>Hey thanks for the help Scott and Jeff. That's exactly what I needed, I >think I knew about the Control Access list too, just forgot about it as I >have not had to do much blocking until recently. These new "hacker spammers" >sound like a lot of fun, might be what's happening with us, because they are >sending the same piece of Spam from a whole lotta places.
We've seen them try to send 10,000+ E-mails a day to a domain that has only 2 valid E-mail addresses on it. Rather than harvest E-mail addresses and later send to them, they're just blasting out whatever they can whereever they can, even if only a small percentage of the recipients get them. >I'm thinking we are getting enough Spam lately to warrant needing Declude. >Is it very hard >to setup Scott? Installing it is usually done in just a couple of minutes. Fine-tuning the settings can be a bit more challenging, given the sheer number of spam tests available (over 70 of them at last count; see http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm ). Often, some trial and error is necessary -- for example, you may think that it would be fine to block E-mail from open relays, only to find out that lots of your E-mail comes from such mail servers. However, many people are now using our new weighting system to quickly block quite a bit of spam, and then adjust the settings as needed. The weighting system only will block E-mail that fails a certain combination of tests, which helps minimize false positives. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
