[BlueOnyx:06492] Re: OWM and Spam

[Darrell D. Mobley]

Bump.  I know there are other BX machines with OWM on them, does anyone else
have problems with the filter_fakedfrom trapping legitimate mail because the
originator of an email is on one ISP and the recipient is on another?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:11 PM
> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06438] OWM and Spam
> 
> I was digging around in the client's OWM preferences and noticed message
> filtering options:
> 
> Limit for repeated messages:   0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100  ( 0 means No
> check for repeatness )
> Filter msgs with email address in bad format:   (Filtered: 1)
> Filter messages with faked SMTP:   (Filtered: 8)
> Filter messages with faked From field:   (Filtered: 53)
> Filter msgs with faked exe content-type:
> 
> In each setting, you can see first is a drop-down box and four check
> boxes.
> Interestingly enough, the "Filter messages with faked SMTP:   (Filtered:
> 8)"
> included emails from me, sent from Outlook, through Comcast to port 587 on
> the server.  Why it thought I was faking SMTP is beyond me, so I had to
> leave it unchecked.  It also meant *some* spam gets in the inbox, but a
> LOT
> if getting caught now.
> 
> Plus there are individual filters a user can invoke in OWM, so I need to
> see
> what the latest filter recommendations from the OWM team are.  Some are
> pretty strict.
> 
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