Ah, there in lies the story. I'm using iMS to send all mail from HoF and it's solid as hell (I've got a single machine running mail, SQL, web, CF, etc.). I still have post.office receiving the mail due to some legacy issues I haven't had a second to deal with. When a message comes in, a scheduled service reads it from the drive, parses it out, checks if its spam, puts it into the DB and then sends it out to all subscribers. Because of the legacy issues, I can adapt the system for just about any mail server around. If your using iMS then it can be plugged in directly. I'm working with a different test server to create a 100% iMS anti-spam system which will be free on one level and for pay/subscription on another. You can see some of the tests from the free system in this app: houseoffusion.com/downloads/pop.txt It's a client app to scan your mail box for spam before downloading it. It was done rather quickly so it's not as clean as I'd like and does not have anywhere near all the tests in it. It's still usable though. Grab it and have fun. :)
> Hello Michael, > > One quick question before this gets too off topic, what email server are > you using as a base? > > Thanks, > Mike Randolph > > At 07:31 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >Do a search in the archives for Spam and my name. I write all my own spam > >filters for HoF and they're better than just about anything out there (without > >using RBLs). Yes, that's ego speaking but I've just finished processing > >another > >2000 spam messages into my DB and I'm feeling good. :) > >You can also see the current spam reports on www.houseoffusion.com/spam > >The ones in the pending still have to have their domains and/or owners hunted > >down for reporting, but you can get a good idea of what's going on. I used to > >show the subjects as well, but it got waaaaay to long for effectiveness. Maybe > >in the future I'll expand the view to show all spam from a particular IP. > > > >As an aside here, I've searched through every HoF post that's gone through > >and I > >believe that this new rule is valid. It is: > >If an email FROM has a blank name portion within double quotes, then the > >message > >is spam. The reason for this is that any mail client will send either > >something > >within the double quotes or no double quotes at all. > >"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - spam > >"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - spam > >"a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Not spam > >Just to be sure, I'll be assigning this a rating of .9 (almost spam) in my > >system. If/When I see that this is 100% true, it'll be assigned a rating of 1 > >(spam). > > > > > Hello Michael, > > > > > > Spam is such a huge issue on the internet...I completely understand where > > > your coming from. We just went to a fully opt in list and it went from > > > 16,000 thousand to like a thousand people. We were sending 16X more crap > > > than anyone wanted! Sales wasn't happy about it but we felt it was the > > > right thing to do. The thing I hate about spam is the business > > > correspondence that gets lost in the sea of spam. I'd be interested to hear > > > some of the better ideas you've seen to handle this at a server > > > level...besides the boycott method...like spews.org which tends to > > > interfere with legitimate email too much for my needs. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Mike Randolph > > > > > > > > > At 06:17 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > > >OK, this is not what I wanted. I just got an email from Edge Web Hosting. > >They > > > >addressed me as customer (nope, not me) and asked me to vote for them. Now > > > >here's the choices: > > > >They got my address from the list and spammed me to drive their vote up. > > > >They got my address from CFDJ and spammed me to drive their vote up. > > > >They got my address from Teratech and spammed me to drive their vote up. > > > >They got my address from my site and spammed me to drive their vote up. > > > >Do you see a pattern here. No matter how they got my non-customer address, > > > >they're spamming me. You all know my anti-spam attitudes and this is not > > > >the way > > > >to get on my good side. > > > >As a side note, the bandwidth for the lists and all HoF resources is > > > >donated by > > > >CFHosting who also happens to be running. Looks like I may actually go > > in and > > > >vote now. > > > > > > > > Dear Edge Web Hosting Customer, > > > > > > > >We need your help! > > > > > > > >The voting has started for the 2003 Cold Fusion Readers Choice Awards. > > All of > > > >the staff here at Edge Web Hosting works > > > >very hard throughout the year to ensure that you receive service that is > > > >second > > > >to none. Now, we are asking for your > > > >help. > > > >......... > > > > > > > >Michael Dinowitz > > > >Master of the House of Fusion > > > >http://www.houseoffusion.com > > > >The largest ColdFusion mailing lists around, where the community comes to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
