Message Sniffer

Question asked by Shaun Sizen - 2/29/2016 at 11:54 AM

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Just been evaluating Message Sniffer as an extra tool against the never ending spam attacks. Getting a few false positives, anyone any idea what the status codes mean? For example one from a very large UK tool company got trapped as below (I only weigh at 10 so they are just flagged for now)

X-MessageSniffer-ResultCode: 60

Not sure what 60 means? The first mail from the company was greylisted by our server (first email from them for a while) but the resend from their mail server delivered just fine the second time.

Cheers

Shaun

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Scarab Replied

2/29/2016 at 4:30 PM

Shaun,

I'm not 100% positive, but if memory serves correctly the Result Codes in Message Sniffer are as follows:

0 - Clean
1 - Whitelisted

2 - 63 Match

65-99 Error Code

So a Result Code of 60 would mean that it matched one of the Message Sniffer Rules and would be flagged with the weight you have assigned it in SECURITY > ANTISPAM ADMINISTRATION.

Shaun Sizen Replied

3/1/2016 at 6:36 AM

Thanks Scarab much appreciated. Where are the rules configured? I simply activated the trial via SM but seem unable to see where the Sniffer setup is done from? Do I need to download the 30 day trail form their site?

Cheers

Dean Lawrence Replied

3/1/2016 at 11:59 AM

Shaun,

I use Sniffer along with Declude and am not using the direct SM integration, so I am not sure how you configure it from within SM. But here is an explanation of the different result codes.

https://www.armresearch.com/Documentation/QA/rule_groups--68048008.jsp

Shaun Sizen Replied

3/1/2016 at 12:05 PM

Cheers Dean spot on link, their site is not the best for finding info!!! I think maybe I need to do as you are, that is running Sniffer outside of smartermail

Thanks again for the info

shaun

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