How do I get it? Is this available for current Junkmail owners? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude JunkMail v1.28
We have just released Declude JunkMail v1.28 (beta). There are two important new features. The first is Declude Queue (which is now part of all the Declude programs; details are at http://www.declude.com/dq.htm ), which will help stabilize IMail servers, by helping them not run out of a mysterious undocumented "heap" that can cause mysterious crashes (".DLL initialization failure" or "0xC0000142"). The second is a weighting system (that was discussed here recently). With it, you can assign each test a "weight", and you can have a new test that will only fail if a total weight value is reached. For example, you could have ORDB assigned a weight of 5, SPAMCOP a weight of 8, and SPAMHEADERS a weight of 3, along with a "WEIGHT10" test that would get triggered if a weight of 10 was reached. If just ORDB and SPAMHEADERS failed (a total of 8), the WEIGHT10 test would not be triggered. If the SPAMCOP test failed, it would not trigger the WEIGHT10 test. But, if the SPAMCOP test and either the ORDB or SPAMHEADERS tests failed, the WEIGHT10 test would be triggered. Without much experimentation, we were able to set it up so that the weighting system catches about 95% of the spam at our spamtrap. The only false positive we are aware of was a canned response that we got from Network Solutions (to an E-mail that they claimed would receive a personalized reposonse), because they fail the NOPOSTMASTER test, NOWHOIS test, and REVDNS tests (which had a total weight of 13 the way we set it up, and a limit of 10). Given that Network Solutions wants us to pay $10,000 to let people do Whois lookups on our web site, it didn't really bother me at all that it was caught. To use the new weighting system, you should look at the new global.cfg file, which shows how the entries should look. The definition for each test now has 2 extra numbers added to the end (tests that did not already have 4 pieces of information associated with them, such as "REVDNS revdns", need to have a placeholder, so they will now look like "REVDNS revdns x x 10 0"). The first of the two new numbers indicates the weight if a test fails, while the other number indicates the weight if a test does not fail (which is normally 0). You can then add a test using the type "weight", such as "WEIGHT10 weight x x 20 0", which would get triggered if the total weight was 20 or higher. It's may seem confusing, so feel free to ask questions about it. -Scott --- 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". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- 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". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
