RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] False positive

2005-09-14 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Pete, other than database update e-mails, I see know e-mails from
@microneil.com or [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the last 2 days received by my
server.

John T
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On
 Behalf Of Pete McNeil
 Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:45 AM
 To: John Tolmachoff (Lists)
 Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] False positive
 
 I have your response in my sent folder.
 
 I will send it again..
 
 _M
 
 On Monday, September 12, 2005, 8:37:52 PM, John wrote:
 
 JTL I also have sent some false positives in the last 2 weeks with no
response,
 JTL the lastest being at 09/10/05 at 9:49 AM PDT.
 
 JTL John T
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  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JTL On
  Behalf Of Pete McNeil
  Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:08 AM
  To: Ali Resting
  Subject: Re: [sniffer] False positive
 
  On Friday, September 9, 2005, 2:17:31 AM, Ali wrote:
 
  AR Hi Peter,
 
  AR I have submited 3 email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with all the
required
  AR fields as per you instaructions on the website, I have not received
 JTL any
  AR feedback whether this request has been effected.
 
  I cleared the false positives queue last night. I don't see any
  messages in there from you today. You should have received a response
  for each submission. I will review my responses and get back to you
  off list.
 
  Thanks,
 
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RE: [sniffer] False positive

2005-09-12 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
I also have sent some false positives in the last 2 weeks with no response,
the lastest being at 09/10/05 at 9:49 AM PDT.

John T
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On
 Behalf Of Pete McNeil
 Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:08 AM
 To: Ali Resting
 Subject: Re: [sniffer] False positive
 
 On Friday, September 9, 2005, 2:17:31 AM, Ali wrote:
 
 AR Hi Peter,
 
 AR I have submited 3 email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with all the required
 AR fields as per you instaructions on the website, I have not received
any
 AR feedback whether this request has been effected.
 
 I cleared the false positives queue last night. I don't see any
 messages in there from you today. You should have received a response
 for each submission. I will review my responses and get back to you
 off list.
 
 Thanks,
 
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[sniffer] Latest medication campaign

2005-04-13 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
I am seeing a lot of these get through

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RE: [sniffer] Latest medication campaign

2005-04-13 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Something I noticed about these. They are all using RE: or FW: and in the
body they have the original message line. SpamCheck had a line the
CheckWords giving negative 25 to that line. As such, SpamCheck was giving an
overall weight of -19 which was taking away from everything else the message
was failing.

John T
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On
 Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
 Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:36 AM
 To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
 Subject: RE: [sniffer] Latest medication campaign
 
 On the weekend and since, I saw a lot of them get through but Sniffer
 was dutifully catching them, unfortunately, they also served to
 highlight Sniffer hyperaccuracy because those messages just weren't
 reaching my HOLD weight.
 
 Check out the Message Sniffer change rates for the last few days:
 
 http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp
 
 Something is definitely going on.  On Sunday, the blue line was almost
 the entire New Rule group.
 
 It started me thinking about making Sniffer my hold weight, and then
 only applying counterweights.
 
 Meanwhile, I've added SURBL-ish testing with a tiny Declude weight, but
 with a combo of the new test and any Sniffer hit, that seems to have
 made the difference.  I've only seen 1 undeliverable end up in the
 postmaster box, and I've fixed why that happened (I set my skipweight
 for various Declude filter text tests too low, so they weren't getting
 run when the weight was close to my HOLD weight).
 
 So now it's back to the server room for me.
 
 Andrew 8)
 
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 Subject: [sniffer] Latest medication campaign
 
 
 I am seeing a lot of these get through
 
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RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Moving Sniffer to Declude/SmarterMail

2005-03-16 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
 Now does anyone know how much overhead Windows 2000/2003 software RAID 1
 on dynamic disks produces over hardware level RAID 1?
 
 I am assuming it would be substantial.

I have never noticed an issue, and I would only assume there would be an
issue in higher end databases or where the CPU was already being tasked and
near or at saturation by other processes.

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[sniffer] 2 FYIs

2005-01-05 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Bill's update script: This has been working great, with the download size
aprox 1.8MB (rule base file is about 6.25MB) and time to download about 25
seconds. Thanks for the work Bill.

Rule base changes: Thanks to Pete for the hard work, the rule base size has
now changed from about 17MB to about 6.25MB. I am on maximum rules so my
rule file is larger.

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RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Title: Message









Never mind, I reread your original post
and then checked my server and already had them installed.



Now I just wait for the next update to
occur.





John Tolmachoff

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:23 AM
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions



Were might the wget and gzip files be?





John Tolmachoff

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-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:34 PM
To: 'sniffer@SortMonster.com'
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions





John, since you have not implemented a
trigger program alias yet, would you be willing to test the setup instructions
and provide feedback?











Bill











-Original
Message-
From: John Tolmachoff (Lists)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:30 PM
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions





Matt, you think too much.



;)



(From one who needs to implement better
scripts, including a triggered script for Sniffer.)





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

eServices For You







-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:17 PM
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions



Bill,

I think that this is overwhelmingly much better (the whole thing), but I have a
few suggestions to add.

1) The commenting in the
CMD file seemed a bit excessive and that made it a little hard to follow.
It might be nice to arrange all of the tweakable variables in a single section
instead of separating each one out, and then block coding the main program with
a standard amount of commenting. I think that would make the script more
readable for both programmers as well as beginners.

2) I personally find it to be a bit messy to have everything running from
within my Sniffer directory. After all of the other CMD files, old
rulebases, service related files, logs, etc., it's not obvious what is needed
or not. I would suggest coding this up with a default directory structure
of using a subdirectory called updates. This would require a
separation of variables for the updates directory and the destination directory
I believe.

3) I think it would be a good idea to consider a different default directory
structure. With Sniffer evolving to support other platforms, IMail
effectively abandoning us, and Declude moving to SmarterMail and possibly
others, I could very well see Sniffer establishing a non-dependant directory
structure. I would suggest that the default recommendation become
C:\Sniffer, which might also necessitate a change in some of Pete's
other documentation. Keep in mind that it is confusion and convolution
that contributes to the lack of efficient rulebase downloads and not the lack
of resources or help. IMO, things would benefit from standardization of
this sort, and it should all be done with purpose.

4) Since this setup is targeted specifically at IMail, I would recommend that
different packages be provided for different platforms, and these should
probably be in separate zip's so that one doesn't get all sorts of extra
stuff. This could be Rulebase_Updater_IMail.zip, but there
should also be a Linux, MDaemon and SmarterMail updater added to the list.

5) I'm thinking that including the notification process within this script
might be too much. The primary goal is to get people to use the automated
system and compressed files, and this adds complexity to the setup. My
thought here would be to create a chaining option that could be
used to kick off any script, not necessarily IMail1.exe. You could then
include this separate notification script in the package and have it configured
from within that file, leaving only the optional chaining command within the
primary script and stripping out the rest of the stuff. I do know that
from interface design there is a basic tenet where you don't want to overwhelm
the viewer/visitor, otherwise they retain even less than they would with a
smaller group of things. Programming is often at odds with this tenet,
which is fine for programmers because the functionality necessitates
complication, but the issue being addressed here is really ease of use for the
lowest common denominator, and the primary goal is just the downloads.
You should consider that this whole thing will be used by people with very
little administration experience, no programming experience, and in some cases,
English will be a second language to them (or only translated by a tool of some
sort).

Most of this stuff is somewhat minor taken

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Title: Message









Seems to have worked good so far.





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

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From:
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:30 AM
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions



Now I just wait for the next update to
occur.





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

eServices For You









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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:34 PM
To: 'sniffer@SortMonster.com'
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions





John, since you have not implemented a
trigger program alias yet, would you be willing to test the setup instructions
and provide feedback?











Bill


























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RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)









Matt, you think too much.



;)



(From one who needs to implement better
scripts, including a triggered script for Sniffer.)





John Tolmachoff

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:17 PM
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Triggered
rulebase update instructions



Bill,

I think that this is overwhelmingly much better (the whole thing), but I have a
few suggestions to add.

1) The commenting in the
CMD file seemed a bit excessive and that made it a little hard to follow.
It might be nice to arrange all of the tweakable variables in a single section
instead of separating each one out, and then block coding the main program with
a standard amount of commenting. I think that would make the script more
readable for both programmers as well as beginners.

2) I personally find it to be a bit messy to have everything running from
within my Sniffer directory. After all of the other CMD files, old
rulebases, service related files, logs, etc., it's not obvious what is needed
or not. I would suggest coding this up with a default directory structure
of using a subdirectory called updates. This would require a
separation of variables for the updates directory and the destination directory
I believe.

3) I think it would be a good idea to consider a different default directory
structure. With Sniffer evolving to support other platforms, IMail
effectively abandoning us, and Declude moving to SmarterMail and possibly
others, I could very well see Sniffer establishing a non-dependant directory
structure. I would suggest that the default recommendation become
C:\Sniffer, which might also necessitate a change in some of Pete's
other documentation. Keep in mind that it is confusion and convolution
that contributes to the lack of efficient rulebase downloads and not the lack
of resources or help. IMO, things would benefit from standardization of
this sort, and it should all be done with purpose.

4) Since this setup is targeted specifically at IMail, I would recommend that
different packages be provided for different platforms, and these should
probably be in separate zip's so that one doesn't get all sorts of extra
stuff. This could be Rulebase_Updater_IMail.zip, but there should
also be a Linux, MDaemon and SmarterMail updater added to the list.

5) I'm thinking that including the notification process within this script
might be too much. The primary goal is to get people to use the automated
system and compressed files, and this adds complexity to the setup. My
thought here would be to create a chaining option that could be
used to kick off any script, not necessarily IMail1.exe. You could then
include this separate notification script in the package and have it configured
from within that file, leaving only the optional chaining command within the
primary script and stripping out the rest of the stuff. I do know that
from interface design there is a basic tenet where you don't want to overwhelm
the viewer/visitor, otherwise they retain even less than they would with a
smaller group of things. Programming is often at odds with this tenet,
which is fine for programmers because the functionality necessitates
complication, but the issue being addressed here is really ease of use for the
lowest common denominator, and the primary goal is just the downloads.
You should consider that this whole thing will be used by people with very
little administration experience, no programming experience, and in some cases,
English will be a second language to them (or only translated by a tool of some
sort).

Most of this stuff is somewhat minor taken in
isolation from each other, but I believe that it could be a bit tighter in one
way or another for a better result. I'll volunteer my own services if you
would like for me to provide examples of any one of these things, but I'll wait
for your direction before doing so. I think the most important thing
would be for Pete to provide some guidance for the preferred directory
structure (independent of the app), so that this could be used for the default
settings in this and other scripts.

Matt


Landry William wrote: 

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RE: [sniffer] Sniffer updates...

2004-12-22 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Title: Message









Joe, I will back up Matts
comments. Declude has/is indeed suffering from less than honest/moral
individuals/companies and they are correct in taking steps to protect their
products and company.



Only the method they are using is being
questioned. 



Believe me, those of us heavily involved
in Imail/Declude are monitoring this issue and voicing our opinions, both
publicly and privately. 



Lets not throw out the baby with the
bath water.





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

eServices For You







-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Sniffer
updates...



Joe,

In their defense, I don't think that they necessarily knew any better than to
have approached it this way. I don't necessarily get that the new
ownership has worked from the IT side of the business before and understands
security and trust as a corporate administrator would, in fact Barry comes from
the marketing side of the business and I'm afraid that this is a bit of
trial-by-fire. I expect (hope) that he will get the message and change their
ways before this will be released in final format. Scott didn't have the
resources to enforce licensing, and as a business, this is critical to their
success. I have no qualms with that goal. They didn't intend to
violate privacy or functionality, they just overlooked it.

The whole IMail debacle is a different story. Most everyone using Declude
on that platform will eventually be switching, and Declude has been more than
fair by offering free migrations of their license to a different platform,
starting with SmarterMail which is very reasonably priced and seemingly quite
responsive to their customers.

Matt



Joe Wolf wrote: 



I'm currently using Sniffer via Imail and
Declude. We all know that Ipswitch has lost their mind and is abandoning
the small ISP, and now it seems that Declude has lost their way. The new
version of Declude is tied to a single MAC address. That counts me out
since I run multiple NIC's in the same machine and am multi-homed. Their
spyware phone home system is a violation of our security policies
as well.











That leads me to Sniffer. I love the product.











Does anyone have a complete list of mail servers that
have direct support for Sniffer? The Imail / Declude thing is too much to
deal with and I'm going to make a change.











Thanks,





Joe







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

2004-12-15 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
ATTENTION ROB OF ZELLMAN PRINTING:

Turn off read receipts.

Fix the problem with your server rejecting replies to the very read receipts
you request.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You

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 Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:25 PM
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 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Few questions
 
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RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
I forwarded some yesterday to spam@ and then attached them and sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
 Behalf Of Pete McNeil
 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 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 thinking about raising this issue so I am glad someone else is
seeing
 CS the same thing.
 
 Please zip up some examples of these three spam and send them to me at
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will see if I can identify anything special about them and
 create some rules.
 
 Thanks,
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RE: [sniffer] Not Getting Updates

2004-11-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
What you should be doing is forwarding but leaving a copy.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
 Behalf Of Scott Fosseen
 Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 4:56 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [sniffer] Not Getting Updates
 
 Pete,
 
 I forward all my messages from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to trigger my
update.  If
 my renewal notice is sent from the same address I will not receive it.
Can you send
 me a update notification email or let me know what else to create the rule
on.
 
 I could turn off the rule for a little while but then I will miss an
update.
 
 Thanks.
 -- Original Message --
 From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date:  Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:08:46 -0500
 
 On Sunday, November 28, 2004, 6:01:39 PM, Richard wrote:
 
 RF I just noticed that I am no longer getting updated emails for the
sniffer to
 RF trigger the automatic update.. The last one was on Nov 11...Customers
had
 RF told me they were getting more spam but I just thought we were
getting
 RF hammered with more..
 
 Hi Richard,
 
 According to our records your license expired on 2004-11-01.
 You should have received an renewal notice by email about a month
 before that.
 
 Last License Compile:   11/11/2004 22:37:00 (GMT)
 
 I will launch a compile of your rulebase.
 
 Please complete a renewal as soon as possible. I am on duty through
 the evening. I will be sure to re-enable your account as soon as the
 renewal comes through.
 
 Hope this helps,
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RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-24 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
 Well, still no problems so far so I'll write it up to . earth rays,
 solar spots, pick whatever you want.
 It seems it was a one time thing.

You must be referring to the RAW law.

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RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-24 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
   Well, still no problems so far so I'll write it up to . earth
rays,
   solar spots, pick whatever you want.
   It seems it was a one time thing.
 
  You must be referring to the RAW law.
 
 RAW? Random Answer Whatchamacallit?

Random
Acts of
Weirdness

The RAW law, Keyboard Virus and the PEBKAC phenomenon are the 3 most common
reasons for problems.

The PEBKAC phenomenon:
Problem
Exists
Between
Keyboard
And
Chair

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nature and is not meant to represent or describe any person living or dead
in the past, present or future. It is meant to create something odd in the
IT Industry, a smile.

Any one else in the US working Thursday and Friday? I am! :s

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RE: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-18 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)









Matt Matt Matt.



Then everyone would have to make sure
they made the relevant changes on their systems.



As we have seen on the Declude Junkmail list, there will
always be those who set up their systems and then forget about them. Making a
change like that would cause problems.





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

eServices For You







-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 5:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [sniffer] Test
ordering/precedence



Pete,

Given some of the recent changes in the result codes for Sniffer, I thought I
would inquire about the precedence of the result codes and how these can affect
systems.

On my system I have weighted the result codes differently and overall, I would
consider the following order to be suggestive of the order of reliability from
the most reliable to the least reliable. Note that this is not
scientific, but instead based on doing review and tests that hit less often
could appear higher in terms of stated reliability though I have considered
this in making the list:

1. SNIFFER-INK(56)
 SNIFFER-CASINO(59)
 SNIFFER-INSURANCE(48)
 SNIFFER-MEDIA(50)
 SNIFFER-GETRICH(57)
 SNIFFER-DEBT(58)
 SNIFFER-PHARMACY(52)

2. SNIFFER-AVSOFT(49)
 SNIFFER-PHISHING(53)

3. SNIFFER-TRAVEL(47)
 SNIFFER-PORN(54)

4. SNIFFER-SPAMWARE(51)
 SNIFFER-OBFUSCATION(61)
 SNIFFER-MALWARE(55)

5. SNIFFER-EXPERIMENTAL(62)

6. SNIFFER-GENERAL(63)

7. SNIFFER-IP(60)


I'm not sure exactly how Sniffer orders the precedence of the result code, but
I would like to recommend that you give some consideration to reviewing such
things in light of recent changes and also maybe consider allowing us to
customize the precedence as a part of our rulebase.

Thanks,

Matt



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RE: [sniffer] Rule Strengths

2004-07-31 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
(Moved to list)

Thanks, got it.

This is my current lines, do I need to add others, or are the rules within
these codes? (I hold at 25 and delete at 35)

Is there a full list of codes on the web site?

SNIFFER-TRAVEL  external 04715  0
SNIFFER-INSURANCE   external 04815  0
SNIFFER-AV-PUSH external 04915  0
SNIFFER-WAREZ   external 05025  0
SNIFFER-SPAMWAREexternal 05130  0
SNIFFER-SNAKEOILexternal 05225  0
SNIFFER-SCAMS   external 05330  0
SNIFFER-PORNexternal 05430  0
SNIFFER-MALWARE external 05520  0
SNIFFER-ADVERTISING external 05615  0
SNIFFER-SCHEMES external 05725  0
SNIFFER-CREDIT  external 05825  0
SNIFFER-GAMBLINGexternal 05925  0
SNIFFER-GREYMAILexternal 06010  0
SNIFFER-OBFUSCATION external 06115  0
SNIFFER-EXPERIMENTALexternal 06220  0
SNIFFER-GENERAL external 06320  0

John Tolmachoff
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 Subject: Re[2]: Rule Strengths
 
 On Saturday, July 31, 2004, 1:57:19 PM, John wrote:
 
 JT OK, I am willing to try that on this server, as the volume is low.
 
 JT How do I change it?
 
 You ask and I make the change.
 I've ordered a recompile of your rulebase.
 
 Thanks,
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RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Let me clarify. On the spam that is gotten through, but is to a non-existent
user, which then Exchange creates a NDR and attaches the spam to it, of
which I get a copy of the NDR, if I look at the headers of that spam message
that is now attached to the NDR, the header lines for all other servers as
well as the Declude header lines have been striped.

E-mail that a valid user receives does indeed have the headers. (I just
checked.)

John Tolmachoff
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 That's strange, our Exchange server does not strip off any of the Declude
 headers.
 
 Bill
 
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 Should I continue to forward spam that is not caught then?
 
 I problem I have, is on the gatewayed domains, which are running Exchange,
 Exchange strips out the Header that Declude puts in, making it difficult
to
 see what happened and caught by what tests.
 
 John Tolmachoff
 Engineer/Consultant/Owner
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  Subject: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)
 
  On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 1:23:11 PM, John wrote:
 
  JTL Would the new attached fall under the same rule?
 
  Yes. It looks like the same domain is involved.
  I've launched a compile of your rulebase - you should be updated very
  quickly.
 
  In this case it seems that you started receiving these a few days
  before we got our first copy.
 
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[sniffer] Declude configuration

2004-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff (Lists)
I am new to Sniffer, and have it up and running with the basic line looking
for a nonzero return code.

I would now like to start setting different weights for different return
codes.

Does some one have a example configuration I can use?

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