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<font size="2">Darrell,
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<br />I have used OWM on all my boxes - Cobalt, BQ and BX. I became very frustrated with the built in filtering of OWM and have been using a third party filter. I find it very beneficial for the following reasons:
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<br />1. The spam never reaches my BX box, so there is less load on the mail server.
<br />2. If my BX box is down for any reason, all email is automatically held and stored for delivery at a later time when the BX box is once again available.
<br />3. Support to the users is simple - don't use the spam filtering (either SpamAssassin or OWM's filtering); use our special spam filtering application (third party filter).
<br />4. Growth and support of OWM appears to be stalled despite being an excellent product for many years. Eventually we will move to a newer and more flexible webmail program.
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<br />There are many third party spam filtering services available. We currently use Spam Soap (www.spamsoap.com) as it gives us all the flexibility as well as a backup system for our email server.
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<br />I am not sure if that is a help to your situation but as I said, we experienced the same issues and finally went elsewhere many years ago.
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<br />Dan Porter
<br />Twin Wolf Technology Group
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From: "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley@uhostme.com>
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To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx@blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:03:03 -0500
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:06492] Re: OWM and Spam
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<br />> Bump. I know there are other BX machines with OWM on them, does
anyone else
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have problems with the filter_fakedfrom trapping legitimate mail because the
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originator of an email is on one ISP and the recipient is on another?
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it]
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> On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:11 PM
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> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06438] OWM and Spam
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>
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> I was digging around in the client's OWM preferences and noticed message
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> filtering options:
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>
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> Limit for repeated messages: 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 ( 0
means No
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> check for repeatness )
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> Filter msgs with email address in bad format: (Filtered: 1)
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> Filter messages with faked SMTP: (Filtered: 8)
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> Filter messages with faked From field: (Filtered: 53)
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> Filter msgs with faked exe content-type:
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>
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> In each setting, you can see first is a drop-down box and four check
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> boxes.
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> Interestingly enough, the "Filter messages with faked SMTP:
(Filtered:
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> 8)"
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> included emails from me, sent from Outlook, through Comcast to port 587 on
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> the server. Why it thought I was faking SMTP is beyond me, so I had
to
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> leave it unchecked. It also meant *some* spam gets in the inbox, but
a
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> LOT
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> if getting caught now.
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>
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> Plus there are individual filters a user can invoke in OWM, so I need to
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> see
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> what the latest filter recommendations from the OWM team are. Some
are
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> pretty strict.
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>
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