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RE: URL Domain Blacklist File

Martin Koberstein — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:08:56 GMT

Thats a nice idea, but you have to run this tool very often to be up to date. I think I will cost more time than to check the blacklist domain file from ipswitch.

And I think that the phrase list is not that bad. As you say that it is maintained by english people. But spam is often in english language. And I think IPSwitch generates this list like you do with your tool.

But of course I will have a look at your tool.

greetings from germany,

Martin

RE: URL Domain Blacklist File

ctek — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:54:04 GMT

hi martin

im also german speaking (switzerland)

i stopped to use the url black list from imail. i also stopped to use the phrase list of imail. as those list are mainly maintained by english spoken people (i assume ipswitch staff), those list will never match correctly for your server. build your own phrase and url blacklist.

i have written a great access tool for this. you can run access against a outlook incoming mailbox, where you collect all your spam. then you can sort in access those emails and extract easely the subjects and parts of body and then export it as a textfile, which can be copied/paste into the existing phrase list or combined with the existing imail tool.

with this access tool, you can also extract all URL found in the emails. they are listed in a separate field called "URL" and can be also exported to a testfile and then combined with the existing url file.

we also wrote 2 new tools. please see the forum post "2 new tools - who test it"

i will gladly send you the tools for testing. they help me very much to configure imail.

URL Domain Blacklist File

Martin Koberstein — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:42:20 GMT

Why are so big (german) domains like msn.de, spiegel.de or amazon.de in the current url-domain-bl.txt? Who for gods sake maintains it?

I wrote an auto update script for the antispam files, but if there are again some well-known site among the black lists then I must check the list every time it get updated per hand.

I allready made a whitelist for all the important domains, but its not a good way.