Since more and more ISP companies are forcing outgoing email from their clients through their own email servers in an effort to help combat spamming we've started having the affected clients send email through their ISP's email server while using the return address of the email domain name that we host for them. This is the easiest method we could figure out for them to be able send mail from an existing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and seems to work with most ISP email servers. Would headers like these appear as spam and be filtered by servers running Declude AS and possibly other AS software?
Ted Galerneau, Ironwood Express Web Services http://www.iewebs.net/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Declude Anti Spam > >then moved to DELETE after seeing almost no legitimate mail affected. > >Hi Roger. As an end user, I would insist of my ISP that any approach to >spam filtering not delete ANY legitimate mail. > >I'd rather put of with spam than have my legitimate mail deleted. Just a couple points here: First, a lot of our customers are businesses (where the users are employees) and schools (where the users are students or employees), so it isn't necessarily up to the end user to decide what mail they get. Also, Declude JunkMail Pro is one of the very few anti-spam programs that let you change the settings for specific users. So even though most ISPs that block mail based on anti-spam tests can't do anything if you don't like it, it is possible with Declude. Another thing to consider is the BADHEADERS and MAILFROM tests, which catch a lot of spam, while not catching any legitimate mail (unless it was sent from a broken mail client, in which case the mail may not make it to you anyways, or has a bogus return address, which shouldn't happen on legitimate mail). My personal preference for ISPs is to use the WARN action (which puts a warning in the E-mail headers that the recipient can filter on), the SUBJECT action (which alters the subject to make it easy to determine which E-mails are considered spam), or the BOUNCE actions (which send a bounce message to the sender, so they know the mail wasn't delivered). -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
