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 Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil > Sent: zaterdag 30 september 2006 16:49 > To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping' > > 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 logical --> can I forward these messages to someone > é armresearch for analysis?) . > > <snip/> > > Missed spam (false negatives) can be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and it will be put in the queue for the rule-techs. This method is > deprecated but the mechanisms are still in place. > > The preferred method is for you to have a pop3 mailbox on your system > setup as a usertrap where our bots can come and pick up false > negatives. A usertrap contains messages that you or your customers > (through your review if possible) would like to submit as spam. > Messages can be forwarded there - or if you have the technical means > you might redirect the messages to this box so that they are in their > original (as received) state. > > Similarly, if you have any clean spamtraps (addresses which receive > spam but were never used and will never be used) then their content > could be redirected to a spamtrap mailbox on your system where our > bots can retrieve it. > > We treat each type of source with different rules. Usertraps contain > messages that may have gone through human hands. Spamtrap contain > messages that have never been seen and should not exist (were sent to > invalid and/or harvested addresses). > > If you provide us with the email address (login), fqdn of the pop3 > server, and password we can tell our bots to go and collect messages > from there and add them to our processing queues. (We poll as > frequently as once per minute when traffic is slow). > > Hope this helps, > > _M > > > -- > Pete McNeil > Chief Scientist, > Arm Research Labs, LLC. > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
