-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Mark,
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:24:29 -0800 your time, you said: MW> Are you suggesting that there is a way to prevent Mailwasher from doing MW> this? No, I wasn't suggesting it, but as the question has been asked, yes, you can easily prevent Mailwasher bouncing messages. It isn't an automatic feature, it is a user option. The incoming mail is checked against RBLs, like ORDB, VISI, SpamCop, etc. or whatever is in your list, and suspicious spam-like stuff can then either be marked as suspicious, marked as suspicious with a check mark to delete, or marked as suspicious with a check mark to delete and bounce. You can set up your own individual filters to delete specific spam without bouncing as well, and filters to mark messages as legit. It is very straight forward and powerful, and I find it 1000 x better than using TB!'s Mail Dispatcher. I have used Mailwasher to bounce spam messages, and yet some still persist and get resent regardless. If I receive spam from a previously bounced domain then I set a Mailwasher filter to delete the messages and *not* bounce them. However, some spam that I have bounced only once has never graced my server again. So it seems that it works for some spam and not for others. Perhaps the people tugging at their locks over the idea of Mailwasher bouncing messages should grab a copy, being as it is free, and investigate before throwing tantrums about how much work it causes everyone. No one here on this list has said that they've had to deal with a wave of 'Mailwasher bounced messages' in their postmaster accounts and so I think all the whining is just ludicrous. Bounced messages are only to be expected, and I doubt whether Mailwasher adds anything significant to the millions of bounced messages that occur everyday :) - -- Slán, Simon @ theycallmesimon.co.uk ****************************************** PGP Key: http://pgp.theycallmesimon.co.uk/ Faffing about with TB! v1.61 on W2K SP3 #882. Iraq We'd Slur My So ¶ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Privacy is freedom. Protect your freedom with PGP! Comment: KeyID: 0x5C7E8966 iQA/AwUBPe4BC8tub/5cfolmEQK8SwCfYb5ByYuwyWKll+e8M/9m+SoSBu0An2h6 VAD6UMj6EH17Ez7W3EVK08di =5DEb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
