too search threw the archive. Roger Phillip Cohen wrote: Roger, Thanks for the info, that is a good way to deal with the mass spam storage. Do you ever have the requirement to go back through the SPAM that you have saved? How long do you save it and do you just delete it after a certain date? How do your clients ask you or what do you do to retrieve a possible real message that might have been considered spam? If sniffer never makes a false positive I guess it is no big deal just to delete the spam, but on the rare chance there are false positives I would sure hate to delete an important message. This mail server supports about 60 domains so having all of the spam in one folder is a bit of a mess. VOPMAIL allows for individual mailbox agents so I guess somehow I could have a bat file for each user or pass parameters to a bat file, but I hate to think about that one. Going through each mailbox on the server to enter the agent commands will be a real pain timewise. Wondering what other VOPMAIL users do out there if there are any of us left. Phil At 12:14 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: This is how I do it, although there may be better ways. I create a scheduled task to run a batch file called spam.cmd that runs from within the spam folder. This copies the spam caught that day into a dated folder. That way I can delete old spam, and keep the folder organized. This seems to work well, with imail, but if there are probably better ways out there. Here is my batch file REM This portion gets the date FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO ( SET MM=%%F SET DD=%%G SET =%%H ) REM This portion creates a folder with todays date MM-DD- mkdir %MM%-%DD%-%% REM moves the current files into the dated folder. move *.smd .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ move *.GSE .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ Hope thats of help. Roger # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
Hello Phillip, Thursday, June 15, 2006, 5:00:15 PM, you wrote: > This mail server supports about 60 domains so having all of the spam > in one folder is a bit of a mess. VOPMAIL allows for individual > mailbox agents so I guess somehow I could have a bat file for each > user or pass parameters to a bat file, but I hate to think about that > one. Going through each mailbox on the server to enter the agent > commands will be a real pain timewise. Just to answer your previous question on this approach - would it work with a persistent instance. Yes. The client instance called by the localized bat file would keep track of that specific message - the persistent (server) instance would do the scanning and send the result back to the client instance - thus preserving the context. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
Roger, Thanks for the info, that is a good way to deal with the mass spam storage. Do you ever have the requirement to go back through the SPAM that you have saved? How long do you save it and do you just delete it after a certain date? How do your clients ask you or what do you do to retrieve a possible real message that might have been considered spam? If sniffer never makes a false positive I guess it is no big deal just to delete the spam, but on the rare chance there are false positives I would sure hate to delete an important message. This mail server supports about 60 domains so having all of the spam in one folder is a bit of a mess. VOPMAIL allows for individual mailbox agents so I guess somehow I could have a bat file for each user or pass parameters to a bat file, but I hate to think about that one. Going through each mailbox on the server to enter the agent commands will be a real pain timewise. Wondering what other VOPMAIL users do out there if there are any of us left. Phil At 12:14 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: This is how I do it, although there may be better ways. I create a scheduled task to run a batch file called spam.cmd that runs from within the spam folder. This copies the spam caught that day into a dated folder. That way I can delete old spam, and keep the folder organized. This seems to work well, with imail, but if there are probably better ways out there. Here is my batch file REM This portion gets the date FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO ( SET MM=%%F SET DD=%%G SET =%%H ) REM This portion creates a folder with todays date MM-DD- mkdir %MM%-%DD%-%% REM moves the current files into the dated folder. move *.smd .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ move *.GSE .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ Hope thats of help. Roger # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
You could do something like this: arj.exe m -c -i -h#MMDD-hh-mm-ss archive\spam\spam.arj spam-offline\*.* This would create a named archive of each day .. compressed text doesn't take much space, so you can keep it around for a long time .. Jonathan At 03:02 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: This is how I do it, although there may be better ways. I create a scheduled task to run a batch file called spam.cmd that runs from within the spam folder. This copies the spam caught that day into a dated folder. That way I can delete old spam, and keep the folder organized. This seems to work well, with imail, but if there are probably better ways out there. Here is my batch file REM This portion gets the date FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO ( SET MM=%%F SET DD=%%G SET =%%H ) REM This portion creates a folder with todays date MM-DD- mkdir %MM%-%DD%-%% REM moves the current files into the dated folder. move *.smd .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ move *.GSE .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ Hope thats of help. Roger Phillip Cohen wrote: I am looking at purchasing Sniffer to run on our old VOPMAIL server. I have had the demo running and it seems to do an ok job. My question is how all of you out there handle the SPAM box. In the demo all of the spam goes to a general spam directory. This is pretty messy and almost impossible to go through to find out if something got caught that shouldn't have. Is it possible to have a separate bat file for each domain that keeps the spam in a domain by domain spam box? Next is it possible to do it on a mailbox by mailbox basis so they can look through the spam they get? If I can have separate batch files will this work in persistent mode? What do you folks do with the spam that is removed? Does the user have any access to it and how? Thanks, Phil # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] Re: New purchase question
This is how I do it, although there may be better ways. I create a scheduled task to run a batch file called spam.cmd that runs from within the spam folder. This copies the spam caught that day into a dated folder. That way I can delete old spam, and keep the folder organized. This seems to work well, with imail, but if there are probably better ways out there. Here is my batch file REM This portion gets the date FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO ( SET MM=%%F SET DD=%%G SET =%%H ) REM This portion creates a folder with todays date MM-DD- mkdir %MM%-%DD%-%% REM moves the current files into the dated folder. move *.smd .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ move *.GSE .\%MM%-%DD%-%%\ Hope thats of help. Roger Phillip Cohen wrote: I am looking at purchasing Sniffer to run on our old VOPMAIL server. I have had the demo running and it seems to do an ok job. My question is how all of you out there handle the SPAM box. In the demo all of the spam goes to a general spam directory. This is pretty messy and almost impossible to go through to find out if something got caught that shouldn't have. Is it possible to have a separate bat file for each domain that keeps the spam in a domain by domain spam box? Next is it possible to do it on a mailbox by mailbox basis so they can look through the spam they get? If I can have separate batch files will this work in persistent mode? What do you folks do with the spam that is removed? Does the user have any access to it and how? Thanks, Phil # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[sniffer] New purchase question
I am looking at purchasing Sniffer to run on our old VOPMAIL server. I have had the demo running and it seems to do an ok job. My question is how all of you out there handle the SPAM box. In the demo all of the spam goes to a general spam directory. This is pretty messy and almost impossible to go through to find out if something got caught that shouldn't have. Is it possible to have a separate bat file for each domain that keeps the spam in a domain by domain spam box? Next is it possible to do it on a mailbox by mailbox basis so they can look through the spam they get? If I can have separate batch files will this work in persistent mode? What do you folks do with the spam that is removed? Does the user have any access to it and how? Thanks, Phil # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>