Imail v6.00 spam blocking help needed

[Drachenhunter]

Hello,

I'm trying to get imail to block spam in a couple of differant ways, but I'm running into a little trouble.

I'm trying to it up so it will block messages like:
"meet singles in your area" and it's varriances like "meet christian singles in your area" But every attempt I do meets with a failure in the test dialog box, Unless I set up a rule for each subject title. What I kinda want to do set it up like in OE:
Where message contains "*****" or "*****" ....ect. but when I put more than one subject title even with the supposed or character " | " but it doesn't work I'm reading the book but it doesn't work so if the rule looks like:

meet singles in your area | meet christian singles
in your area

The rule breaks and neither string works so I'm pretty sure I screwed up when trying that but now I'm out of ideas, short of doing one rule for every single subject title (Which I hope isn't what I have to do) I'm stuck.

An other thing I wanted to do was block ip addresses. I read in the book and it goes on about blocking ip addresses for the smtp server, so you can't relay but does that also block e-mail comming into your server from that ip address? or is there someplace else I need to go to block incomming mail?

Thanks for any help or suggestions you guys can give.


Cody

 

[swampdoc]

If you can afford the upgrade, go up to the current version (8.04) that has some really good anti-spam built in. Was well worth the money for us.

 

[skotman]

If your running on a tight budget and have perl installed (or don't mind installing it) try ASSP. I dont remember what it means off hand but its working great for me. It even caught mail from my mom (I had the filter a little to night) it's available at

http://assp.sourceforge.net

 

[vmanuja]

try this: (meet singles in your area|meet christian singles in your area)

If that doesn't work, try putting the strings in "":
("meet singles in your area"|"meet christian singles in your area&quot

best