A nice, easy method of populating the URL Blacklist table, (which has been catching some 60% of the spam for me) is to gather known spam in a mailbox and create a Bat file that runs the antispamseeder. The command I use is: antispamseeder.exe -lo -ed:\scripts\UrlBLExclude.txt -h<myhost> -d:\imail\<myhost>\users\spam\spam.mbx Replace the <myhost> with your host name plus your paths will be different. The UrlBLExclude.txt is the exclude file of domains I don't want in the blacklist. Things like Microsoft.com, AOL.com, Cisco.com, MSN.com etc are common urls for good email that people can sometimes have in their email. The other checks will catch spam mail from those domains. I run the Bat file each night automatically with a Windows "Scheduled Task." The Url black list is getting more effective day by day and I don't have to do a whole lot to maintain it. I look at it periodically to see if there are any domains in there that I should exclude. Hope this helps you.
-Sean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Forbes Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? Great, thanks for the help Sean. I knew that some of the lists(text files) were not supposed to be updated manually, so I was paranoid about doing that. If it's all right to do with the URL Black list file though, I certainly will. I find it much easier to do these things in Textpad than use the antispamseeder. Thanks, Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Kenworthy > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > > > I just re-read your original post. You original post said you > wanted to update your URL Black list file. You can edit that > file directly with Notepad and cut and paste your original file's > contents into it. Te knowledge base article you referenced is > for the Antispam-table word list. This is a different subject > entirely. It's used by Statistical filtering. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Kenworthy > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > > > This is a Knowledge Base article for people who have not made > changes their Antispam-table. If you have 8.01, you can use the > antispamseeder.exe found in the IMail directory to merge the two > tables. Note, you really shouldn't cut and paste entries into > the file because the different spam/good email totals will be > skewed giving inaccurate results. Use the antispamseeder to > adjusts values and add entries. > > -Sean > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Steeley > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 7:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > > > Andrew, > > It's a text file so you can cut and paste your entries into the > new file - organize your entries so they are all together and it > just takes a few seconds. That's what I do for the phrase list. > > Gary > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Andrew Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:19:39 -0500 > > >Sean- > > > >I was just following what I read on the download page for the > updates. Does > >"Copy the antispam-table.txt file to the primary domain's Top Directory, > >overwriting the file which already exists." not mean it's going > to overwrite > >the files I already have? It sure did look that way. > > > >http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20030513-DM01.htm > > > > > >Thanks for the reponse, > >Andy > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Kenworthy > >> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:05 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > >> > >> > >> The install should not overwrite any of your spam files. What > >> are you reading in the instructions where they tell you to do > >> overwrite the files? > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Forbes > >> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:12 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > >> > >> > >> I just downloaded the Antispam updates from Ipswitch and I > must be missing > >> something. The instructions tell you to just copy the text > files into your > >> top directory, but all it does is replace the file. So if I have > >> a bunch of > >> entries in my URL Domain Black List, they are completely wiped > out when I > >> copy the new file. I have to be missing something here, why > would updates > >> from Ipswitch wipe out all your previous entries into the Black > >> List? I mean > >> they know people are making entries into these files manually, so > >> why would > >> they want to wipe out all that work? > >> > >> Thanks for any input. > >> > >> 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/ 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/
