[sniffer] Re: yahoo mail problems

2006-10-17 Thread Computer House Support
Thanks for the suggestion. I did the Telnet test to MX1 and it fails from the mail server, but connects ok from my web server. Any ideas? Michael SteinComputer House - Original Message - From: Tech Support To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Tuesday, October 17,

[sniffer] Re: yahoo mail problems

2006-10-17 Thread Computer House Support
Here is the error we are getting now on any mail to Yahoo: Unexpected connection response from server: Out of curiosity, I ran "yahoo.com" through DNSREPORT.COM and it said: ERROR: I could not complete a connection to any of your mailservers! So I guess I'll stop worrying about it and

[sniffer] Re: yahoo mail problems

2006-10-17 Thread Tech Support
Not really much any of us can do unless someone has a friend who has a friend  but its a problem none the less as yahoo also sells their services to host email commercially for any domain that will pay them From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[sniffer] Re: email

2006-10-17 Thread Computer House Support
Dear Pete, I sent an E-mail to the Sniffer Community over an hour ago, and it has not yet been received by anyone. I noticed that 2pm was the last sniffer mail I got. Are these being held up for some reason? Michael Stein Computer House

[sniffer] Re: yahoo mail problems

2006-10-17 Thread Tech Support
Not really chances are a few tries several seconds apart will yield the reverse on both servers From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Computer House Support Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:00 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer]

[sniffer] Re: email

2006-10-17 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Computer, Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 3:20:18 PM, you wrote: Dear Pete, I sent an E-mail to the Sniffer Community over an hour ago, and it has not yet been received by anyone. I noticed that 2pm was the last sniffer mail I got. Are these being held up for some reason? I don't think

[sniffer] Re: email

2006-10-17 Thread John T (Lists)
I have seen reports that Network Non-Solutions is having DNS Server issues today. John T eServices For You Seek, and ye shall find! -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:29 PM To:

[sniffer] Test - ignore

2006-10-17 Thread Robert Grosshandler
Sorry for all these tests -- but a new copy of Declude Interceptor seems to want to completely lose messages from lists. Rob # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To

[sniffer] test -6:35 please ignre

2006-10-17 Thread Robert Grosshandler
Please ignore this test.# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

[sniffer] Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Anyone else seeing a sudden increase in FPs? We normally report a few each day, but we're seeing a 10x increase in FPs for the past three days. Darin.

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Herb Guenther
Hi Darin; Not seeing a lot of false pos messages, but there are lots of spam messages sneaking through our system because declude is not modifying the header correctly. It is adding a header stub to the bottom of the message so that users mail client filters which look for the modified

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
We see this occasionallywith Declude 1.82. What version are you running? Darin. - Original Message - From: Herb Guenther To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: [sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives Hi Darin;Not seeing a lot

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Herb Guenther
Not sure, this is what my declude diags.txt says Declude 4.1.0 Diagnostics Compilation Platform: SmarterMail Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Declude, Inc. Herb Darin Cox wrote: We see this occasionallywith Declude 1.82. What version are you running? Darin. - Original Message

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Grosshandler
That's been a problem for a long time, but for us, it still treats that e-mail as spam, with the appropriate weight. 100% of the time if Declude does that, the e-mail is beyond our delete weight. Rob From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herb

[sniffer] Re: Declude header not modified correctly

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Ping them on the Declude list for the lack of response, and CC David Barker for a response. He seem tobe the best means ot getting results these days. What version are you running? Understandably you'll only get a response if you're running the latest 3.x or 4.x, as older versions are no

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Ahh... good. The first thing they'll probably tell you is to update to the latest 4.x version, see if the problem persists, then re-report it. Darin. - Original Message - From: Herb Guenther To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:51 PM Subject: [sniffer]

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
For us, it doesn't calculate the proper weight when this happens, and only acts on the weight seen in the topmost headers. One of these years I'll finally exercise the right to use our 4.x license, I just don't have time for new problems at this point. Darin. - Original Message -

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Matrosity Hosting
Anyone having issues getting email to Yahoo today? Thanks, Bill Foresman Matrosity Hosting www.matrosity.com 850.656.2644 From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin CoxSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:15 PMTo: Message Sniffer CommunitySubject:

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Grosshandler
We're seeing it with the latest and greatest gateway version. Again, not a problem. Since it's above our delete weight, always, we just delete them. Users never see them. Rob From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin CoxSent: Monday, October 16,

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Herb Guenther
Since we have almost all business users and they do a lot of intl biz we just mark the subject as "Probable SPAM:" so no email is deleted. Oh well, I am off topic anyway, thanks for the feedback all. Herb Robert Grosshandler wrote: That's been a problem for a long time, but for us,

[sniffer] Re: Declude header not modified correctly

2006-10-16 Thread Herb Guenther
Me either, I guess I will have to call them in the AM as it seems to be a general problem. As an aside, I am largely happy with the product but this one has been a long term issue and seems from my experience to be getting exploited by spammers. Andy Schmidt wrote: What's the magic

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, Monday, October 16, 2006, 5:17:26 PM, you wrote: Anyone else seeing a sudden increase in FPs? We normally report a few each day, but we're seeing a 10x increase in FPs for the past three days. Not sure if this is it, but there was an image segment rule that went in

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete, I haven't looked at the Sniffer logs, as cross referencing from the Declude logs is a bit of a pain, but many of the FPs did have images, so that probably accounts for most of them if it was an Experimental rule. Darin. - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil To: Message

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Matt
Pete, Would you please clarify this a bit. Declude of course doesn't record the rule in the headers, so this is difficult to figure out. Knowing the pattern may help identify the problematic messages. Also knowing the start time and end time of the rule would also help. I would be nice too

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Matt, Monday, October 16, 2006, 10:03:04 PM, you wrote: Pete, Would you please clarify this a bit. Declude of course doesn't record the rule in the headers, so this is difficult to figure out. Knowing the pattern may help identify the problematic messages. Also knowing the start

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Matt, I know Pete has requested this in the past, but Declude hasn't been willing to make the change necessary for this to make it in the headers. But I totally agree with you, I'd love to see this in the headers so tracking down the rule isn't such a pain. Darin. - Original

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete, Can you clarify what this .xhdr option is and how we can enable it? I don't remember anything inthe documentationthat describes it. I think there were references to the config file previously, but there was never anything about it in mine. If you could give an example of how to

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Matt
There is no doubt that having Declude handle xhdr files would be optimal. I might add that an option to exclude the header on non-hits would also be wise. David Barker appears open to some feature requests of late, and I would think that you could make this happen. Not everyone has capacity

[sniffer] Fwd: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006

2006-10-11 Thread Filippo Palmili
Please include this on the sniffer rules. Thanks Filippo thread-index: Acbs16ua41RVu3lDTDG9YCuK+hb+nw== Thread-Topic: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006 From: Duke Editore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006 Date: Wed, 11

[sniffer] Re: Fwd: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006

2006-10-11 Thread Alberto Santoni
Please Filippo Dont submit spam to this list use instead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Alberto From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Filippo Palmili Sent: 11 October 2006 09:05 To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Fwd: Newsletter

[sniffer] Re: Thanks Sniffer

2006-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello John, :-) Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 9:01:55 PM, you wrote: I have noticed in the last couple of weeks a greatly improved response time in reports of false positives. Just want to say thanks. John T eServices For You Seek, and ye shall find!

[sniffer] Re: Fwd: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006

2006-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Alberto, Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 4:14:46 AM, you wrote: Please Filippo Dont submit spam to this list use instead[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes! and also, if you have a "chronic" spam, you can zip a copy of the message and include it as an attachment to support@ along with

[sniffer] Re: Fwd: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006

2006-10-11 Thread Alberto Santoni
Hi Pete Yes I have an account on which I get only SPAM . I will set a rules to delete only spam already recognized from your sniffer. Let me know at which address I have to send the data for this account Alberto From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[sniffer] Re: Fwd: Newsletter HiTech Insider - n. 317 - 11/10/2006

2006-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Alberto, I will respond offlist. Thanks, _M Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 10:12:47 AM, you wrote: Hi Pete Yes I have an account on which I get only SPAM . I will set a rules to delete only spam already recognized from your sniffer. Let me know at which address I have to send

[sniffer] Log uploading issues

2006-10-11 Thread K Mitchell
In order to keep my log files more orderly, I rotate them at 12:01 each morning with the previous day's log named for that day. Every few days I manually upload them to ftp.sortmonster.net File sizes run 8-11mb on average. Until recently, I've never had any noticible issues doing it this way.

[sniffer] Re: Log uploading issues

2006-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello K, Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 3:55:40 PM, you wrote: In order to keep my log files more orderly, I rotate them at 12:01 each morning with the previous day's log named for that day. Every few days I manually upload them to ftp.sortmonster.net File sizes run 8-11mb on average.

[sniffer] FTP Troubles

2006-10-11 Thread Jacques Brouwers
Hello, I'm having trouble uploading my log files also. Here is an excerpt from the log. --13:41:49-- `/var/spool/snfilter/logs/12345abcde.log.0.gz' = ftp://snifferlog:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:21//var/spool/snfilter/logs/12345a bcde.log.0.gz Connecting to 207.97.229.114:21... connected! Logging

[sniffer] Re: FTP Troubles

2006-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Jacques, It seems that your upload script is attempting to make a subdirectory on the log upload ftp server. This is not allowed. When you login as snifferlog you are automatically put in the correct directory so all you need to do next is PUT. Hope this helps, _M Wednesday, October 11,

[sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract

2006-10-10 Thread Frederick Samarelli
Where can I find a list of the latest result codes. - Original Message - From: John T (Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Message Sniffer Community sniffer@sortmonster.com Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:56 PM Subject: [sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract I concur Pete in that I have been

[sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract

2006-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Frederick, Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 8:14:15 AM, you wrote: Where can I find a list of the latest result codes. http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetails.ResultCodes _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC.

[sniffer] Help for AutoSNF

2006-10-10 Thread Filippo Palmili
Hello Pete, in witch time on day you suggest to schedule the autosnf.cmd task? Please let mw know. Thanks Filippo # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe,

[sniffer] Re: Help for AutoSNF

2006-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Filippo, The best time to download your rulebase file is when you receive an update notification message. If you want to use a scheduler then you should be sure your script only downloads newer files and then schedule it to run about once per hour. To avoid congestion, you should pick the

[sniffer] Thanks Sniffer

2006-10-10 Thread John T (Lists)
I have noticed in the last couple of weeks a greatly improved response time in reports of false positives. Just want to say thanks. John T eServices For You Seek, and ye shall find! # This message is sent to you because you are

[sniffer] Experimental Abstract

2006-10-09 Thread Alberto Santoni
Hello I'm getting storms of spam and Sniffer sets them as (Experimental Abstract) Can someone explain how have I to treat them? Many thanks in advance Alberto # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing

[sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract

2006-10-09 Thread John T (Lists)
I concur Pete in that I have been thinking about upping the weight for the EXP tests. I recently changed ABST from 20 to 25. I attach at 25, hold at 30 and delete at 35. SNIFFER-TRAVEL 47 20 SNIFFER-INSURANCE 48 20 SNIFFER-AV-PUSH 49 20 SNIFFER-WAREZ

[sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract

2006-10-09 Thread Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC
I was setting a lower weight on the experimental/abstract result codes due to inconsistent results in the past. However, after a review of customer spam that was still getting through, I increased the weighting on those codes to equal our hold weight. Customer is much happier now. -Jay

[sniffer] Declude Interceptor

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Grosshandler
Hi We're attempting to install SNF with the new Declude Gateway product. We're having problems. We're also having problems installing invariant systems' INVURIBL product, which leads me to wonder. Are any of you using SNF with Interceptor successfully? While it definitely could be us, maybe,

[sniffer] Declude Interceptor

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Grosshandler
Hi We're attempting to install SNF with the new Declude Gateway product. We're having problems. We're also having problems installing invariant systems' INVURIBL product, which leads me to wonder. Are any of you using SNF with Interceptor successfully? While it definitely could be us, maybe,

[sniffer] Re: [Fwd: keep up with the jones']

2006-10-04 Thread David Moore
We also sent this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] this morning so it is interesting to see how this got submitted to the mail list if that is how it got through. Regards David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.P. MCP, MCSE, MCSE + INTERNET, CNE. www.adsldirect.com.au for ADSL and Internet www.romtech.com.au for

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Koontz
Hi Pete. If you need any testers for this plugin, give me a shout. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:07 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-03 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Dave, Will do :-) When the alpha is ready I'll announce it here. Thanks! _M Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 11:13:08 AM, you wrote: Hi Pete. If you need any testers for this plugin, give me a shout. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Warren
I'll work with you on that case in our support system, but please feel free to post the results here if we find something that would be useful to the community. -- Dave Warren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alt-N Technologies, Ltd. www.altn.com

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Warren
Okay great, that's what I thought. I'm with Dave Koontz, if you need any alpha/beta/whatever testing of an Inline-SMTP module, let me know, I have a server with a few hundred active mailboxes that I can use for testing. For my part, I'm not interested in rejecting mail with MessageSniffer,

[sniffer] [Fwd: keep up with the jones']

2006-10-03 Thread Kim W. Premuda
Title: Message Original Message Subject: keep up with the jones' Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:52:39 -0800 From: Larry Swinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message

[sniffer] Re: [Fwd: keep up with the jones']

2006-10-03 Thread John T (Lists)
???/ John T eServices For You Seek, and ye shall find! -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim W. Premuda Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:00 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject:

[sniffer] MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-02 Thread Dave Warren
Does anybody know if it's possible to have the MessageSniffer plug-in run inline in MDaemon's SMTP session rather then during queue processing? It appears this is causing MessageSniffer to not be scored by SpamAssassin -- If SA runs during the SMTP session before MessageSniffer does it's

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-02 Thread Grant Stufft
Pete, Dave is working on the problem I posted over the weekend. (I think) Thanks Dave. Sniffer is processing and adding its headers but SA is not using them to add to the spam score. Thanks, Grant -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Grant Stufft
-Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sven De Troch Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:05 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping' We are using v 9.0.6, we will try with version 9.0.7 within a

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Grant, Saturday, September 30, 2006, 8:20:21 AM, you wrote: snip/ We are having the same problem. Sniffer is processing the messages but it appears as if SA is not picking it up. I posted this in the MDaemon Discussion list yesterday and had one reply. Upgraded to 9.07 and tried

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Dave Koontz
As a user of your MD plugin since it's Beta release, it has worked perfectly. SA can have problems with completely unrelated rules / tests should there be a syntax error in any one of SA's CF files. I'd suggest using ONLY the default SA installation rules to test, and/or running all CF

[sniffer] Error posting?

2006-09-30 Thread Dave Koontz
Why am I getting the following error when replying to a message here? It certainly is NOT automatic... and has never happened before today. --- Failed to deliver to 'sniffer@sortmonster.com' LIST module(list sniffer@sortmonster.com) reports: an automatically-generated message cannot be posted

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Grant Stufft
Thanks Pete. snip/ We are having the same problem. Sniffer is processing the messages but it appears as if SA is not picking it up. I posted this in the MDaemon Discussion list yesterday and had one reply. Upgraded to 9.07 and tried what the poster recommended and it is still not

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Sven De Troch
Grant, Pete, I *think* that the problem has been solved within our installation. I haven't changed anything, but SPAM messages are not coming through anymore (execept some Russian spam that SNF is not catching, but that's logical -- can I forward these messages to someone é armresearch for

[sniffer] Re: Error posting?

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Dave, Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:01:41 AM, you wrote: Why am I getting the following error when replying to a message here? It certainly is NOT automatic... and has never happened before today. Very odd. Your messages came through - including this one. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief

[sniffer] Re: Error posting?

2006-09-30 Thread Grant Stufft
-Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Koontz Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:02 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: Error posting? Why am I getting the following error when replying to a message here? It

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sven, Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:30:27 AM, you wrote: Grant, Pete, I *think* that the problem has been solved within our installation. I haven't changed anything, but SPAM messages are not coming through anymore (execept some Russian spam that SNF is not catching, but that's

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Sven De Troch
Pete, We already have a pop3 mailbox that is being used by your bots. But the false negatives I'm talking about are in my own mailbox and I wanted to forward them for analysis as well. I'll use the provided email address to forward them. Thanks, Sven -Original Message- From: Message

[sniffer] log upload script

2006-09-28 Thread Jacques Brouwers
Hi All, I have looked on the submitted scripts page (http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDeta ils.SubmittedScripts) and found a wonderful script that downloads the new rulebase file written in Perl (thanks Vivek!). Does anyone have a script that uploads the log

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-24 Thread Sven De Troch
hello, Nobody has any idea? SA and SNF seems to be configured correctly since most of the spams are being tagged. Still have the problem that some spam with "X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Result: 1--63" in the header is not being scored (+5), see below. thanks,Sven From: Sven De

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-22 Thread Sven De Troch
ok, I think that your are completely right, it seems that SA is not always detecting it. In my rules, Bayes = -4,1. But I have seen lots of email wheren the SNF header was inserted (X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Result: 52), and where the +5 score for SNF detection has not been taken into

[sniffer] catch more spam (in response to the current discussion)

2006-09-21 Thread Michiel Prins
Crew, If I might suggest something that has nothing to do with sniffer directly... I succesfully reduced the number of spams delivered to our server with 25% by automatically blacklisting the IP adresses which deliver spam. If the weight of an e-mail goes over the hold weight, I add the IP

[sniffer] Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-21 Thread Sven De Troch
Dear all, Configuration: mdaemon 9.0.6 / included spamassasin (from mdaemon) / mdaemon plug-in (latest version) Trial account. We configured the plugin (scanning of emails and add 5 extra score point to Mdaemon's Spam Assasin in case of spam) and it's working fine most of the time, but: The

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-21 Thread Peer-to-Peer (Support)
Hi Sven, My guess is that the plug-in is actually working but just not being logged when MD is minimized (or Windows logged-off). Check the MD Log Settings and enable Always log to screen. Setup|Logging|Options - Enable Always log to screen --Paul -Original Message- From: Message

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-21 Thread Sven De Troch
Paul and Pete, Thanks for the tips, the 'always log to screen' has been enabled now (was disabled), so this should solve the problem of the logging (just checked it and logging is ok now). However (and that was the reason I thought that the plugin went to sleep mode), some spams that have been

[sniffer] Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Hogue
I just signed my annual renewal for Sniffer but it seems that it used to catch lots of the email and now is only catching about 50% of the email Why when we are sending in our information does this continue to happen? We are getting lots of you won, Pharmacy spelled wrong and nonsense emails that

[sniffer] How Many get through

2006-08-25 Thread Gary Stark
I have a question I've been wanting to ask for awhile: How many spams do most people get leaked into their mailbox? ie they pass message sniffer? When I first started over a year ago, very few spam made it into my mailbox. But the past 6 months I get 60-80 spam emails / day into my

[sniffer] Re: How Many get through

2006-08-25 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Gary, I've checked your license id (based on your domain) and it is not expired - updates seem to be working normally. Is your update script working correctly? _M Friday, August 25, 2006, 11:48:46 AM, you wrote: I have a question I've been wanting to ask for awhile:  

[sniffer] Re: How Many get through

2006-08-25 Thread Gary Stark
I've checked your license id (based on your domain) and it is not expired - updates seem to be working normally. Is your update script working correctly? Yes, My script is working. I have it set to get updates twice a day, at 0600 and 1800. I also have a log upload script for once a day, it

[sniffer] FW: Summary, Form #21539

2006-08-23 Thread Andy Schmidt
Pete, I have the same concern. I have been submitting the below spam (possible Words virus) almost daily for more than week - yet, it still is not discovered. Am I submitting correctly? Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 -Original

[sniffer] Re: FW: Summary, Form #21539

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andy, Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 8:57:48 AM, you wrote: Pete, I have the same concern. I have been submitting the below spam (possible Words virus) almost daily for more than week - yet, it still is not discovered. Am I submitting correctly? This particular spam campaign is a bit

[sniffer] Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Darin Cox
FYI... I just reported one of these, so watch out. Darin.

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, I may be behind... but I don't see an FP report on this. Do you have the rule id? _M Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 1:36:08 PM, you wrote: FYI... I just reported one of these, so watch out. Darin.     -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs,

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete, I'm not sure which column is which, but here are the log lines for the message (minus the authorization code) 20060823163449 D83a20d3001502962.SMD 0 32 Match 1100444 60 1502 1551 98 20060823163449 D83a20d3001502962.SMD 0 32 Final 1100444 60 0 3798 98 The FP was

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Column 7 is the one that contains the rule that was hit. In this case, it was 1100444. Column 8 is the one that contains the group. In this case, it was 60 Ungrouped Black Rules (Sniffer General). Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, I have processed an FP with that rule (1100444) - the rule was for an obscure ebay link and has been removed. Best, _M Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 3:23:55 PM, you wrote: Hi Pete, I'm not sure which column is which, but here are the log lines for the message (minus the

[sniffer] Blank emails

2006-08-23 Thread David Moore
I am seeing a lot of Spam emails with blank bodys is this because our internet connection is too slow or because the spammers are failing to complete there transaction Received: from CIBER2.ctijdq6u.org [201.135.34.108] by romtech.com.au with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.22) id A02D0268; Thu, 24

[sniffer] Another example of an empty email but looking at the source.

2006-08-23 Thread David Moore
Received: from PC05.4ueleoz.org [202.215.167.25] by romtech.com.au with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.22) id A7AC0224; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:33:16 +1000 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-mxGuard-Info: Processed by romtech.com.au using mxGuard v2.4 X-mxGuard-SpoolID: d7ab017912af X-mxGuard-Sender:

[sniffer] Re: Another example of an empty email but looking at the source.

2006-08-23 Thread Support
Hi David: There has been a rise in spam again and we just added some new rules to our system. Lets give it a few days to see if they stop. Have a great day. Phil David Moore wrote: *Received: from PC05.4ueleoz.org [202.215.167.25] by romtech.com.au with ESMTP* * (SMTPD-8.22) id

[sniffer] Re: Another example of an empty email but looking at the source.

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello David, Sometimes we have rules for empty email --- but there are many different kinds of empty ;-) Often enough, some empty messages are legitimate. _M Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 6:39:23 PM, you wrote: Received: from PC05.4ueleoz.org [202.215.167.25] by romtech.com.au

[sniffer] Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread David Moore
I just want to know if I am submitting spam emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] properly being in Australia we see a lot of spam targeting ANZ, National and Commonwealth bank and they seem to be evading the Sniffer program so when I send a spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I am using Outlook 2003) I copy

[sniffer] Re: Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello David, I think this format should come through fine. Phishing is a constant challenge because it is so variable and so close to a legitimate message (on purpose). I will code some rules for the message you submitted and I'm sure Jason (Lead Rule Tech) will see this note and help us watch

[sniffer] Re: Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread Jim Matuska Jr.
Pete, Is there any way to deal with the other new attachment based spasm we have been seeing recently? I see a lot coming in that only say here is your invoice and have an invoice.doc (or similar attachment). Inside the word file is the spam itself. I've seen a bunch of these in the last week

[sniffer] Re: Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Jim, I've started working on some of these also. SNF usually does look inside file attachments so it's possible we can get to some of the raw content -- in fact, most of it is already coded - but being inside all of the binary cruft in a word document is keeping it out of the scanning

[sniffer] Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Chuck Schick
We are seeing tons of spam coming through with the subject Re: new ... and advertising drugs. Any luck on stopping this? Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. (303)-421-5140 www.warp8.com # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Nick Marshall
We're seeing similar - I keep submitting them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the same type of spam keeps getting through... Nick Marshall Legally privileged/confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee(s) legally indicated in this message (or responsible

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Nick, There have been a couple new very aggressive spikes today... most likely these are part of that. I will dig-in with the rule-techs and see what is what. Thanks, _M Monday, August 21, 2006, 11:27:37 AM, you wrote: We're seeing similar - I keep submitting them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Would that be the Laugh in the subject line pharmaceutical spam campaign? That was mentioned by Dave Doherty on the Declude.JunkMail mailing list, and when I checked my logs I found many hundreds with clear variations on the keywords in the text, e.g. there is a joke about lawyers and they are

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andrew, That's not the one I had in mind, but if it's in there we'll code for it. _M Monday, August 21, 2006, 12:02:42 PM, you wrote: Would that be the Laugh in the subject line pharmaceutical spam campaign? That was mentioned by Dave Doherty on the Declude.JunkMail mailing list,

[sniffer] Newbie Question about .fin and .srv

2006-08-12 Thread David Moore
I am running mxGuard, invURIBL, Message sniffer and I have just installed the Message Sniffer as a service in persistent mode. I have a few files in the Sniffer directory that are about 24 hour old can they be deleted? (License code removed) -20060812095802xAAF83996-1008.SVR

[sniffer] Re: Newbie Question about .fin and .srv

2006-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello David, Anything 24 hours old is safe to delete. _M Saturday, August 12, 2006, 4:52:36 PM, you wrote: I am running mxGuard, invURIBL, Message sniffer and I have just installed the Message Sniffer as a service in persistent mode. I have a few files in the Sniffer directory that are

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