Hi Scott, Thanks for the reply. A couple of quick questions:
1. What is the RFC violation that this test looks for? I'd like to talk to MS and hear their response. 2. We use IMail 7.15. We never upgraded to 8.x because it didn't provide any desirable new features. Even if I upgrade now, just to get this whitelist auth command, I worry because it looks from the IMail list like 8.x has problems with IMAP and most of our clients use IMAP. Do you have an opinion on 8.x and IMAP? 3. You suggested not testing outgoing email. I thought the JMail only tested incoming messages. So I'm confused on how to not test outgoing messages and why that would solve the problem. Can you explain? Thanks, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] handling CMDSPACE problem > > >We're having a problem with the CMDSPACE test flagging email from our own > >hosting accounts. Scott has recommended we whitelist our own clients, but > >that's not so easy....So this becomes a > >management nightmare. > > The easiest way to handle this is to use "WHITELIST AUTH", if you are using > IMail v8. If you are using a previous version of IMail, however, you can't > automatically whitelist E-mails from authenticated users (as those versions > do not report this information) -- and need to resort to other means > (listing IP ranges, not scanning outgoing E-mail, disabling the test, etc.). > > >Actually, I'm not quite sure why this problem occurs. We didn't have this > >with the older version of Declude, and I'm assuming this is because the test > >wasn't used then? If so, what does this does actually look for? And, more > >to the point, why does it get stuck on our own clients? > > It was added recently, as it typically catches over 50% of spam, while > catching a very small amount of legitimate E-mail, making it an excellent > test. It looks for one specific technical violation of the RFCs. The > drawback, though, is that there are some mail clients that have this > technical violation (so whitelisting your own users fixes the problem). > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers > since 2000. > Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/
