It is very easy to customize and you can run it in report mode only if needed.
Basically log any legit mails that would otherwise be blocked and add to the sender whitelist. You can also customize the return text when a mail is blocked informing the user of what to do next. I did have a number of legit mails blocked as a couple of major isp's are on spam lists. Eg to make sure any emails from Telstra are accepted then just add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the sender whitelist. It's free to try for a month and only costs a couple of hundred bucks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:41 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFAUSSIE to be blamed for Spam? Just playing the devil's advocate here, but can you be sure that you are not blocking any legitimate external emails using this software? -----Original Message----- From: Grant Straker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2003 3:27 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFAUSSIE to be blamed for Spam? If you want some good and cheap spam blocking software try vamsoft. www.vamsoft.com It cut my spam down from about 50 day to none. You need to fine tune a bit using sender whitelists and ips but is very good. Easy to setup and works great with exchange. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:01 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFAUSSIE to be blamed for Spam? I think if you look closely - all those email addresses are from very early in the piece (Jan/Feb) - when Geoff first started using mail archive. I think emails are blocked now. Yes - its a shame, but you can't consider your email address as being a secret, it'll get out there eventually. I am getting much more spam now than 12 or even 6 months ago (23 message so far today), but my email address has been on the web for a few years. So wouldn't put it down to just the mail-archive thing - the general spam volume is increasing rapidly. Our ISP recently set up SpamAssassin - spam is now wrapped as an attachment and flagged in the mail headers - I've got an outlook rule that shifts it all to the "junk" folder automatically. If I wanted I could configure SA to just delete it on arrival at the server, but I'm not quite that committed yet. I would say SA catches about 98% of the spam that heads my way and only trips up real mail very, very occasionally (less and less all the time thanks to the Bayesian filtering it does). Interestingly the biggest problem with false positives is with html email generated by CF5, because CF5 ignored some key points in the mail RFCs. Anyway - get your ISP to install SpamAssassin and stop worrying about it. Cheers Mark ______________ Mark Stanton Web Production Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
