Hi, Ok, so...
There is no test that meets my initial criteria? Are these 2 tests as close as I can get to my critieria? Thanks, Andy Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thumpernet.com 315-282-0020 Thursday, December 27, 2001, 10:37:43 AM, you wrote: >>I need to know how to test email very conservatively at first, with >>little or no risk of catching any legitimate email. Stopping some of >>the spam in the begginning is better than stopping none of it, or >>stopping legitimate emails. >> >>Badheaders and mailfrom...do they both meet that criteria? RSP> Yes and no. Both can catch some "quasi-legitimate" mail -- mail that RSP> *should* be legitimate, but has something wrong with it. It's kind of like RSP> letters that slip through in regular mail without as much postage as they RSP> should, or businesses that send out mail using envelopes with their old RSP> address on it: In either case, the mail might be bumped out of the RSP> standard mail routing. RSP> The BADHEADERS test only will catch mail with malformed headers, so it RSP> won't catch any legitimate mail, unless it was sent from a broken mail RSP> client (in which case it is likely the mail would get deleted somewhere RSP> along the line, or otherwise wouldn't make it to the intended recipient). RSP> The MAILFROM test checks the return address of the E-mail, and makes sure RSP> that it is a valid domain. This can only catch legitimate E-mail if it RSP> comes from a mail client that wasn't set up properly (IE someone puts RSP> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as their address, and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as their RSP> return address). Again, in this case, their mail may get lost whether or RSP> not you use the MAILFROM test. >>I'd like to use the hold action first, but I need to know how to look at >>the messages to tell if it is really spam and OK to delete. RSP> The easiest way is probably with Windows Explorer, which you can use to RSP> look at the \IMail\spool\spam directory, and then double-click the D*.SMD RSP> files to view the E-mails. If you want to deliver one, you need to copy RSP> both the D*.SMD and Q*.SMD files back to the \IMail\spool directory (IMail RSP> has one "D" file and one "Q" file for each E-mail). RSP> -Scott RSP> --- RSP> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] RSP> --- RSP> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To RSP> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and RSP> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail RSP> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web RSP> site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
