Personalise the ASA

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[mouse1]

I know it can be frustrating. There are currently only two options for the ASA message. I know that having a customizable ASA message has been in the Wishlist for sometime now. There will be an upcoming release of CAS (Rumoured to be this month) though we've not had much indication of it's features.

Fingers crossed.

P.S. Everyone please refrain from discussing hack's as it's against forum policy.

Eric

Just wondered if you could get some clarification re whether there is soon to be an update, and post or ask Juanua to post the information.

This would help with user's frustration, which arises from the fact that this is poetentially a GREAT peice of software, let down by a few bugs and a few function issues.

[Eric Cryptid]

Not a problem..  Just a friendly notice really...

I've PM'd the Devs but no response yet.

[HarpGuy]

Sorry Eric - did try to point out the risks, and the T&C.

Actually, I think the warning was more aimed at me... the one who said he would not hesitate to do it.  And the point is well taken... however, I still maintain that if I did it, my actions would be defensible under the circumstances... especially considering that the pro-Comodo promotion part of the ASA would remain.  But that ASA is going out under my name.  I get to control its contents.  Comodo seems to agree, else what appears to be the beginnings of the user's ability to create a customized message would not exist; and, moreover, whenever (and I trust it will be "whenever," and not "if ever") Comodo finally finishes the work on that part of CAS so that it actually works, then the need to hack will have been eliminated.  Another option would be for Comodo to edit its default-and-can't-be-changed ASA so that it's less gushing and commercially enthusiastic... more detached, straightforward and professional.

Just to underline the risk, and in partial reply to penultimate message, please be warned that some products advertised as hex editors may allow both disk and file editing. In my opinion you really need to know your stuff to choose them and use them safely.

Agreed... both as to the different forms in which a HEX editor may come, and also as to the need to be careful... and for the reason you cite.  Just to be clear, when I mentioned a HEX editor as oppsed to a sector editor, I meant strictly that:  A HEX editor... be it in the form of a single-purpose HEX-only editor, or just the HEX editor part of a dual-purpose HEX and sector editor.  Regardless, one should not fiddle with either unless one knows what one is doing.  Thinking about it, I can imagine a situation in which even a HEX editor could be dangerous to the entire system and not just the file being edited.  It's a stretch, but theoretically one could accidentally change something in the binary part of the file being edited in such a way that the behavior of the file, and not merely some message which it echos to the screen, could be changed; and if said file is executable, then the potential for harm should be obvious.  So, yes, great care, in any case, is called for.

[Junhua]

Hi Desm:
         The upcoming release in May, CAS2.7, will bring the feature that user could edit part of ASA message to make their own ASA message in any language.

[HarpGuy]

Hi Desm:
         The upcoming release in May, CAS2.7, will bring the feature that user could edit part of ASA message to make their own ASA message in any language.

Just part of it?  If so, then maybe I'll always have to hack it.  Too bad.

That said, if the only thing we can't edit is the little tagline where Comodo anti-spam plugs itself (and gives the URL to itself) at the very end; and as long as that little tag is subtle and professional and businesslike and doesn't gush with adolescent, overly-commercial enthusiasm (and it's short), then it wouldn't be so bad if we couldn't edit just that tag part...

...that is:  As long as 100% of the rest of it, including subject line, is ours to edit.

[Eric Cryptid]

I think it'll be all but the word image that will be editable.we'll have to wait and see

[HarpGuy]

I think it'll be all but the word image that will be editable.we'll have to wait and see

Just a sort of point of order:  Some don't want to use an image of the word... and that feature (the ability to use a text word) is in CAS, no?

[Eric Cryptid]

You are actually correct about the image option. Personally, I'll probably run it without ASA and just do  the preview in CAS and manually decide which emails I want. The month is 1/3 of the way though so fingers crossed we don't have to wait long.

E

[rn5577]

Would like the able to turn the message off as well.
Nearly got banned from some noticeboard sites, before i explained it was my antispam software.
In the end i had to rename the files - it was either that or uninstall the program.
So please someone get it fixed.

Thanks

[mouse1]

Would like the able to turn the message off as well.
Nearly got banned from some noticeboard sites, before i explained it was my antispam software.
In the end i had to rename the files - it was either that or uninstall the program.
So please someone get it fixed.

Thanks

It is not obvious but you can do this already.

Just choose the policy: 'only allow digitally signed emails'. Helpfully all else seems to work despite the description of the policy - whitelists, blacklists, QDb pop-ups, QDb timeout alerts.

Mouse

[Eric Cryptid]

Still no word from Devs. Will PM Melih (CEO) later on today to find out who's working on it.

E

[mouse1]

THanks Eric, that's great.

Mouse

[mouse1]

One extra point on the ASA issue. The more I think about this, the more I think that CAS should provide only guidelines for ASA contents, and the option to include an image of the password.  Apart from the pass code image absolutely no standard contents at all.

This would ensure that everyone's ASAs are different, & so reduce the likelyhood of other organisations spam filters learning to filter out ASAs. This has been a problem for some ASAs in the past.

It would also ensure that people receive more personal ASAs, which most people will be happy to respond to.

Mouse

[rn5577]

Well - in the end i had to uninstall this program.
It seems that i've got banned from a number of noticeboards & other websites - and i didn't even know about it until now...!??
Have sent e-mails to say i'm sorry, but it may take some time to get myself back on.
And have informed them, that this could happen again - with other users.
So am left also wondering, if the tone of the ASA message couldn't have been a little softer. Or as some people have asked for - the ability to fully edit the message from the start.
I'm still using the firewall - but not the anti-spam....

[mouse1]

Sorry you have had so much trouble. We really need the new version Comodo!

The solution is not Rocket Science:

0) Have a clearly identified ASA-less mode
1) Don't have a standard ASA, give people guidelines and make them to draft their own. (Else the ASAs come to be recognised as spam)
3) Add a browser plug-in which adds domains (& variants) to your whitelist whenever you enter your email address into a domain's web form
4) Add the ability to import whitelist entries from sent items as well as contacts

Mouse

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