RE: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Decludeproc abend

2005-12-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
What Sandy said. In my experience, the "infrastructure software" never failed, the only ABENDs were from applications that our own programmers wrote. And yes, ABEND is still in my vocabulary. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sa

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Decludeproc abend

2005-12-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message What, you had a teletype instead of keypunch?  Bah, kids today.  When I was a boy, we had to walk uphill in the snow both ways just to submit our punchcards for overnight processing.  And we liked it.     Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Decludeproc abend

2005-12-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message No, just snowing.  But it was a driving snow.  You'll have to drive in to the Sierras to find out what snow looks like, John.  Or check out that nuisance white stuff outside you see on the national news.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Methusalem

2005-12-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> I can still program in 1401 Autocoder. Does that qualify? > > George That depends, George. Did you hand wrap the core? Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of george > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:34 AM > To: Declude

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Monty Python's Flying Circus

2005-12-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
And for those who enjoy video games and hate their vegetables: http://www.bellman.co.uk/sproutinvader/ Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:40 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Dec

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] F-prot

2006-01-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FRISK has just updated F-Prot for Windows to 3.16e and this purports to include enhanced scanning capability for malformed WMF that appear as other graphic formats. The subscription login server is down with HTTP error 500 again. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WMF and MIME blocking

2006-01-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That would be this posting: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-January/041032.h tml I'm willing to bet that this information is not to be trusted, Dave. I'm confident enough and lazy enough that I'm not going to test it. "Preliminary testing reveals that emails containing WM

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Issues with Windows 2003 FTP service

2006-01-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This may be of some use... These are two of the things checked by theMicrosoft Exchange Best Practices Tool (sorry, there is no KB listed):   1) How to restrict the size of the bounce messages you generate (just like the big boys do with their postfix and sendmail MTAs, but it's possible tha

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: MaxDSNSize

2006-01-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sweet.  Thanks for the testing and follow up on this, Matt.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:52 AMTo: Declude.JunkMail@declude.comSubject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: MaxDSNSize I just con

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] CBL:Abuse on dnsstuff.com

2006-01-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Richard, look at it from everybody else's perspective:   We don't have an abused web proxy, so we don't see what you see.  We're guessing, based on what you write in your messages.   As to answering your question, a web programmer can do anything they like with CGI.  If you wa

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Combo Filter

2006-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message No, Markus, the CMDSPACE is not duplicated inside of Pete's Message Sniffer.   What the Declude CMDSPACE test checks for is in the envelope (the Q*.SMD file) and what Message Sniffer checks is the content of the message itself (D*.SMD).   Andrew.   From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Help with filter

2006-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I don't know if the BEGINSWITH will work in all cases, but if it does, great. I think you'd do better to mitigate the false positives by checking for text that is missing, e.g. I think this would be a lethal test, and wouldn't require you to track his evolving HELO and SUBJECT lines: BODY END CO

[Declude.JunkMail] Performance note under odd circumstances

2006-01-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Using Declude JunkMail Pro v2.0.6.16 from 2005-05-25 on IMail v8.14 plus hotfixes on a dual 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon Proliant with hyperthreading on. There is no on-access antivirus software installed, and no defragmentation, no indexing or other type of disk tasks were running. I re-queued a messa

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] malware or virii?

2006-01-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Checking with http://virusscan.jotti.org shows: File: newyears.scr Status: INFECTED/MALWARE MD5 a4b0c8e03cc266d3500eb515f616a6d2 Packers detected: PESPIN Scanner results AntiVir Found Packer/PESpin packer ArcaVir Found nothing Avast Found nothing AVG

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] I seem to get alot of spam from the 'legit' lists.

2006-01-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Nick, I think that if you left this mail in, your users won't complain that it is spam. I have much the same opinion of these lists that Matt has; more explicitly, I have a counterweight (*not* a whitelist) that awards negative points to their score. I haven't seen spam from them yet, and all the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Server Watching.

2006-01-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
WhatsUp someversionorother http://www.ipswitch.com Nagios (Open Source, with a *nix bent) http://www.nagios.org/ Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jerod M. Bennett > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:25 AM > To: Declude

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Server Watching.

2006-01-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm quite surprised that nobody has named: http://www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx Microsoft MOM yet. It's quite popular in Microsft shops. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Colbeck,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Server Watching.

2006-01-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
icrosft shops. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:45 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Server Watching. WhatsUp someversionorother

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Logged spam getting to mailbox

2006-01-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Logged spam getting to mailbox Corby, to help you rule out "header corruption" I checked my own logs, and found that I received (and held) three copies of the same spam message today.   Inspecting each of those with notepad showed that my X- headers are being added, therefore "header c

[Declude.JunkMail] Caution - spamcop listing at least one RIM blackberry server

2006-01-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
216.9.248.49 is listed in SpamCop, since at least 5am PST. See: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=216.9.248.49 I would guess because of bounced viruses (e.g. the latest round of Bagle that started last night). The page above notes that a neighbouring IP (from which I have received g

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Message Sniffer Automation

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Chris, there's no shortage of them: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.htm l Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Anton > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:23 AM > To: Declude.JunkMai

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] F-Prot

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Richard, are you using the latest version? V3.16f was released on Jan-09-2006. http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/060106_release_win316f.html Some previous version I used did the same thing, but I think that F-Prot fixed this issue. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Another forged Declude address e-mail?

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irony > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:56 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Another forged Declude address e-

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Another forged Declude address e-mail?

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
REVDNS [35], FILTER-USERS [50]" be enough for a "COMBO" test to be used to filter to a HOLD or DELETE? No, I'm not bashing Declude. We've been a Declude user since 2000. Just pointing out the obvious. -Erik -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] F-Prot

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
AIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn \ WCNet > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:53 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] F-Prot > > 3.16f doesn't get hung-up on updates any *less* than other > versions did. > &g

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Ping 2-3-06

2006-02-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I assumed that everybody got rich off stock tips they received in the mail. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:01 PM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: Re: [Declu

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New server replacing the old one

2006-02-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: New server replacing the old one Sharyn, I'm sure that it will work just fine, but you should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly; for quite a while now, their licencing scheme has been recording the unique MAC address of the NIC.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Bouncing emails

2006-02-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Frederick, if you decide you really have to not send NDRs, then you can follow this KB article:   http://support.microsoft.com/?id=294757   which tells you where in Exchange to disable sending NDRs.  What it doesn't tell you is that you can create other domains to which you can

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Bouncing emails

2006-02-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message How to suppress generation of NDRs in Exchange 5.5:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837794   Andrew 8)   p.s. For anybody reading this who finds that they get enough spam leakage to take this step, you might also check out these very, very general tips

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Damaged Image Files

2006-02-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Ditto.   I've received and held 24 messages with the same title.  Re-queuing 3 of these to myself, they had an image that was intact.   They fail the usual RBL tests plus Message Sniffer.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of H

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Damaged Image Files

2006-02-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Interesting.  As Matt, said, if you can get an original D*.SMD that would be great for following this trail.   I would note that in addition, use the headers that were received to track the sending IP and time, and check your IMail log, and from there you will have the GUID fo

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ?? Start of phish/virus campaign ??

2006-03-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, John. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM%5FB AGLE%2EDF&VSect=T I didn't see any on my server, but I did find the Trend Micro listing this morning. Generating anger or affront in the viewer seems to be the new infection meme; I just read a blog that menti

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] MXRATE FYI

2006-03-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
John,   I'm doing the same thing for a day.  I don't have any information to support my caution, but if I had changed my list the way that Solid Oak has done, I might also take the opportunity to re-jig the content.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] MXRATE FYI

2006-03-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Wow, Dave.   Talk about "your mileage may vary"...   My traffic has a huge overlap between MXRate-BL and what Message Sniffer hits.   Total hits for Message Sniffer: 26,504 Total hits for MXRate-BL: 5,746 Total hits for MXRateBL which also hit Sniffer: 5,697   We also had 21 hits on MXRate-BL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] GeoCities

2006-03-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I haven't seen any business oriented material on Geocities (rhymes with "atrocities"). I've been blocking it in email and our web proxy for years, on the basis of the security risk of the frequent malware hosting. Blocking the spamvertisement web pages and redirectors is just an added bonus for m

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How to add extra points to this

2006-03-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Message Sniffer plus any URI blacklist test is a powerful and reliable combination.  You could add keywords to make it an even stronger weight if you wanted to maintain that.   You could also implement the COUNTRY filter and give a little nudge weight for CO (Colombia) if you think you get ve

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How to add extra points to this

2006-03-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
"I will think about a special filter test with a keyword what should be able to get rid of more of this SPAM."   Goran, I suggest that making a "combo" test that awards more weight when both Message Sniffer and your URI external test trigger will be a better value for you, as it will be far m

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How to add extra points to this

2006-03-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yes, there is an overlap between an external URIBL test and Message Sniffer in that Sniffer cross references hits against at least one SURBL list to gauge the worthiness of a rule.   However, what is often confused is the untrue assertion that Message Sniffer imports SURBL to construct rules.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Nick.   I spent some time poking at this with a stick.   Since I just use IMail as a gateway so that I can use Declude... I've had no use for IMail mailboxes or forwarding, so it was all new to me.   The real answer is that you should lobby Ipswitch to implement that sender re-writing

RE: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding -

2006-03-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sanford Whiteman > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:37 PM > To: Colbeck, Andrew > Subject: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] spf breaks email forwarding - > > > If you want to perservere and build your o

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Funny RDNS

2006-03-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
In the corporate world, it was certainly handy to keep user and workstation name mappings consistent when we used WINS and the WINS timeout was far longer than the duration of a dialup session. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Funny RDNS

2006-03-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> He has > his wife strip on web cam for money... or so he claims. I > guess goat farming wasn't enough. There's probably good money in combining the two. Best not to inquire. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Problem with base64-encoded text messages

2006-04-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I don't have a direct comment about your Declude system, Chris, but a similar problem happens all too frequently when Exchange organizations send mail to Notes organizations, and less frequently, to mail systems that are very basic.   The Exchange organization can prevent it from happening by

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Live Web Log Analyzer

2006-04-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It's off-topic for this off-topic thread, but Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics/ is pretty nifty for non-ISP purposes. To get it working though, you need to edit every page your want to report on with a bit of javascript which phones home to Google; it doesn't work by analyzing

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Sorry, have to share

2006-04-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Gee, I thought it looked like a perl script... I sometimes wonder if the spammers write stuff like this because they lose the thread and forget that they are trying to convince people to buy their stuff, and not just to craft their message to get past the antispam filters! Andrew 8) > -Orig

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Virus?

2006-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Richard, you might want to check this thread from the archives.  Goran can clarify, but I'm pretty sure that this is the source of the "Sane Security" detection string.   For what it's worth, Message Sniffer catches the email message body you supplied with the MALWARE category.   The hosting

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] problem with DNSstuff.com web site

2006-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ben, based on the info here: http://banned.dnsstuff.com/pages/abuse.htm You might try going to their "backup site" at: http://www.dnsstuff.com:8080/ As for contacting somebody there, join the forums and make a posting. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mai

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Semi-OT: Stupid DNS question...

2006-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Specifying your ISP's DNS servers in your network setup won't be an issue, Dave. If the root hints are even close to being correct, your DNS server configuration should be fine. To test whether your DNS server is doing the job, issue a single command line query that you know is going to test your

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Live Web Log Analyzer

2006-04-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
n addition to, log file parsing. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:50 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Live Web

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I agree with the changes advised in this thread for registry settings. Let me point out that these are meant to be applied on the server where the files are, and not, for example, to a workstation that is trying to manipulate a folder over the network. I've been trying out Servant Salamander from

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Help with WinZip command line

2006-04-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Well... Once you kick start the procedure by zipping all of the previous folders, then all you have left is 7 days worth of logs, so you can bag the "prev x days" logic and just use dec*.log as the parameter. Or likewise, tell the script to do the previous 8 days and you'll always get the full li

[Declude.JunkMail] Madlibs as Bayesian algorithm frustrators

2006-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
So... I had reason to dip into my spam folder today and found a message that is using some kind of tool to generate madlibs, presumably to pad the spam so that it seems like a normal message and perhaps to poison antispam systems that use Bayesian analysis. Assuming that your spam filter doesn't c

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Madlibs as Bayesian algorithm frustrators

2006-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ttempts. > > So spammers keep using bayes poison because it works in some > cases. It also doesn't really hurt them much, and sometimes > even helps them, against more resistant implementations. > == > > Bill > > - Original Message - > From: "

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT user profile settings

2006-04-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Also, check how your disk space on C: is currently being used. I love this free tool (Java is a pre-requisite): http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ You may find a surprising amount of disk space is used that you can actually delete. I find that the top culprits are: 1) MS Office cach

RE: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Problems with SPAMC32 scoring??

2006-04-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Geoff, I'd be interested in hearing back from you on whether Pyzor is working for you after you have a while to test. For the last year or so, I've figured it was a project for a few die-hards only. I've noted that the current SpamAssassin no longer has it enabled by default, and the Pyzor mailin

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How can I block all the stock spams?

2006-05-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'd like to see an update to all_list.dat too. Mine is a few months older than Scott's. ... And this IP address has been Turkey since at least February 2006: % Information related to '88.247.80.0 - 88.247.159.255' inetnum:88.247.80.0 - 88.247.159.255 netname:TurkTelekom descr:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] image spam

2006-05-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, SARE has their own download script (I'm not familiar with the sa-update script Bill mentioned) called RulesDuJour which is a bash shell script: http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour And that page contains a howto link for us Windows users who are running CygWin:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] eBay Phish using Loftmail.com

2006-05-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I've never heard of it, John. I checked with SiteAdvisor and they have nothing bad to say: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/loftmail.com?safe Googling for loftmail and various interesting keywords doesn't indicate to me any markedly bad opinion of their service. Andrew 8) > -Original Mess

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Poor man's high reliability?

2006-05-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
UltraDNS is back in business after the kind of DoS they are supposed to be in business to defend against. Check out Brian Kreb's article here, from May-17-2006: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/05/blue_security_surrend ers_but_s.html Specifically this snippet: "Well, UltraDNS mar

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] What happened to the logging since 2.x????, it's HUGE

2006-05-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Well, great minds think alike*.   I'm working on upgrading my IMail+Declude too.  And like Matt, I'm doing it primarily to update my MTA, not to update my stable Declude 2.x software!   I went directly from 8.15 HFx to IMail Server 2006.04a (aka 9.04) as an upgrade**.   I haven

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'd second that... on both the observed behaviour and the request for documentation.   I'm attaching my highly commented declude.cfg as a reasonable sample.   Andrew 8)     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:36 AMTo:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Nick.   It's a defensive mechanism I've used for years: keep the documentation with the settings.  I often do the same with registry keys by adding a text string and blathering away.  Adding dates and initials is also a good idea.   Andrew 8)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
"Those who cannot remember their mistakes are doomed to repeat them!"   Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:26 PMTo: Declude.JunkMail@declude.comSubject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x And

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, is there a proactive way to detect if an installation would benefit from the WINSOCKCLEANUP ON directive in declude.cfg? I would rather be able to detect this while it's happening than to react when I find that spam is leaking or that the proc folder is continually growing. Andrew. > ---

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
CLEANUP to deal with this specific Imail issue. > > David B > www.declude.com > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:45 PM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.c

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
en this happened the admin was not > even able to ping an outside server, which would suggest to > me other IP communications fail as well. > > David B > www.declude.com > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It was > resolved with a phone call to Declude and the discovery that > that the initial authorization had been moved from port 53 to > port 25. After making that change to the firewall V4 runs fine. > > Good luck > > > John > > -Original Message- > Fro

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Experience with 4.x

2006-05-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
rewall port issue. > > I'd turn the winsockcleanup off and monitor your memory > usage. If it keeps creeping up turn it back on. > > John > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Colbeck,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How to get support from sniffer....

2006-05-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Chuck, since I'm not blocked, I've sent a message on your behalf to Pete as well as false@ ... while redacting your domain name. Happy to help, Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Schick > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 20

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam says it was whitelisted

2006-05-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
And what does the Declude log show if you do a: Find /I "8f41090ecd10" dec0526.log Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Fisher > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 9:07 AM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: R

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam says it was whitelisted

2006-05-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ECTED] = WHITELISTED [LAST ACTION=WHITELISTED] > 05/26/2006 00:16:57.630 q8f41090ecd10.smd Cumulative > action(s) taken on this email = IGNORE [LAST ACTION=IGNORE] > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of &g

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam says it was whitelisted

2006-05-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
elisting now I have a problem somewhere. > > Kyle > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:42 PM > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam says

RE: AW: AW: AW: [Declude.JunkMail] No action taken

2006-06-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Another country heard from (hey, literally!).   I'm not seeing the email patterns reported.  I have a gateway-only scenario so I thought a different angle on this might be helpful.   Like Matt, I thought an illegal character or unusual MAILFROM might contribute to the problem.   I looked thr

[Declude.JunkMail] Fiat Lux

2006-06-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Let there be light! --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Test - can I post?

2006-06-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, have you heard the phrase "Caesar's wife must be above reproach"? A company that sells email based products has to do a superlative job in their own field. I've already got a fulltime job thanks, but I just can't help getting pulled into the forum and paying attention to what Declude is do

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Blank body & Subject

2006-06-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message I'd suggest that this would work better without false positives.  The headers are missing darn near everything, the date, the message-id, the subject, and the from.  Any one of these could be missing, but Michael's script will punish with a weight of 30 if either of the two tes

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Increasing Spool size after upgrade to 2006

2006-06-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Will, try this: dir q*.smd | find /C /V "" dir d*.smd | find /C /V "" dir t*.smd | find /C /V "" And let us know the results. I'm betting that you have the same circumstance that I do after I upgraded IMail, which is that you have very few q*.smd files, and just broken d*.smd and t*.smd from b

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] F-Prot Licensing

2006-07-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I hadn't noticed that before.  This webpage is pretty darn explicit, so yes, the pricing you quoted is correct! From the bottom of the page that describes the corporate licences available:   http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/win/ F-Prot Antivirus for Windows on Mail Servers To us

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] HTML code in spam

2006-08-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... But a font size of "1" in an email is always spam. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andy Schmidt > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:57 AM > To: declude.junkmail@declude.com > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] HTML code

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT question

2006-08-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: SKIPIFWEIGHT question ... what Scott said.  And preferably, at the top of each text filter file that you want to allow Declude to skip.   All weights accumulated up to that point are taken into account.  DNS tests like SpamCop and external tests like Message Sniffer execute before tex

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Spam folder cleaning script.

2006-08-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dean, I'm not sure if this is close to what you're looking for, but in addition to the forfiles command, the "for" command that is built into the command shell can be very handy, particularly if you're only going one directory deep. Check it out: for /? For example, you can do this to loop throu

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Spam folder cleaning script.

2006-08-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's one for the record books, folks.   Andrew was far more verbose than Matt!   Andrew 8)     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:02 PMTo: declude.junkmail@declude.comSubject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Spam

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFWEIGHT question

2006-08-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Another thing, Sharyn, is that the SKIPIFWEIGHT only does as the name implies.   i.e. if you were expecting SKIPIFWEIGHT 30 to clamp the total message weight at exactly thirty, that would be expecting too much.   If all of your RBL and external tests and the Declude built-in t

[Declude.JunkMail] Release notes for IMail Server 2006.1 (v9.1)

2006-09-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This morning I received a notice from Ipswitch that the above-mentioned version is available. I thought this was worth pointing out: SMTP * Added ability to create and use a static, predefined helo/ehlo Hostname for all outgoing mail. This is good news for the various admins who have been blocke

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Reed Business

2006-09-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I dunno if they're the same people, but ReedExpo.com is similarly allowed here. I have a few users who want that mail and they don't seem to spam other accounts. Andrew. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Darin Cox > Sent: Monday, Sep

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Buffer overflow in Ipswitch products

2006-09-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Here are the published details.  The anonymous researcher provided no information for other than the 2006 versions, so your question is still open, Gunter.   http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-028.html   Andrew.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Disk pattern 0xDF in files -> Microsoft confirms KB920958 bug!

2006-09-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
t;>>> SAME files > >>>> in: > >>>> > >>>> D:\Imail\Declude > >>>> > >>>> together with binaries and the various other Declude files. > >>>> > >>>> I'm at loss! > >>

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamcop blocked message but not blocked

2006-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
You can follow the link in the text that the SpamCop RBL returns, and then follow a link there for further information: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=216.9.248.51 Which shows that this Blackberry server is listed again and will be for the next 16 hours. It also shows the recent hi

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] FIND command question

2006-09-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... And using fgrep is an order of magnitude faster than FIND in my testing. fgrep -i "Yaddah" dec0924.log That would be a straightforward substitution. Then you can turn to egrep when you actually want to do some regular expression work; I keep it pretty simple, on the order of: egrep -i "s

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know what ssdmbs.exe is?

2006-09-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Never heard of ssdmbs.exe ...   Search your filesystem for the file and see if the location or right-clicking on it gives you any insight.   I like to use Process Explorer from sysinternals.com for stuff like this. It's like Task Manager but has all the features you wished it had, like right-

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] CBL:CBL

2006-09-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The current hotfix for IMail Server 2006 includes a registry setting that allows you to set a fixed domain name in your outbound HELO/EHLO. Andrew. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Shacklett > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Disk pattern 0xDF in files -> Microsoft confirms KB920958 bug!

2006-09-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
__ > > >>>> > > >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of > > >>>> Andy Schmidt > > >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:36 PM > > >>>> To: Declude.JunkMai

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know what ssdmbs.exe is?

2006-10-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Craig.   Did you resolve this, and what was the outcome?   Andrew 8)       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:46 AMTo: declude.junkmail@declude.comSubject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelisting flaw in Declude?

2006-10-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yeah, what Matt said.   Message splitting before junkmail filtering would be punishing for CPU time and somewhat more for disk time; message splitting for the sake of whitelisting (or alternate actions) after junkmail filtering would be an incremental cost.   And message splitting before junk

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: imail q files magically dissapearing

2006-10-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I've noticed the same thing in all versions of Ipswitch IMail Server; the cause was broken connections, 99% of which were spam.   Only in the absolute latest, v9.10 from Sep-06-2006, have I noticed that IMail cleans up after itself.  There is an item about this in the latest release notes.  

[Declude.JunkMail] Microsoft takes a (third?) stab at promoting SenderID

2006-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-23OSPSenderIDPR.m spx Andrew. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.ma

[Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat is outdated

2006-10-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The version in the customer login area is out of date, and the one inside the "current" Declude installer is 3 months further out of date, even though the installer is newer than the all_list.dat ...   Andrew.             ---This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. Tounsubsc

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat is outdated

2006-10-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
DB> 1. The all_list.dat is not updated every release. DB> 2. The latest all_list.dat is posted on the My Account page 6 July 06   Worse, David, is that the then-current all_list.dat is not packaged with the release.   When Declude v3.13 was packaged, it included builds of decludeproc.exe da

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding custom header line

2006-11-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Markus, I believe that the XINHEADER and XOUTHEADER directives in the global.cfg are what you're looking for. They can be used to create an arbitrary header and populate it with any exposed Declude variables, e.g.: #XINHEADER X-Note: This E-mail was sent from %REVDNS% ([%REMOTEIP%]). #XOUTHE

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding custom header line

2006-11-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Oops, sorry, I jumped the gun and gave the wrong answer. What I meant to say was that the %TESTSFAILED% variable could be used with either XINTHEADER/XOUTHEADER and the client would have to parse the whole line for, say, a traditional WEIGHT20 entry. If there's a way to create an arbitrary entry

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