Re: Negative unread messages in the inbox

2007-01-29 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Robert Snyder wrote: The only way that I can make the -3 unread and the bold In Tray go away is to compact my mailboxes. When that completes, there are no new unread emails in the inbox, and unread and bold are gone. You can also fix this problem by performing a verify the consistency of

Re: foxtrot list

2007-01-29 Thread C. A. Niemiec
I'm wondering about the foxtrot list if that is alive. ... anyone else on that list? No one here but us FoxTrot list members. :) But I am surprised at the lull in PM list activity. Chris --

Re: foxtrot list

2007-01-29 Thread Jim Pistrang
Hi Marlyse, I'm wondering about the foxtrot list if that is alive. Alive but very quiet. Jim -- Jim Pistrang JP Computer Resources Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network 413-256-4569 http://www.jpcr.com

Re: foxtrot list

2007-01-29 Thread Ken Pope
I'm wondering about the foxtrot list if that is alive. Yes, though very low-traffic (which has its benefits). Every once-in-a- while, someone posts a question and almost immediately another user or someone from the company posts the answer. Very helpful. Ken

greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Gerber
This isn't specific to PowerMail, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to solve this problem. For the past several weeks I've been getting a lot of e-mail dumped into my Spam folder with the subject indicating delivery failed. They are from addresses I don't know and are

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread computer artwork by subhash
[Mark Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 29.1.2007 um 9:04 Uhr:] Greeting Card.exe Happy New Year OS X ??? How can you be infected with a worm which is an .exe-file on Mac OS? That is impossible. Sounds to me as if someone else (using Windows) is infected and the worm uses your domainname to

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Brissette
Greeting Card.exe Happy New Year OS X ??? How can you be infected with a worm which is an .exe-file on Mac OS? That is impossible. Sounds to me as if someone else (using Windows) is infected and the worm uses your domainname to send mails to (sometimes non existing) mailboxes. You beat me to

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:04:00 -0500 schrieb/wrote Mark Gerber: This isn't specific to PowerMail, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to solve this problem. I think that's a misconfigured mailserver which is rejecting (infected virus) mail instead of bouncing it. For

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Justin Beek
Look through the headers. Look for a Lookup warning. It may show that it is from someone else: X-Lookup-Warning: MAIL lookup on [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not match 201.69.126.198 If your server doesn't perform Lookups, look for the originating IP and see if it is from your domain:

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread moody
Your email address has been spoofed. I have 2 domains that have NO outgoing email server at all and I get returns all the time. I just ignore them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about this. Most email servers can catch a fraudulent email address and bounce it. Am/On Mon, 29 Jan 2007

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Lewis
Wayne Brissette sez: Spam in general seems to be way up recently. One day last week I had 399 spam messages, then two days later it was 350. It's gotten to a point that real mail is less than 2% of all my emails. :-( Sadly this is true for me as well. SpamSieve isn't even catching a lot of it,

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: Your email address has been spoofed. I have 2 domains that have NO outgoing email server at all and I get returns all the time. I just ignore them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about this. Most email servers can catch a fraudulent email address and bounce it.

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Gerber
Thanks for all the responses. For the several weeks this has been happening I've been assuming this worm was a Windows problem and that my address was being spoofed. But then I came across a message that had been returned from a client's domain. Granted this is a huge company with any number of

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Frank Mitchell
Hello Michael Spam in general seems to be way up recently. One day last week I had 399 spam messages, then two days later it was 350. It's gotten to a point that real mail is less than 2% of all my emails. :-( Sadly this is true for me as well. SpamSieve isn't even catching a lot of it,

powermail-discuss Digest #2551 - 01/29/07

2007-01-29 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2551 - Monday, January 29, 2007 foxtrot list by Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: foxtrot list by Barbara Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: foxtrot list by Karim Kabbabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Negative unread messages in the inbox

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Lewis
Frank Mitchell sez: I suspect these are intended to overload programs which work like SpamSieve with millions of random 'good' words. If there are enough of them they could eventually render SS ineffective. Your experience seems to confirm this. For this reason, I simply delete such random word

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread moody
I DON'T use spamsieve. I simply open my mailbox using webmail (squirrelmail) and select all the messages. Then I scroll down, unchecking the ones I want to keep. Then I click delete. Then I download. This gives me visual control all the time and it is very fast to do. I can skim through 100

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Tsai
On Jan 29, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Michael Lewis wrote: SpamSieve isn't even catching a lot of it, particularly the ones that are filled with random sentences from works of literature. I'm not aware of any spam types that consistently get through SpamSieve, when it's properly configured and

Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Hart
(1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM sequestering tools, even deleting offending messages so you never have to see them. But what I'd like to do is have my mail server bounce messages from specific IP addresses. For this

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Lewis
Michael Tsai sez: I'm not aware of any spam types that consistently get through SpamSieve, when it's properly configured and trained. If certain kinds of messages keep ending up in your inbox, please report them: http://c-command.com/spamsieve/manual-ah/what-information-should so that I can

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Brissette
(2) What is the best way to deal with the relatively recent phenomenon of GIF spam. You know the ones. The Subject and body are random text. The attachment is a graphic containing the spam pitch. I haven't been able to derive a common identifier for them in the headers, and they are not easy to

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Geoff Roynon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:14 -0800 Richard Hart said: (1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM sequestering tools, even deleting offending messages so you never have to see them. But what I'd like to do is have my mail server

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Justin Beek
Have you looked at: http://www.hendricom.com/services.htm from these dudes who make: http://www.emailcrx.com/Welcome.html On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Richard Hart wrote: (1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:16 pm +, Geoff Roynon wrote: I filter GIF and JPG spam before it reaches the Spamsieve filter so they don't pollute the Spamsieve corpus. In my filters, my first filter is called Spam-gif and has two conditions: I really don't think it's neccesary to do anything

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Tsai
On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Michael Lewis wrote: My filter was set to only operate if the From,Sender or Reply To: address was not in my addressbook. I noticed that some of the spam not making it through was being marked Good automatically in the log for various reasons or possibly not being

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Frank Mitchell
Hello Michael For this reason, I simply delete such random word messages rather than do a Mark as Spam. I don't recommend doing that. Not correcting SpamSieve's mistakes is a sure way to make more spam get through, and in certain cases is equivalent to telling SpamSieve that you think

Re: greeting card malware?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Lewis
Michael Tsai sez: Yes, using those criteria could cause some messages not to be evaluated (in which case there would be no Predicted entries in the log for them). I'm not sure what you mean about messages being marked as good automatically. I probably didn't communicate that well. As an