RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Bonded senders

2004-03-10 Thread Lyndon Eaton
The concept behind BONDEDSENDER seems to be the same as HABEAS. But if I understand things correctly, Declude can not treat the two in the same way. To use HABEAS headers you simply enter WHITELIST HABEAS in the global.cfg. And by using this an email could fail every rule you have (but pass the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Bonded senders

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
Scott, is there a way of WHITELISTING a positive BONDEDSENDER? Like you do with HABEAS? You should be able to do that with the latest beta and a filter, using a line TESTSFAILED WHITELIST CONTAINS BONDEDSENDER in your filter file. -Scott ---

[Declude.JunkMail] Global.cfg and license code

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Smith
I'm in the process of building a 4 server inbound MX gateway system for our Exchange 2003 environment. Imail/Declude will run on 4 even priority MX relayers and will act as edge virus and spam detection. Our organization receives about 350,000-400,000 inbound messages a day so we're estimating

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: ADVISORY/America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! To Make Major Enforcement Announcement Concerning Important New Actions Taken in Fight Against Spam

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Smith
Wonder what this will be about? http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040309/95882_1.html --- [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

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Global.cfg and license code

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
The only problem with this is that all 4 of these relayers will have its own license code. As a feature request, would it be possible to put the CODE line of the global.cfg into its own file? License.cfg or something? Right now, I have to parse each global.cfg and write each servers file uniquely

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] entry in log but not in header

2004-03-10 Thread Harry Vanderzand
Declude Virus should automatically block this, as it appears to contain a mailserver AV vulnerability. That is what I thought. Can you think of any reason why it did not catch it? What version of Declude are you running (\IMail\Declude -diag from a command prompt will show

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Default Junkmail settings

2004-03-10 Thread Scott Fisher
It is a starting place for sure. In my three weeks, I've found Junkmail to be simple, yet deep in it's abilities. One test I added late was the spamdomains test. This test checks to see if a hotmail.com e-mail comes from a server with hotmail in it's address. Very effective at these types of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] entry in log but not in header

2004-03-10 Thread Harry Vanderzand
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[Declude.JunkMail] HOP, HOPHIGH, or IPBYPASS?

2004-03-10 Thread Brad Morgan
I've got an interesting configuration issue. My Imail server is behind a firewall and I have a branch office email server (left over from before we accuired them) that forwards mail to my server. A lot of this forwarded mail is spam so I'm trying to get JunkMail Pro configured to use the proper

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] HOP, HOPHIGH, or IPBYPASS?

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
My Imail server is behind a firewall and I have a branch office email server (left over from before we accuired them) that forwards mail to my server. A lot of this forwarded mail is spam so I'm trying to get JunkMail Pro configured to use the proper IP for its DNSBL (RBL?) tests. In this case,

[Declude.JunkMail] Values for From: and X-Declude-Sender:

2004-03-10 Thread Terry Parks
Anyone know how to setup or how effective a comparison of the From: and X-Declude-Sender: values would be in stopping SPAM? That is, if they do not match, dump it. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail

[Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Di Gregorio
I've seen a few posts to this list (from myself and a few others) over the last year requesting anyone to post a current spam domains list. These requests never seem to be answered or even acknowledged. Is there some reason for this that I am missing? There was a list posted about a year

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: ADVISORY/America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! To Make Major Enforcement Announcement Concerning Important New Actions Taken in Fight Against Spam

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin Bilbee
Here is the result of the press release. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4496759/ Kevin Bilbee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT:

[Declude.JunkMail] test gfdsghb

2004-03-10 Thread TC Online Support
nfdhgfgf Isaias Hernandez Internet Tech Support 979-775-6239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [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

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Values for From: and X-Declude-Sender:

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin Bilbee
I would not do it. YOu would loose many list emails. The x-declude-sender is the envelope sender which normally from a list is the list owner address. the the from is the list member. When e-card web sites smarten up they will do the same thing. The evelope sender will be the ecard site and the

[Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Shaffer
I am trying to get the Declude iMail modified header to an external program. (X refs) I've tried: mytest external nonzero my_program.exe %HEADERS%1 0 and: mytest external nonzero my_program.exe1 0 (and reading the D.file) also: mytest external

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Scott Fisher
I'd love to see a current spam domains list that deals with non-US ISP's. I seem to have lots of spam coming apparently from non-US ISPs. Scott Fisher Director of IT Farm Progress Companies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/04 10:36AM I've seen a few posts to this list (from myself and a few others)

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Shaffer
I'm trying to collect data for a SPAM (pass and fail report), also I intend to whitelist with exturnalplus from our database Chuck - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] test gfdsghb

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Geiser
Why do people send test messages to already high-volume e-mail lists? Better yet why do people respond go test messages to already high-volume mailing lists thereby adding one more e-mail into the mix? - Original Message - From: TC Online Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.JunkMail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Geiser
Hello, Jeffrey, Kami's "spamdomains"list is always publically available and it looks like its pretty good. But I think he uses spamdomains in a different way that I do. Typically an entry makes it on to my spamdomains list if a known legit domain name is used to send to non-legit e-mail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Scott Fisher
Where is Kami's list? I haven't been able to find it. If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd like to see your your spamdomains file. I really need more non-US entries. Scott Fisher Director of IT Farm Progress Companies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/04 11:32AM Hello, Jeffrey, Kami's spamdomains list is

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
I'm trying to collect data for a SPAM (pass and fail report), also I intend to whitelist with exturnalplus from our database In that case, I would recommend splitting it into two programs -- one that interfaces with Declude JunkMail as an external test (and whitelists the E-mail), and another

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Shaffer
Scott I agree 2 programs. The log file doesn't include header info such as to: and from: just the Q.file after it was sent. Is it possible to have a setting in GLOBAL.CFG for an external LOG Something like: my_logexternallog nonzero my_log %DECLUDEHEADERS% Chuck - Original

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen a few posts to this list (from myself and a few others) over the last year requesting anyone to post a current spam domains list. These requests never seem to be answered or even acknowledged. Is there some

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
Is it possible to have a setting in GLOBAL.CFG for an external LOG Something like: my_logexternallog nonzero my_log %DECLUDEHEADERS% No, but we will be looking into that. You may also want to try LOGLEVEL HIGH to see if the information in there is suitable.

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Exturnal tests

2004-03-10 Thread David Sullivan
Hello Chuck, Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 12:35:02 PM, you wrote: CS I'm trying to collect data for a SPAM (pass and fail report), also I intend CS to whitelist with exturnalplus from our database This goes to some of my questions the other day. We're looking at the doing the same thing with an

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: Imail Queue manager and gateway

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Smith
If I'm only using imail as a gateway for Exchange and only one domain is being forwarded to, wouldn't it make sense to disable the DNS cache and Queue manager. In the remote case the receiving Exchange server is put on the skip list that would mean that all email would stop. Right? --- [This

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Kami Razvan
Hi Chuck: Spamdomains has been one of those topics that appear and disappear- never with a final and definitive answer. It would be good if something like this was done like Forged Virus - with a server giving the weight.. But there are so many variations and changes that perhaps this can't be

[Declude.JunkMail] Bogus DNS Server

2004-03-10 Thread Stan Buck
Trying to get Junkmail started, but it doesn't check the blacklists. The log shows WARNING: BOGUS DNS SERVER ! This was actually covered on the list a couple of weeks ago (see below). I tried the advice Scott gave, but it didn't work. Mail is going out normally. Need some more ideas! I

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Bogus DNS Server

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
Trying to get Junkmail started, but it doesn't check the blacklists. The log shows WARNING: BOGUS DNS SERVER ! This was actually covered on the list a couple of weeks ago (see below). I tried the advice Scott gave, but it didn't work. Mail is going out normally. Need some more ideas!

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Schick
Kami: I agree with your comments. I have trouble maintaining the spamdomains file myself because I lack a good reference for the rules to create one(this goes back to the manual issue). I think the reason so many people ask for one is they are not totally confident in creating it themselves

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Bogus DNS Server

2004-03-10 Thread Stan Buck
Well, that worked. Cut, click Apply, paste, click Apply, didn't work. Cut, click Apply, type in IP, click Apply, did. Go figure. - Original Message - From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
Scott, could you please post or re-post the criteria for a spamdomains entry. Probably my biggest issue is when their are multiple entries for a domain. In the spamdomains.txt file (or whatever you choose to name it), you need lines that have either 1 or 2 entries on them. The first one

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Chuck Schick
Scott: Thank you. Once again your knowledge and responsiveness are a major reason for the success of Declude and the reason we are committed to using your products. Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. 303-421-5140 www.warp8.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] test gfdsghb

2004-03-10 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
Pong :) John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TC Online Support Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:21 AM To: Declude.JunkMail Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] test

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Imail Queue manager and gateway

2004-03-10 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
You can not disable the Queue Manager. That is the delivery process, to where ever the message is to be delivered. DNS cache can be disabled if desired, irregardless of Imail configuration or use. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -Original Message- From:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
There was a discussion a while back for someone to maintain this and others contribute to it but that never got anywhere either. I know I know, I am wwway behind. ;-) John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You --- [This E-mail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains question

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Geiser
Kami's list is at his public ftp site ftp.xyz.com/imail where xyz.com is his domain name. I will send you my spamdomains files directly. Keep in mind I use spamdomains quite differently than most people. - Original Message - From: Scott Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Koster
So I have received over 2,000,000 emails today for just one domain name, its been interesting and I have been trying to stop this myself and am having little or no luck at all figuring out what to do. After looking at the headers of the e-mails I have found that he/she/basturd has many many ip's

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Imail Queue manager and gateway

2004-03-10 Thread Jerod Bennett
Just a personal pet peeve: Irregardless is not a word: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irregardless%20 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff (Lists) Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Kami Razvan
Hi Darryl: Do you have a sample of the email and the header you can send? Kami -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl Koster Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darin Cox
Posting sample headers to this list usually comes back with quick, helpful results... Also, it sounds like you have a nobody alias on the recipient domain. You might want to remove that and add whatever aliases you need. They're generally a bad idea these days for reason of the very problem

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Koster
I actually have 10 megs worth of them, small emails all of them with just many many many ips for them, rarely ever from the same address. Seems to be from (which we can pretty much ensure are spoofed) bellsouth, sprintpcs, aol, studmail.com (laff) and a couple of others. Did you want to see lots

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Koster
I will definitely be contacting you off list. The problem I am running into now is that the imail cannot support the shear number of emails that are being put through. We are creating log files that are in the 300+ meg range and the server can no longer keep up with the smtp requests. We also

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: ADVISORY/America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! To Make Major Enforcement Announcement Concerning Important New Actions Taken in Fight Against Spam

2004-03-10 Thread t.blyth
About time . -- Original Message -- From: Kevin Bilbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:07:01 -0800 Here is the result of the press release. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4496759/ Kevin Bilbee -Original

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darryl Koster
We generally do not have nobody alias's set on the domains we have, this was set up to capture some of the emails that were being held by the server so we could look at the headers. Once we knew we had enough of them to work with we removed the nobody alias. Basically those 10 Megs worth of

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Matt
In this case, headers don't provide any benefit because this stuff all comes from zombies with forged info. It's the payload links, where they might be redirected to and/or is hosted , where their DNS is hosted, and where their names were registered. Chances are that everything can be

[Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Patnode
Seems they're actually aware of the problem: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/03/10/comcast/index.php?redirect=10 78943859000 --- [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,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update

2004-03-10 Thread Matt
Bull dookie, sounds like lip-service to me :) Matt Dan Patnode wrote: Seems they're actually aware of the problem: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/03/10/comcast/index.php?redirect=10 78943859000 --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] ---

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update

2004-03-10 Thread Dave Doherty
I know I don't see eye to eye with some folks here about this, but Comcast could prevent the problem entirely by blocking port 25 and putting some solid limits on outbound mail with a product like Ddeeclude Hijack... If they were really serious about fixing the problem, that is. -Dave -

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darin Cox
Hmmm...so no chance of an envelope rejection when it's destined for valid email addresses. Anyone heard of envelope rejection by subject word/phrase? That could be useful in the future as they get more nimble. Perhaps even Bayesian filtering on it... Darryl, it looks like there's no choice but

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Imail Queue manager and gateway

2004-03-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Just a personal pet peeve: Aren't all pet peeves personal? :)) --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude!

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update

2004-03-10 Thread Matt
Not to start a big argument about the issue, but just to reiterate my stance on this...while blocking port 25 would work, it is unnecessarily prohibitive. If my provider was to drop port 25 support, I would be forced to move to a new provider immediately as would most around here. I also get

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:44:31 -0500 Darin Cox said something about Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today: Anyone heard of envelope rejection by subject word/phrase? That could be useful in the future as they get more nimble. Perhaps even Bayesian filtering on it... Darin.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update -- With a new question

2004-03-10 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Comcast already does block 25. They don't require SMTP Auth though so it doesn't do much good. I contract for a small dial up ISP and we have customers who are on Comcast at home but use us for travelling. It's NOT that difficult to walk most of them through the few steps to change the outbound

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today

2004-03-10 Thread Darin Cox
Very cool...thanks, G. Darin. - Original Message - From: Gerald V. Livingston II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 2,000,000 + emails today On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:44:31 -0500 Darin Cox said something about

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast Update -- With a new question

2004-03-10 Thread Matt
Comcast doesn't block in all markets. My father was suddenly blocked about a year and a half ago, and it took us a couple of hours to figure out what was going on. Their tech support confirmed that they didn't even bother telling their customers that they were going to do this. In many other