Re[2]: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 6:13:24 PM, Matt wrote: M I've noted that dictionary attack type spam is generally of this M variety, and while you are probably blocking a great deal of this, the M sheer volume makes it look like you aren't doing that well against it. M I've also noted that the

Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase ktk82hrr

2005-01-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 12:41:34 AM, Computer wrote: CHS Correction, make that 23 meg! Thanks for the heads up --- something is wrong, I'll figure it out. You compiled with 231000 rules! _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase ktk82hrr

2005-01-04 Thread Landry William
Yep, just checked mine rulebase too, went from 17mb to just under 25mb. Things still appear to be functioning okay. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:49 PM To: Computer House Support Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase

Re[2]: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 3, 2005, 5:34:40 PM, Jeff wrote: JW Hello: JW Was there a consensus reached on the script for automatic/triggered rule JW base for windows boxes? If so, would someone be kind enough to send it my JW way. JW Any help would be greatly appreicated as I am new to sniffer. I

Re[2]: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 3, 2005, 5:34:40 PM, Jeff wrote: JW Hello: JW Was there a consensus reached on the script for automatic/triggered rule JW base for windows boxes? If so, would someone be kind enough to send it my JW way. JW Any help would be greatly appreicated as I am new to sniffer. I've

Re[2]: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 2:31:18 AM, Landry wrote: snip/ LW 2) I personally find it to be a bit messy to have everything LW running from within my Sniffer directory.  After all of the LW other CMD files, old rulebases, service related files, logs, LW etc., it's not obvious what

Re[2]: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 3:45:43 PM, Landry wrote: LW Documenting and troubleshooting rule creation/configuration I think would LW only add to the complexity. Also, many admins do not host their corporate LW domains on IMail. For example, SortMonster was sending my update LW

Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 12:49:21 PM, Jim wrote: JM I agree that something needs to be done about the update scripts that are JM inadvertently downloading the full rulebase all the time. I didn't even JM know it but we were doing this until I went through our update script again JM this

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Jim Matuska
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Matuska sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow... On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 12:49:21 PM, Jim wrote: JM I agree that something needs to be done about the update scripts that are JM inadvertently

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Jim Matuska
sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow... On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 12:49:21 PM, Jim wrote: JM I agree that something needs to be done about the update scripts that are JM inadvertently downloading the full rulebase all

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Serge
- Original Message - From: Jim Matuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow... So far it seems to be working, at least it doesn't seem to be downloading the rulebase yet, I'll have to see if it does

Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 27, 2004, 12:46:19 PM, Landry wrote: LW Are folks taking advantage of the wget compression option before LW downloading their rulebase updates? If the slow download speeds are a LW bandwidth saturation issue on the Sniffer end, this would certainly cut down LW on the

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Baker | Netsmith Inc
Title: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates Automate harassment reminders to those of us not using it. :) I think I'll go enable gzip tonight -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Landry William sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Mon Dec 27 12:36:06 2004

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Jim Matuska
Title: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates Does anyone have any good instructions on how to modify your update scripts to use gzip? Jim Matuska Jr.Computer Tech2, CCNANez Perce TribeInformation Systems[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tom Baker | Netsmith Inc

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
Title: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates See http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.htmlfor some sample scripts. Bill -Original Message-From: Jim Matuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:51 AMTo: sniffer

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Michiel Prins
Title: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates I made this one, which is probably also somewhere on the sniffer site. Change directories and keys for your use: d: cd\Batch Files\Sniffer wget http://sniffer:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Sniffer/Updates/key.snf -O key.snf.gz --timestamping --header=Accept

Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer updates...

2004-12-22 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, 12:06:17 PM, Matt wrote: M Scott Fosseen wrote: snip/ M So my understanding is that IMail will still be updated for existing users. M ...sure, for a 40% increase in cost for your support contract, M and absolutely no guarantee that they won't again

Re[2]: [sniffer] Change in coding policies

2004-12-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 12:51:19 PM, Andrew wrote: CA It sounds good to me, Pete. CA May I humbly suggest that this be a new result code, e.g. 046? Until CA now, Message Sniffer has been very parsimonious with the new categories, CA but this looks like one that will be here for a long

Re[2]: [sniffer] Change in coding policies

2004-12-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 1:13:15 PM, Matt wrote: M Given that the precision is difficult to assign under the single result M framework, I don't doubt the choice. Might I suggest creating a M sub-group for the three main types of backscatter so that individuals M can turn them off as a

Re[2]: [sniffer] Download server is really slow..

2004-12-20 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 20, 2004, 8:49:50 AM, Russ wrote: snip/ Avoiding that time period and following the staggered schedule we have suggested will help quite a bit. Even better if updates can be triggered by our update notifications since this allows our system to pace downloads and use the

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Download server is really slow..

2004-12-19 Thread Chuck Schick
] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:00 PM To: Greg Wanner Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Download server is really slow.. According to the logs there was a run on the server at this time... apparently quite a few servers downloading at the top of the hour - all competing. If you use

Re[2]: [sniffer] Download server is really slow..

2004-12-15 Thread Pete McNeil
According to the logs there was a run on the server at this time... apparently quite a few servers downloading at the top of the hour - all competing. If you use a scheduled task for getting your rulebase files, please stagger your download schedule according to the chart here:

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Few questions

2004-12-15 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
] On Behalf Of ~ ROB @ ZELLEM ~ Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Few questions hey guys.. This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Few questions

2004-12-15 Thread Marc Hilliker
Pete, FWIW, it appears that I just had a bad download. I re-downloaded it, and it's running w/o errors. Thx. --- Marc MH I downloaded the sniffer demo a couple of days ago and finally installed it MH to run as an external test w/Declude today. I ran it all morning w/o any MH problems. This

Re[2]: [sniffer] Required reload question?

2004-12-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 10, 2004, 1:11:48 PM, Rick wrote: RR it's the 'definition' of what is my rulebase that is unclear here. RR Specifically, if I add a domain name in the file 'whitelist.sender' in my RR mxguard directory (under my imail directory), will this be recognized RR without restarting

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 6, 2004, 4:12:19 PM, Keith wrote: KJ Pete, KJ I saw one last week upon updating at: KJ http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Installation/HowTo.html KJ Under the heading: KJ Where to start (with the demo!): KJ I hope this helps. All fixed. Thanks! _M

Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-12-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 3, 2004, 8:53:26 AM, Joe wrote: JW OK, I'm confused. First I admit I don't spend much time on Sniffer or JW Declude settings, and I haven't learned the programs very well. JW I used the default Sniffer config files. If I changed as indicated below JW will it catch more

Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-12-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, December 2, 2004, 4:15:43 PM, Jim wrote: JM Pete, JM We have rules setup in declude based upon sniffer return codes 60 and 62 to JM mark all messages with those tests as spam, however we do not have any 61 or JM 62 return codes setup. Can you briefly explain what each of these

Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 12:25:58 PM, Scott wrote: SF I've noticed the trickle is a little larger as of late. SF I attribute it to a potential surge in SPAM trying to get people to buy SF before Christmas. There is definitely that - and there have been a few odd surges lately, where the

Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 12:45:27 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Yes, CS I have seen three pieces of spam over and over again - two for drugs and one CS porn. I am running the latest version, rules are up to date, no on the log CS files, I am forwarding the emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS I was

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
) -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:56 AM To: Chuck Schick Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 12:45:27 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Yes, CS I have seen three pieces of spam over and over again - two

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
To: Chuck Schick Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 12:45:27 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Yes, CS I have seen three pieces of spam over and over again - two for drugs and one CS porn. I am running the latest version, rules are up to date, no on the log CS

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Not Getting Updates

2004-11-29 Thread Scott Fosseen
be counted. - Albert Einstein _ - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Fosseen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:42 PM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Not Getting Updates On Sunday

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 6:08:34 AM, Bonno wrote: BB Hi, BB Just to let you know. We had a problem after updating to 2.3.2 this morning BB where suddenly a lot of our internal mail got caught as spam by sniffer. Ive BB allready sent a report to the support address. For whatever reason I

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 6:33:13 AM, System wrote: SA on 11/23/04 6:08 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Just to let you know. We had a problem after updating to 2.3.2 this morning snip/ All I did was replace the 2.3.1 exe with the 2.3.2 exe (of course with the correct id name). SA Bonno, SA

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officiallyreleased.

2004-11-23 Thread System Administrator
on 11/23/04 12:22 PM, Landry William wrote: No problems experienced here on either of our servers I installed it. No problems so far. Greg This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-23 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, BB Just to let you know. We had a problem after updating to 2.3.2 this morning BB where suddenly a lot of our internal mail got caught as spam by sniffer. Ive BB allready sent a report to the support address. For whatever reason I could BB net send to the false@ address. BB All I did

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-23 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, We plan to, working on the SrvAny service in beta right now. Thanks again for the aid and time. Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:07 PM To: Keith Johnson Subject: Re[2

Re[2]: [sniffer] Update! Version 2-3.1i2 is now avaliable, Also MDaemon Plugin v0.53b is now available!

2004-11-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 18, 2004, 10:56:55 AM, Jerry wrote: JF www.sortmonster.com is very very slow, I'm not seeing any issues at the moment. I will check into it. Thanks! This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Update! Version 2-3.1i2 is now avaliable, Also MDaemon Plugin v0.53b is now available!

2004-11-18 Thread Rick Hogue
Inman's Louisville Trivia Challenge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:37 PM To: Jerry Freund Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Update! Version 2-3.1i2 is now avaliable, Also MDaemon Plugin v0.53b is now

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Update! Version 2-3.1i2 is now avaliable, Also MDaemon Plugin v0.53b is now available!

2004-11-18 Thread Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Parsers. - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Update! Version 2-3.1i2 is now avaliable, Also MDaemon Plugin v0.53b is now available! On Thursday, November 18

Re[2]: [sniffer] Earthlink Porn Spam

2004-11-07 Thread Pete McNeil
The current default is 1.0, but I've been thinking of changing that to 0.8 based on recent changes in spammer behavior. Perhaps we can try that and then make further adjustments later. Send a note to support@ if you want to do this. Thanks! _M On Sunday, November 7, 2004, 7:50:24 PM, Brian

Re[2]: [sniffer] Missing Junk

2004-11-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 4, 2004, 10:41:59 AM, Jorge wrote: That would explain the extra spam. JA This probably has to do with the error I sent you earlier... I tracked down a message from you in the spam corpus - the top of the message asks why the message got through. I'm guessing it got

Re[2]: [sniffer] Missing Junk

2004-11-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 4, 2004, 10:56:04 AM, Jorge wrote: I tracked down a message from you in the spam corpus - the top of the message asks why the message got through. I'm guessing it got captured on this end due to the filter that _should_ have captured it on your end. Does that make sense?

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-11-01 Thread Mark E. Smith
] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:30 AM To: Andy Schmidt Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool On Monday, November 1, 2004, 1:22:51 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi, AS I had set up the previous version of Sniffer in persistent mode

Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, October 31, 2004, 9:45:19 PM, Andrew wrote: CA For what it's worth, another two lessons I learned: CA If you start a persistent instance, then delete or rename your rulebase, CA when you issue a reload, you get this in your log: CA snfrv2r3 20041031022545 -INITIALIZING- 0 0

Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, October 31, 2004, 11:33:49 PM, Andy wrote: AS 1. on 10:28 5:46PM I downloaded and installed the new Sniffer version. AS 2. I just ran: AS D:\IMAIL\Sniffer\Win32mylicense.exe myauthcode rotate -- this had no effect AS D:\IMAIL\Sniffer\Win32mylicense.exe myauthcode stop AS

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Andy Schmidt
x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:48 PM To: Andy Schmidt Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working? On Sunday, October 31, 2004, 11:33:49 PM

Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-10-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, November 1, 2004, 1:22:51 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi, AS I had set up the previous version of Sniffer in persistent mode using the AS Win2k Server Resource Kit tool SrvAny (I don't like to install forth AS party utilities on my production machines, if Microsoft tools are readily AS

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
the executable from the download archive. I think that covers it. Happy to help! Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:24 PM To: Colbeck, Andrew Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working? On Sunday, October 31

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-28 Thread Landry William
file) with each download attempt. Bill -Original Message- From: Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 6:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you? Does anyone have a little

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release

2004-10-28 Thread Scott Fisher
Does the cfg file need to be renamed with your license id also? - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:13 PM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release On Thursday, October 28

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Imail

2004-10-28 Thread ecs
How does Message Sniffer tie into SmarterMail? I'd like to publish that info. We developed a custom .net exe that is ran to scan the emails using message sniffer. I was simply pointing out a better mail server other than Imail for anyone to check out. This E-Mail came from the Message

Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 10:07:59 AM, Jorge wrote: This will continue to grow I'm afraid --- though later versions will deal with the file directly at some point. All of the rules that are included in the rulebase file are live patterns that have seen recent activity. The system

Re[2]: [sniffer] Integrating Sniffer with new Imail Collaboration Suite

2004-10-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 12:08:07 PM, Andrew wrote: snip/ CA As for me, I prefer to use Declude Sniffer. A weighted system rocks. CA Andrew 8) CA p.s. Now, if SpamAssassin has a way to shell out to call Sniffer ... hm SA 2.x had a patch to call Sniffer. We haven't seen one for

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-27 Thread Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Message - From: Landry William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you? Aren't you using the compression option to gzip your files before downloading them? This compresses a 14mb

Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 11:03:45 AM, Glenn wrote: GB can you send the link to this again http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Betas/MessageSniffer2-3.0i9-Distribution.zip There you go, _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-26 Thread Nick Justice
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:29 PM To: Glenn Brooks Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you? On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 11:03:45 AM, Glenn wrote: GB can you send the link to this again http://www.sortmonster.com

Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 12:19:12 PM, Jorge wrote: I am particularly interested to hear from MDaemon users who should realize a multi-fold improvement in processing speed by using this new version of persistent server. This is one of the critical goals of these modifications and

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Osako
McNeil Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:44 AM To: Jorge Asch Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published. On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 12:19:12 PM, Jorge wrote: I am particularly interested to hear from MDaemon users who should realize a multi-fold improvement in processing speed

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: Frank Osako [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published. Hello _M _ Systems with heavier loads _should_ see a reduction in their backlog See a reduction of what in their backlog? Can you give

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Whups, I missed out an important NOT in the second-to-last paragraph. Corrected version is below: -Original Message- From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:29 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published. If I might butt

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Ken Scott
around 800,000 emails per day. we cannot take any chances. -Ken Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:44 AM To: Jorge Asch Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published

Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 4:03:15 PM, Jorge wrote: If you fire up Task Manager on a windows machine (or your favourite ps tool elsewhere), and set the View, Update Speed to High, then sort by the name in reverse, you will see multiple sniffer.exe and one with a PID that doesn't change.

Re[2]: [sniffer] New test version 2-3.0i7

2004-10-18 Thread Pete McNeil
No. The improvements are all related to the persistent configuration. In part, these changes were designed to solve timing problems in MDaemon systems attempting to use the persistent version. Although test data is scarce the speed improvement should be significant. _M On Monday, October 18,

Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i5 posted for testing

2004-10-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 15, 2004, 9:15:00 AM, Harry wrote: HV Let me know when it is safe to run this on a production server We will announce all production-ready releases on this list. Thanks, _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription

Re[2]: [sniffer] New beta v2-3.0i4

2004-10-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 12:16:16 PM, Frederick wrote: FS Link not working Please try again, I copied the wrong link initially. I've corrected the problem at the server. Thanks, _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription

Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, September 18, 2004, 11:22:02 PM, Matt wrote: M Thanks Pete, but let me just stress the largest issue that I see and I M think you already are aware of it. The new IP classification is the M most likely to produce false positives and it's result code of 60 places M precedence of that

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-19 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've actually been thinking very strongly of reorganizing the rule group IDs recently. Especially in light of the new changes we've made with robots et al. The accuracy of the Experimental IP group has gone up considerably -

Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, September 18, 2004, 9:07:55 PM, Matt wrote: M John, M If you read this more carefully, I was not suggesting that M action betaken that would affect everyone's system in such a way M that it wouldrequire modifications.  The 60 result code was M recently changed fromGray rules to IP

Re[2]: [sniffer] Increase in FPs

2004-09-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 11:29:19 AM, Jim wrote: JM Pete, JM What about the Spam that seems to have been slipping through recently? I JM have submitted half a dozen or so in the last 24 hours and I am still JM getting copies. I also loaded the new version of sniffer yesterday but that

Re[2]: [sniffer] Surprising missed spam

2004-09-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 11:41:48 AM, Corby wrote: AC To which addresss should I send these? AC Also, I mis-stated the spam. They were not plain text, but AC html, but clearly have many classic spam attributes. I will AC send them along, but need to know where. Please zip them and

Re[2]: [sniffer] Surprising missed spam

2004-09-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 11:48:43 AM, Corby wrote: AC I suppose everyone's userbases have differenent AC requirements.  An ISP or private enterprise might worry about AC false postives on horny teenagers and penis enlargement, but AC for our local government agency, it causes problems. 

Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i2 release.

2004-09-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, September 13, 2004, 10:20:06 PM, Keith wrote: KJ Pete, KJ I take it this can be run without the persistent mode? Thanks for the aid. Yes. It is no different than the current version except for the patch. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For

Re[2]: [sniffer] Upgrade to Flow Rates Analysis

2004-09-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, September 4, 2004, 4:41:52 PM, Karen wrote: KP news item? No, This one is minor and there have been changes since then. For example, now the basis for the graphs is the highest message rate normalized for the number of logs collected. I'm working on some sofware that will be

Re[2]: [sniffer] Upgrade to Flow Rates Analysis

2004-09-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, 2:53:08 PM, Darrell wrote: DL Pete, DL How does this graph differentiate between Ham and Spam? Can't some Ham be DL uncaught spam? And some messages identified as SPAM really be Ham? Yes, this is true - but our system is very accurate so the data is good enough

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-20 Thread Michiel Prins
Small Office Solutions / REJECT Wannepad 27 1066 HW Amsterdam tel. 020-4082627 fax. 020-4082628 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: vrijdag 20 augustus 2004 4:58 To: Jorge Asch Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-20 Thread Scott Fisher
We don't want any violent Mad Scientists! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/20 11:59a On Friday, August 20, 2004, 11:20:44 AM, Vivek wrote: VK On Aug 20, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Jorge Asch wrote: Well, since 100% of my users speak english/spanish I can safely bet that NONE of my mail should have strange

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 10:11:45 AM, Jorge wrote: JA Michiel Prins wrote: Can't you use the content filter of your mail server to detect if the charset is used? JA I've tried, but it's not 100% effective I recall the earlier conversations about this. We have not had a lot of call

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Scott Fisher
I'll chime in on the subject too. I've finally managed to get the spam in Chinese under control on my system, but for a while I really wished Message Sniffer has language based filters. I.e. Result 40 Chinese Result 41 Cyrillic Result 42 Spanish Result 43 Germain We could then turn on or off

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 3:54:20 PM, Jorge wrote: We could then turn on or off the languages we didn't want. From my foray with dealing with Chinese, it certainly much easier said than done. Chinese was doable, I've had no luck stopping my Spanish spam. Then again, you might be better at it

Re[2]: [sniffer] Charset

2004-08-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 10:45:37 PM, Jorge wrote: JA Could a filter be created that will tag as spam any messages that JA contaning NON-ascii characters? I mean allow only CHRS 1 through 255. JA I believe this fill filter out all these foreign character sets, and let JA through regular old

Re[2]: [sniffer] Did They Rea d It

2004-08-02 Thread Pete McNeil
That sounds fine. We'll be here when that happens. If they have a pattern to their alterations then we might code a broader heuristic (with some wildcards) to capture when they move. It's all up to you. Best, _M On Monday, August 2, 2004, 8:57:52 PM, Woody wrote: WF Oops My current filter for

Re[2]: [sniffer] Rule Strengths

2004-07-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, July 31, 2004, 3:32:46 PM, John wrote: JTL (Moved to list) JTL Thanks, got it. JTL This is my current lines, do I need to add others, or are the rules within JTL these codes? (I hold at 25 and delete at 35) JTL Is there a full list of codes on the web site? JTL SNIFFER-TRAVEL

Re[2]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 11:48:58 AM, John wrote: JTL I have also noticed an increase in the amount of spam that got through, JTL mainly on gatewayed domains. I did forward a bunch in the last 18 hours, JTL hopefully that will help. What's interesting is that we're not seeing the increase in

Re[2]: [sniffer] spam leakage up

2004-06-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 24, 2004, 12:23:22 PM, Herb wrote: HG Yes, I did about a year or so ago as I remember.  I don't HG know, isthere a spot for this on the message sniffer site?  HG Sniffer folks Then it would be available to whoever wanted it. Sure. Please package it up in a .zip file for us

Re[2]: [sniffer] Experimental hits on bounce messages

2004-06-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, June 14, 2004, 1:56:00 AM, Matt wrote: M Pete, M Experimental.  If these rules were in a differentcategory, it would M make me feel a lot better about it.  I'm guessingmaybe from my M standpoint, Spamware would be the most appropriatecategory for M tagging forged message ID's of this

Re[2]: [sniffer] Experimental hits on bounce messages

2004-06-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, June 14, 2004, 12:33:24 AM, Matt wrote: M Pete, M So would the Message-ID produce a hit if it was in the body of a M message? The reason why I ask is because I'm concerned about the M possibility of legitimate servers getting tagged with Experimental and M how that plays into my

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spammer pollution

2004-06-08 Thread Pete McNeil
ROFL! you got me. _M On Monday, June 7, 2004, 11:54:01 PM, Matt wrote: M Pete McNeil wrote: M So where's Waldo :) When reviewing a message like that we always troll the actual message for the link that was intended - this helps us discard those that are in there for fluff. The porn guys do a

Re[2]: [sniffer] FYI and Thanks

2004-06-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, June 4, 2004, 7:52:20 PM, Rick wrote: RR Hey Pete: RR FYI: Spam filters seem to be working exceptionally well the past 2 days. RR Almost nothing gets through (I've also got my spam route rule set to RR level20). We made a few tweaks to the inbound spam process and our SPHUD feeder -

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