Spam seems to be getting worse...

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d11wtq wrote:Looked at MailFoundry... very odd with the hardware stuff - which I can't afford with the amount of saving I'm (trying) doing. The hosted option sounds good, although I don't have 10 mailboxes that I actively use... $0.99/mo isn't half bad though :) I couldn't find anything that says how you configure the hosted option to be more/less leniant nor how you recover wrongly blocked spam.

Anything that is 100% definately spam get deleted (remember, this is a human based system so no chance of false positives).

Anything that is less than 100% certain gets quaratined so it doesn't arrive in you inbox. Then, on a daily basis, you are sent a Quarantine Digest via email. This lists all the emails that have been quarantined. You can quickly look down the list, see if there was any false positives, and if there was, click "Release" which will release the email from qaurantine, or click "Release and Report" to report that the email was not spam.

As for the configuration of more or less leniant, there isn't any of that, just let MailFoundry do its thing.

Haven't had a false positive yet!
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I set my mail server up to require reverse dns lookup and that eliminated 90% of the spam I was getting.

/crosses fingers in hopes it stays that way 8O
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Set spam assaisisn required score to 1 and add filters to any that get past.
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alvinphp wrote:I get very little spam, I don't know why. Not complaining though!
Congratulations, you've just won the "2006 Least Spam Recipient Award"! Please send us your email address so we can send you your reward!

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