----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:01
PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Understanding
Kill File
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 -----
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.
