I use three lines of defense. 1. A Postfix gateway. If version 8 allows you to reject mail using RBLs you may be able to skip this one.
2. Declude on the Imail server. Declude is great stuff if it's properly set up for your enviroment. 3. Imail's rules gets most of what gets by the others. I saw where someone in here said that after 500 rules they didn't seem to work any more. I haven't had that problem so far and I have about 1800 rules. They will miss something once in a while but not too often. David Daniels Administrator Starfish Internet Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "IT Posts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] How to fight spam, etc... > We run v8.03 on a Win NT 4.0 box. I must say that I am thoroughly > unimpressed by this server software, especially its anti-spam features. > I put in just as much time dealing with spam as I did when we were > still using v6.x, which didn't have any anti-spam features. I have some > users back up to receiving 25-30 spams a day. And no matter how much I > use antispamseeder.exe, the spam getting through never decreases and > the false positives that get snagged never decrease. Addresses in the > white list don't always work, and my response from Ipswitch was "you > must have connection filtering enabled and that's blocking it," even > though I told them we do not. The queue manager chokes about once a > month, requiring that service to be reset, which isn't so bad except > for the fact that it takes everyone an hour or two to realize that they > haven't received any mail in an hour or two. The logs only provide > moderate help -- I'm still pulling for them to allow the admin to > insert an X-header to spam AND forward it to a different mailbox. > > I've basically been on a rant, but I do have a question for you > folks... what have you found to be the most effective method of > fighting spam while avoiding false positives? I even attended a two-day > Ipswitch seminar to have them answer this question. Their answer? They > didn't give me a straight one. Biggest waste of $1500 I have ever seen. > > --Dan > > > 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/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/
