SA with the additional rule sets (weeds, big evil, etc) seems to be good at catching a high percentage with a very low FP rate. I'm confused at why you would want to send your spam to earthlink though (My T1 ISP as well). There isn't much they can do about it other than send an email to the non-existent sender of the spam. FWIW I would rather not have a big ISP like earthlink filtering ANY of my email for me.
<senselessrambling> I still get FP's from Charles Schwab and a couple companies that I do work with because they use embedded HTML and a few other key words that trip the scanners. (Actually I lied because I put a rule in place to -10 certain senders). But the point is if companies like earthlink decided that you didn't need your EOY 2003 Trade confirmation tax sheet then, well, it would really suck when you didn't have all of your tax paperwork handy :). </senselessrambling> It is best to just deal with the spam yourself (via SA or whatever product) and then filter it with your local mail program (Outlook, Exim, Procmail, etc). Otherwise when the zombies come to attack you you'll end up having your brains eaten and becoming a zombie yourself. Opps, I meant end up not only getting the spam but sending that same spam to earthlink. Depending upon the amount of spam, user accounts and other services you use on your internet connection I hope you have a lot of bandwidth. BTW it looks real bad when you send an email with your Linux uptime of 5 days. The machine I'm sending this from is running XP and hasn't been rebooted in almost 6 months (I know that I'm behind on the patches but this machine only does email and internal web testing). Most of my Linux machine were well into the hundreds of days until I did a kernel upgrade (kinda like a Microsoft patch). Gary Wayne Smith -----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forwarding spam to ISP My ISP, earthlink.net, has users forward spam to them that slip through their spamblocker software. Since installing SA I've turned it off since it was pretty useless in my opinion as about 75% was still getting through. I was doing it for awhile but it was getting to be a pain to manually fwd each message. EL is asking me to forward spam to them anyway, can SA be setup to do this automatically? I use Kmail and I know this can be done with procmail but I don't have it setup. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:48am up 5 days, 19:34, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.39, 0.78
