[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-04 Thread Andy Schmidt
Dito! -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Michael Cummins Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 8:29 AM To: community@mailsbestfriend.com Subject: [MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns That all

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-04 Thread David Barker
You could be right Michael. They don't know what they are missing ;) On 11/4/2014 8:32 AM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Dito! -Original Message- From: community@mailsbestfriend.com [mailto:community@mailsbestfriend.com] On Behalf Of Michael Cummins Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 8:29 AM To:

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-03 Thread Scott Fosseen - Prairie Lakes AEA
Just a follow-up. I have been running the Gauntlet filter without Gauntlet installed to check the effectiveness. Out of 32K+ messages today I have deleted around 5300 messages. The Gauntlet filter triggered 184 times. I was hoping it to be a little more aggressive selecting messages.

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-03 Thread John Tolmachoff
Hello Chris, thanks for the shoutout. Yes, I still sell AutoWhite for Declude and yes it will work with Smartermail but though a manual registry trick. It is not suitable for ISPs or enviornments with a large number of mailboxes or with a lot of turnover in mailboxes. -Original

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-11-03 Thread David Barker
Right now if Sniffer is identifying the message as spam there is no reason for it to be held in the Gauntlet. The main purpose of the Guantlet is for messages that are suspect but have not triggered enough score for spam. We can make the Gauntlet more aggressive, but would rather err on the

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-10-30 Thread Linda Pagillo
Hello everyone. I wanted to chime in here. We (MBF) actually have a utility for implementing exactly what Scott is proposing if anyone is interested in trying it. We call it The Gauntlet. Also, the following link has some additional information about how a program such as this works:

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-10-30 Thread Carl Wagar
What's your email address these days Linda? I am interested. J. Carl Wagar EntreNet Communications Inc http://www.entrenet.com www.entrenet.com http://www.thehostingservice.com www.thehostingservice.com 24 Swain Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1G 4T1, Canada Email: mailto:jcwa...@entrenet.com

[MBF] Re: Thoughts on how to deal with the current SPAM campaigns

2014-10-30 Thread David Barker
True but the complaints were very few and were only in the beginning of our testing, we have improved the Gauntlet filter to target messages that look like pre-tested spam, to reduce delaying good email. Yes it does delay some good mail but the overall trade-off has been worth it. We have been