Tom... what's your email address? ~Rick
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Pepper Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:10 AM - MGMT.TV To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Rules.ima I, too, would love to have a copy of that list, which, of course, may end up being blocked from my mail server unless it's zipped up or such? Thanks for your consideration. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Leske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ralph A. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Rules.ima > Ralph A. Jones wrote: > > > Rick - > > > > I have been watching with some interest (or should I say dismay?) your > > unanswered post in the Ipswitch iMail list/forum regarding somebody > > sharing their rules.ima file. > > > > Did anybody respond to you privately? I just got started with creating > > a rules.ima about a week ago and would be very interested in seeing some > > of the filters other people are using. I will be glad to share mine > > with you after a little more testing. I will probably post it to the > > list just so other people can take pot shots at it or offer additional > > suggestions. It is very much an elementary attempt and definitely a > > work-in-progress, but it has "spambox'ed" a significant amount of true > > spam and has only produced one false positive so far. > > > > I can't believe no one has responded to your request to date. I draw > > two conclusions from this: 1) iMail SysAdmins jealously guard their > > rules.ima secrets; or, 2) everybody has bought "Declude" instead of home > > brewing their own solution. > > > > If you did receive any private responses, are you willing to share? Or > > simply post something back to the list if you got some good suggestions. > > Thanks! > > > > =====> Ralph A. Jones > > =====> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > Hey Ralph, > > Yes someone did send me a rules.ima and even sent me a kill.lst file > too. when i get to work i'll try to send them both to you. i've added > a few lines into rules.ima also.. to help twart prono and spammers.. > > I can't remember the name of the person that sent it to me but it was a > very well established. All i did was sort the file via command line > like this sort <rules.ima > rules.txt then I checked for dupes and put > the most needed rule(s) at the top of the list. deleted the old > rules.ima then renamed the rules.txt to rules.ima. done the same with > the kill.lst too. this way i can easily 'see' if the rule exsists or not. > > i don't think there are any secrets here.. especially with the rules.ima > or kill.lst file.. i just wish that ipswitch would produce a faster > i/o for the file because it can get quite large. > > what would be really grand and helpful to all would be that if we could > get about 100 or so of these rules.ima files, merge them together, check > for consistency.. then produce one KillerRules file. HA KillerRules ~ > maybe i should trademark that?... ^(TM)KillerRules.. :-) > > tnx > > ~Rick > > > 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/ > 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/ __________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
