Re: [IMail Forum] Declude - Which Version?

2004-05-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 11:51:36 PM, Mike wrote: MB We need something that filters better than the built in anti-spam features MB in Imail 8.05 and it doesn't look like the 8.11 is that big of an MB improvement, plus we'd have to pay 495.00 for a subscription to download it. MB With that

Re: [IMail Forum] Requeue message

2004-06-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 3, 2004, 12:32:01 PM, Guy wrote: GD Hi all, GD Is there a way to re-queue messages after they've been received? GD The reason behind this is the following: GD Let's say I get a false positive spam that end up in the spam box. I then GD tweak the rule that caught it and

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?

2004-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
I can verify this also. See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp Over the past 6 weeks or so we have seen typical daily rule change rates rise from about 250 to about 450. Change rates are primarily a measure of the number of new rules generated per day. Over

Re: [IMail Forum] Forgotten password hint

2004-06-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 10, 2004, 5:13:41 PM, John wrote: JC Has anyone done anything about handling forgotten Imail passwords and JC providing hints to users? We always just set a new password - that way there are no passwords around to be hacked. _M To Unsubscribe:

Re: [IMail Forum] anti-spam software, recommendations?

2004-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
(there is no limit to your trial period) I'm betting this will justify the purchase price after a while... The demo rulebase is plenty strong enough to keep your feet dry when you try crossing that pond - especially when coupled with the other tools in both products. Hope this helps, _M Pete McNeil

Re[6]: [IMail Forum] New Ipswitch Forums no Imail?

2004-07-16 Thread Pete McNeil
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old BBS days, but isn't it entirely possible that the existing list could be tied to a decent web based forum? I haven't gone looking recently, but it seems this kind of thing was around for quite a while and probably should still exist. Perhaps ipswitch can be

Re: [IMail Forum] Ot: Can you try this URL and tell me if you get a page?

2004-07-20 Thread Pete McNeil
No problem hitting this. _M On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 1:34:56 PM, Travis wrote: TR www.lasvegassun.com TR I haven't gotten anything to load for a couple of days. I pinged it, it's TR up, but no response with a browser. I am guessing firewall issues since it TR takes a while for it to

Re: [IMail Forum] You naughty Ipswitch you!

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 2:44:22 PM, Samuel wrote: I've had a bunch of spam submissions lately for WS_FTP, and gosh it was tempting to code rules for those ads - but I gave them the benefit of the doubt that someone was subscribed somewhere and had forgotten they gave permission... I hope I

[IMail Forum] Any experience with Java applets in web mail?

2004-08-02 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Imail folks, I'd like to know if anyone has experience including java applets in web mail templates. Contact me off-list if you wish - though on-list is probably ok too. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Whats going on with five-ten?

2004-08-04 Thread Pete McNeil
I can answer this... A little groundwork first. Some tests fire with a positive weight when the message is spam and don't fire when the message is not spam. Generally, when something doesn't fire it produces a zero weight. Most tests are like this. Some tests, like SpamCheck, produce a postiive

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] OT: W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc won't leave me alone!

2004-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, 2:00:21 PM, Sanford wrote: It was just a question. I have a few users that delete messages from that client automatically due to past spam issues. SW That's absurd. They're clearly way out of touch. Spammers don't use SW standard end-user MUAs. SW The Bat!

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: The Bat!

2004-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, 2:26:04 PM, H wrote: HJ Been reading this thread a bit and I'm wondering about The Bat! MUA. I HJ use Thunderbird primarily and recommend to all my clients that they do HJ the same, but what can The Bat! do over Thunderbird? I've looked at the HJ site and all, just

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] new reverse DNS not working?

2004-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, August 21, 2004, 10:35:51 PM, Bill wrote: snip/ BL Okay, just to poke a little fun at this whole thread (from American Heritage BL www.bartleby.com www.dictionary.com): BL Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be BL correct usage in formal style, when

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] Testing was OT Cisco IOS rule

2004-08-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 6:06:26 PM, Kevin wrote: KB Enough with sending these tests already and change the KB subject nextime so it will not waste our time. I wonder if this isn't a vacation message gone terribly wrong. It seems to be echoing list activity. _M To Unsubscribe:

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Declude detects less...

2004-08-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, 3:51:48 AM, Markus wrote: Isn't there any tool that does this all automatically? MG Nika, MG On http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html you can find a weekly report about MG the quality of different declude spam tests. Also... I am working on a tool that will use a

Re: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 4:43:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS Hi, MS My Question is a bit off-topic: MS I should setup a new IMail Server for a few hundred Domains. I have to choose between two MS existing hardware. My question is, which type you would prefer: MS Compaq ProLiant 1850, 2 x P2 550

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 6:30:13 PM, Rod wrote: RD On Monday, August 30, 2004, 17:51:03, Pete McNeil wrote: On Monday, August 30, 2004, 4:43:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS No Name Blade Server, 1 x P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, MS 2 S-ATA Disks 160 MB configured as RAID 1 RD ^^ RD

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 7:59:40 PM, Bill wrote: BF Raid 5 will save your butt when a drive fails so you might rethink that. RAID1 survives a single drive failure (1 of 2). (RAID10 can survive 2 out of 4). _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 8:32:26 PM, Martin wrote: MS Hi Bill, MS You're right, but RAID1 saves my butt too, i guess ;-) MS The server has two drive hot-pluggable bays. Here is the image: MS http://www.thomas-krenn.com/shopx/index.php/action.view/entity.detail_products/key.678/ I almost

Re: AW: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 11:55:38 AM, Admin-ML wrote: AM Uh, as far as I know, RAID 5 is faster than RAID 1, since it AM can distribute the write packets on multiple hard disks at once, AM while RAID 1 (with Hardware RAID) is just as fast as writing to a AM single non-RAID-disk. Isn't that

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Fluffy the SMTP GuardDog

2004-09-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 2:08:29 PM, R. wrote: snip/ If the mail passes all these checks, Fluffy checks to see if you have had email from this server before. If it has not sent email within a set period (24 hours, or whatever time you choose to set), Fluffy defers the email for a while.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Postmaster Accounts?

2004-09-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, 3:45:54 PM, Matthew wrote: MHoS for starters, at account creation time, I create a generic admin account, as MHoS well as postmaster and abuse aliases and point them to the generic admin MHoS account. I inform my clients that these are free user accounts (do not

Re: [IMail Forum] List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 9:33:15 AM, Inc wrote: iI I only got 2 emails from the list yesterday and I did not see my own post. iI   iI Is this working? No. It's a terrible mess... the purple goo from the leaking electrons is oozing out of my mailbox, and there's this weird humming noise, and

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 11:43:51 AM, Darin wrote: DC Ahhso are you proposing that leptons are made up of particles bound by DC an SU(4) x SU(2) stronger force that follows something like a CMYK model DC rather than the RGB model for the strong force? Yes, exactly, but they must have a

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] OT: List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 1:25:37 PM, Darin wrote: DC Hmmm...interesting...virtual message/anti-message pairs, with one of the DC pair being captured in the black hole. Wonder if there's a white hole on DC the other end somewhere spewing out the counterpart Possibly... now that M theory

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Primary Name Server

2004-09-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 10, 2004, 12:08:11 PM, Len wrote: LC no surprise, second guess my posts here, and if you had a clue what I was LC talking about, you'd be embarrassed at how stupid and ignorant you look LC with you post total BS like this. But like, like our shrub-in-chief, LC you're too

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] OT: Primary Name Server

2004-09-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 10, 2004, 1:55:39 PM, Len wrote: Is this kind of thing really necessary? LC Since when does necessity, as defined by whomever, have anything to do LC with this list? LC Use the Delete key, Pete. LC Or better yet, don't respond on list, take it up with me off-list. off

Re: [IMail Forum] New server for IMail

2004-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, October 10, 2004, 11:30:05 PM, David wrote: D I am in the process of choosing a new mail server for our organization. I'm D looking along the lines of a Compaq/HP DL380 G4 with Win 2003 OS, dual 3.2 D Xeon processors, 2 gig of ram, a pair of 36.4 hds in raid 1 for the OS and a D pair

Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima

2004-10-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 15, 2004, 1:33:44 AM, Yatin wrote: YSQ Hello, YSQ     YSQ     Is there any tool or utility which copies rules.ima of YSQ a domain or a user and applies to all the users available in that YSQ particular domain. YSQ   YSQ Thanks Regards, It is no longer supported but we used

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 5:24:12 PM, Travis wrote: snip TR I just heard that with the introduction of ICS that you will no longer be TR selling a stand alone version of IMail let alone selling IMail for a price TR that a small business running 3 domains can afford. That is BS. The reason TR

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 6:38:45 PM, A. wrote: AC John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: snip/ AC I think part of this is probably due to the fact that open source mail AC servers are probably looking to kick Ipswitch's a**. Postfix is pretty AC easy to set up, though it would be nice if someone

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Why I won't buy new collaboration suit yet

2004-10-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 8:17:04 AM, Mike wrote: MN Here's another data point from someone who cannot justify the conversion: MN1.) The price differential pays for the labor to switch to a competing MN product in the initial conversion. MN2.) I don't know who Ipswitch

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Worth upgrading?

2004-10-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, 5:54:09 PM, Ted wrote: TG What is the deal with this MessageSniffer? I looked at their site last night TG and found that somewhere in the fine print as an add on that is more than TG the main product. Is it required? Is the functionality that it adds TG something

RE: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread Pete McNeil
- and that leads to problems later on --- Hope this helps, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief Sortmonster (www.sortmonster.com) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Friday, July 11

RE: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread Pete McNeil
advice that I can so easily create a spamtrap, I am now interested in incorporating one into my Declude configuration, assuming that's how it would work. Thank you all for the helpful replies! Dave Pete McNeil wrote: You are not overreacting. The nobody alias is one of the better ways

RE: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread Pete McNeil
website? Dave Pete McNeil wrote: Well, you _could_ review the messages captured by your spamtraps and create filters for them. shameless plug Or, if you were a Message Sniffer subscriber then you would simply point your spamtrap aliases at our inbound spam address for your system

Re: [IMail Forum] Sort of OT: Rerouting a message.

2003-07-23 Thread Pete McNeil
If you are using Message Sniffer we could create a couple of rules with a special result symbol... One for each case, all in a special group. I can't think of a way to do this without actually scanning the messages with a complex pattern engine of some kind. If not w/ Message Sniffer then you

RE: [IMail Forum] Free gateway virus scanner

2004-01-27 Thread Pete McNeil
Don't they keep those in the same warehouse where they keep the red and blue time travel crystals? At 10:51 AM 1/27/2004, you wrote: Anyone know where I can find free HP 4 CPU servers with 4GB RAM and a Terabyte of storage? -Original Message- From: isp-lists @ beachcomp.com

Re: [IMail Forum] external spam filter

2004-02-12 Thread Pete McNeil
Declude and mxGuard provide hooks for external tests. We use these to integrate Message Sniffer with very good results. www.declude.com, www.mxGuard.com _M At 05:44 PM 2/12/2004, you wrote: A site that uses IMail has asked me if there’s a way to use our spam filter with IMail. Is anyone aware of

Re: [IMail Forum] Testing Communication with IMail Forum

2004-02-17 Thread Pete McNeil
pong At 12:33 AM 2/18/2004, you wrote: I haven't been able to communicate with this forum so I am conducting a test. If anyone gets this email please respond. Thanks Lewis

Re: [IMail Forum] Bagle.J Question

2004-03-04 Thread Pete McNeil
At 08:22 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote: On Thursday, March 4, 2004, 16:02:19, Madscientist wrote: The person (sender) that wants to send the zip (or any file) sends an email to let the receiver know they want to send. The receiver sends them back a file name to use. The sender zips or otherwise

RE: [IMail Forum] OT - IDE Raid cards

2004-03-10 Thread Pete McNeil
We have had very good luck with the 3ware SATA cards. _M At 12:10 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote: Hi Evan- We personally prefer 3ware cards - www.3ware.com The 7006-2 is their 2 port ATA card. It looks like they're just over $100. 7506-4 is their four port card which appears to be $250ish. - Mike

Re: [IMail Forum] Legitamate looking spam question (long)

2004-03-16 Thread Pete McNeil
that your customers may use as these simpler rules are a very blunt instrument. Hope this helps, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) Presidnet, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam offenders

2004-03-20 Thread Pete McNeil
We have also been seeing this. Our rule-base change rates are up more than 30% on average with the last two days being as high as 100% above usual! See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp It seems to have started about 6 days ago. _M At 02:42 AM 3/20/2004,

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam Problem on the Increase

2004-04-16 Thread Pete McNeil
We have seen some unsettling blips in the amount of spam hitting our systems. At the following link you can see the number of new rules generated per day for Message Sniffer. Note that since about 4 days ago there has been an unstable, but definite increase in new spam.

Re: [IMail Forum] Less Spam ????

2004-04-19 Thread Pete McNeil
At 09:19 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: I do get some spam in my inbox… but not that much. (8 message for a full weekend) The filters are not getting much spam either… Anybody saw a drop of spam ??? Or I it just me ? Imail daily report : Last night : SpamContent 196 SpamPhrase 246

RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Dnsstuff Down?

2003-09-23 Thread Pete McNeil
We're using bind on RH 7.x and RH 8.x with no issues. _M |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Daniels |Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:29 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT - Dnsstuff Down? | | |I have 3 Bind

Re: [IMail Forum] URL Domain Blacklist Failure 8.03

2003-10-01 Thread Pete McNeil
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... we started out making our rulebase in IMail directly as you are. We even made a utility to distribute that rulebase throughout the domains. We discovered that somewhere around 500 rules or so IMail's rule engine just failed to work sometimes... the

RE: [IMail Forum] Log file rotation

2003-10-23 Thread Pete McNeil
|Now for an alternative answer to the original question: |There are a number of Windows based tools that can do this. |Check out Ultraedit (www.ultraedit.com) for $35.00US. It can |open up to 4GB files. | |I'm sure that other solutions to this problem have been |discussed on this forum in

RE: [IMail Forum] How to fight spam, etc...

2003-10-27 Thread Pete McNeil
Spam is definitely up. We've been rejecting about 80% of content for our customers (those that submit logs anyway) for quite a few days now. See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/FlowRates.jsp _M |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [IMail Forum] WTF?

2003-10-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hopefully this thread can be stopped before it really gets going. Scott Said: |That you know of. :) | Len Said: |FUD. He knows what he knows, and his IMGate is not a disaster |or wildly |blocking tons of legit mail, or he nor anybody else would be using it. Pete (madscientist says):

RE: [IMail Forum] loads of mail in spool

2003-11-28 Thread Pete McNeil
This looks like a dictionary attack. The concept is that a spammer will attempt to send the message to nearly random addresses from a list (dictionary) of probable names/addresses. In practice (lately) they don't pay much attention to which ones get delivered and which ones don't, but there are

Re: [IMail Forum] Ping Imail Newsgroup

2003-12-05 Thread Pete McNeil
pong At 09:08 AM 12/5/2003, you wrote: Hello? Is anybody out there? I haven't seen a post in a long while. Troy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ:

RE: [IMail Forum] BIG Problem/Dissatisfied Customer

2000-05-08 Thread Pete McNeil
Last time I saw symptoms like that, someone was using an old OS/2 box I had laying around as a way to send their spam... I terminated it. I wonder if something like that is happening here and maybe there really is nothing wrong with the box? Just a weird idea out of left field. --

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: $3500/yr for gas

2004-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 1:43:48 PM, William wrote: WVH Darin, WVH Well, if a hybrid saves money by using electricity part of the time, and WVH electricity is generated by burning fossil fuel at the utility station, WVH wouldn't electricity be equally as (more) expensive over there as

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: $3500/yr for gas

2004-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 2:23:58 PM, Jeffery wrote: JR Waste veggie oil and a turbo diesel engine dude! Cleaner, better running JR (still outperforms the hybrids), smells good, really cheap (read that JR free)... what else could you want? How about converting land-fill into deisel? Or

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Adduser

2004-11-15 Thread Pete McNeil
ROFL! I Wish I'd thought of that! _M On Monday, November 15, 2004, 5:19:42 PM, Rod wrote: RD On Monday, November 15, 2004, 16:04:40, Dermot Keenan wrote: The list of fixes for v8.14 includes the following: Adduser will no longer add users with only 1 or 2 characters in length. Why? What is

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Adduser

2004-11-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, November 15, 2004, 6:13:21 PM, David wrote: DL Too Funny. DL But this was a question I had from reading the release notes as well. DL We have tried to get all our users away from the 2 letter addresses, but DL there are still a few that use them. Is there going to be continued support

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 1:43:19 PM, Rod wrote: RD On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 09:15:05, Ted Galerneau wrote: Two wrongs have never added up to equal one right :) RD Perhaps... but three lefts do :-) That's two dimensional thinking for you... _M To Unsubscribe:

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 4:19:25 PM, Darin wrote: DC Probably a superposition of the late early states...impossible to DC determine until we wake up and observe it. Seems that the wave function enveloping the meaning of Don't get into quantum physics has been collapsed and we were lucky.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 5:50:13 PM, Ted wrote: TG The legal system hasn't been able to stop murderers, rapists and drug TG dealers either. But does this mean we start punishing all citizens so we TG will be sure to get the ones that are doing the crimes? Absolutely not, we TG just need to

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:05:05 PM, Dave wrote: DR At 03:46 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote: That is like saying since someone on a bus shot at you, it's ok to blow up the bus and kill innocent people. DR Your analogy is entirely wrong. The better comparison to what Lycos is DR trying to do

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
Just got this from it: Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't be doing it. Your ip address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action. Also, note: This machine is not hacked, this page is returned for EVERY request. Thanks for

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:43:20 PM, Len wrote: snip/ LC Is the reason that people here want to play nice with these LC criminals/gangs/thieves is that you run a web hosting service yourself and LC have no way to validate that your customers are strictly legit? This might be part of it.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo

2004-12-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, December 4, 2004, 8:35:45 PM, Internet wrote: IR I use it personally, as do many of my associates. Its fantastic IR functionality and extremely useful. I hate it. I've seen tremendous amounts of apparent abuse from plaxo, and yet legitimate folks - even some that I work with -

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos goes limp

2004-12-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 7:29:00 AM, Bruce wrote: BB Since every user's definition of spam is different, it makes it BB exceedingly difficult for the ISP to do the enforcing. BB If there was a standard definition of what constitutes spam, it would make BB the proposal you have outlined much

Re: [IMail Forum] Mail Client (OT)

2005-01-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 3, 2005, 10:20:19 AM, Roland wrote: RS Hi all, RS Does anybody out there know of a really robust email client? RS One that could handle of an inbox with thousands of messages RS in it that also has the ability to autoarchive messages on a RS weekly basis (even if they are

Re: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 7:58:50 PM, Matrosity wrote: MTS http://news.com.com/Zombie+trick+expected+to+send+spam+sky-high/2100-7349_3-5560664.html?tag=nefd.top MTS I know it's a long url but the story is a bit disconcerting. Thoughts? I'm not too concerned... Don't get me wrong, it's

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:15:20 AM, Len wrote: snip/ LC ... only for this kind of attack. RBL will still be useful for everything LC they are useful for now. LC This new criminality could have the very beneficial side effect of forcing LC ISPs to require that msg submission proceed only

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] port-map running as a service

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
. Eventually, however, the correct mix of tools will be developed and deployed. We're just not there yet in many ways. MHO. _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Antispam Alternative - Mail Frontier

2005-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Herschel Jones HJIA Email Administrator - MIS HJIA Boral Industries HJIA 800-627-5527 That's high - there are much cheaper alternatives out there that are at least as good if not better. _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster, www.sortmonster.com

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company

2005-02-16 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 2:08:57 PM, David wrote: DD We have built our own 1U servers for six or seven years now and I must DD agree that the cost savings have steadily diminished. Originally, you DD could save hundreds on each server, but not anymore. DD But the REALLY infuriating part

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] ISP's blocking port 25 except to their own mail servers

2005-03-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 1:01:31 PM, A. wrote: snip/ which is why I think spf won't make it. AC If port 587 is enabled and used as it should, there's no problem. Beyond AC that, port 587 guarded by AUTH also permits roaming users. Otherwise they AC often have to change their mail

Re: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 1:29:33 PM, Travis wrote: TR Hello, TR   TR   I want to write a rule to search the heard for a IP TR address.  Just putting in the standard IP address does not work.  TR I am looking at the manual and I see: TR   TR Any digit 0-9 /d TR   TR   TR

Re: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 1:29:33 PM, Travis wrote: TR   I want to write a rule to search the heard for a IP address.  TR Just putting in the standard IP address does not work.  I am TR looking at the manual and I see: Sorry to reply twice -- I forgot to mention. I found this useful in

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 14, 2005, 8:57:32 AM, E. wrote: ESI Don't do this!! The []'s are operators that mean any subset of the character ESI between the []'s So the below would mean if the subject contains 1 OR 2 OR 3 ESI OR 5 OR 6 OR 7 OR 8 OR . send it to the spambox Sorry about that - forgot

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Block jpg gif SPAM

2005-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 17, 2005, 2:19:15 PM, Darin wrote: DC Best current means is by blocking individual filenames. I think there have DC been one or two furtive attempts at image recognition, but the processing DC power needed for this to handle the onslaught is currently prohibitive. OCR DC

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Block jpg gif SPAM

2005-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 17, 2005, 8:38:17 PM, Darin wrote: DC Excellent idea, Pete. Don't worry about catching the first image, just at DC matching future images against he first one reported. I should point out that in many cases this also works against malware. _M To Unsubscribe:

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Reduction in spam?

2005-03-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 12:16:25 PM, Len wrote: Has anyone else noticed any decrease in spam levels? LC Since subscriber networks are a huge source of spam, 30 -40%?, as network LC operators start blocking egress to port 25, there could be noticeable LC reduction. But not many operators,

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Reduction in spam?

2005-03-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 10:44:45 AM, Mike wrote: MO Over the past two weeks ours has dropped about 15%. That measure is MO strictly email deletions based on three blacklists. We have been tracking an apparent change in blacklist effectiveness through user reports. That might account for

Re: [IMail Forum] Alternatives to IMail?

2005-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:45:48 AM, Christopher wrote: CJ Hey everyone, CJ I assume you've talked about this topic beforebut I'll risk asking CJ anyway. CJ Has any found any alternatives to IMail that are comparable in price, and CJ are a whole lot faster, reliable, easier to manage,

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 9:57:51 AM, Len wrote: snip/ LC FUD. Blocking by subscriber networks by PTR hostname is extremely LC effective and efficient. I hate to step into this - but I thought that I might add a useful data point. On several occasions I have added rules to SNF that

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 11:37:21 AM, Len wrote: In every one of these cases I have had to remove these rules due to false positive reports from customers. LC it's the %ages that count. If you get a handful of complaints that are LC whitelisted, while stopping 100's of 1000's of msgs/week

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 12:03:50 PM, William wrote: WVH Pete, WVH Since Sniffer is used in Imail mainly for determining whether or not a mail WVH should be deleted (not rejected), keeping such stuff out of your rules makes WVH perfect sense. I think that deletion and rejection are like

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 25, 2005, 9:16:40 AM, Mike wrote: MO Well put! MO You can claim that you have a 99% success rate on filtering out spam. MO But that 1% of false positives could be a potential business/financial MO loss for your client. I completely agree with this part. (I said it another way

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 25, 2005, 10:04:15 AM, Stuart wrote: SH Just to sort of calm the whole issue down... SH You're discussing DNS based solutions to spam (as in, if MX != PTR then bin SH it) ... yet nobody (in the last 3 months...) from what I can recall has even SH mentioned SPF once... and it's

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Account Harvesting

2005-04-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Sniffer does nothing about harvesting. Sniffer only tags messages as spam or not. Hope this helps, _M PS: You don't have any nobody aliases do you? On Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:36:56 PM, Kyle wrote: KF I also installed sniffer about 3 months ago.  I don’t know if KF maybe it isn’t

Re: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation

2005-04-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, April 11, 2005, 5:05:05 PM, Bill wrote: BGdS I'm running IMail 8 on Windows 2000 Server. I've been manually defragging BGdS the spool and users partitions early every morning. That's getting old. I've BGdS seen postings about Diskeeper, but I can't justify the $250.00 right now. BGdS

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation

2005-04-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, April 11, 2005, 5:40:28 PM, Christopher wrote: CC Cheap yes ... I have scripts on my personal site that will do this ... but CC it takes the smtp, pop, queue off line. I've had Diskeeper run without dropping services for quite some time now with no ill effects. _M To Unsubscribe:

Re: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Bandwidth Management (once more with feeling)

2006-04-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 12:00:00 PM, Dan wrote: DH I know this has been discussed before on this list, but what are you DH guys using for bandwidth management, and what are your experiences? DH Background: We provide internet access for many of the tenants in our DH building, as well as

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] ASSP

2006-06-21 Thread Pete McNeil
I'll be sure to get that out to you right away (before I run out) ;-) _M On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 5:48:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS MS MS Hi , MS MS MS Actually i downloaded Message Sniffer and i'm waiting for the trial key MS MS I'm looking forward to see the results MS MS MS

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] MessageSniffer

2006-06-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 11:49:14 PM, David wrote: snip/ DG Change the order of the mxguard filters from: DG NATIVE, SNIFFER DG to DG SNIFFER, NATIVE DG and you will see more sniffer hits.. DG Remember, mxguard will only call anti-spam filters in the order listed and DG ONLY if the

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] How to access webmail on PDA

2006-07-05 Thread Pete McNeil
Not to nit pick, but you may have spelled glazforb wrong. Also I think your docs may be out of date. The 3400 series WizBang corrected some nasty bugs on the 3K model. Rumor has it that accessing web mail from the browser on the 3000 series could cause gorgsnipping and/or cause the unit to

Re: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Scheduled FTP download

2006-08-31 Thread Pete McNeil
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ http://wget.sunsite.dk/ http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html Hope this helps, _M On Thursday, August 31, 2006, 3:38:05 PM, Jim wrote: JC I need to have one of my servers download a text file from a password JC protected FTP site

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] 2 Char Email Addres...?

2007-07-11 Thread Pete McNeil
I had this problem once and solved it by creating 3 char user names, then 2 char aliases to point in that direction. The end users needed to adjust their clients a bit, - so it wasn't tidy, but it worked and had the advantage of "staying inside the lines." _M On Wednesday, July 11, 2007,

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: RegEx Help

2007-09-05 Thread Pete McNeil
perhaps \d{1,2}_\d{1,2} On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 1:20:15 PM, Gerry wrote: GM so... maybe GM ([0-9]|[0-9][0-9])_([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]) GM which is saying ( one digit | or two digits ) underscore (repeat) GM but isn't there a way to specify like: 1 or 2 occurances of the previous? GM

Re: [IMail Forum] access list

2007-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, October 25, 2007, 6:27:55 AM, Matrosity wrote: I was wondering if reading the daily imail logfile one could determine trends that spammers use and then accumulate the IPs of the sending servers based on the trends to populate the smtp control access list? It seems to me

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Backscatter

2007-10-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, October 25, 2007, 8:44:23 PM, Len wrote: snip/ LC Running a recipient ignorant MX is a horrible mistake. A lot of LC the envelope senders addressing invalid recipients are forged, so the LC MX not only gets flooded with generating NDR messges, those NDR LC messages aren't

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spam conference?

2007-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 28, 2007, 2:10:16 PM, Len wrote: Yes, but it still costs a small fortune to accept the spam in the first place. LC If you choose the wrong solution (accept every DATA body THEN reject LC it), yes it costs a small fortune. Len, The new version of SNF includes an IP

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] spam conference?

2007-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 28, 2007, 2:32:06 PM, Bill wrote: BF We could generate an acc file using that database which would work. I have questions: Where can I research the format and especially limits for an acc file. For example: How many entries are allowed before problems occur? Can we simply

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