Re: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-19 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Jan 19, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Nick Rout wrote: there is a chch produced commercial package for windows that downloads the mail headers from a pop box. you then scan for spam (most of it is prettty obvious from the subject and sender) and kill them on the server without ever downloading the whole me

Re: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-18 Thread Nick Rout
yes, and so was xtra for a long time (i think mainly because they had their smtp servers in the same netblock as their dialup users, and of course there will always be a percentage of dialup users who are spammers or who have open relays.) there is a chch produced commercial package for windows th

RE: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-18 Thread Paul William
didn't someone on the list report that paradise was blacklisted on one of these lists? On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 12:14, David Taylor wrote: > They are called Blacklists and are lists of IPs that send out spam. They > often cause problems when a legitimate sender is behind a blacklisted ISP. > Use the

Re: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:01, Julian Visch wrote: > I am trying to block spam so that I don't have to download the whole spam > first, is there any tool to do that? paradise.net run BrightMail(tm) It works for me cutting spam load by more that 95% or so. Some, mostly Nigerians beggars, still get thr

RE: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-18 Thread David Taylor
They are called Blacklists and are lists of IPs that send out spam. They often cause problems when a legitimate sender is behind a blacklisted ISP. Use them with extreme caution. Ciao, Dave -Original Message- From: Julian Visch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 January 2004 11:0

Re: Mailtool to block spam?

2004-01-18 Thread Paul William
its pretty much impossible to detect spam automatically without looking at the whole email. If you don't mind checking each email header automatically there are tools to do that. On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 11:01, Julian Visch wrote: > I am trying to block spam so that I don't have to download the whol