Here is what Donald came back with: On Jun 28, 2011 @ 11:59 am, Donald Bittenbender wrote: After analyzing the Lyris settings, I see one level of spam filter checking Lyris does by default is SPF checking. Currently the server is set to reject on SPF fail, however, if it takes more than 30 seconds to do the SPF lookup, the server is currently allowing the initial message to come through. We can set this to be stricter and wait for the SPF lookup to complete, but I'm not sure what effect that will have on message flow.
Currently an email confirmation is required to join the list, so that has already been setup to try to deflect spam. Obviously some bots probably are programmed to go around this by auto confirming their email. Past the SPF checking, I have no other spam fightning options. No keyword blocking available to me. The spam blocking abilities of Lyris out of box are fairly limited, and we are out of contract so no way to contact them about any other possible options. For now these 2 users will be blocked by email addres s to make sure they don't spam again, but that doesn't help in the long-run of things. Donald Bittenbender -- GFI HelpDesk -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: your friends will envy you Dang! Doesn't this list maintain some sort of spam filter?!?!?! You'd think that GFI/Sunbelt would use their own software to filter out spam before it gets sent out to thousands of people on this list! From: Willis Sheldon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: your friends will envy you Flawless quality at basement prices - find out more here http://goo.gl/GNLLO ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
