I'm currently testing Declude Junkmail and Declude Virus.
With Declude Junkmail installed and running, is the iMail KILL.LST file still relevant, and where does it fall in the processing order?
Yes, the IMail Kill List is still relevant. The IMail Control Access file and Kill List take priority (they will prevent the E-mail from even being received).
Declude gives me the ability to make custom Ip address black lists, and can use CIDR format to specify a range of IP addresses. This is very cool. Declude also does e-mail address black lists, also cool. If I understand things correctly, the drawback is that the message has to be received before Declude can decide what to do with it.
Correct. IMail does not have a way for programs to intercept the SMTP transaction, so the E-mail has to be received before Declude can process it.
For some e-mail sources ('greatamericandeals.com', for example), I'm just deleting the message. As I understand it, if this domain is in the KILL.LST file, iMail won't even let the message in the door; saving bandwidth and cpu cycles.
That is correct. If you have specific IPs or E-mail addresses that you want to ban unconditionally, the IMail Control Access or Kill List is the best place to put them, as the E-mail is never received. The advantages to doing it in Declude JunkMail would be that you could use the weighting system (if E-mail from those IPs/addresses might not be spam), as well as using the Declude JunkMail actions (if you wanted the spam to be delivered, but clearly marked as spam).
-Scott
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