Tags Like <X> and <!X> will be caught by the invalid tags check, they will not be caught by the embedded comments check because they are not comments, they are invalid tags.
Mike Barber Software Tester Ipswitch Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jools Chesters Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Antispam features not working very well. Another problem with it is that if you put the test for invalid tags on, you find loads are found because of people using HTML emails with outlook, there are loads of weird office related tags which aren't real HTML tags, so this test is basically useless. I don't think that the comments test will look for fake tags as well, I see a lot of Via<X>gra and Via<!X>gra type code that gets through. Jools On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:24:48 -0600, you wrote: >One thing that I have noticed over the past couple weeks is that the Viagra >mails have been coming through a lot.. If you look at the source, there is >no way to kill it because they are generating html comments with random >characters.. With 8.01, it's supposed to add an X header when you have >embedded comments. I have it set to adding the header if just one of the >html options is found. Nothing is getting caught.. Is anyone else having >this problem? > >Thanks, > >Shad D. Pulley >Sr. Systems Engineer >IKANO Communications >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >801-415-8023 > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Forbes >Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:40 PM >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 > > > >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/ > > >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/ 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/ 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/
