I just finished phasing out Imail anti-spam after months of trying to work with it. I've always been a Declude user, and really had high hopes for Imail to work as a secondary system; where Imail's features would bat cleanup and pick up what Declude missed (and Declude misses stuff only because I was being conservative in my settings).
And it seemed to work, at first. Caught spam was huge; mostly from the stat filtering. But the default statistical filtering files had way too many false positives. You can seed your own, but frankly that's more work than I want to go to, for far too uncertain of an outcome. I eventually had to drop it because I couldn't keep up with all of the mail it was grabbing that I had to figure out how to force thru. Early on, the blacklists were riddled with bad entries. These have decreased, but they're still out there. Imail's all-or-nothing spam determination ruins this as a reliable measure as well. It's a great blacklist, though, provided you don't delete or hold mail based exclusively on it. The same goes for Imail's phrase list: A great resource but the underlying system compromises it. For Imail to be a proper solution, it needs a global weighting system that spans all tests, like Declude has. Hopefully Imail 9's antispam will get a lot of development attention. -------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Design and ColdFusion Developer Tools -------------------------------------------- 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/
