Re: [IMail Forum] Understanding Kill File

[Dave Doherty]

Hi Barbara -   Kill lists are semi-usable, but spam comes from so many IPs that you will drive yourself nuts trying to keep up. Been there and done that.   We've been using Declude for a couple of years and it is an absolute wonder. You need a multi-layered approach, which is what Declude gives you - blacklists, content filtering, all manner of tools for detecting spam and customizing it for your user base. For example, for most of our users, anything from Russia is probably spam. But we have one domain whose business is trading with Russia. Neeedless to say, the needs of that domain are much different, and yet Declude gives us the ability to customize the settings specifically for them.   There is a learning curve, and there is at first quite a bit of maintenance, but it really allows you to fine tune it for spectacular results. There's a very active support group on the Declude list, everyone from multi-year experts to brand new users.   Thanks, -Dave Doherty  Skywaves, Inc.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara ONeal To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 4:14 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Understanding Kill File We have been being plauged by spam lately for several of our users so I am trying to head a few things off at the pass.   One thing that I haven't used much is the Kill List.  First what I have done is go through the spool and look at several emails that didn't get delivered for one reason or another and 99% of them are spam.  So I took the offending IP address of where they were coming from and did a look up here: http://www.dnsstuff.com to see if they were listed in a spam database someewhere.  If they were listed I have added them to the Kill List.   So my questions are:   1.  Is this an effective way to prevent spam from ending up on our server? 2.  If it is does anyone have a good KILL LIST? - If so would you be willing to share? :-) 3.  If there is a better way I'd like to know it. 4.  We do have Premium Spam but a lot of our users are afraid to just delete this mail.  I do but lots of users don't want to but still want to find a way to eliminate some of this junk.   Thank you for any responses.