DSN:Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamdomains lookup timeout

2003-06-14 Thread Rifat Levis
Here is a comment on the web site www.dnsreport.com When you check a site on this web site the first revdns check can fail and the explanation is as follow -- Reverse DNS entries for MX records This may be a false positive due to the nasty BIND bug (client side) that causes reverse DN

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS

2003-06-14 Thread Andy Schmidt
I decided against notifying the recipient for Vulnerabilities. Apparently, vulnerabilities are essentially spam - and notifying the recipient would mean that they end up getting an unwanted message after all. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-920

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamdomains lookup timeout

2003-06-14 Thread Andy Schmidt
Markus, The idea is, that we don't want to block VALID email. So, if a reverse lookup times out, there is no way to determine if there is no valid match and we can't just assume that it is SPAM. Time-outs could be temporary problems with a particular DNS server, it could be a routing problem on

[Declude.JunkMail] Spamdomains lookup timeout

2003-06-14 Thread Markus Gufler
Hi all, I'm not sure about this, but I've seen some spam messages coming from domains contained in our sd-file. (hotmail.com) However the messages hasn't failed the SPAMDOMAINS test. For example from the Sender-IP: 218.25.255.18 Can it be, because it's not possible to finish the REVDNS-query?

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Challenge/Response Systems

2003-06-14 Thread brian
My sentiments exactly! Someone didn't have their thinking cap on straight when they thought of this. It is just a lazy knee-jerk reaction to a complicated problem. On 06/14/03 11:41am you wrote... >> Users of some remote system using Challenge/Response send his users >> messages >> and his syste

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS

2003-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
> I have seen it discussed as something some wanted, but I never saw anything > talking about being able to use a vulnerability.eml file in a release of > Declude. I tried searching the archives but "vulnerability.eml" actually > shows every email with "vulnerability" in it which is a lot of mail.

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS

2003-06-14 Thread Joshua Levitsky
>> At the moment I can't find any other virusname to skip. >> >> For the recip.eml I've set >> SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS Vulnerability >> >> And I've creted a new vulnerability.eml with >> SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEDOESNOTHAVE Vulnerability >> >> So I can send out two different warnings for a real virus and a >

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Challenge/Response Systems

2003-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
> Users of some remote system using Challenge/Response send his users > messages > and his system generates Challenge messages. The remote server receives the > Challenge messages and sends new Challenge messages back to his server. His > server sends back bounce messages because his Challenge mess

[Declude.JunkMail] OT - Challenge/Response Systems

2003-06-14 Thread brian
Here is something for your weekend list of things to ponder... I heard from a potential customer (small ISP) yesterday that tried a Challenge/Response system for 4 hours. Here is what happened (as best as I can explain it). He implements the Challenge/Response system. A few of his users send e

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Junkmail hiccup

2003-06-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
So, just wanted to let you know that you can get messages that skip Junkmail processing if they come in as you are going down for maint. Perhaps for scheduled things, there should be a recommended procedure to shut down the IMAIL services for a few minutes first, until the queue is all delivered

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WHITELISTFILE Logging issue

2003-06-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
06/13/2003 09:54:56 Q01dd03c7027e1f3c Warning: misconfiguration in following line in configuration file (D:\IMail\Declude\Whitelist.txt is not an ACTION). May be a duplicate test definition? There is an issue where this warning could appear even though it shouldn't -- the next release will take c

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WHITELISTFILE Logging issue

2003-06-14 Thread Bill Landry
Sounds like you may have duplicate entries in your global.cfg file for: WHITELISTFILE D:\IMail\Declude\Whitelist.txt Bill - Original Message - From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:34 PM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] WHITELISTFI

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS

2003-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
> At the moment I can't find any other virusname to skip. > > For the recip.eml I've set > SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEHAS Vulnerability > > And I've creted a new vulnerability.eml with > SKIPIFVIRUSNAMEDOESNOTHAVE Vulnerability > > So I can send out two different warnings for a real virus and a > vulnerabil

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WHITELISTFILE Logging issue

2003-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
> This is the line in the $default$.junkmail > WHITELISTFILE D:\IMail\Declude\Whitelist.txt > > > Looking at this log fragment the whitelist is working but the pass checking > actions does not like the WHITELISTFILE line in the .junkmail file. I am not familiar with this test yet, but unless "WH

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] spam domains shaw.ca?

2003-06-14 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
> Customer emails do not get through and they blame me for it... This happens > mostly with hosted domains on their system. This has been going on for about > 2 years. Emails have never been responded to. Very frustrating! Gotcha, sites hosted with them. I have heard only good things about their I