GREAT LIST! I'm sure these new features will be VERY welcome by any IMS admin.
Thank YOU, Randy! BTW, can you send me a copy of the TF beta, so that I can contribute with my test impressions? Regards, Guilherme > -----Mensagem original----- > De: Randy Brukardt > Enviada em: terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2004 19:18 > Para: [email protected] > Assunto: RE: New Trash Finder > > > John Martoccio: > > > At the risk of sounding like a little kid with a new toy, can you give > > us > a > > glimpse of what "features/new filters" you are working on, to include in > the > > new version ? > > Sure. Let the drooling begin. :-) > > * Added To address pass/no delete filters. This allows messages with > specific > recipients to be protected/passed. > * Added Subject pass/no delete filters. This allows messages with specific > subject text to be protected/passed. > * Added Domain/IP filter. The domain/IP filter provides a disk-based (not in > the registry!) method of recording domains and IPs. > -- More information and options (separate actions for different uses; > more detailed statistics); > -- Can be updated remotely; > -- Exact matching (other than that subdomains match) for fewer errors; > -- The domain extractor understands common redirectors, and extracts the > *real* > spammer domain; > -- Domain Web and Mail IPs recorded; > -- IPs (and IP ranges) can be filtered; if a URL resolves to a known IP, > it > can be filtered (without dealing with the domain separately); > -- Automatic downgrade for "stale" domains and IPs; if the domain or IP > has not > been used for a long time, it changes the actions to Trash. (That > protects > against a legit. user taking over a spam domain and having their mail > blocked > for no reason.) (This feature can be turned off for particular domains > by > setting the domain to "permanent" - that's useful for obvious porn and > the like > domains.) > * Added unknown words filter. The text of a message is checked against a > dictionary; > if there is too high a percentage of unknown words, the message is > filtered. Like the > domain filter, the known work list dictionary can be updated remotely. > * Added Viewer application: > -- Replaces Spameye; shows the decoded message that TF sees for filtering; > -- Shows the reason that TF filtered the message; > -- Shows all three (Trash, Spam, Virus) of the TF filter directories; > -- Contains a spam domain analyzer; shows the most used four domains in > the message, > and lets you add/update them in the Domain/IP filter; > -- Automatically deletes messages that don't need further analysis; > -- Checks relayed messages for unknown words, and lets you add them > (selectively) > to the dictionary of known words. > > > I've still got parts of the IP editor to finish, plus a number of the UI > improvements suggested for the viewer (from the December alpha test), and > the documentation (none on the Domain/IP filter or unknown words filter > yet). > > For the record, the IP filter is catching (and deleting) about 8% of my > incoming mail, and the unknown words filter is deleting (over 80% unknown > words) about 7% of my incoming mail. (I've turned off the character set > filters, which accounts for about 5% of the unknown word mail.) A lot of the > mail that the IP filter catches is uses of new domains that point at the > same old spammer servers. > > Randy. This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
