IMail AntiSpam seems to have a lot of bugs related to the DNS blacklist. The following 
cases seem to be not categorized as spam even though the URL is in the url black list:

- if <a href> or <img src> is partially or fully in upper case (like "<A href>" or "<A 
HREF>")
- if the domain name does not end with a "/" but with a different char (like 
http://someurl.com?rid=12245)
- if between the "<a" start-of-tag and the actual "href=..." part are carriage returns
- if there is a (bogus or not) user name specified (like http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/blah)

These are the cases I found out where the URL domain black list is simply not 
triggered. I use rules now to remove the spam messages that gets most often through.

BTW, I informed IMail about these problems, and they said, they are looking into it in 
future versions. If they won't, the antispam filter would get weaker and weaker, since 
a lot of spam mailers now use such tricks since many antispam filters have problems 
with said problems as well.


>-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Mike Biddle
>Gesendet: Montag, 19. Januar 2004 18:15
>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Betreff: [IMail Forum] Imail Spam Filter not working
>
>For some reason the spam filter built into IMAIL 8.05 is 
>letting spam slip
>through. I check the headers, it's going through the correct 
>mail server. A
>domain that was listed in the URL domain blacklist came 
>though. It was not
>disgused in the email.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
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