Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT- Getting a URL de-listed on AOL

2004-01-29 Thread Sanford Whiteman
er-oriented business to be barred from the leading consumer ISP. But it's a *business* problem, and as a technical person, your only responsibility should be to explain it, not solve it. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf S

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT- Getting a URL de-listed on AOL

2004-01-30 Thread Sanford Whiteman
you scramble. IMO, the only other choice is to shut down completely. And this is quite a quandary for PrudentialRand. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] LOGFILE action

2004-02-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
). --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] LOGFILE action

2004-02-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ns," enable Full Control for the accounts you want to grant Full Control to. By default on XP, all users are read-only. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Mailfrom?

2004-02-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
e address that ends in a period would probably benefit from being escaped to confirm intent. Nonetheless, I wouldn't think that you'd see these two used together in a substantive amount of legit e-mail. But whether it's worth a filter is questionable. --Sandy ----

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Distributed Dictionary Attack

2004-02-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> The blocklists are great, but at that volume, I can't run Declude on > the messages without killing the server. Why would you ever run Declude on messages for unknown users? Even considering that as an option makes me cringe. --Sandy -----

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Distributed Dictionary Attack

2004-02-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
er to real-time than the more sophisticated anomaly regexes/greps. Then again, by definition, it is not actually responding to locally observed behavior. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integ

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Freezing email accounts

2004-02-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
name of the user." :) --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] How do they do it?

2004-02-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
;s interesting. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Releas

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] How do they do it?

2004-02-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
our userbase. Best practices dictate the rejection of users at the earliest possible point, which means _never_ processing mail for unknown users (this prescription covers both local catchall 'nobody' aliases and backup servers). --Sandy -------

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] JunkMail User Friendly Interface

2004-02-07 Thread Sanford Whiteman
list for further discussion. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
LDAP routing cannot be used for (and isn't designed for) that purpose. If you're looking to integrate MS SMTP with your userbase, the best bet is ORF from Vamsoft, which offers AD-integrated envelope rejection. --Sandy -- ---- Sanford White

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
x27;ve had MS SMTP and IIS working on the same box (and same port) for years now. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! h

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ot exceed that of indexed LDAP lookups. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ifically designed for this type of application. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/s

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
eatures within their own product! Coexisting with the competition is not a feature. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://ww

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
The server is a stand-alone box, and from a security standpoint, I > believe it is best for it to remain that way. You can still run AD on a standalone DC, like I mentioned. Restrict LDAP queries to the MXs, etc. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Tech

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Junkmail] MS SMTP LDAP Routing

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
uery languages like SQL, LDAP, even xBase (and their respective stable back ends) when dealing with appications which require up to hundreds of thousands of values to be stored. It's the sort of thing that seems easy until you watch it grow--and crumble under load. --Sandy ---

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
e scale of tens of thousands of items is just bad programming. Anything but that. Remember, the mighty ASCII-centric Postfix knows enough to use indexed data at runtime. Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrate

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Using Imail/Declude as Public Gateway

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
nfo into LDAP using CSVDE/LDIFDE. If you have ODBC tables for each domain, a SQL > CSV > CSVDE flow should be very straightforward. Haven't done it, though. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypr

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ia LDAP is the better way to go. As a longtime LDAP user, I believe your concerns about the complexity of having a built-in LDAP service running with the sole purpose of MX user lookup are unfounded. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadlea

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
n express disregard for it, count out the most capable programmers. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/soft

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
l be bothered by the > demands. There's absolutely no reason why this couldn't be done. My ultimate point is that _there is no reason for anything to be written_. If you want 50,000 users and text file input is what you want, use ORF. Geez, it's 99 bucks. Vamsoft has done a

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
osts about the "accept only for these users" option in ORF, which is loaded from a text file? This has nothing to do with LDAP. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAI

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
y about processing order. All addresses are in plain-text and will reload when the ORF service restarts. It's exactly what your spec suggests. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, I

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Pete, Everything that Sniffer does is after submission, so it really wouldn't apply. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMAIL -> AD

2004-02-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
O+E, none of this requires anything crazy to be done by SortMonster or Declude--except for licensing clarifications! :) --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMA

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: How do I bounce or reject ...

2004-02-12 Thread Sanford Whiteman
actions applied than ALERT, while legit mail would still receive the notification and be nullified. Still, you're opening a can of worms with anything that looks like malicious bouncing (malicious rejection is much smoother, obviously). --Sandy ---------

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New Phishing Scam

2004-02-13 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ust me... --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was s

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] New Phishing Scam

2004-02-14 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Still running from my end. I turned caching off on my machine. Still running for me. I am on hold and I'm going to be very, very blunt. Kudos to you guys for escalating this off the list. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist B

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] New Phishing Scam

2004-02-14 Thread Sanford Whiteman
be fair, the operations guy is unlikely to have the ability to turn anyone off, so let's give it a little while for the manager to "get into the office." --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Inte

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Use MS IIS SMTP server as a gateway

2007-12-12 Thread Sanford Whiteman
would with an IMail box making direct connections to remote servers). The FQDN of the virtual server will be the HELO. That's a nutshell version. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Syst

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Blackice Server EndOfLife - need replacement

2008-01-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> To replace blackice functions as to load on a server and monitor and > block what applications sends out on individual ports. I have an > offending app or task that trying to send out on random ports , I am > trying to find it and block it Yep, a HIPS like BlackIce can't be replaced by a se

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Blackice Server EndOfLife - need replacement

2008-01-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> We too use Black Ice with great success (except Windows 2003R2 will not > install and run). The replacement is IMP Proventia and very expensive at > about $700 per server. We are also looking for a more cost-effective > replacement. Blink again -- cost is insanely reasonable. --Sandy --- T

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Blackice Server EndOfLife - need replacement

2008-01-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Can you use eEye's Blink on a mail server? O'course. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www

Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] Blackice Server EndOfLife - need replacement

2008-01-05 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ther to get it up. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Atta

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Issue

2008-08-31 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I have som SPF issues What issues? Did you validate your TXT record at openspf? --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Decl

Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Issue

2008-09-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ote tests such as Men and Mice's DIG online work fine. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes

2008-10-08 Thread Sanford Whiteman
DNS) for recursive use only, chances are you should be outsourcing your anti-spam measures as well. From experience, I'm sure Todd has the skills to support his own DNS, so it seems defeatist to suggest he do otherwise after this migration period. --Sandy ---------

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes

2008-10-08 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ple trying to make use of such a techies' product as Declude (sorry, it is, I've been using it since 1.x) who can't handle this. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssa

Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes

2008-10-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
dustry has a characteristic tic: they will not learn for themselves what should be their core competencies. > I will work on getting a few articles together next week. If you > would like to contribute your extensive knowledge of DNS, shoot me > an email at [EMAIL PROTECT

Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes

2008-10-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
else who voiced their agreement. I expect the voices of the qualified sysadmins here are unified. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plug

Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes

2008-10-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
d. The test "can you run 'nslookup -q=mx gmail.com 1.2.3.4' is enough to tell people that the 1.2.3.4 is or isn't valid. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-ma

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative Weight an IP

2008-10-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Thanks for your suggestions! Um, fix the PTR? --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/produ

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative Weight an IP

2008-10-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
my thing. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Tur

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative Weight an IP

2008-10-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
S for each domain name? No, you decide the single most appropriate canonical hostname for the box and point the IP to that hostname. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] AOL - AIM Spam

2009-02-25 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ighted system. If anybody should be, y'know, malicious out there --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Decl

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] CommTouch ZeroHour

2009-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
n they bought and how they use Declude -- that certainly was not well-presented to the community. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.c

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
o is zone transfers for eligible BLs. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/sof

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Humans notice, because the traffic runs through a perimeter firewall > that checks port 53 traffic against its Intrusion Protection > profiles (amongst other things). Lately, during periods of heavy > activity it's been ramping up the CPU and memory of the perimeter > firewall. I'v

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
mmercial use. > You can remove this notice by purchasing a full licens Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
*unsticks Ctrl key* > How does one go about replicating a zone locally to begin with? 2 ways, depending on the BL. They could let you use standard DNS zone transfer, or they could make you do an "out-of-band" HTTP/FTP download of the zone. --Sandy ---

Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
day are supported, you would be well advised to replicate this one. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-10 Thread Sanford Whiteman
; NAT recognition feature -- I have probably saved days upon days of configuration/replication hell because of that. But you can continue to use Windows DNS and DNSCMD and be fine for this purpose. --Sandy ---- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Bro

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-11 Thread Sanford Whiteman
imal URIs like http://1.2.3.4 ? That doesn't make sense. --Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://ww

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Cutting down on DNS

2009-07-13 Thread Sanford Whiteman
No reason to believe that putting IP addresses in a DNS server would be substantively faster than an optimized local connection-time IP database. The local db itself should be cached in memory, and thus should never be slower when you add in the network overhead of DNS (even on the sa

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-17 Thread Sanford Whiteman
AutoWhite doesn't whitelist, it counterweights. Whether you counterweight enough to be tantamount to whitelisting is up to you and your setup. You should read the documentation for AW (if it is still available) before deciding that a base was not covered. -- Sandy --- [This E-mail was scanne

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for new Declude add-on

2011-02-18 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> This product is not ready to be on the market and certainly should not be > something someone pays good money to purchase. It has promise, but its not > ready yet. Your complaints have to do principally with SmarterMail -- certainly when the product was published and supported I don't recal

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
I'd second the RAM disk recommendation. You don't need to pay for enterprise-class RAM disk anymore, as the feature is built into Starwind Software's StarPort iSCSI initiator, which is free. We've used it for 2+ years now. -- Sandy --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: ramdisk using Windows Server 2008 64bit

2011-05-13 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Gary, I think I might have spaced on a similar question you asked a while back. I recommend Starwind Software's RAM disk -- the one that comes with their iSCSI initiator (you don't actually need any iSCSI SAN in place). We use it on 2003 + 2008. -- Sandy --- This E-mail came from t

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] white list or positive weight for a specific To address?

2011-06-19 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Why not use the HELO or REVDNS? REVDNS is going to be the safest > because of the difficulty in forging it Not always... if the domain has a hard-fail SPF record that isn't *itself* dependent on forgeable records (only uses IPs and forward DNS entries), then the MAILFROM can't success

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] white list or positive weight for a specific To address?

2011-06-21 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> wouldnt the spammer/attacker need to have delegated authority over > the source ip address space and control of DNS infrastructure to > forge a PTR record? Well, either delegated authority *or* a subscriber agreement with the ISP that allows PTRs to be requested/modified. For example

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-20 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Second problem: > In our new DNS records, I have it set up something like this: > two MX records: > bcwebhost.net MX mail.bcwebhost.net > mail.bcwebhost.net MX mail.bcwebhost.net > one A record: > mail.bcwebhost.net A (IP.200) > Is there any reason I can't have the same name for both an MX and

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-20 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I've been going in circles for about a month with Comcast on this > and they don't recall that they're the ones who told me three years > ago that they sometimes intercept DNS calls. I was wondering if > anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to track down the errant > DNS calls? First, what

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-20 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Thanks for the info. Is there any problem with using the same host name for > both MX record and A record? None at all. It is arguably redundant, as the host name will be tried in the absence of an A record, but it is best to keep your zones self-explanatory and not rely on fallback mechanisms.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
It's not really a complex setup unless you have (or had) a secondary that is capable of reloading with bad records. It shouldn't be possible to have a proper secondary that does this, as it should use either standard *XFR methods or some proprietary sync mechanism at startup to get the right record

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-26 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> So, two questions: first, is there a version of p0f that runs under Windows? > I found the Unix version and I found a Windows-port version that is not > compiled (and I haven't used a real compiler in at least ten years). http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/download/109101/p0f-3.03b-win.zip >

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> The link you provide is what I found before: it's a Windows port but it's > uncompiled. Lacking a compiler, I was looking for something precompiled. Ah, didn't notice that -- maybe search for a p0f 2.x binary because that's the last time I used it. I have a 2.04 binary that I'll send you off li

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] MX, DNS and other weird stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Update: NetworkMiner (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/networkminer/index.php?title=NetworkMiner) uses the p0f OS fingerprint database and should work for you. -- S. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
mail.bcwebhost.net. 43200 A 173.164.65.200 > mail.bcwebhost.net. 43200 MX 0 > mail.bcwebhost.net. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this setup and I wish you could make this Spencer Jones idiot publish this claim in a DNS-centric p

Re: Fw: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> To answer Shaun's question, you'll see that we only have ns0 and > ns2 for xname.org and ns1.xname.org is removed. So it shouldn't be > a problem. It isn't close to a problem. It isn't helping matters to have your ostensible allies misread one hostname as another! > Actually, I tried nslookup

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Actually, you did catch something. The section that starts with > "Authority". In his email he says "Answer ns0.xname.org" which I > take to mean that he is getting that authorotative response from > nso0.xname.org and not ns1.xname.org as you assume below. It means "ns0.xname.org" is part of

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-27 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I remember Len Conrad from way back when, and I believe he could > "hand him his" Where would there be a DNS-centric list or forum where > Len hangs out? Maybe the big ISC BIND newsgroup or something? But it doesn't have to be him, it could be someone on the DNSStuff forums, too. -- S.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-28 Thread Sanford Whiteman
of the Comcast person did not help matters. -- S. Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: sa...@cypressintegrated.com SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Fw: Deciphering Comcast reply on weird DNS stuff

2012-11-28 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Ben, Thanks for running your questions by me. Feel free to forward this message to your Comcast rep. Even if he is unwilling to help you further, there is information below that will help him be more accurate in future cases, since he currently lacks sufficient understanding of DNS. Mr. Jones is

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] why have spam scores jumped?

2013-03-15 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> The challenge for me is in not using forwarding. For MS DNS > servers, forwarding and recursion are tied together; turn off one > and you lose both. Incorrect. Turning off recursion turns off forwarders, but not vice versa. You can have a perfectly operating recursive MS DNS server that does

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] why have spam scores jumped?

2013-03-15 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> My experience with MS DNS is that forwarders are setup at > installation because the installer assumes a blank forwarder means > the DNS server will be unable to lookup addresses. Well put. That must explain the feeling that forwarders are recommended -- they've been turned on for so long that

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] why have spam scores jumped?

2013-03-16 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Ben, you'd find Simple DNS Plus an easy cross-grade. We have used it exclusively for all user-facing DNS for many years. We only use MS DNS as a stealth primary. Also, as Andy said, it's hard to believe your authoritiative domains require more than a few dollars a month worth of DNS hosting -- som

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Whois Tests?

2013-03-22 Thread Sanford Whiteman
That is/was Day Old Bread's goal. -- S. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] No one at Declude?

2013-04-08 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> So, has no one still heard nothing from Declude? This is my favorite > anti-spam service and I would hate to lose them. Well, no apologetic post here == bye-bye to the product, IMO. What really irks me when this happens (I've had it happen to two beloved "boutique" apps in the past) is that n

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT- SpamReview & the Kill File

2002-09-17 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> In some cases, not necessarily this one, SpamReview will use > mindspring or the reply address where as Declude will say it's from > a different address. Sounds like a pretty useless app, if so. > You see the dilemma, I would go after all of them, something's gota > eventually byt

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT- SpamReview & the Kill File

2002-09-18 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Not exactly, I actually verify each and every site before I consider > listing them in my kill file or ISP file. Great--the point is that SpamReview's bugs, if they're grabbing faked intermediate second-level domains (mindspring.net in your example) and suggesting that they be killed whe

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Date Header wrong - REALLY?

2002-09-18 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Is there a knowledge base entry listing the headers that Imail > injects? No. But these are they, AFAIK: Received: Message-Id: From: Date: X-RCPT-TO: Status: X-UIDL: Note that messages must have basic RFC822-style header and body sections in order for these headers to be in

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Yahoo Abuse Account

2002-09-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Seems Yahoo (at least groups) fails the abuse test when they do have > an abuse account. yahoogroups.com should not fail, but yahoo.com proper (pardon the expression) should fail NOABUSE (they attempt to route people to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is all well and good, but non-RFC). If

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Wordfilter in BASE64?

2002-09-25 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> That's what I suspected. Has anyone seen HTML Base64 segments that > *weren't* spam? Are there any email clients that actually put out > such a thing? Yes. My research suggests that sites using Outlook in (native) Corporate Mode and Exchange 5.5 and 2000 are frequent false-positi

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] filter on special chars

2002-09-25 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Does anybody see a reason against filtering on these characters in > the senders email address? Yes: a) The '+' sign is in common use by well-behaved list managers, and is in fact suggested by list exploder RFCs. It is reasonable, in fact preferable, to expect legitimate bulk mail t

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] order of processing problem

2002-10-20 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> When iMail recieves mail, it will route into the mailbox BEFORE the > filters are run. I see you're on 7.07. I believe this was...well, let's say "altered to your liking" instead of "fixed"...in 7.1. -Sandy --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)]

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] order of processing problem

2002-10-21 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Oh great. I don't have a "support" contract and really dont feel > like shelling out the $$ for 7.1x. I hear ya. > Any workaround? You could write a custom program alias to do the filtering. But this probably won't be worth the effort for just your mailbox alone. Note that this isn't a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IMail API

2002-10-31 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I realize that this mailing list is devoted to JunkMail discussions; > however, I was referred here ...from where? > Any help or a link to another group that would be able to help me would be > greatly appreciated. Try signing up for the IMail Forum at: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mai

Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] question for all...

2002-11-02 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> How do you setup a domain to spool only then forward to another > Exchange server? Search IMail KB for "store and forward." -Sandy --- [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 unsubscr

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude JunkMail v1.62 (beta) released

2002-11-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Seems to me that this would add a LOT of false positives, especially > from larger ISPs where the outgoing relay servers aren't necessarily > the same as the incoming (the only ones listed in MX records) smtp > servers. > Am I all wet on this? I agree with you completely. In fact, even with t

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Help

2002-11-26 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I believe this to be the first of many emails trying desperately to > tweak every last feature of IMail and Declude to get the performance > that I need. Please let me know anything you might need from me. Performance Monitor will help you figure out whether only the CPU is being pegged,

[Declude.JunkMail] HOWTO(ish): Self-expiring whitelists

2002-11-30 Thread Sanford Whiteman
ave their interests piqued. -Sandy -------- Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] HOWTO(ish): Self-expiring whitelists

2002-11-30 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> To clarify a point though: do you implement a BOUNCE to the domain's > postmaster of the offending server? We haven't found this useful, since so much spam goes to the "known good" postmaster@ and abuse@ is not as common as it should be. At any rate, we don't BOUNCE the messages that ar

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Web Based Interface

2002-12-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> What I am trying to figure out is what holds/creates the string : > Xade9939bcc9fcf9aee8571e9 In other words, "How do I crack IWEBMSG session security?" What are you trying to do with this information? -Sandy --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com

Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Web Based Interface

2002-12-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> With all respect if we were trying to hack Imail then why ask such > question in this user group? Stranger things have happened. :) I knew that wasn't what you *meant* in terms of your end results, but in practical terms your proposed implementation would have required it. -Sandy --- [T

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Web Based Interface

2002-12-01 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Guys, Nobody uses Finger anymore, right? Well, check this out: with a few cosmetic tweaks to chgplan.html, pchgplan.html, and dropdown.cgi, you can give your users a fully IMail-served per-user blacklist, with the data stored in the unused PLAN.IMA and users none the wiser. Combine this wit

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] How Does IPNOTINMX Work?

2002-12-02 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> So, IPNOTINMX compares the MX IP against the SENDER (workstation) > IP? Not the SENDING MAIL SERVER'S IP? It compares to the connecting IP, which in your case was your directly connected workstation. For remote connections, it would indeed be the mail server. -Sandy --- [This E-mail was sc

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] change HOLD location

2002-12-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Is there a way to change the location of HOLD messages from the > default? You can use an NTFS mount point to put it on another physical partition, though it's still just one folder. -Sandy --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- T

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] false positives

2002-12-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Since I have been using the ROUTETO command, can I somehow forward > the message to the intended recipient... Yes, The Bat! does this readily. > ...without the user realizing I monitored it? Not in a commercial MUA that I'm aware of, since they add headers that traced the message route. The

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