I'm curious on how to implement it on the current version too. I'm in the process of putting this thing into place.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Van Hefner Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP I read all through the docs and did not find any support for popular DNSRBLs. William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. 555 H St., Ste. C P.O. Box 155 Eureka, CA 95502-0155 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707.476.0833 ph > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Randall Scott > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > ASSP does support dnsbl's. Read the docs, its not that hard to setup. > > Randall Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Van > Hefner > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > I saw someone mention the ASSP anti-spam software at > http://assp.sourceforge.net a day or two ago and decided to try it out. > > After fiddling around with it for a few hours on a secondary mail > server, I can assure you that running this on your iMail box is > probably not a great idea if you really want to stop spam. The > problem? ASSP (unlike iMail 8.0+) doesn't allow you to run checks on > DNS based blacklists (or > DNSRBLs) at all. > If you run ASSP as a proxy server on the same machine as iMail, it > will make iMail's own DNSRBL look-up feature useless, since it would > only be doing lookups on the IP address of your own mail server, not > the address of the originating sender. All your iMail box will do is a > lookup of the IP address 127.0.0.1. > > If you run ASSP on another server, you will run into the same problem. > As soon as you put another server in front of iMail, all DNSRBL > look-ups become impossible. Personally, I depend on DNSRBLs like > SpamCop a LOT. > They easily > block 50% or more of the spam hitting my server in the first place, > and is a valuable first line of defense. Blocking spam by IP address, > before it traverses through memory and CPU hogging filters and rules, > is always the best way to go. > > ASSP does have some great features. I especially like the fact that it > allows you to treat certain (seeded) addresses as "honeypot addresses" > to collect info on spammers. I couldn't really tell what it did with > this data from the documentation though. If it didn't block iMail's > DNSRBL capabilities, I'd say that it would be a great add-on product > for iMail. As it is now though, it only serves to cripple one of > iMail's most powerful anti-spam features. That alone makes the > capabilities of ASSP's other features a moot point. That's just my 2 > cents though. > > > William Van Hefner > Network Administrator > > Vantek Communications, Inc. > 555 H St., Ste. C > P.O. Box 155 > Eureka, CA 95502-0155 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 707.476.0833 ph > > > > --- > [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/ > > > 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/ 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/
