Spam Defense

[radim]

Hello,

 

I am writing to encourage TotalChoiceHosting (TCH) to offer some alternative spam defense next to SpamAssasin. In my case SpamAssasin is not helpful for these reasons:

 

1) I copy arriving email to several (at present 2) destinations (work and home). The home-copy is tagged but not deleted/blocked, the copy at work is unmodified.

2) SpamAssasin misses some spam and incorrectly tags some legitimate messages.

 

What I would like is a challenge system like the one recently implemented by Earthlink (http://www.earthlink.net/spamblocker/). Or I could use a hand-compiled white-list - only senders on the white list could email me.

 

The best would be if you let me write my own script which would decide which messages are OK.

 

I would be happy to pay few $s a month extra for this. I am positive that I am not alone and if you aggressively advertised your anti-spam capabilities, it would likely bring you stream of new customers (e.g. I would target ads to Comcast customers: I and several of my friends have Comcast for ISP, but we do not use Comcast email as it is horrible and many of need/want our own domain).

 

Radim

[Hammerz]

SpamAssasin works for me. When it blocks mail for the first time, I am sent a copy of the original mail attached to the notification. I then have the option of going to the Cpanel and adding it to my "white list." ('Course, I don't know precisely ALL of what is on SA's "black list," but I haven't been missing any mail that I want to recevie!)

 

I wish my own ISP provided the same protection! I receive nearly 20 peices of "viral spam" alone per day on that account, and can't even use it any more except as a back up.

 

I DO wish that TCH would allow either an "opt out" or some configurability on the outgoing Exim filter...but they know that already, and it's another topic!

 

Chuck in Taiwan

[idallen]

The best would be if you let me write my own script which would decide which messages are OK.

You can already do this. Install a .forward file and pipe your email into any script you want.