Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Clients want to send mass emails

2008-12-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, December 20, 2008, 7:03:53 PM, Steve wrote: > On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Pete McNeil wrote: Just a moment there--- If you're an SNF customer and you want ANYTHING blocked, and you are willing to have your rulebase customized for it then it will be blocked.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Clients want to send mass emails

2008-12-20 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 19, 2008, 10:15:19 PM, Steve wrote: > You know... I've been reporting this Robert Allen knucklehead for some time now (to the FCC) and it seems the Federal Gov may have other fish to fry than care about proper internet etiquette (opt outs being honored etc) , even if i

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Best Domain Reseller Account

2008-10-28 Thread Pete McNeil
I'll Second that. DirectNic is a good choice. _M On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 9:37:06 AM, Grant wrote: GG> We have been using DirectNic for years. I have never heard of them GG> calling any of our clients or anything. They are $15 per domain unless GG> you purchase DirectNic Bucks and then yo

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] pop3d consuming cpu

2008-10-09 Thread Pete McNeil
I have seen this happen before when there were one or more corrupted mailboxes. I have also seen this happen when a group of outlook users set their mail-check rate too fast (once per minute as I recall). Upon restarting the pop3 service, monitor task manager and tail the pop3 log. This will

Re: [IMail Forum] Attachements doesn't convert correctly

2008-08-04 Thread Pete McNeil
printable encode/decode sequence to go awry in the server that's having the issue. Hope this helps, _M --  Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.

Re: [IMail Forum] Backscatter

2008-04-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 2:43:24 PM, Mark wrote: ML> We have recently been "hosed down" with a multitude of kick-back messages ML> from other legitimate mail servers, because SPAMMERS have been spoofing us ML> in the return address. Is there anything we can do to mitigate this? SPF can help wi

Re: [IMail Forum] defrag disk

2008-03-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 3, 2008, 4:39:29 PM, Bonno wrote: >   Anyone know of a way to do that? The objVolume.Defrag() method does not seem to take any parameters. Any other program doing it better? I have consistently had great luck with Diskeeper and especially the newest version. I fin

Re: [IMail Forum] spam filtering services

2008-02-27 Thread Pete McNeil
AppRiver (www.appriver.com) On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 9:43:10 AM, Imail wrote: I> Can anyone recommend a MX based spam filtering company to filter for I> a couple thousand accounts that's reasonable and actually works? I> Mark I> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-l

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] New sniffer version testing (Beta SNF V2-9b1.5 Released)

2008-01-13 Thread Pete McNeil
n Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2008 1:22 PM To: David Moore Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New sniffer version testing (Beta SNF V2-9b1.5 Released)   On Saturday, January 12, 2008, 6:12:29 PM, David wrote:   >  I have been trying to get the new beta version of sniffer SNF V2-9b

Re: [IMail Forum] New sniffer version testing (Beta SNF V2-9b1.5 Released)

2008-01-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, January 12, 2008, 6:12:29 PM, David wrote: > I have been trying to get the new beta version of sniffer SNF V2-9b1.5 working but somewhere along the line some emails (approx 50) didn’t get processed they have a .smd file extension how can I introduce these emais back in to the

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] spam conference?

2007-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 28, 2007, 2:32:06 PM, Bill wrote: BF> We could generate an acc file using that database which would work. I have questions: Where can I research the format and especially limits for an acc file. For example: How many entries are allowed before problems occur? Can we simply

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spam conference?

2007-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, December 28, 2007, 2:10:16 PM, Len wrote: >>Yes, but it still costs a small fortune to accept the spam in the first >>place. LC> If you choose the wrong solution (accept every DATA body THEN reject LC> it), yes it costs a small fortune. Len, The new version of SNF includes an IP rep

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Backscatter

2007-10-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, October 25, 2007, 8:44:23 PM, Len wrote: LC> Running a "recipient ignorant" MX is a horrible mistake. A lot of LC> the envelope senders addressing invalid recipients are forged, so the LC> MX not only gets flooded with generating NDR messges, those NDR LC> messages aren't delive

Re: [IMail Forum] access list

2007-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, October 25, 2007, 6:27:55 AM, Matrosity wrote: > I was wondering if reading the daily imail logfile one could determine trends that spammers use and then accumulate the IP’s of the sending servers based on the trends to populate the smtp control access list? It seems to me th

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: RegEx Help

2007-09-05 Thread Pete McNeil
perhaps \d{1,2}_\d{1,2} On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 1:20:15 PM, Gerry wrote: GM> so... maybe GM> ([0-9]|[0-9][0-9])_([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]) GM> which is saying ( one digit | or two digits ) underscore (repeat) GM> but isn't there a way to specify like: 1 or 2 occurances of the previous? GM>

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] 2 Char Email Addres...?

2007-07-11 Thread Pete McNeil
I had this problem once and solved it by creating 3 char user names, then 2 char aliases to point in that direction. The end users needed to adjust their clients a bit, - so it wasn't tidy, but it worked and had the advantage of "staying inside the lines." _M On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 10:2

Re: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Scheduled FTP download

2006-08-31 Thread Pete McNeil
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ http://wget.sunsite.dk/ http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/v1/wget_7.html Hope this helps, _M On Thursday, August 31, 2006, 3:38:05 PM, Jim wrote: JC> I need to have one of my servers download a text file from a password JC> protected FTP site o

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] How to access webmail on PDA

2006-07-05 Thread Pete McNeil
Not to nit pick, but you may have spelled glazforb wrong. Also I think your docs may be out of date. The 3400 series WizBang corrected some nasty bugs on the 3K model. Rumor has it that accessing web mail from the browser on the 3000 series could cause gorgsnipping and/or cause the unit to spontan

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] MessageSniffer

2006-06-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 11:49:14 PM, David wrote: DG> Change the order of the mxguard filters from: DG> NATIVE, SNIFFER DG> to DG> SNIFFER, NATIVE DG> and you will see more sniffer hits.. DG> Remember, mxguard will only call anti-spam filters in the order listed and DG> ONLY if the

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] ASSP

2006-06-21 Thread Pete McNeil
I'll be sure to get that out to you right away (before I run out) ;-) _M On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 5:48:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS> MS> MS> Hi , MS> MS> MS> Actually i downloaded Message Sniffer and i'm waiting for the trial key MS> MS> I'm looking forward to see the results MS>

Re: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Bandwidth Management (once more with feeling)

2006-04-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 12:00:00 PM, Dan wrote: DH> I know this has been discussed before on this list, but what are you DH> guys using for bandwidth management, and what are your experiences? DH> Background: We provide internet access for many of the tenants in our DH> building, as well a

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation

2005-04-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, April 11, 2005, 5:40:28 PM, Christopher wrote: CC> Cheap yes ... I have scripts on my personal site that will do this ... but CC> it takes the smtp, pop, queue off line. I've had Diskeeper run without dropping services for quite some time now with no ill effects. _M To Unsubscribe

Re: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation

2005-04-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, April 11, 2005, 5:05:05 PM, Bill wrote: BGdS> I'm running IMail 8 on Windows 2000 Server. I've been manually defragging BGdS> the spool and users partitions early every morning. That's getting old. I've BGdS> seen postings about Diskeeper, but I can't justify the $250.00 right now. BGd

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Account Harvesting

2005-04-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Sniffer does nothing about harvesting. Sniffer only tags messages as spam or not. Hope this helps, _M PS: You don't have any nobody aliases do you? On Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:36:56 PM, Kyle wrote: KF> I also installed sniffer about 3 months ago.  I don’t know if KF> maybe it isn’

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 25, 2005, 10:04:15 AM, Stuart wrote: SH> Just to sort of calm the whole issue down... SH> You're discussing DNS based solutions to spam (as in, if MX != PTR then bin SH> it) ... yet nobody (in the last 3 months...) from what I can recall has even SH> mentioned SPF once... and it'

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 25, 2005, 9:16:40 AM, Mike wrote: MO> Well put! MO> You can claim that you have a 99% success rate on filtering out spam. MO> But that 1% of false positives could be a potential business/financial MO> loss for your client. I completely agree with this part. (I said it another wa

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 12:03:50 PM, William wrote: WVH> Pete, WVH> Since Sniffer is used in Imail mainly for determining whether or not a mail WVH> should be deleted (not rejected), keeping such stuff out of your rules makes WVH> perfect sense. I think that deletion and rejection are like

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 11:37:21 AM, Len wrote: >>In every one of these cases I have had to remove these rules due to >>false positive reports from customers. LC> it's the %ages that count. If you get a handful of complaints that are LC> whitelisted, while stopping 100's of 1000's of msgs/

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, 9:57:51 AM, Len wrote: LC> FUD. Blocking by subscriber networks by PTR hostname is extremely LC> effective and efficient. I hate to step into this - but I thought that I might add a useful data point. On several occasions I have added rules to SNF that matched su

Re: [IMail Forum] Alternatives to IMail?

2005-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:45:48 AM, Christopher wrote: CJ> Hey everyone, CJ> I assume you've talked about this topic beforebut I'll risk asking CJ> anyway. CJ> Has any found any alternatives to IMail that are comparable in price, and CJ> are a whole lot faster, reliable, easier to manage,

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Reduction in spam?

2005-03-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 10:44:45 AM, Mike wrote: MO> Over the past two weeks ours has dropped about 15%. That measure is MO> strictly email deletions based on three blacklists. We have been tracking an apparent change in blacklist effectiveness through user reports. That might account for the

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Reduction in spam?

2005-03-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 12:16:25 PM, Len wrote: >>Has anyone else noticed any decrease in spam levels? LC> Since subscriber networks are a huge source of spam, 30 -40%?, as network LC> operators start blocking egress to port 25, there could be noticeable LC> reduction. But not many operators

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Block jpg gif SPAM

2005-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 17, 2005, 8:38:17 PM, Darin wrote: DC> Excellent idea, Pete. Don't worry about catching the first image, just at DC> matching future images against he first one reported. I should point out that in many cases this also works against malware. _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Block jpg gif SPAM

2005-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 17, 2005, 2:19:15 PM, Darin wrote: DC> Best current means is by blocking individual filenames. I think there have DC> been one or two furtive attempts at image recognition, but the processing DC> power needed for this to handle the onslaught is currently prohibitive. OCR DC> w

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 14, 2005, 8:57:32 AM, E. wrote: ESI> Don't do this!! The []'s are operators that mean any subset of the character ESI> between the []'s So the below would mean if the subject contains 1 OR 2 OR 3 ESI> OR 5 OR 6 OR 7 OR 8 OR . send it to the spambox Sorry about that - forgot

Re: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 1:29:33 PM, Travis wrote: TR>   I want to write a rule to search the heard for a IP address.  TR> Just putting in the standard IP address does not work.  I am TR> looking at the manual and I see: Sorry to reply twice -- I forgot to mention. I found this useful in answe

Re: [IMail Forum] How to write a rule for an IP address

2005-03-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 1:29:33 PM, Travis wrote: TR> Hello, TR>   TR>   I want to write a rule to search the heard for a IP TR> address.  Just putting in the standard IP address does not work.  TR> I am looking at the manual and I see: TR>   TR> Any digit 0-9 /d TR>   TR>  

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] ISP's blocking port 25 except to their own mail servers

2005-03-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 1:01:31 PM, A. wrote: >> which is why I think spf won't make it. AC> If port 587 is enabled and used as it should, there's no problem. Beyond AC> that, port 587 guarded by AUTH also permits roaming users. Otherwise they AC> often have to change their mail setting

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company

2005-02-16 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 2:08:57 PM, David wrote: DD> We have built our own 1U servers for six or seven years now and I must DD> agree that the cost savings have steadily diminished. Originally, you DD> could save hundreds on each server, but not anymore. DD> But the REALLY infuriating p

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Antispam Alternative - Mail Frontier

2005-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
n.  HJIA>   HJIA> Herschel Jones HJIA> Email Administrator - MIS HJIA> Boral Industries HJIA> 800-627-5527 That's high - there are much cheaper alternatives out there that are at least as good if not better. _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil R

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] port-map running as a service

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
ant to let it die, and there are ways to get it fixed... some of them will not be taken seriously until the problem gets worse. Eventually, however, the correct mix of tools will be developed and deployed. We're just not there yet in many ways. MHO. _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, Micr

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:15:20 AM, Len wrote: LC> ... only for this kind of attack. RBL will still be useful for everything LC> they are useful for now. LC> This new criminality could have the very beneficial side effect of forcing LC> ISPs to require that msg submission proceed only a

Re: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies

2005-02-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 7:58:50 PM, Matrosity wrote: MTS> http://news.com.com/Zombie+trick+expected+to+send+spam+sky-high/2100-7349_3-5560664.html?tag=nefd.top MTS> I know it's a long url but the story is a bit disconcerting. Thoughts? I'm not too concerned... Don't get me wrong, it's n

Re: [IMail Forum] Mail Client (OT)

2005-01-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 3, 2005, 10:20:19 AM, Roland wrote: RS> Hi all, RS> Does anybody out there know of a really robust email client? RS> One that could handle of an inbox with thousands of messages RS> in it that also has the ability to autoarchive messages on a RS> weekly basis (even if they

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos goes limp

2004-12-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 7:29:00 AM, Bruce wrote: BB> Since every user's definition of "spam" is different, it makes it BB> exceedingly difficult for the ISP to do the enforcing. BB> If there was a standard definition of what constitutes spam, it would make BB> the proposal you have outlined

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo

2004-12-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, December 4, 2004, 8:35:45 PM, Internet wrote: IR> I use it personally, as do many of my associates. Its fantastic IR> functionality and extremely useful. I hate it. I've seen tremendous amounts of apparent abuse from plaxo, and yet legitimate folks - even some that I work with - ha

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:43:20 PM, Len wrote: LC> Is the reason that people here want to play nice with these LC> criminals/gangs/thieves is that you run a web hosting service yourself and LC> have no way to validate that your customers are strictly legit? This might be part of it. It

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
Just got this from it: Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't be doing it. Your ip address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action. Also, note: This machine is not hacked, this page is returned for EVERY request. Thanks for notici

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:05:05 PM, Dave wrote: DR> At 03:46 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote: >>That is like saying since someone on a bus shot at you, it's ok to blow up >>the bus and kill innocent people. DR> Your analogy is entirely wrong. The better comparison to what Lycos is DR> trying to d

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 5:50:13 PM, Ted wrote: TG> The legal system hasn't been able to stop murderers, rapists and drug TG> dealers either. But does this mean we start punishing all citizens so we TG> will be sure to get the ones that are doing the crimes? Absolutely not, we TG> just need

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 4:19:25 PM, Darin wrote: DC> Probably a superposition of the late & early states...impossible to DC> determine until we wake up and observe it. Seems that the wave function enveloping the meaning of "Don't get into quantum physics" has been collapsed and we were "l

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 1:43:19 PM, Rod wrote: RD> On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 09:15:05, Ted Galerneau wrote: >> Two wrongs have never added up to equal one right :) RD> Perhaps... but three lefts do :-) That's two dimensional thinking for you... _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipsw

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Adduser

2004-11-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, November 15, 2004, 6:13:21 PM, David wrote: DL> Too Funny. DL> But this was a question I had from reading the release notes as well. DL> We have tried to get all our users away from the 2 letter addresses, but DL> there are still a few that use them. Is there going to be continued supp

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Adduser

2004-11-15 Thread Pete McNeil
ROFL! I Wish I'd thought of that! _M On Monday, November 15, 2004, 5:19:42 PM, Rod wrote: RD> On Monday, November 15, 2004, 16:04:40, Dermot Keenan wrote: >> The list of fixes for v8.14 includes the following: >> "Adduser will no longer add users with only 1 or 2 characters in length." >> >> Why?

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: $3500/yr for gas

2004-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 2:23:58 PM, Jeffery wrote: JR> Waste veggie oil and a turbo diesel engine dude! Cleaner, better running JR> (still outperforms the hybrids), smells good, really cheap (read that JR> free)... what else could you want? How about converting land-fill into deisel? Or se

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: $3500/yr for gas

2004-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 1:43:48 PM, William wrote: WVH> Darin, WVH> Well, if a hybrid saves money by using electricity part of the time, and WVH> electricity is generated by burning fossil fuel at the utility station, WVH> wouldn't electricity be equally as (more) expensive over there as pe

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Worth upgrading?

2004-10-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, 5:54:09 PM, Ted wrote: TG> What is the deal with this MessageSniffer? I looked at their site last night TG> and found that somewhere in the fine print as an add on that is more than TG> the main product. Is it required? Is the functionality that it adds TG> something

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Why I won't buy new collaboration suit yet

2004-10-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 8:17:04 AM, Mike wrote: MN> Here's another data point from someone who cannot justify the conversion: MN>1.) The price differential pays for the labor to switch to a competing MN> product in the initial conversion. MN>2.) I don't know who Ipswitch surve

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 6:38:45 PM, A. wrote: AC> John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: AC> I think part of this is probably due to the fact that open source mail AC> servers are probably looking to kick Ipswitch's a**. Postfix is pretty AC> easy to set up, though it would be nice if someone wou

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 25, 2004, 5:24:12 PM, Travis wrote: TR> I just heard that with the introduction of ICS that you will no longer be TR> selling a stand alone version of IMail let alone selling IMail for a price TR> that a small business running 3 domains can afford. That is BS. The reason TR> I

Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima

2004-10-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 15, 2004, 1:33:44 AM, Yatin wrote: YSQ> Hello, YSQ>     YSQ>     Is there any tool or utility which copies rules.ima of YSQ> a domain or a user and applies to all the users available in that YSQ> particular domain. YSQ>   YSQ> Thanks Regards, It is no longer supported but we

Re: [IMail Forum] New server for IMail

2004-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Sunday, October 10, 2004, 11:30:05 PM, David wrote: D> I am in the process of choosing a new mail server for our organization. I'm D> looking along the lines of a Compaq/HP DL380 G4 with Win 2003 OS, dual 3.2 D> Xeon processors, 2 gig of ram, a pair of 36.4 hds in raid 1 for the OS and a D> pa

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] OT: Primary Name Server

2004-09-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 10, 2004, 1:55:39 PM, Len wrote: >>Is this kind of thing really necessary? LC> Since when does "necessity", as defined by whomever, have anything to do LC> with this list? LC> Use the Delete key, Pete. LC> Or better yet, don't respond on list, take it up with me off-list.

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Primary Name Server

2004-09-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 10, 2004, 12:08:11 PM, Len wrote: LC> no surprise, second guess my posts here, and if you had a clue what I was LC> talking about, you'd be embarrassed at how stupid and ignorant you look LC> with you post total BS like this. But like, like our shrub-in-chief, LC> you're too

Re[4]: [IMail Forum] OT: List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 1:25:37 PM, Darin wrote: DC> Hmmm...interesting...virtual message/anti-message pairs, with one of the DC> pair being captured in the black hole. Wonder if there's a white hole on DC> the other end somewhere spewing out the counterpart Possibly... now that M theo

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 11:43:51 AM, Darin wrote: DC> Ahhso are you proposing that leptons are made up of particles bound by DC> an SU(4) x SU(2) "stronger" force that follows something like a CMYK model DC> rather than the RGB model for the strong force? Yes, exactly, but they must hav

Re: [IMail Forum] List working?

2004-09-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, September 3, 2004, 9:33:15 AM, Inc wrote: iI> I only got 2 emails from the list yesterday and I did not see my own post. iI>   iI> Is this working? No. It's a terrible mess... the purple goo from the leaking electrons is oozing out of my mailbox, and there's this weird humming noise, a

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Postmaster Accounts?

2004-09-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, 3:45:54 PM, Matthew wrote: MHoS> for starters, at account creation time, I create a generic admin account, as MHoS> well as postmaster and abuse aliases and point them to the generic admin MHoS> account. I inform my clients that these are "free" user accounts (do n

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Fluffy the SMTP GuardDog

2004-09-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 2:08:29 PM, R. wrote: >>If the mail passes all these checks, Fluffy checks to see if you have >>had email from this server before. If it has not sent email within a set >>period (24 hours, or whatever time you choose to set), Fluffy defers the >>email for a while

Re: AW: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 11:55:38 AM, Admin-ML wrote: AM> Uh, as far as I know, RAID 5 is faster than RAID 1, since it AM> can distribute the write packets on multiple hard disks at once, AM> while RAID 1 (with Hardware RAID) is just as fast as writing to a AM> single non-RAID-disk. Isn't that

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 8:32:26 PM, Martin wrote: MS> Hi Bill, MS> You're right, but RAID1 saves my butt too, i guess ;-) MS> The server has two drive hot-pluggable bays. Here is the image: MS> http://www.thomas-krenn.com/shopx/index.php/action.view/entity.detail_products/key.678/ I almos

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 7:59:40 PM, Bill wrote: BF> Raid 5 will save your butt when a drive fails so you might rethink that. RAID1 survives a single drive failure (1 of 2). (RAID10 can survive 2 out of 4). _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archiv

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 6:30:13 PM, Rod wrote: RD> On Monday, August 30, 2004, 17:51:03, Pete McNeil wrote: >> On Monday, August 30, 2004, 4:43:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS>>> No Name Blade Server, 1 x P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, MS>>> 2 S-ATA Disks 160

Re: [IMail Forum] Server Type for IMail

2004-08-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, August 30, 2004, 4:43:05 PM, Martin wrote: MS> Hi, MS> My Question is a bit off-topic: MS> I should setup a new IMail Server for a few hundred Domains. I have to choose between two MS> existing hardware. My question is, which type you would prefer: MS> Compaq ProLiant 1850, 2 x P2 5

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Declude detects less...

2004-08-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, 3:51:48 AM, Markus wrote: >> Isn't there any tool that does this all automatically? MG> Nika, MG> On http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html you can find a weekly report about MG> the quality of different declude spam tests. Also... I am working on a tool that will us

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] Testing was OT Cisco IOS rule

2004-08-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 6:06:26 PM, Kevin wrote: KB> Enough with sending these tests already and change the KB> subject nextime so it will not waste our time. I wonder if this isn't a vacation message gone terribly wrong. It seems to be echoing list activity. _M To Unsubscribe: http:/

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] new reverse DNS not working?

2004-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, August 21, 2004, 10:35:51 PM, Bill wrote: BL> Okay, just to poke a little fun at this whole thread (from American Heritage BL> www.bartleby.com & www.dictionary.com): BL> Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be BL> correct usage in formal style, when i

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: The Bat!

2004-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, 2:26:04 PM, H wrote: HJ> Been reading this thread a bit and I'm wondering about The Bat! MUA. I HJ> use Thunderbird primarily and recommend to all my clients that they do HJ> the same, but what can The Bat! do over Thunderbird? I've looked at the HJ> site and all, j

Re[3]: [IMail Forum] OT: W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc won't leave me alone!

2004-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, 2:00:21 PM, Sanford wrote: >> It was just a question. I have a few users that delete messages from >> that client automatically due to past spam issues. SW> That's absurd. They're clearly way out of touch. Spammers don't use SW> standard end-user MUAs. SW> The B

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Whats going on with five-ten?

2004-08-04 Thread Pete McNeil
I can answer this... A little groundwork first. Some tests fire with a positive weight when the message is spam and don't fire when the message is not spam. Generally, when something doesn't fire it produces a zero weight. Most tests are like this. Some tests, like SpamCheck, produce a postiive

[IMail Forum] Any experience with Java applets in web mail?

2004-08-02 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Imail folks, I'd like to know if anyone has experience including java applets in web mail templates. Contact me off-list if you wish - though on-list is probably ok too. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMo

Re: [IMail Forum] You naughty Ipswitch you!

2004-07-29 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 2:44:22 PM, Samuel wrote: I've had a bunch of "spam" submissions lately for WS_FTP, and gosh it was tempting to code rules for those ads - but I gave them the benefit of the doubt that someone was subscribed somewhere and had forgotten they gave permission... I hope I s

Re: [IMail Forum] Ot: Can you try this URL and tell me if you get a page?

2004-07-20 Thread Pete McNeil
No problem hitting this. _M On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 1:34:56 PM, Travis wrote: TR> www.lasvegassun.com TR> I haven't gotten anything to load for a couple of days. I pinged it, it's TR> up, but no response with a browser. I am guessing firewall issues since it TR> takes a while for it to tim

Re[6]: [IMail Forum] New Ipswitch Forums no Imail?

2004-07-16 Thread Pete McNeil
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old BBS days, but isn't it entirely possible that the existing list could be tied to a decent web based forum? I haven't gone looking recently, but it seems this kind of thing was around for quite a while and probably should still exist. Perhaps ipswitch can be pers

Re: [IMail Forum] anti-spam software, recommendations?

2004-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
e Demo of Message Sniffer (there is no limit to your trial period) I'm betting this will justify the purchase price after a while... The demo rulebase is plenty strong enough to keep your feet dry when you try crossing that pond - especially when coupled with the other tools in both produc

Re: [IMail Forum] Forgotten password hint

2004-06-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 10, 2004, 5:13:41 PM, John wrote: JC> Has anyone done anything about handling forgotten Imail passwords and JC> providing hints to users? We always just set a new password - that way there are no passwords around to be hacked. _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/suppor

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?

2004-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
I can verify this also. See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp Over the past 6 weeks or so we have seen typical daily rule change rates rise from about 250 to about 450. Change rates are primarily a measure of the number of new rules generated per day. Over th

Re: [IMail Forum] Requeue message

2004-06-03 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, June 3, 2004, 12:32:01 PM, Guy wrote: GD> Hi all, GD> Is there a way to re-queue messages after they've been received? GD> The reason behind this is the following: GD> Let's say I get a false positive spam that end up in the spam box. I then GD> "tweak" the rule that caught it

Re: [IMail Forum] Declude - Which Version?

2004-05-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 11:51:36 PM, Mike wrote: MB> We need something that filters better than the built in anti-spam features MB> in Imail 8.05 and it doesn't look like the 8.11 is that big of an MB> improvement, plus we'd have to pay 495.00 for a subscription to download it. MB> With that

Re: [IMail Forum] Less Spam ????

2004-04-19 Thread Pete McNeil
At 09:19 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: I do get some spam in my inbox… but not that much.  (8 message for a full weekend) The filters are not getting much spam either…  Anybody saw a drop of spam ???   Or I it just me ?   Imail daily report : Last night : SpamContent    196 SpamPhrase    246 -

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam Problem on the Increase

2004-04-16 Thread Pete McNeil
We have seen some unsettling blips in the amount of spam hitting our systems. At the following link you can see the number of new rules generated per day for Message Sniffer. Note that since about 4 days ago there has been an unstable, but definite increase in new spam. http://www.sortmonster.co

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam offenders

2004-03-20 Thread Pete McNeil
We have also been seeing this. Our rule-base change rates are up more than 30% on average with the last two days being as high as 100% above usual! See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp It seems to have started about 6 days ago. _M At 02:42 AM 3/20/2004, yo

Re: [IMail Forum] Legitamate looking spam question (long)

2004-03-16 Thread Pete McNeil
legitimate stock trading services that your customers may use as these simpler rules are a very blunt instrument. Hope this helps, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) Presidnet, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists

RE: [IMail Forum] OT - IDE Raid cards

2004-03-10 Thread Pete McNeil
We have had very good luck with the 3ware SATA cards. _M At 12:10 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote: Hi Evan- We personally prefer 3ware cards - www.3ware.com The 7006-2 is their 2 port ATA card. It looks like they're just over $100. 7506-4 is their four port card which appears to be $250ish. - Mike ---

Re: [IMail Forum] Bagle.J Question

2004-03-04 Thread Pete McNeil
At 08:22 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote: On Thursday, March 4, 2004, 16:02:19, Madscientist wrote: > The person (sender) that wants to send the zip (or any file) sends an > email to let the receiver know they want to send. The receiver sends > them back a file name to use. The sender zips or otherwise proc

Re: [IMail Forum] Testing Communication with IMail Forum

2004-02-17 Thread Pete McNeil
pong At 12:33 AM 2/18/2004, you wrote: I haven't been able to communicate with this forum so I am conducting a test.   If anyone gets this email please respond.   Thanks   Lewis

Re: [IMail Forum] external spam filter

2004-02-12 Thread Pete McNeil
Declude and mxGuard provide hooks for external tests. We use these to integrate Message Sniffer with very good results. www.declude.com, www.mxGuard.com _M At 05:44 PM 2/12/2004, you wrote: A site that uses IMail has asked me if there’s a way to use our spam filter with IMail. Is anyone aware of

RE: [IMail Forum] Free gateway virus scanner

2004-01-27 Thread Pete McNeil
Don't they keep those in the same warehouse where they keep the red and blue time travel crystals? At 10:51 AM 1/27/2004, you wrote: Anyone know where I can find free HP 4 CPU servers with 4GB RAM and a Terabyte of storage? -Original Message- From: isp-lists @ beachcomp.com [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [IMail Forum] Ping Imail Newsgroup

2003-12-05 Thread Pete McNeil
pong At 09:08 AM 12/5/2003, you wrote: Hello? Is anybody out there? I haven't seen a post in a long while. Troy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.co

RE: [IMail Forum] loads of mail in spool

2003-11-28 Thread Pete McNeil
This looks like a "dictionary attack". The concept is that a spammer will attempt to send the message to nearly random addresses from a list (dictionary) of probable names/addresses. In practice (lately) they don't pay much attention to which ones get delivered and which ones don't, but there are

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