I disagree completely with that assessment. While using a system that truely weighted the mail like Declude does is certainly a "better" solution I think that with the proper tweaks IMail's "free" system is quite effective.
Check my post from the other day that outlined in detail our settings that we are very happy with. We are not using SORBS for some of the reasons that were outlined. We have been very happy with the setting of deleting a message if it is found on TWO of the spam databases that we are checking. http://www.summitinternetservices.com/tests.htm My message from the other day included some changes that we have made to what the flowchart above shows. Signed, Dave Riddle *This email was sent via the remote web interface on the MicroWorks mail server. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:51:22 -0400 >Martin Schaible wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have three questions: >> >> We're using SORBS since a few weeks now. Sometimes we're receiving false postives, >> almost >> triggering by "Dynamic IP Address ranges" (127.0.0.10). It looks like, that SORBS >> is not well >> informed about address ranges outside the us. Did anbody made the same experience? > >We use sorbs and it is quite effictive. However a good majority of my >white listings are generated by Sorbs blocks. If you do not have the >ability to white list blocked addrsses efficiently it would be advisable >to find some different lists to use. There are several out there that do >a fine job. cbl.abuseat.org, njabl.org and dsbl.org are well maintained. > >> >> The WebMail in general responses very slow. I heard, that the switched on SSL might >> be the >> reason. Is that true? > >SSL will slow down the web service because of the added processing required. > >> >> My last question is not really a tekkie-question: >> yahoo is blocked by almost all services like SORBS. Unfortunately, a lot of people >> are >> using yahoo as their primary mail provider. This includes also our dear friends >> from the >> spam fraction ;-) >> >> - If i block yahoo, or partial, local domains of yahoo, i have to forward to many >> false >> positives. >> - If i let pass yahoo mails (means switch of sorbs), tons of spam will pass also. >> In this >> case the phrase filters will have more works to do... >> >> How do you handle this situation? > >We use postfix with dnsbl's along with a custom designed body filtering >system in front of our Imail box. Imail really does not have all of the >tools needed to support a spam filtering solution quite yet IMO. > >Regards, > >John > >http://www.ispservices.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/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at microworks.net 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/
