What is everyone's opinion on bulk mailers like flowgo, gossipflash,
valoffers, quill? The joke lists, cell phone offers, travel offers, software
offers, etc.
The old saying one mans trash is anothers treasure comes to mind. While I as
an isp admin think it's trash, and optin is the only true
I have noticed that some people on this list filter emails for p o r n and
things of other nature. I am wanting to start filtering for such things
also. My fear is that I will catch a lot of legitimate emails in the
process. Does anyone have an example filter for this type of junk? Or any
I've been able to catch most porn by using the subject line filter in IMail's
rules.ima file. Most
porn spammers are pretty blatant about their subject matter. If your version of
JunkMail allows
filtering (searching for text strings), then catching the obvious dirty words would be
your starting
My current question goes in the opposite direction. I'm tempted to
blacklist
the entire IP range held by rackspace.com. It seems that every third item
in
my HOLD folder lately comes from an address in rackspace.
You would not want to blacklist Scott, would you? I think he said one time
one of
I am using a combination of adult senders list, simple filters and NoXMail.
The use of filters can be hard do to the mix/combination of words. Plus, the
senders themselves are smart, such as one sender that kept sending with the
word f * c k in the subject line, with out the spaces. Any one
Can you give some more details regarding the Adult sender's lists?
thanks
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter
Well, I did only say tempted. I have been pretty heavy handed knocking off
/24 blocks however.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
Sent: Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail]
Is the NOXMAIL an external test? If so where can I go to find information
about the product?
Thanks,
Kris McElroy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet Systems Engineer
Duracom, INC.
www.duracom.net
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From: John Tolmachoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Well, I did only say tempted. I have been pretty heavy handed knocking off
/24 blocks however.
FWIW, it's the webserver hosting www.declude.com that is (or was) using
rackspace.com. So in this case, if you did block all of rackspace.com, you
would risk not getting notifications when you
Content alone is not the criteria for condemning an email. I may personally
dislike the message but if it is subscribed, to hands off. It is far to
easy, when we control the switch, to let our own tastes, beliefs, and
prejudices, influence our trigger finger. Many large companies have
outsourced
For us sniffer has proven very effective for spam in general and
specifically for adult spam. I find that virtually all adult content is
caught by sniffer, well over 90%. Initially I only gave it a weight of 8,
thus requiring another test to force it over 10 and trigger a hold. But I
found quite a
Is the NOXMAIL an external test? If so where can I go to find information
about the product?
NoXMail is an external test going through Beta testing right now. Several of
us on this list have been testing it with good results.
Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.
John Tolmachoff
The adult sender's list I have was gathered over time from reports from
users and from ones I have seen in the SPAM folder.
I would be happy to share it.
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA 92835
www.reliancesoft.com
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Anyone else find this with sniffer?
The trial I did of Sniffer was very positive. However, I could not get
approval for purchase do to our budget problems.
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA 92835
www.reliancesoft.com
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Aaron,
What kind of NIC is in the 2000 box? This is a hot topic recently on
the IMail list. See the thread FIXED! Imail SLOW When Running On
Fast W2K Hardware.
Dev discovered that there definitely is a problem with newer faster
NICs, Windows 2000, and IMail 7.??. IPSwitch recommends
Aaron,
What kind of NIC is in the 2000 box? This is a hot topic recently on
the IMail list. See the thread FIXED! Imail SLOW When Running On
Fast W2K Hardware.
Dev discovered that there definitely is a problem with newer faster
NICs, Windows 2000, and IMail 7.??. IPSwitch recommends
We are not an ISP; as a private corporation, we define our usage policy and
it is more strict than what you can, so we can block junkmail as well as
spam. We try not to be censors, but spam and junkmail cost us real dollars
in theft of service and loss of productivity.
We have the luxury of
Hey all,
I have a thread going on this on the Imail list but I thought I'd check with
other Declude-Junkmail users also.
We have Declude Junkmail set to flag messages on a weighting system and then
we have an Imail rule set to move those flagged messages to a Junkmail
folder. What our dilemma
Content alone is not the criteria for condemning an email. I may personally
dislike the message but if it is subscribed, to hands off. It is far to
easy, when we control the switch, to let our own tastes, beliefs, and
prejudices, influence our trigger finger.
That is a good point (in fact,
One observation I have made is majority of such spam come from random emails
but the content refers to certain web sites - quite consistently.
So we have an active URL list that if found in the body of emails it will
weigh them quite high. These URL's are real consistent and in combination
of
The adult sender's list I have was gathered over time from
reports from users and from ones I have seen in the SPAM folder.
I would be happy to share it.
That would be awesome if you don't mind. Please email me off list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, thank you for your time and professionalism
We have the luxury of blocking FlowGo, ValOffers et al. The standard
response is that isn't related to our line of business, subscribe from
your
personal account if you want it.
Andrew,
In testing, I found sniffer to do a great job of blocking email that has no
business needs. It catches over
Please post it to the list, I'm sure many of us could use it. I never have
the time to tweak my filters
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE:
This is not an uncommon problem. From what I know, Imail 7.x still has
it. In my research, I have not found a tool to clear just one folder in
a mailbox based on date, but I did develop an application to manage spam
using a combination of weighting, Imail rules, and an external server
software
John,
that would be wonderful. Thanks so much.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter Questions/Suggestions
The adult
Since there have been numerous requests, I am sending this to the list in a
zipped form.
Everything listed was reported by users and either was seen at least 5 times
in the logs or reported by more than one client. Listed domains were seen
with many hits and different addresses.
This list is
So we have an active URL list that if found in the body of emails it will
weigh them quite high. These URL's are real consistent and in combination
of subject filters we have blocked pretty much all of them.
Kami, that is a great idea. Would you be willing to share the list? Feel
free to
I am getting several emails from different FROM address but they all contain
the following url as a link in the body of the message. Can I filter for
www.wholesalemortgagediscounts.com as filter rule.
http://www.wholesalemortgagediscounts.com/index.asp?Afft=QM3
Thanks,
Kris McElroy
[EMAIL
I am getting several emails from different FROM address but they all
contain
the following url as a link in the body of the message. Can I filter for
www.wholesalemortgagediscounts.com as filter rule.
Yes.
BODY 0 contains www.wholesalemortgagediscounts.com
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT
Hi; [sorry for the long note]
These files are changing everyday...
Sure.. I hope the list does not mind. I have asked so we put a link on a
location on our site and keep these files up to date. Similar to what Tom
has done which has helped us quite a lot.
Here is the legend to the files that
It appears as if Declude is allowing mail that fails spam tests that
have been funneled through our backup mail server to pass.
#GLOBAL CONFIG
IPBYPASS 12.25.87.100
Here is the relevant portion of logs and configs
20030114 162019 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (6B090098) [209.94.11.105] connect
It appears as if Declude is allowing mail that fails spam tests that
have been funneled through our backup mail server to pass.
That's because outgoing mail isn't normally scanned (with Declude JunkMail
Pro, the outgoing actions in the \IMail\Declude\global.cfg file will be used).
Now the
Scott,
A couple of questions
1.) Since the mail was already incoming and has gone through all the
spam checks inbound is there anyway to override the current behavior of
discarding those results and actually have the message react to the
incoming spam checks.
2.) If I can't override the default
So what I am trying to do is to clean out the junkmail folders for
all the users to only keep the past 7 days in there (maybe less) So
I need to remove messages by date out of the junkmail.mbx files...
Two batch files, ITERATE.BAT and EXPIRE.BAT:
ITERATE.BAT
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c:
CD c:\imail
FOR
1.) Since the mail was already incoming and has gone through all the
spam checks inbound is there anyway to override the current behavior of
discarding those results and actually have the message react to the
incoming spam checks.
Declude JunkMail will only scan an E-mail once.
E-mail can be
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