RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative weighting filters to reduce false positives

2005-04-15 Thread Kami Razvan
Hi; Just to add my 2 cents to this discussion. My experience is similar to others with these two but I again think they have their place as a factor in combo filters. This is how we use these two. A filter for the RFC Ignorant File name: Combo_RFC_Ignorant.txt TESTSFAILED END CONTAINS

[Declude.JunkMail] Still can't install Declude 2.0.* with Imail... Stuck at 1.82 for now.

2005-04-15 Thread S.J.Stanaitis
I had this same problem with the 2.0.5 release, get an error Error copying files to directory and it fails, doesn't even copy files via the manual installation. I filled out the little support form that automatically popped up. Has anyone figured out a way around this yet? Thanks, Sam ---

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Still can't install Declude 2.0.* with Imail... Stuck at 1.82 for now.

2005-04-15 Thread S.J.Stanaitis
NM, they sent me a manual install in a zip. :) S.J.Stanaitis wrote: I had this same problem with the 2.0.5 release, get an error Error copying files to directory and it fails, doesn't even copy files via the manual installation. I filled out the little support form that automatically popped

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative weighting filters to reduce false positives

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Kami, I like the way you've named your tests. It's also good to know that others have already done similar Negative weighting for the larger ISPs while keeping some of these marginal tests. I had even thought about turning it into an RHSBL. Anyone have any interest in pooling lists to

[Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Ugh... I just saw a Challenge-Response email from an EarthLink user in the hold queue. It's obviously an EarthLink service. I assume they've exempted other EarthLink users from this, but I wonder what will happen when another major ISP decides to do it as well... insanity... Darin.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Scott Fisher
I really enjoyed the Earthlink Challenge-Response when my own e-mail address was forged by some spammers a couple of months ago. I'd get about a dozen Challenge-Responses a day out of Earthlink. - Original Message - From: Darin Cox To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Schmidt
Title: Message Darin, what's the problem? As long as Challenge/Response messages originate from "" (the null sender) it wouldn't matter if two majorISPs do it. They key is: a) have a weighting system in place so that only "questionable mail" is challenged to cut down on overhead b)

[Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner

2005-04-15 Thread Kyle Fisher
I am trying to determine why some email from Road Runner is getting picked up by DSBL. When I query DSBL for 24.93.47.42 it says Status Ip not listed by DSBL. Here is the line in my global.cfg DSBL ip4r list.dsbl.org * 8 0 Is the * picking up something since it looks for anything

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Ouch! Ok, so I'm a little behind the times...just hadn't seen any in the hold queue before now. Darin. - Original Message - From: Scott Fisher To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Title: Message Hi Andy, Well, this one didn't come from a NULL sender... so it looks like B from your keys below falls flat. I have no idea as to whether EarthLink does A or C. Darin. - Original Message - From: Andy Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Still can't install Declude 2.0.* with Imail... Stuck at 1.82 for now.

2005-04-15 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
File/Folder permissions? John T eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S.J.Stanaitis Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:13 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Still can't install

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
Title: Message Andy Schmidt wrote: The lack of a properly implemented challenge/response mechanism for Imail/Declude (for those who like to implement it) has always been a disadvantage. Ugg. Virtually every C/R that my server receives is associated with spam and it is very

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner

2005-04-15 Thread Scott Fisher
Could there be another hop that was being detected and checked by DSBL. Vould be it was on the lsit and then was later removed. - Original Message - From: Kyle Fisher To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:34 AM Subject:

[Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Kami Razvan
Title: Message "BTW, Kami has had repeated issues with C/R stopping his receipts. I'm not totally sure of the details there." WE HATE EARTHLINK.. everyday we get 20-30 C/R to our receipts. We simply delete them since it is impossible to keep up. If I could I would bounce their C/R so it

[Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread mhiltner
Pro version of declude, and been awhile since I've made a filter, so maybe I am over looking something silly. global cfg file: stepDOMblockfromfileC:\IMail\Declude\Filters\stepDOMblock.txt x 5 0 In C:\IMail\Declude\Filters\ is a txt file named stepDOMblock.txt with

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner

2005-04-15 Thread Kyle Fisher
This is what I have #= LOGS == # in the LOGFILE option, if present, automatically gets replaced with the month/date. # Log Level options: WARN / LOW / MID / HIGH / DEBUG / ERROR LOGFILE

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Is there a carriage return after the line in the stepDOMblock.txt file? Any chance something else has the file open and locked? Darin. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:11 AM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Schmidt
Title: Message If I could I would bounce their C/R so it never get to us. I tried it once and it got us in a loop with another ISP's C/R Yes, that's Declude's fault as much as it is an unacceptable C/R implementation. NEITHER should be sending notices from anything but NULL. If at least

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Keith Johnson
I believe all is needed here is to add a @ symbol in from of your domain in your .txt file Thus, @phobraun.com per Jessica's request -Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:12 AM To:

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
That just means he would no longer be able to catch aaaphobraun.com bbbphobraun.com cccphobraun.com dddphobraun.com ... But you're right in that normally you would put in one or both of @phobraun.com .phobraun.com Darin. - Original Message - From: Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
Title: Message IMail won't let Declude send as . That's the problem. Matt Andy Schmidt wrote: If I could I would bounce their C/R so it never get to us. I tried it once and it got us in a loop with another ISP's C/R Yes, that's Declude's fault as much as it is an

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
The HOPHIGH setting in combination I believe will result in the last 3 hops being scanned. In your config that is set to 2. It is advisable that you either comment out HOPHIGH, or take a bunch of time to work out how to score differently the open relay type tests on hops besides the last.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread mhiltner
should there be a CR? Currently there is. Nothing else has the filter file open. I purposely did not add @ to the beginning of the domain because I don't want any mail from any current or future mail servers of theirs. As it is now, I will delete anything coming from anything related to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Yes, there should. Only thing I can think of then is to make absolutely sure the filenames are typed correctly. I know you've probably already done it, but it had to be said...grin Might be worth retyping the line in case of any extraneous characters Darin. - Original Message -

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Schmidt
Title: Message IMail won't let Declude send as . That's the problem. Almost. The problem is that Declude stillCHOOSES to use theImail1.exe command line application, even though it clearly is unsuitable for the task. Instead,they should allow us to configure which command line

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner

2005-04-15 Thread Kyle Fisher
Ok thanks. I think I will just comment out HOPHIGH. Kyle From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:44 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSBL Road Runner The HOPHIGH setting in

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message ... or Postie, or dropping the message into an IIS SMTP pickup folder, or... but hopefully, not writing their own outbound MTA. Andrew 8) -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy SchmidtSent: Friday, April 15,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Earthlink now using challenge-response

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
Title: Message Andy, I also assume that they could also generate both a D and Q file and then just give it back to the SMTP process (IMail specific but likely also possible in SmarterMail). I would definitely approve of the change, and it is the right thing to do, but I don't think that this

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Kevin Bilbee
I would double\tripple check to see if the path is correct to the filter file??? Kevin Bilbee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:48 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Limitation - Support BLAT instead of Imail1 to allow NULL sender for messages

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Schmidt
Title: Message Hi Matt: I don't think that this would be trivial since there are several functions that use this and now two different platforms Now may actually be the right time - they clearly HAD to "unbundle" their code from Imail1.exe in order to support SmarterMail. If anything,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Limitation - Support BLAT instead of Imail1 to allow NULL sender for messages

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
Title: Message Andy, BLAT is great for scripting, but I don't think that you want to create such a dependency within Declude, and I could see this causing issues on some systems since this would be handled outside of the standard process. Since they already have a mail server to work with, I

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread mhiltner
the path is correct, the file name is correct, tried rebooting, still same error. Even went as far as renaming the test and the file and the adjusting the path accordingly.. same results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee Sent:

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] way off track - Can anyone recommend a majordomo alternative for win32?

2005-04-15 Thread Nick
I have a customer that knows majordomo but only has a Windows 2000 box to put it on - so although there may not be a port to win32 are there any comparable listserves that I could recommend? Thanks! -Nick --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread Keith Johnson
I have burned by not having deselected Hide file extensions for known file types, thus my example.txt file was really example.txt.txt Could this be the case? Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Problem loading filter

2005-04-15 Thread mhiltner
/me puts dunce cap on removing the .txt did not warn me about renaming the file, and it stayed txt... so I am guessing this was it. Just have to wait a little and see what happens. THANK YOU! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Johnson

[Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread M Pilletere
Hi, I just started using junkmail and was wondering how people used it. I would like to know if both imail's antispam and junkmail are used together or if it is better to turn off imail and just tweak junkmail? Seems like using junkmail only would make maintenance easier, but maybe imail has

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread Darin Cox
Nope...turn of IMail's anti-spam. Junkmail has everything there and much more. Darin. - Original Message - From: M Pilletere [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:35 PM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread Scott Fisher
I've turned off all of Imail's stuff. I also use Sortmonster's Message Sniffer and Invariant's Invuribl addons. - Original Message - From: M Pilletere [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:35 PM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread Erik
Agree. We also use the same as Scott. Imail's anti-spam is not used. Only Declude, Sniffer and Invariant's URIBL. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:52 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread Darrell \([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Personally, I have turned off Imail's anti-spam. There really is not anything there that Declude can't do or doesnt do better. I know some folks have a combination of both, but after looking over what Imail offers I did not see any added benefit to running it. Darrell

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] newbie question: imail antispam vs junkmail

2005-04-15 Thread M Pilletere
Thanks for all the input. I'll probably shut down Imail and tweak JM. Will look into the other programs suggested. Thank again. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 4:42 PM To: