Very helpful in deed, thanks Mike. I had no idea about the "antispamseeder.exe" program. I'd have to say that my old Imail 7.0, printed User's Guide defintely needs to be replaced. I'm just now realizing how much there is to 8.01.
Thanks again, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Barber Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AntiSpam features not working very well. You may have better luck putting your key words (viagra) in the phrase list With IMail 8.01 all HTML Code is stripped out of the message then sent on to Phrase and Statistical Filtering. So Viag<!-- Comment -->ra in the message source would be seen as viagra to the phrase list, making it much easier on you by not having to create rules to skip around these tactics. You may also want to start using the messages that are getting past the AntiSpam check and "re-educate" it There is a utility called antispamseeder.exe in the IMail directory that is used for this purpose. Take all messages getting thru and place them in one mailbox on the IMail server Then run the AntiSpam seeder on them antispamseeder -spam -hMAIL.YOURHOSTNAME.TLD -mX:\IMAIL\USERS\SPAM\MAIN.MBX (obviously you need to insert the correct mail host and the correct path to the mbx file but it should help with the messages getting thru hope this helps Mike Barber Software Tester Ipswitch Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Forbes Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam features not working very well. I am using rules and the kill list, but I'll take reinforcements any day! I've actually been curious to see what other are doing with their rules, so I'll check it out and see what I can incorporate. Thanks for the advice, Rick. Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Leske Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam features not working very well. 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. 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