Actually that is how I have been populating my URL Blacklist table, but I hadn't gotten as far to make a batch file for it and schedule it, I should get that figured out next. I'm really loving the URL Blacklist, it's a great new feature. It's especially nice to get my Imail Daily Report and see 80 messages getting snagged by the URL BL after just a couple weeks with it. 80 might seem low, but we are a small company so 80 is about 32 percent of our daily Spam. The only thing I didn't know how to handle was merging the update from Ipswitch with what I had already. I wasn't sure if you could edit the URL Domain Blacklist directly or not.
Thanks for all the info. Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Kenworthy > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Antispam updates overwrite? > > > 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/ 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/
