I have both Trash_Fi.Exe and Antirelay.Exe in filterb.plu. I want TF to run
before SCSMFilter, which really doesn't do much useful these days.
I understand about the bandwidth, but I'd rather waste some bandwidth to
save me time. (Time spent fighting spam is counter-productive unless it
ultimately saves you or your users time.) And the truth is that I trust
Trash Finder to delete junk messages (because I can control what it will
delete, and put in appropriate exceptions to insure that critical
correspondence doesn't get deleted), but I don't trust blacklists for
automatic deletion. Block-at-the-door is essentially automatic deletion
without being able to protect against the mail being from a known
correspondent. And, without the trust in blocklists (which have at various
times blocked Software Development's newsletter, the SANS (security) alerts,
and mail from various French customers -- all of which I want to get!), I
don't want to wade through lots of known spam.
And yes, very little spam gets through Trash Finder to Antirelay. (I haven't
noticed a mail blocked by Antirelay this week; TF has been deleting 93% of
the incoming mail.) That just means that TF's filters are more likely to
catch spam when regularly maintained than blocklists. But it's still a
useful additional line of defense, especially when I'm gone for a while and
the TF filters get out of date.
Randy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kerry Barlow
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:04 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: user not receiving valid mail
>
>
> Randy: Where do you then put antirelay? In the filteru.plu or still in the
> filterb.plu file?
> I just put antirelay into the filteru.plu and do not see much
> activity. The
> biggest problem I see with this method, is that TF must accept
> the incoming
> mail first, process it and then trash it, then pass on the rest to
> antirelay. in the process alot of bandwidth is tied up processing junk.
> -kerry
>
>
>
> At 05:10 PM 6/1/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >One reason that I use Antirelay for blacklists rather than
> Smptrcv is that I
> >can then see which messages are blocked inappropriately, and
> possibly stop
> >using a blacklist that blocks too many good messages (some do). And I run
> >Antirelay *after* TF, so that TF's blocking (which I trust more, as it is
> >more targeted) runs first, so that I don't have to look at any
> obvious junk.
> >
> > Randy.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kerry Barlow
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:45 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: user not receiving valid mail
> >>
> >>
> >> HI all: I have recently added numerous blacklists as suggested by other
> >> members. I now have a customer that continues to lose valid mail.
> >> Will using
> >> the smtprcv panels whitelist allow all mail to bypass the filters
> >> and go to
> >> this customer? I have added some of the dalid email address's
> he wishs to
> >> receive to the trfinder exception list, however I think smtprcv
> >> is rejecting
> >> these at the door, before they ever go thru TF.
> >> Some of the mail he is missing are from marketwatchmail.com,
> >> ecsmailer.photoworks.com, nationsbuildingnews.com and who
> knows what else.
> >> Any advice would be appreciated.
> >> Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
> >> Brig. Gen. Johnston Pettigrew
> >>
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> >> Kerry Barlow
> >> p.o. box 21
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> >> 13795
> >> 607-775-1575
> >>
> >>
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