Andy, Are you using the rules.ima file and kill.lst?
Your email to the list was caught via: X-IMail-Rule: B~(venturedirect worldwide|viagra|vip lounge|virgin girls):[EMAIL PROTECTED] Data- Viagra" Your welcome to use the rules.ima/kill.lst here: http://www.famhost.com/support/files.zip ~Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Forbes > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:40 PM - FamHost > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Antispam features not working very well. > > > I've been running 8.0 with Antispam for about a month now and I > have to say > that I'm not terribly impressed. We are getting quite a bit of > Spam blocked > by the software, but a whole lot is getting through as well and > plenty that > SHOULD be stopped. A great example is the highly used Spam word "Viagra". > Now this came setup in the Phrase Filtering by default, but yet > I'm getting > tons of emails with "Viagra" plain as day in my inbox. Now before you ask, > yes it's just "Viagra", it's not an image, it doesn't show any signs of > having hidden text in between the letters, and I can copy the > word from the > email and it pastes exactly as it looks in the email into other documents. > It's just plain old "Viagra", nothing tricky about it. I've got > quite a few > variations of it being blocked in Phrase Filtering as well. I've > stopped and > started SMTP and the Queue Managers services dozens of times as well. I've > checked all my other rules and I don't know how Viagra emails could be > getting around Phrase filtering which should forward all emails to my Spam > account, but instead they are arriving in user's inboxes. > > Another question I have is on DNS Blacklists. How do I verify they are > actually working? As I understand it, when the message is checked against > your blacklists, it's supposed to insert the x-header and pass it on to > Content Filtering for further analysis. Well it should have this > "X-IMAIL-SPAM-DNSBL" in the header text from there on, shouldn't it? I do > have "Delete messages after" enabled for 3 with just Verify Mail From and > Verify HELO/EHLO enabled, but since setting it up that way, I've seen > absolutely no reduction in Spam getting through. > > I feel like there is something about the way Anitspam in 8.0 > works that I'm > not getting, so if anybody with some intelligent insight on this > please feel > free to pass it along. > > Thanks, > Andy > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
