Yea, I tried the X-Spam-Flag: Yes thing first, but that flag only gets set if the spam has hits of 10.0 or greater. I want to be a bit more aggressive with it and since we are just relaying our domain through their server, apparently we don't have granular control over it for just us. Individual user accounts on their server have more granular controls. I don't mind doing it like this anyway, I actually like it that every user can have control over how aggressive they want it to be. I'm now filtering anything with a 4.0 or greater and it is doing really well...so far. I normally get between 50 and 75 SPAM a day (just me), and it appears this setup is only missing 5 - 10 of those, so right about in line with your 90% rate.
Thats good to know about eManager...I had planned on testing that and probably still will. This ISP is Southwest Cyberport. www.swcp.com They don't have a commercial business spun up yet specifically for this type of Spam filter service, but I'm sure they'd be willing to work with your friend. Thanks for the pointers. Vance > You could always create a rule to check messages when they arrive with = > specific words in the header and filter for "X-Spam-Flag: YES", moving = > it to a SPAM folder or sending it to Deleted Items. > > Spam Assassin is pretty good. I use Trend's eManager to filter SPAM = > along with some rules I have created. It results in blocking around 90% = > of the SPAM and gives me around 0.10% of filtered messages that are = > legit. They all forward to a mailbox and I review the to/from addresses = > to make sure they are not to/from clients. > > Trend's product is good (8 out of 10 *s), but it does have a few bugs = > that they have hotfixed and it has some shortcomings in that it can't = > import/export wordlists. Though it is hard to beat Spam Assassin (free) = > (10 out of 10 *s)! It is a great product. > > Any chance you can forward your ISP information? I have a friend with a = > hosted site that would like to get on with an ISP that has something in = > place, such as Spam Assassin. > > Regards, > > Bob > > Bobby J. Christian II > VeriSign, Inc. > Savannah, GA > 912.527.4396 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
