On 29 Sep 2009 at 17:42, Stu Sjouwerman  wrote:

> Just bear in mind that MSE does -not- filter incoming email.

I disable inbound mail filtering as I figure the real-time scanner will catch 
anything malicious as it's extracted from the email and written to disk.  It's 
the same engine and signatures, so it isn't going to catch anything different. 
Inbound filters (especially Norton/Symantec AV) have caused some of my clients 
some serious support nightmares when they can't get email and I have to figure 
out why.

I use Pegasus Mail which has two different HTML display modes (neither depends 
on IE), doesn't support scripting and doesn't download external images until I 
tell it to, so I'm safe from the normal Outlook and Outlook Express/IE problems 
there.  My POPfile spamfilter and Pegasus Mail's built-in SpamHalter (another 
trainable bayesian filter) filter most crap into the spam folder, which gets 
purged once it hits whatever age I've set (I think I've set 10 days), so I have 
10 days to review the "Probably Spam" folder if someone complains that I 
haven't responded to an email.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
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