[Declude.JunkMail] Listing in Blacklist

2002-11-12 Thread Kami Razvan
Title: Message Hi; It seems like Junkmail treats these two listings differently. .SAVINGSENGINE.COM @MAIL1.SAVINGSENGINE.COM I have always been under the impression that the first listing will include the 2nd listing. But it seems like the postings from this domain is getting through.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Listing in Blacklist

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
It seems like Junkmail treats these two listings differently. .SAVINGSENGINE.COM @MAIL1.SAVINGSENGINE.COM I have always been under the impression that the first listing will include the 2nd listing. But it seems like the postings from this domain is getting through. Header from Declude:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude gone whacky?

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
I resent an email and declude has now gone somewhat wacky. The imail server was acting loaded, so I checked the task man and there are 6 or 8 instances of declude running - taking up all of the cpu cycles. Ther are also about 15-20 .~md and .smd files in the spool dir and three or 4 .vir

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] slightly OT spamcop message.

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
These are not legit -- you can check the IP address that they come from (doing a reverse DNS lookup or IPWHOIS) -- if the reverse DNS or IPWHOIS do not clearly indicate that it is from Spamcop, it isn't. -Scott At 09:42 AM 11/12/2002, you wrote: I got 3 mails this morning

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] slightly OT spamcop message.

2002-11-12 Thread paul
Thanks Scott, ok, dope slap me please. I should've thought of that. And I've spent alot of time on that dnsstuff.com page too... LOL Paul These are not legit -- you can check the IP address that they come from (doing a reverse DNS lookup or IPWHOIS) -- if the reverse DNS or IPWHOIS do

[Declude.JunkMail] Original Config File - Simple question

2002-11-12 Thread Keith Johnson
The original install of Declude includes a line in global.cfg that states WHITELIST HABEAS. I assume I can remark this out since we are receiving warnings in the log files called Invalid Whitelist test Habeas. Thanks for the input. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Original Config File - Simple question

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
The original install of Declude includes a line in global.cfg that states WHITELIST HABEAS. I assume I can remark this out since we are receiving warnings in the log files called Invalid Whitelist test Habeas. Thanks for the input. Yes, you can comment out the WHITELIST HABEAS line (by

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Original Config File - Simple question

2002-11-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Scott, Thanks for the reply. Speaking of the beta version - is it best to run the beta vs the 1.60. I guess we shy on the conservative side so at first glance the 1.60 was a good fit, however, if the 1.62 version is better (i.e. more features, bug fixes), and has proven stable, we may

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Original Config File - Simple question

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
Thanks for the reply. Speaking of the beta version - is it best to run the beta vs the 1.60. I guess we shy on the conservative side so at first glance the 1.60 was a good fit, however, if the 1.62 version is better (i.e. more features, bug fixes), and has proven stable, we may give it

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude gone whacky?

2002-11-12 Thread Dan Spangenberg
I resent an email and declude has now gone somewhat wacky. The imail server was acting loaded, so I checked the task man and there are 6 or 8 instances of declude running - taking up all of the cpu cycles. Ther are also about 15-20 .~md and .smd files in the spool dir and three or 4 .vir

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude gone whacky?

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
The test email that I sent only had one recipient. The problem started when I sent the test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to test the filter setup. There was not a valid imail account or alias for muji. I waited a minute for it to process and then checked the declude logs to see what had

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] slightly OT spamcop message.

2002-11-12 Thread Dustin Freeman
We recieved a few of these messages as well. There is some info on Spamcop's site about it. http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/124.html Dustin -Original Message- From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:horizons;declude.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

DSN:Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread Brian Milburn
Hi John, We do not have the docs finished yet, but the program is available if you would care to test it. There is a 'Declude style' configuration file and it is completely commented so it is easy to use without the docs. At this point we are still open to suggestions and comments. We hope to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SpamCop, OSSRC, and OSSOFT Tests

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
I currently give a weight of 16 to SpamCop, forcing the message to either fail 2 minor tests or one other major test. (Subject modification 15-19, hold at 20.) Here is what Declude has to say about OSSRC: Osirusoft's Confirmed Spam Source list. These are sites that continually spam and have been

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SpamCop, OSSRC, and OSSOFT Tests

2002-11-12 Thread Smart Business Lists
Ron, Tuesday, November 12, 2002 you wrote: RH I currently Hold a lot of e-mail failing a lot of the open relay tests. The only two tests I hold directly are ORDB and SNIFFER. ORDB is about 99% for me and SNIFFER is less but still very high. Mainly SNIFFER fails on lists and

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread Patrick Childers
Brian, I would like to test it as well! Patrick Childers Network Administrator Hussey, Gay, Bell DeYoung Inc. 329 Commercial Drive Savannah, GA 31406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-owner;declude.com]On Behalf Of Brian Milburn

DSN:RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread Brian Milburn
Ok, it is being sent to your email address. On 11/12/02 12:44pm you wrote... Brian, I would like to test it as well! Patrick Childers Network Administrator Hussey, Gay, Bell DeYoung Inc. 329 Commercial Drive Savannah, GA 31406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
Yes, I would be willing to try it. Although we are a small company, and therefore our traffic is less and may not make as good of a test bed. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, it will not effect as much. John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SpamCop, OSSRC, and OSSOFT Tests

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
I have given this test a weight of 2. My thinking is that although they are known to produce SPAM, they have not been shown very in-effective in Scott's monthly log. Darn keyboard virus. Let me try that again. ...they have not been shown to be very effective in... John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread Frederick P. Squib, Jr.
Brian, Us too please!! We catch a lot now but it still seems like the particularly nasty ones still get through. Seems like nobody complained before we started filtering Fritz Frederick P. Squib, Jr. Network Administrator Citizens Internet Services http://www.wpa.net -Original

[Declude.JunkMail] 3rd Party Hold Readers

2002-11-12 Thread Keith Johnson
I've seen several emails come thru referencing 3rd party hold readers/reviewers. Does anyone have a pref on one. Also, I have gotten some feedback from Scott (much apprec.) on what he sees as a initial setup for guarding against spam. I would like to see what options others have unlocked or

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread John Shacklett
I'd love to give your program a try. Written between the lines of the post I first started this thread with: I have a nagging problem with porn and I have been charged with cleaning it up. My challenge is that the stuff I'm seeing is stuff that my local users are sharing among themselves, so I'm

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 3rd Party Hold Readers

2002-11-12 Thread John Shacklett
I like Spam Review, and I use it every single day. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-owner;declude.com]On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] 3rd Party Hold Readers I've seen

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread Bill Beach
My challenge is that the stuff I'm seeing is stuff that my local users are sharing among themselves, so I'm going to need to develop something a little more stern than standard spam filtering. If you're a private company, which it appears that you are, how about starting with an Acceptable Use

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 3rd Party Hold Readers

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
Thanks for the aid(Realizing this is a loaded question) Glad Len is not on here. He would pull the trigger. :)) Basically, I give a heavy weight to the big tests like SpamCop and the junkmail domain list. I give a medium weight to Badheaders/Spamheaders, routing, and such. I hold on my

RE: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adultery

2002-11-12 Thread John Shacklett
I am a private company, we have an Acceptable Use Policy, I have the backing of Upper Management, I've sent hate mail to our users warning them of dire consequences, I understand the issue and the steps required to deal with it. What I'm working on now is enforcement. This isn't Johnny Cochran,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Kemp
I'm moving this discussion into the Declude forum, where it belongs... Markus Gufler stated: I'm not sure if this is per-user-.self-config-frontend is really needed for declude. Our users are very happy when we try to find a good and reliable configuration and keep them up to date. (spammers

[Declude.JunkMail] EzMTS

2002-11-12 Thread David Stavert
I have a customer that uses EzMTS, a Windows freeware mailserver. When ever a message goes through that server and Declude all the Xheaders added by Declude show up in the body of the mail. Can I assure him that it's his problem (EzMTS). David --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] EzMTS

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
I have a customer that uses EzMTS, a Windows freeware mailserver. When ever a message goes through that server and Declude all the Xheaders added by Declude show up in the body of the mail. Can I assure him that it's his problem (EzMTS). That's actually not a problem with EzMTS -- EzMTS does

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer Confidence

2002-11-12 Thread jcochran
That is exactly what we do... But we don't delete weight20, we route it to a mail box, that way if a customer calls, we can retrieve the email, look at all the test it failed, if it needs whitelisted, we can do that, and then forward the message on... We've had 0 problems with it!! -Russ

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
If we filter what we know is junk, somebody in upper management will get upset because they missed their latest 'junk' mail. That is why we wanted a per-user type of interface...so that those people can manage their own junk. Actually, what you may want to try is the attach function, which

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Kemp
Thanks, that is actually the avenue that they were taking. They got the messages to appear with the changed headers and subject fields, but they apparently were having issues where those filters were affecting either people's email accounts that weren't on the list yet, they were getting each

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better thanDeclude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
... they apparently were having issues where those filters were affecting either people's email accounts that weren't on the list yet, they were getting each others messages for point values...i.e., a rule set for person 'A' would affect person 'B'. What is really happening here isn't that one

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread John Tolmachoff
You're going to force me into looking into this situation closer, aren't you? I've been tempted...just trying to finish up a couple of other things before I do that. Yes. :)) Help is here. John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread Glenn \\ WCNet
As I recall, if a message is addressed to multiple recipients, JunkMail uses the most restrictive settings it finds. If one of the recipients is set up for JunkMail and the others aren't, then that user's filtering applies to ALL of them. - Original Message - From: Tom

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Kemp
From what I overheard 'A' telling 'B' this morning, he sent the message from his account, so it went fro 'A' to 'B'. He purposely added text to the email body that he knew would have been caught by his rules, but not those of person 'B'. Do messages sent also go through the filter? Of course, I

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Something better thanDeclude..transferred from Imail forum

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
From what I overheard 'A' telling 'B' this morning, he sent the message from his account, so it went fro 'A' to 'B'. He purposely added text to the email body that he knew would have been caught by his rules, but not those of person 'B'. Note that Declude JunkMail doesn't have any per-user

[Declude.JunkMail] DSN:Message for Scott

2002-11-12 Thread Brian Milburn
Scott, If you will recall, I contacted you a while back when I was working on CYBERsitter NoXMail and I was having problems with Declude locking the spool file while processing it. You sent me a version that had this fixed. MUCH to my embarrassment, I sent out some beta copies of NoXMail to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSN:Message for Scott

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
If you will recall, I contacted you a while back when I was working on CYBERsitter NoXMail and I was having problems with Declude locking the spool file while processing it. You sent me a version that had this fixed. MUCH to my embarrassment, I sent out some beta copies of NoXMail to about

[Declude.JunkMail] Something better than Declude

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
I've had two engineers here spending alot of time with this product. They are both considerably intelligent and experienced, yet they have had nothing but trouble. We've played with a per-user package called IHateSpam before we tried the declude solution. It wass very User friendly and

[Declude.JunkMail] Per User/Domain help

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
I'm not asking for help, just offering an opinion... Using Declude with one CFG file and multiple Domains one could set up a default JNK/Action file with weight tests as follows: CFG: WEIGHT1 weightrange x x 10 19

[Declude.JunkMail] Yahoo gets caught with some tests

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
In an earlier thread there was a mention about Yahoo and OSSOFT. I have found OSSOFT to be unreliable and now I only use the following companies to help stop spam. OSSRC ip4rrelays.osirusoft.com127.0.0.4 16 0 SPAMCOP ip4rbl.spamcop.net

[Declude.JunkMail] Bounce and Reply

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
A while ago there was a mention about bouncing mail back to spammers, don't bother unless you know where the mail is truly coming from. Using weight with Bounce is a bad idea, you are better off bouncing mail back to those who send the mass mailing and/or do exist and have sent you unsolicited

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude gone whacky?

2002-11-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
The test email that I sent only had one recipient. The problem started when I sent the test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to test the filter setup. There was not a valid imail account or alias for muji. I waited a minute for it to process and then checked the declude logs to see what had

[Declude.JunkMail] Fromfile Status 11/12/02- Image`fx

2002-11-12 Thread Tom
50% effective List of spammers caught by the Fromfile: --- found: 2 ID-20021112-001525 @yite.com.ar found: 4 ID-20021112-000225 .gsjs.com found: 7 ID-20021112-000324 .ms83.com found: 26 ID-20021112