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Byron
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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: Brightmail |
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Any experience with the reliability of this sofeware?
My server has this software, All my spam has in the header "Potential Spam"
I was wondering how many legit mails I would miss if I filtered "potential spam" and just do an auto delete
TIA
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rogerw
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| one of the ISPs I use has brightmail.....All I can say about the service is that I don't get a lot of false positives....However, I still get some spam slipping through. At any given time I have 4 or 5 spams in the inbox...with about 70-80 culled out by brightmail. |
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rogerw
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry. Duplicate post. Artifact of hosting change I expect. |
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stan_qaz
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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When you do a duplicate in a forum where you can't delete it just hit the blue button... The admins will zap it for you.
At some point they might even give us delete authority here since we have it in most other firetrust forums. |
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Ikeb
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It still puzzles me why some forums allow post deletion while (most) others don't.
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stan_qaz
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Well I've asked both rusticdog (way back) and the forum mods in general (about 15 times in the last month) to consider cahnging the policy on delete here and I'll include therr response below:
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So I just keep hitting the delete blue button and reporting the duplicates. If it gets to be enough of a PITA for the mods they may consider changing the policy here.
BTW the blue button guide does say to report dup posts so it is not abuse of the system to do that. |
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rusticdog
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| Well I've asked both rusticdog (way back) and the forum mods in general (about 15 times in the last month) to consider cahnging the policy on delete here and I'll include therr response below: |
Yeah I was given a fairly legitimate reason why Paul wanted to keep it this way, though igeven the self serve nature of this forum I still think it should be as you suggest.
I'll follow up in a couple of weeks with Paul once he's over his server migration workload.
I've never used BrightMail myself so I cannot offer any advice there.
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catwoman8950
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: Re: Brightmail |
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| Byron wrote: |
Any experience with the reliability of this sofeware?
My server has this software, All my spam has in the header "Potential Spam"
I was wondering how many legit mails I would miss if I filtered "potential spam" and just do an auto delete
TIA
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I activated my ISP's anti-spam filter which uses Brightmail technology today. So far it has caught all my spam. I have set it to "medium" and all the spam now goes into a separate spam folder on my ISP's server. However, I would let it run for a few weeks before autodeleting anything, although my own preference would be not to do this, just in case...... The downside is that I no longer have anything to report to FirstAlert or SpamCop and I like to do my bit to get spammers nailed 
Catwoman
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