Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and IMgate

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Landry
What tests are the Postfix reports failing? Typically, you might see them failing MAILFROM because the From address on some of these messages may simply be root or MAILER DAEMON, without a valid e-mail address behind it. You might try filtering on the subject of the reports and apply enough of a

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and IMgate

2003-10-13 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
I thought I fixed that. Any, no, you do not want to put HOPHIGH at zero, because then Declude will only process the IP the message came from. It is suggested to have HOPHIGH at 1 or 2, but no more than 2. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and IMgate

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any, no, you do not want to put HOPHIGH at zero, because then Declude will only process the IP the message came from. It is suggested to have HOPHIGH at 1 or 2, but no more than 2. Wrong, HOPHIGH 0 is the default

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and IMgate

2003-10-13 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
Any, no, you do not want to put HOPHIGH at zero, because then Declude will only process the IP the message came from. It is suggested to have HOPHIGH at 1 or 2, but no more than 2. Wrong, HOPHIGH 0 is the default setting. HOPHIGH counts hops from the IP address that connected to your

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Dictionary attacks --- anyone have any solutions.

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Yes. Soil-tech.com is a local domain that we host and Tony is a valid user on that domain. It almost appears that Imail is seeing his OutlookExpress as a mail server, not a authenticated mail client. Any other suggestions? In this case, I would suggest using the debug mode to track the problem.

[Declude.JunkMail] [OT] Signed Spam..

2003-10-13 Thread Jeff Maze - Hostmaster
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5089977.html?tag=nefd_top --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
I am on version 1.76i5 I have been getting this error for many months, yes even back on verison 1.6x the error happens to every email that reaches the action weight of DELETE see attached the two files .GPx files form c:\ and my two Config files and part of log file We have determined the cause

[Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Greg Foulks
Is anyone able to get to the site? www.dnsreport.com Just want to make sure that it's just not me that is having problems. Thanks, Greg attachment: winmail.dat

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Cody Wilson
Yes, I can. * 817-329-5275 PH 817-329-1189 FX intercityweb.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:30 AM To: Declude JunkMail (E-mail) Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report Is

AW: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Guhl, Markus (LDS)
right now i was able to get the site mfg i.a. gez. guhl *** lds nrw dez. 235 tel.: 0211 9449 2578 fax.: 0211 9449 8344 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Greg Foulks
Seems like it just came back up. Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report Yes, I can. *

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Jaworski
Seattle can get to it. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:30 AM To: Declude JunkMail (E-mail) Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report Is anyone able to get to the site? www.dnsreport.com Just

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report

2003-10-13 Thread Hermann Strassner
I get it Hermann -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:30 PM To: Declude JunkMail (E-mail) Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Report Is anyone able to get to the site? www.dnsreport.com Just want to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How does this spam trick work

2003-10-13 Thread John Shacklett
And I'm seeing more and more of these messages with the text section crafted cleverly to try and avoid blocks, and with more and more of them with these text sections large enough to defeat scanning of the message proper by the usual battery of content-based tests. I think Kami pointed this out

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How does this spam trick work

2003-10-13 Thread Keith Purtell
The message-length limit in particular is probably destined to be revised. We should have some control over this. Such as the ability to change it, or the ability to change the limit when certain parameters are met. Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator VantageMed Operations (Kansas City)

[Declude.JunkMail] COMMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
Shouldn't this have been caught by the comments test? If not, what is the best way? +ADwAIQ-DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC +ACI--//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN+ACIAPg- +ADw-HTML+AD4- +ADw-HEAD+AD4- +ADw-META HTTP-EQUIV+AD0AIg-Content-Type+ACI- CONTENT+AD0AIg-text/html+ADs- charset+AD0-utf-7+ACIAPg- +ADw-META

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] COMMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Shouldn't this have been caught by the comments test? The COMMENTS test *only* looks for HTML comments that are designed to bypass filters. It does not look for made-up HTML tags, or legitimate HTML tags that are used to bypass filters. In this case:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] COMMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
What might be nice would be a test that would count how many times each HTML feature was used -- for example, if it saw that nbsp; appeared 50 times in an E-mail, it could trigger the test. That would be nice. Can SpamCheck, Alligate or Sniffer do this? John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA

[Declude.JunkMail] revdns

2003-10-13 Thread Kevin
Hi, I've been using this filter with success: REVDNS -100 ENDSWITH .shawcable.net But what happens if : X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [204.209.208.8] Does that test match the ip address to yahoo.com? Or if the ip addresses reverses to shawcable.net, it will let it through even if

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] revdns

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
I've been using this filter with success: REVDNS -100 ENDSWITH .shawcable.net But what happens if : X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [204.209.208.8] Does that test match the ip address to yahoo.com? Not in this specific case (since 204.209.208.8 doesn't have a reverse DNS entry, even

[Declude.JunkMail] false positives

2003-10-13 Thread Andy
Hi, I'm getting a lot of false positives because of HELOBOGUS and MAILFROM issues. I know there probably has been discussion here about this already. Is there a resolution? How do I get around this? I'm catching email from AOL, Roadrunner, Adelphia, etc. See below. Thanks, andy

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] false positives

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
I'm getting a lot of false positives because of HELOBOGUS and MAILFROM issues. If you are running v1.76, you should download the latest interim release from http://www.declude.com/release/176i/declude.exe . This is happening as one of the many side-effects of bad old Verisign's attempt to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread Mike Leonard
Scott, Just out of curiousity, is there anyway you folks could include a version resource in declude.exe to make it possible to determine the version number without having to use declude -diag? IMHO, being able to use explorer file properties would be very handy. Mike R. Scott Perry wrote:

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] false positives

2003-10-13 Thread andyb
Scott.. Wow, that changes a lot. I knew something was going on with Verisign. Is there a technical description somewhere of what they did so I can catch up? Do you have new default config files listed on your website that incorporate the latest changes needed. Once again, the support of the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Just out of curiousity, is there anyway you folks could include a version resource in declude.exe to make it possible to determine the version number without having to use declude -diag? IMHO, being able to use explorer file properties would be very handy. It would be nice, but unfortunately

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] false positives

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Wow, that changes a lot. I knew something was going on with Verisign. Is there a technical description somewhere of what they did so I can catch up? Actually, they got threatened by ICANN and sued by other companies, and finally gave up. So DNS is back the way it should, albeit with minor

[Declude.JunkMail] Several similar address in TO: field

2003-10-13 Thread Daniel Grotjan
Is there any way to test for several addresses in the TO: line that are similar? For instance the following addresses were in the TO: line of a message I received recently. None of the addresses exist other than mine. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Questionable header info

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Most illegal junkmail senders (I would imagine), use proprietary applications to pour their swill down our throats. Although many probably use the normal apps like Outlook, the die hard ones must use custom coded apps (and the people using them are not the programmers I bet). Correct. Like

[Declude.JunkMail] 1.76i4 and 1.76i6

2003-10-13 Thread Mike Leonard
I just noticed that all we're getting for IP addresses with these two versions is 0.0.0.0. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0.0.0.0] After going back to 1.76i1, we're getting a real IP address. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [156.21.1.21] Anyone else seeing this?

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] COMMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread Pete McNeil
Sniffer has mechanisms like this coming up in V3, but they are strictly feature extractors that will be used by the AI to characterize the messages. It's not really practical to set simple limits/thresholds on the number or itteration of HTML elements used in the text... however there are some

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread John Shacklett
Doesn't the installed.bin file contain the current version number? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 1.76i4 and 1.76i6

2003-10-13 Thread Keith Anderson
FYI I just upgraded to the latest and it's giving us the correct IP address in X-Declude Sender. not 0.0.0.0 I just noticed that all we're getting for IP addresses with these two versions is 0.0.0.0. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] ---

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
Doesn't the installed.bin file contain the current version number? It may. But that file is a binary file that shouldn't be handled with text editors, making it difficult to view the information in it. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 1.76i4 and 1.76i6

2003-10-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
I just noticed that all we're getting for IP addresses with these two versions is 0.0.0.0. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0.0.0.0] After going back to 1.76i1, we're getting a real IP address. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [156.21.1.21] Could you send me the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread Mike Leonard
R. Scott Perry wrote: Note that with v1.76, you can just run the Declude.exe file without any arguments and it will display the version. Only from a prompt, unless you're a very fast reader. :) Mike --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 1.76i4 and 1.76i6

2003-10-13 Thread Mike Leonard
R. Scott Perry wrote: I just noticed that all we're getting for IP addresses with these two versions is 0.0.0.0. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0.0.0.0] After going back to 1.76i1, we're getting a real IP address. Example: X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [156.21.1.21]

[Declude.JunkMail] WANTED: your kill lists

2003-10-13 Thread Joseph Acac
anyone willing to send me a copy of their kill list? I am far behind in the filtering spam war, and would appreciate a 'cheat sheet' to update our kill list here at Primate. I'm tired of sifting through held emails via Spam Review. Thanks for your help. Joseph C. Acac CNPRC University of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread jssubs
It may. But that file is a binary file that shouldn't be handled with text editors, making it difficult to view the information in it. Whoops. Then I hope I didn't seriously goof something up. My installed.bin file properties state that it consists of exactly six bytes, and if I open it with

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WANTED: your kill lists

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
anyone willing to send me a copy of their kill list? I am far behind in the filtering spam war, and would appreciate a 'cheat sheet' to update our kill list here at Primate. I'm tired of sifting through held emails via Spam Review. Your welcome to use ours:

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] ERROR: SOMEONE CRUMBLED MY MAGIC COOKIE

2003-10-13 Thread William Baumbach
thanks scott, that fixed it Sincerely, William J. Baumbach II [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9975 Pennsylvania Ave. Manassas, Va. 20110-2028 Ph: 703-367-7900 ext:1708 Fax: 703-691-0946 - - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WANTED: your kill lists

2003-10-13 Thread William Baumbach
use at your own risk, there might be good email addresses in this list, not sure, however its the one i use for my Imail Kill.lst Sincerely, William J. Baumbach II [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9975 Pennsylvania Ave. Manassas, Va. 20110-2028 Ph: 703-367-7900 ext:1708 Fax: 703-691-0946