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

2003-10-12 Thread Smart Business Lists
Jonas, Saturday, October 11, 2003 you wrote: J I assume that they must do this to try to avoid content filtering. I J was never aware of that they could fake messages like this. I think you are viewing a message that is in multipart mime. In web mail you are viewing the html part of the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist question

2003-09-15 Thread Smart Business Lists
Keith, Monday, September 15, 2003 you wrote: KA I don't see WHITELIST REVDNS ... in the instructions anywhere. What is KA this doing exactly, and what are the other WHITELIST options? see http://www.declude.com/relnotes.htm 1.66 [Beta, 17 Jan 2003] Terry Fritts ---

[Declude.JunkMail] longsubject

2003-09-11 Thread Smart Business Lists
Just FYI Dell Premier support has very long subject lines. One example I've seen is 182 characters. Terry Fritts --- [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

[Declude.JunkMail] SORBS-SPAM

2003-09-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Careful on SORBS-SPAM - blocking some large providers - Cox for one. Terry Fritts --- [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

[Declude.JunkMail] broken spam reporting software

2003-07-30 Thread Smart Business Lists
We've received a few messages complaining of spam that begin: Hello. The spammer below is either using your resources to send out bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail or is deceptively trying to make it look like he is. In either case, a legitimate company like yours

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Joshua, Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote: JL Yes, but it depends on what large is. It seems to me the statement applies to all businesses. JL It was created by the guy that made Yahoo's groups before Yahoo JL owned them. Well, that isn't exactly a confidence builder for me for various

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New spamcop style RBL..

2003-07-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Sunday, July 27, 2003 you wrote: JL I'm not trying to make this an argument. That's funny. --- [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

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Yahoo Groups.

2003-07-21 Thread Smart Business Lists
Monday, July 21, 2003 you wrote: RL Do you think that we can move the declude list to yahoo for the following I hope not. It is torture - at best. Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter Rule Mistake

2003-07-09 Thread Smart Business Lists
Rob, Wednesday, July 9, 2003 you wrote: RS I understood the $'s to behave as wildcards. Just as a matter of interest where did you get the idea that $ was a wildcard character? Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Subject Contains test

2003-07-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Jeff, Tuesday, July 1, 2003 you wrote: JMH I was wondering if there was a subject contains type of test. JMH E.g. A message subject line contains Viagra, kinky, xxx, sex, etc. it will JMH fail the tests. JMH Is there something like this already? Thanks.. That is filtering and it is

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Mail Client with Redirect Command

2003-06-29 Thread Smart Business Lists
Jeff, Sunday, June 29, 2003 you wrote: JP I have been playing around with it and so far it is GREAT Actually I always use the latest beta. You can find here: http://www.ritlabs.com/ftp/pub/the_bat/beta/ Many new features including plugins. plugins are discussed on a separate

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Mail Client with Redirect Command

2003-06-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Friday, June 27, 2003 you wrote: JP Can anyone out there recommend a Windows based email client JP that supports the redirect command ?? the Bat! http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] ---

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSN:Tarpitting and declude firewall integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration

2003-06-16 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Monday, June 16, 2003 you wrote: BB Thats what TarProxy sort of does. TarProxy accepts the BB inbound SMTP connections and relays them to a backend SMTP BB host (imail's smtpd). What I'm saying would be great, is if BB TarProxy could call Declude-like tests during the SMTP BB session...

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSN:Tarpitting and declude firewall integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration integration

2003-06-16 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Monday, June 16, 2003 you wrote: BB The more tests it fails, the BB slower the connection gets...IN REAL TIME! I see now, thanks for the reply. XMAIL has a setting like this with its CustMapsList and its SMTP-RDNSCheck. I've used both but I didn't find it very useful. In CustMapsList

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] DSN:Tarpitting and declude firewall integration

2003-06-16 Thread Smart Business Lists
Charles, Monday, June 16, 2003 you wrote: CF I can also use XMail to slow down server responses to addresses CF in response to a RBL Are you using the RDNS test in XMAIL? I felt like the time to check delayed the dialogue too long. Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Request for new/enhanced feature

2003-06-06 Thread Smart Business Lists
Thursday, June 5, 2003 you wrote: EG should also have failed HTMLCOMMENTS But those aren't html comments as far as I know. Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: imail (NOT) spam....

2003-05-31 Thread Smart Business Lists
Jools, Friday, May 30, 2003 you wrote: JC This is waht Spamcop have to say about how their system works: JC http://mailsc.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html JC look at number 7 especially: JC 7. If a host has only 1 SUBE report against it, it will not be listed. JC (SUBE is Supposed Unsolicited

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: imail (NOT) spam....

2003-05-30 Thread Smart Business Lists
Jools, Friday, May 30, 2003 you wrote: JC But, to block a server at Spamcop it must be reported several times, JC this is obviously to stop people from being nasty and getting servers JC blocked that they don't like. That's not true. Spamcop blocks on ONE incident. Sometimes it is

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Parsing Email Header

2003-03-24 Thread Smart Business Lists
Keith, Monday, March 24, 2003 you wrote: KJ I wanted to see if anyone had any luck with a recommended tool (i.e. KJ Perl Script, etc) to parse out email headers on the fly (i.e. Program KJ alias) and adding the address into a block list that Declude Junkmail KJ could guard against the next time.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer

2003-03-13 Thread Smart Business Lists
Ron, Thursday, March 13, 2003 you wrote: RH Is Message Sniffer reliable at catching only spam and not RH legitimate e-mail? RH I am very interested in learning your opinions. I don't think you will find such a product period. But if you did I bet it would be more expensive than sniffer.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Removing mails by the subject

2003-03-09 Thread Smart Business Lists
Darryl, Sunday, March 9, 2003 you wrote: DK I get tons that say DK He Hit Me that are porn etc. I've seen a bunch of those recently but they've failed the following tests on my system: OSSOFT, SPAMCOP, WIREHUB-DNSBL, DORKZTL, SBL, SORBS-HTTP, CN-KR, NOABUSE, NOPOSTMASTER,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] D T Files

2003-02-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 you wrote: RSP If they are T*.SMD files, something went wrong -- in this case, RSP the computer that connected to IMail should have received an RSP error response of some sort, and they should either re-try or RSP receive a bounce message. you also see a lot of T

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] A Question of Ethics

2003-02-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
Dan, Wednesday, February 26, 2003 you wrote: DP I just found out that within a week of starting my my anti spam DP service (delivery choice 2), a company fired an employee for DP receiving tons of porn via email. I suppose somehow they knew he subscribed to it. Otherwise someone just

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Dealing with Nasty Spams

2003-02-08 Thread Smart Business Lists
Aaron, Saturday, February 8, 2003 you wrote: AMC From: Eric Raymonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] AMC Subject: Enormous ... I think I saw some like that. Fortunately they failed enough tests for us to trap. There were several though as I recall with variations in the subject, sender, etc.,.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New Util

2003-02-07 Thread Smart Business Lists
Charles, Friday, February 7, 2003 you wrote: CF Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Nice job Charles. Terry Fritts --- [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

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New Util

2003-02-07 Thread Smart Business Lists
Duane, Friday, February 7, 2003 you wrote: DC I have a question, how do you get perl to rescan the same log it scanned 5 DC minutes before, and pick up where it left off? Always more than one way - but here is one possibility: sub tail_log { my $iteration = 0; for (;;) { while (LOGFILE)

[Declude.JunkMail] open relay testing

2003-01-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
Inspired by the recent PERCENT test discussion I thought someone might be interested in open relay testing programs. The following is not exhaustive as you might imagine but I've used all of these. Online you can test at: http://www.ordb.org/submit/ but if you fail then you are added to the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer holding all e-mails

2003-01-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 you wrote: BN It is failing every e-mail BN received. Any ideas what could be wrong? check both the file name and path to the sniffer exe and you key - SNIFFER external nonzero c:\sniffer\yoursniffername.exe yourkey 15 0 file name has to be the one you were given

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer holding all e-mails

2003-01-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
John, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 you wrote: JT NO NO. Demo version does not have a file key. whoops, sorry - read demo but it didn't register. But still make certain you've copied it exactly the way it was in the instructions as it seems to me I had this error at first and I had mistyped

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer Holding all E-mail

2003-01-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 you wrote: BN SNIFFER externalnonzero C:\IMail\Declude\Sniffer\sniffer2.exe BN I do not have a weight set. I set it up to HOLD as a test. When I demoed I had to have that string at the end of the .exe path. It has been a while but make sure

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer holding all mail

2003-01-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Tuesday, January 28, 2003 you wrote: BN I added the at the end of the test. Now, I am getting the BN ERROR_RULE_AUTH 73 entry in the sniffer2.txt log file and it is not working. BN The good news is that mail is passing through Declude properly. G well, that's the error that

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] PERCENT test

2003-01-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Markus, Monday, January 27, 2003 you wrote: MG How can I test relaying trough my servers using the %piggyback address? MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be the correct format. MG This will not work. You have 2 mail servers, example.com, which is an IMAIL server, and example.net. Example.net

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] PERCENT test

2003-01-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Monday, January 27, 2003 you wrote: MG If I understand right a problem can ocur if one of our clients MG mailservers (most of them exchange servers) become a open relay because MG the admin has changed something. If this server has set our Imail-Server MG as smarthost and uses SMTP-Auth to

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] IP Range to CIDR Conversion

2003-01-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
Rick, Sunday, January 26, 2003 you wrote: RR 1) paste in the range, i.e., 61.128.0.0-61.159.255.255 and get the CIDR RR bit output (good) You can use mine - but be careful - it expects you to know a bit about what you are doing. http://www.smartbusiness.net/ipcalc.asp ie, it

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] PERCENT test

2003-01-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
Markus, Sunday, January 26, 2003 you wrote: MG Why PERCENT should be a sign for spam that recieve 50% of MG the hold action in your default config file? MG Have I missed something? The PERCENT test was never to catch spam as I recall. IMAIL, and other mail servers for that matter, can be

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Feeling vindictive against spammers. Revenge?

2003-01-18 Thread Smart Business Lists
Marc, Saturday, January 18, 2003 you wrote: MC If spammers find that it seems most of their mail is getting MC bounced (100's or 1000's of rejections) and if the open relays MC find themselves flooded with traffic they may close up (or fix it MC if it accidental). It doesn't really work that

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spoofed IP's

2003-01-10 Thread Smart Business Lists
Andrew, Thursday, January 9, 2003 you wrote: CA The ooh, hackers are wizards that can do anything theory This goes right along with the popular myths: 1) geeky teen boys can hack into any computer network 2) geeky teen boys can type or speak anything to a computer terminal and the computer

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Completely off topic

2003-01-05 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, Sunday, January 5, 2003 you wrote: DLW Does anyone know how to get this service (World Wide Web DLW Publishing Service) back? 1st Try net start world wide web publishing service If that doesn't work I think you probably will have to reinstall - Start-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] External test question

2003-01-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
Saturday, January 4, 2003 you wrote: MG A.) With identified as spam you mean they reached the hold value? MG B.) With 2430 processed msgs you mean inbound + outbound? MG In this case 39% is a very high value if you've not some spammers MG as client that create outgoing spam. 39% is about what we

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Chinanet

2002-12-22 Thread Smart Business Lists
Eje, Sunday, December 22, 2002 you wrote: EG Anyone knows of any spam list that got chinanet.cn.net ips blocked ? maybe SBL - http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics-hosts.lasso Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] An optional web interface for Declude JunkMail?

2002-12-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Monday, December 16, 2002 you wrote: A lot of our customers seem to want a web interface to Declude JunkMail, mostly so that customers can turn their spam settings on or off. Yes, I thought about it again this morning as I was scrolling through 476 trapped messages from overnight.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] An optional web interface for Declude JunkMail?

2002-12-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 you wrote: P What we would most likely not do is use a database (the flat files P seem to work very well, and are very efficient), use IIS (a lot of P people don't want to use it, for security reasons), or any special P technologies (such as dot NET, ASP, CF, etc.). We

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: MS update

2002-12-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 you wrote: JK Reading a message from last week, someone said this also effected the JK WS_FTP Server. No. I said the patch DID NOT change WS_FTP_SERVER's gui. Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Do spammers rank recipients

2002-12-09 Thread Smart Business Lists
Keith, Monday, December 9, 2002 you wrote: KP We're trying to figure out why my boss -- a vice president -- KP receives much more spam than I do. I get about two spam a day, KP while he gets 50. 2 out of 4 might be bad but 50 out of 1,000 might not be. I handle 500+ messages per day and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Do spammers rank recipients

2002-12-09 Thread Smart Business Lists
Matt, Monday, December 9, 2002 you wrote: MR Does this sound familiar? MR DAY 1: mgmt-type (i.e. drooling idiot) gets 1 spam. MRDutifully asks to be removed. MR DAY 2: 2 spams and 2 happy-go-lucky removal requests. MR DAY 3: 4 spams, 4 removal clicks. MR DAY 5: 256 spams and ... MR

[Declude.JunkMail] more on spamcop

2002-12-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
My latest incident with spamcop - A client has an Order Confirmation auto-responder. To get the message you have to send an e-mail to the auto-responder. The auto-responder is not on our server - only the web site. The auto-responder message was reported to spamcop. We think it was

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Junk Mail calling External Programs

2002-12-02 Thread Smart Business Lists
John, Monday, December 2, 2002 you wrote: JT Are you saying that if the external program is going to parse the JT Q file, it will not find it because it has been renamed to _ with JT an extension of .~md at that point? Yes. I'm not exactly clear on what program has changed the name. I

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Junk Mail calling External Programs

2002-12-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Mishi Sunday, December 1, 2002 you wrote: I want to make sure that I understand your answer. Do you mean that I have to do something else in the configuration or you meant that this version of Delude does not pass the header information? Declude adds its headers to the message after the tests

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Web Based Interface

2002-12-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Sunday, December 1, 2002 you wrote: C anyone out there developed a web based interface so the users can C change some of the parameters? A lot of discussion but I don't remember if I've seen anyone actual release a version. C To be more specific about my question is how does Imail pass the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Web Based Interface

2002-12-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Mishi Sunday, December 1, 2002 you wrote: The link that you sent me did not explain what I am asking for. Let me explain my question a bit more: Suppose there is a virtual domain called abcvirtual.com on a server called xyzserver.com. When a user logs in to the server using Imail port 8383

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Unable to get filter to work

2002-11-28 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, Thursday, November 28, 2002 you wrote: I have added MYFILTER WARN to $default$.junkmail.txt and removed the double quotes around the text file leaving MYFILTERfilter c:\imail\declude\myfilter.txt x 0 0 The format appears to be correct. I'm sent a few more test

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Product of HOP?

2002-11-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Darrell, Wednesday, November 27, 2002 you wrote: DL Is this a product of HOP or a hiccup on spamcop's side? hop DL 11/26/2002 17:37:21 Qf79f094e00364534 Msg failed SPAMCOP (Blocked - see DL http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?205.188.139.134). Action=WARN. see

Re: DSN:Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Increase in SPAMCOP listing

2002-11-27 Thread Smart Business Lists
Brian, Wednesday, November 27, 2002 you wrote: BM I have noticed this as well. Yesterday Spamcop failed several BM legitimate messages from AOL users. Maybe they are not clearing BM out the false reports as regularly as they normally do because of BM the holiday week. Part of it is that they

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Getting held mail delivered?

2002-11-25 Thread Smart Business Lists
Marc, Monday, November 25, 2002 you wrote: MC I copied both D4a4405430076c191.SMD and Q4a4405430076c191.SMD back MC to the spool directory and they have been sitting there for an MC hour. I found the Imail send one and send all commands and the MC messages were delivered. Would these ever get

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelisting

2002-11-21 Thread Smart Business Lists
Adam, Thursday, November 21, 2002 you wrote: AH With WHITELISTING, I know there is a limit of 200 domains. Will AH this limit ever be increased? Or maybe be made into a separate AH test like the FROMFILE where ALL domains listed in that would be AH allowed??? AH The only other option I can

[Declude.JunkMail] rfc-ignorant vs UUNET

2002-11-21 Thread Smart Business Lists
A day or so ago I happened to discover that my class C was listed in rfc-ignorant IPWHOIS. Further investigation showed that all of UUNET was listed and since I was on UUNET I was included. The reason for the listing has to do with the OrgTech handle (not Tech hangel but OrgTech handle).

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelisting

2002-11-21 Thread Smart Business Lists
Andrew, Thursday, November 21, 2002 you wrote: CA I want to keep my SPAMCOP HOLD action (and a few others). I've CA established with our team that going to a pure weighted system is CA probably in our future. I have a rule that fires from a custom external filter program that uses

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Wordfilter bypassed

2002-11-19 Thread Smart Business Lists
R., Tuesday, November 19, 2002 you wrote: RSP I can understand an HTML E-mail having one or two comments in it, RSP but 10 or 20 is just a waste of bandwidth. That is information RSP the recipient will never see. Lots of the content management systems are heavily commented so I see a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BLACKLISTS -

2002-11-18 Thread Smart Business Lists
SPAM, Monday, November 18, 2002 you wrote: S After reading this article, I changed our setup to weight the S blacklist to 7 and delete email at weight20. This waters down the S blacklist a bit but removes the reliance...anyone else doing the S same or similar? I think I understand what

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: [Declude.JunkMail] Is this possible with the filter function or blacklist?

2002-11-11 Thread Smart Business Lists
Dan, Monday, November 11, 2002 you wrote: DS I want to either delete or send to a specified mailbox all mail DS for a list of recipients. DS Is this possible using declude filters? Yes, but I believe it would require a custom external test. As far as I know there is no declude test that traps

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Is this possible with the filter function or blacklist?

2002-11-11 Thread Smart Business Lists
R., Monday, November 11, 2002 you wrote: RSP ALLRECIPS filter option in v1.62 Is that documented somewhere and I just missed it? How does it work? Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Is this possible with the filter function or blacklist?

2002-11-11 Thread Smart Business Lists
Dan, Monday, November 11, 2002 you wrote: DS Would I need to put the entire email addy? Not necessarily. DS And is it only going to look at the entire thing or will it find user or DS r2 out of the above examples? ALLRECIPS would have to match exactly with IS. DS Wouldn't the IS

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] move to different user

2002-11-05 Thread Smart Business Lists
Robert, Tuesday, November 5, 2002 you wrote: RS IMail that would move mail between users. RS Can I have declude do this for me? see ROUTETO in manual. Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the

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

2002-11-05 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Tuesday, November 5, 2002 you wrote: BB 1) Do you see it being possible to code something like this using BB an external test? The external test works great. I just wrote one in perl and I am very pleased. I'm doing very little right now but it is an excellent concept. The only real

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

2002-11-05 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Tuesday, November 5, 2002 you wrote: BB The part I'm not quite sure how to handle is knowing which BB domain's blacklist file to use in my exe when there are multiple BB recipients. For example, if I were to set up my test like this... BB DOMBLACKLIST external nonzero BB

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] blackholes.us

2002-11-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
Alexander, Monday, November 4, 2002 you wrote: HA what _is_ blackholes.us? Just another ip4r Test? Or something I should HA know? ;-) http://www.blackholes.us/ you pick a country you want to check - for instance China - so in your CFG file you add: CHINA ip4rchina.blackholes.us

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] blackholes.us

2002-11-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
Frederick, Monday, November 4, 2002 you wrote: FS My provider and is on the blackholes.us list. FS This what they say about it. FS Email_Message : I've inquired of that and there's no signs of FS anyone actually being blackholed. I contacted some of the bigger FS players in the abuse/spam world

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Two JunkMail questions please...

2002-11-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
Joe, Monday, November 4, 2002 you wrote: JWC #2 Is the Declude replacement to the Ipswitch mail handler that JWC much more inefficient, or does JunkMail just take alot more JWC processing? Declude doesn't replace the mail handler. It is handed the message by IMAIL, processes it, and depending

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Two JunkMail questions please...

2002-11-04 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, Monday, November 4, 2002 you wrote: DLW Has anyone found MessageSniffer to add any significant CPU load DLW before/after implementation? No noticeable load. If you are are already using it you can get this information in the sniffer logs - see

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam software

2002-11-03 Thread Smart Business Lists
Danny, Sunday, November 3, 2002 you wrote: DK Is this spam software? http://www.infogeneratorpro.com/ web page says they have a strict anti-spam policy and they have a reporting mechanism. They have abuse and postmaster accounts. They are however listed in: INTERSIL, OSSRC,

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam Mail Statistics

2002-10-14 Thread Smart Business Lists
eddie, Monday, October 14, 2002 you wrote: EP New user to JunkMail here.. Welcome to the war. EP I know that declude has a spam trap. Is there data available on EP this to determine how effective each test is? Scott posts his monthly spam stats to the IMAIL forum - see

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Best Rule Tweaks

2002-10-08 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, Tuesday, October 8, 2002 you wrote: DD What are your favorite tweaks to the default rules and actions? Employ a weight system. I use a simple system with only two weights but others have more complex systems. This will take some effort depending upon your particular

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Effectiveness

2002-10-06 Thread Smart Business Lists
Dan, Saturday, October 5, 2002 you wrote: DP 70%? I believe the spam filter that comes free with Mac OS 10.2 DP does that well by itself, though I haven't tested it for FPs yet. The original poster, Keith Purtell, (subject Newbie question about baseline) was wondering about the volume of

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Evaluating Declude Junkmail for purchase (NEWBIE)

2002-09-29 Thread Smart Business Lists
Brian, Sunday, September 29, 2002 you wrote: BG I am a small specialty hosting company That's kind of what we do. BG 1. What do you think of Declude Junkmail - are you and your users BG satisfied? Very good product for IMAIL, excellent support and service from the vendor, and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] More On Spam, And SpamCop

2002-09-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
Thursday, September 26, 2002 you wrote: T But they're doing it the wrong way, both in concept and execution. The big problem I see with Spam-Cop is the area of web site URL's contained within user provided e-mail messages. When I receive a notice from Spam-Cop that someone has reported a

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] dictionary attacks

2002-09-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Bill, Monday, September 16, 2002 you wrote: BB I have seen talk on the Imail Forum about people attempting to BB script something to combat Dictionary Attacks by blocking IPs that BB send over too many RCPT TO commands that result in ERR invalid BB user. I wrote such a program that is

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] More encoded spam

2002-09-07 Thread Smart Business Lists
I started special trapping on messages with base 64 encoding ONLY in text/html mime segments late on 9/5. In slightly more than 2,000 total messages since then there has been one such message. It was spam. Why the message was encoded in base64 is just a mystery to me. The message failed most

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Commenting out a spefic test

2002-09-06 Thread Smart Business Lists
Adam, Friday, September 6, 2002 you wrote: AH I am finding that ALOT of legimate domains do not have proper AH reverse DNS. And since one ISP cannot change the ways of the AH Internet I just want to remove the REVDNS test. AH Has anyone done this or am I going about this wrong? Well about 25%

[Declude.JunkMail] dictionary attacks

2002-08-16 Thread Smart Business Lists
Yesterday we recorded dictionary attack(s) from 42 different IP's. For the most part these were in different network ranges. Most attempts tried 24 addresses but several were fewer and 3 were more. Sometimes 10 or 15 minutes between attack and later in the day maybe an hour. Can't say if it

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Blacklist IP range

2002-08-14 Thread Smart Business Lists
Doris, Wednesday, August 14, 2002 you wrote: DD Thanks ... how would I handle a smaller range ... say 66.46.150.5 DD to 66.46.150.40 ... You'd either have to: put in a cidr range that includes that range which would be 66.46.150.0/26 (66.46.150.0 to 66.46.150.63) or

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Header problems

2002-07-31 Thread Smart Business Lists
Glen, Wednesday, July 31, 2002 you wrote: GH I am a new user to anti-span programs and resources and would GH appreciate if someone could point me towards where I can ascertain GH what triggers these warnings - specifically what I assume is the GH code listed in the warning.

Re[2]: KITHRUP:RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude and Sniffer

2002-07-29 Thread Smart Business Lists
Monday, July 29, 2002 you wrote: DL Anyone have any idea's on why they wouldn't have those addresses setup? They don't set them up. My guess is because they handle too much volume. I suspect it would take a significant staff to handle what they would get in postmaster and abuse. ---

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding BOUNCE to your Kill list? GOOD or BAD?

2002-07-29 Thread Smart Business Lists
Tom, Monday, July 29, 2002 you wrote: T Have you ever seen BOUNCE used in legitimate mail? I haven't kept a running database of them but never expected to have to prove anything. But just from today I can list a few: @bounces.spamcop.net - note that bounce is inside bounces

Re[5]: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding BOUNCE to your Kill list? BAD...

2002-07-29 Thread Smart Business Lists
Tom, Monday, July 29, 2002 you wrote: T I see, so there are a few out there. I guess I could use another T list with a weighing system for the BOUNCE address. What are your T thoughts, if any? bounce is less common now in lists than a short time back. I suppose that's why so much spam

[Declude.JunkMail] externalplus, weight, and weightmatch

2002-07-01 Thread Smart Business Lists
Scott, You may have done this somewhere already but I don't seem to find it. Would you mind providing examples of the following: RSP externalplus test type added, to allow external programs to RSP whitelist E-mail RSPweight response type for external programs, to allow external RSPprograms to

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist stopped working, REVDNS lookup fails

2002-06-30 Thread Smart Business Lists
Just to expand on this a bit more I have seen a few (2 or 3) messages held that should have been passed because of IP whitelist. As an example one was the middle message of 3 generated from a program on our own network. The ip was whitelisted like 192.168.1. and 2 of the messages were not held

Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist stopped working, REVDNS lookup fails

2002-06-30 Thread Smart Business Lists
The last one you provided a link to: 1.55i (330,633 bytes 6/28/2002) I don't remember if it is the 2nd i or not. I was having a number of the blank banned extensions - don't get them any more. Terry Fritts Sunday, June 30, 2002 you wrote: RSP Which version are you running? --- [This

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelist stopped working, REVDNS lookup fails

2002-06-30 Thread Smart Business Lists
Definitely fixes it for me. Had 113 ...from a mail server with no... in the logs until I installed the interim release and none afterwards. Also had at least 6 more messages passed that had failed the whitelisted ip. Thanks Scott for such excellent service on a Sunday. Very much appreciated.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Subscription Email failed SPAMHEADERS

2002-06-21 Thread Smart Business Lists
Friday, June 21, 2002 you wrote: TBNI After trying to subscribe to this list after a while I finally TBNI checked my spam folder and saw why I wasnt getting any replies. TBNI X-RBL-Warning: SPAMHEADERS: This E-mail has headers consistent TBNI with spam [420e]. I have observed that a lot of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] HUGE spool folder

2002-06-12 Thread Smart Business Lists
We had a situation twice today where IMAIL just quit delivering messages. We sent out a relatively small mailing of 2,000+ messages from another sever but the bounces came back to our Imail server. Each time the server received maybe 200 messages at one time. The declude overflow folder had

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] HUGE spool folder

2002-06-12 Thread Smart Business Lists
Forgot to check. Yes - we had these lines coincidental with the incident: --- 06/12/2002 10:04:46 Q62be1d8101fe3fd0 ERROR: Virus scanner didn't finish after 60 seconds; terminating. Then 39 more virus free lines followed by 10 scanner didn't finish lines. Then some more virus free

[Declude.JunkMail] ipfile test

2002-06-07 Thread Smart Business Lists
In using the external ipfile to reject ip addresses how does the program match the ip? Does the ipfile line: 80. block all ip addresses beginning with 80. or including 80. or does it try to make a network address or what does it do? Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Adult Filter

2002-06-02 Thread Smart Business Lists
Sunday, June 2, 2002 you wrote: M Could someone explain the undocumented adult filter I have heard about M please. Where and how to add it. It is a beta feature and there is no documentation and very little information has been discussed about it at all. However, you enable it by adding a line

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Message-ID

2002-05-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, In general you add headers this way: oMail.Value(header) = headervalue So for instance Reply-To would be: oMail.Value(Reply-To) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Message-ID would be: oMail.Value(Message-ID) = some_id@the_domain However, in my experience this is not necessary. MS SMTP server for

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Deleting spam based on test results

2002-05-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Glenn, Very risky based on my admittedly small sample of a couple of thousand messages per day. Between 10 to 20% of our messages fail the SPAMCOP test and higher then in the weight tests. OSSRC messages re about 1/3 of SPAMCOP. We still have a small but significant 4% of failed messages that

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Deleting spam based on test results

2002-05-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Glenn, I agree it is a potentially good solutions. But we experimented with the attach action but and had significant problems although no time to really pursue causes. We tested with our main domain and several attachments actually locked workstations running theBat!. Very surprising.

Re[3]: [Declude.JunkMail] Deleting spam based on test results

2002-05-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Yeah, we had that problem at first but the message that locked up the workstation was after that. I still intend to test this again at some point. What was surprising was that it locked using theBat!. Terry Fritts Friday, May 17, 2002 you wrote: RSP FYI, the primary cause of problems with

Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Deleting spam based on test results

2002-05-17 Thread Smart Business Lists
Friday, May 17, 2002 you wrote: H We delete messages that fail OSSRC on the fly. Problem we've had with OSSRC is that so many people that run open relays seem to be clueless sysadmins. In many cases their organizations are our clients' clients. Fortunately we are small enough and

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] NJABL:HELP Declude has stopped working

2002-04-26 Thread Smart Business Lists
David, Your declude code was assigned when you bought the product and is run against the host name you submitted at that time. So changing the host name will invalidate the code. You can ask Scott for a new code for the new host name. Terry Fritts Friday, April 26, 2002 you wrote: DLW I

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