I haven't yet looked at these products that thoroughly, but it IS possible to have the server ITSELF respond. It is ironic that people got rid of finger due to spam/hackers, and it would be a GREAT way to verify that email was valid.(Unfortunately, spammers used to use it to automatically harvest huge volumes of email addresses) Most spammers use email addresses that are NOT valid on a given system, or where the system itself doesn't exist. Getting a reponse would get rid of a LOT of spam. Sadly, you can't ask for a response automatically via Email. If you do, the OTHER system may consider the email account invalid, and you could have OTHER problems. Funny how the spammers have created these big catch 22s. Like the one that made me go from someone diligently reading EVERY email to one that reads about 3% of it.
I'm glad that the content filter is working FOR YOU. For me, with 100-300 emails/day, and a lot of spam, it just can't. I tried to filter out 60% of the spam.(As I said, with lies, mispellings, etc... You just can't catch it all.) Several valid emails get trapped in my spam folder. I researched it, and there is no way to catch as much spam without having them rejected as well. Steve >-- Original Message -- >From: "Heather Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: OT - Re: New Client Code 2.6 >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:47:29 -0500 > > >Sorry, I know this is an OT discussion but the list has been pretty quiet >otherwise :-) > >Question: >When I looked at the TMDA site, my first thought was "What about the >automatic emails from Cira, Netsol and Opensrs?" Those will not respond >to >any polite request asking to confirm their emails....how do you overcome >that? Otherwise, it might be a good idea. > > >Comment: >We're always looking for a better way, but currently Spamassasin is doing >a >great job filtering my mail according to its content. Yes, it is possible >and works a LOT better than the Outlook filters or some of the other methods >we've tried. > >Currently, it's tagging close to 90% of all spam correctly. I have the >sensitivity set to 8 so it's letting through some spam, but rarely does it >every catch any of my legitimate email. Now that it's been running a few >months, any newsletters etc. that I really do want that it might be tagged >as spam are on my whitelist as allowed. This is saving me a lot of time >and >aggrevation. As I am too paranoid about missing an important mail, I still >scan through my deleted items folder before I get rid of them. > >Heather > > >
