Ahh, but us poor folks that have the standard version are out of luck :-(
Guess I have a good reason to upgrade now. Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Bramble Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SpamDomains Jason, I have a separate 'white' filter for that sort of thing :) Matt Jason Newland wrote: >I don't know how hard it would be, but what about just adding in a >"pre" filter in the spamdomains test that will bypass the test. Like: > > >Spamdomains.txt: > >[RDNS excluded from check] > >ebay.com >greetingcardvendor.com > > >[includes] >.yahoo.com >@msn.com >etc, etc > > >This would also allow us to build our list of acceptable excluded >addresses together, further improving the tests accuracy. > > >Jason > > > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: Matthew Bramble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:38:18 -0500 > > > >>Alejandro, >> >>From the Declude JunkMail manual page: >> >> "This test will catch E-mail that is not coming from a mailserver >> that it should be coming from. This test will only work if you set >> up a file listing domains that you wish to be included in this test. >> Specifically, it will check the return address of the E-mail, and >> then check to see if the reverse DNS entry of the IP that the E-mail >> was sent from contains the domain name. If not, the E-mail fails the >> test. For example, if "hotmail.com" is listed in the >> \IMail\Declude\spamdomains.txt file, then an E-mail coming from >> "law2.hotmail.com" would not fail the test, but an E-mail from >> "mail.example.ru" would fail the test." >> >>You can search the archives for some discussions of this. It's hardly >>foolproof, things like greeting cards and send-a-link sites will often >>fail the test because they send E-mail with a MAILFROM address of the >>person sending the note and not the service sending the note. I suggest >>that you always use the @ symbol in the first column, and you should set >>up two different files and score them differently. One should be for >>ISP's and E-mail providers such as AOL, HotMail, Yahoo, etc., and the >>other should be for businesses that are often spoofed such as Microsoft, >>PayPal, Symantec/Norton, McAfee. Be careful not to include companies >>that may use thrid-party mass mailers for newsletters. The second type >>of test can be scored higher because you are less likely to be getting >>greeting cards from people with real addresses at these companies than >>you are from places like AOL. >> >>You might also be thinking of including your own domains in this test, >>but that again should be in a totally different file, and scored very >>low because even if you are using WHITELIST AUTH functionality, you will >>most definitely get users sending E-mail with your hosted addresses >>configured in their E-mail program but are using someone else's mail >>server, or without WHITELIST AUTH, they will fail when using your own >>mail server. >> >>Matt >> >> >> --- [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". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.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". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
