Yes, though it is my personal opinion that you cannot use any of the default blacklisted urls or phrase lists from Ipswitch unless you thoroughly go through each line by line and determine if it is appropriate for you. As thus, any updates they release are not worth the time to install - unless you wish to go through tens of thousands of lines of phrases and urls.
In retrospect, I would just have rather started from scratch myself. I can make a decision that this company doesn't care to have any emails with word Nigeria in them. A travel agency or company dealing with African Nations could not have that luxury. I can decide that any email with pharmacy in it is not pertaining to this company's business and thus can be rejected. A doctor or pharmaceutical company could not. The absolute BIGGEST frustration on using IMail as a standalone solution is that it is the only program where there is no rhyme or reason to the processing. The rules.ima are supposed to be followed until one triggers and then the email is acted on. In instance after instance, rules are skipped and order is out of any logical progression, which makes it near impossible to use standalone. The little things they could do to make this much better as a standalone solution haven't been implemented. For example, how hard would it have been to let you check a box and add a subroutine to have the phrase list check the subject? Maybe 5 lines of code? How hard would it have done the same to use the url-blacklist in the phrase list checking? And lets not even talk about a trusted IP range. What I have is the a macro to copy the url-blacklist into the phrase list once a day - but because of the changes in Ipswitch coding, you have to run a macro to remove the . at the same time. And, if by chance you copy it to the rules.ima, you have to convert the . to \. It's pretty sad they didn't just use a tried and true better system like spam assassin instead of trying to reinvent the computer where . = * etc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay Calvert Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Anti Spam Filters Hi all, I was wondering if anybody is relying solely on iMails New Antispam functionality? If so have you been adding Phrases manually? I have been adding them manually for the past few days, and even had 50 or so that weren't in Imail latest updates. I was wondering if anybody else has been doing this and instead of waiting for Ipswitch to publish another phrase list (Once a month isn't enough) we start to generate our own. Possibly on a daily / weekly basis? Any Comments? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
