Mail Monitor - please test this version

Yuri,

I found the following info at the SpamPal site which will effect the Filters in Mail Monitor -

As many have noticed (and thanks to everyone who mailed me about this), the "relays.osirusoft.com" blacklist and the others that are hosted by relays.osirusoft.com (inputs.relays.osirusoft.com, SpamSites DNSBL and SPEWS) have all gone belly-up. Rumour has it that Joe Jared has got fed up of the constant DOS attacks and has given up, at least temporarily. (If so, it was nice of him to make a public announcement about this. That would be sarcasm.) relays.osirusoft.com and the other Osirusoft.com zones are now returning positive (spam) results at random.

I have updated the SpamPal DNSBL definitions files to exclude relays.osirusoft.com. This means that, next time your copy of SpamPal phones home to check for updates, it'll update the list of available public blacklists and you'll get a message saying that relays.osirusoft.com is no longer available and you choose an alternative. To do this, go to the options window, click on "public blacklists", and select a likely-looking alternative. I suggest ORDB, NJABL or Easynet, but I'm sure others will have other suggestions.

But if you're reading this and you haven't seen this message yet, I suggest you go into the aforementioned "public blacklists" section of the options window and deselect relays.osirusoft.com, SpamSites and SPEWS; this will prevent any of the random false spam results from affecting you. If you want to select an alternative public blacklist, you can also do so now.

Last edited by James_Farmer on Sat 08.30.2003, 09:43 AM

Since this has happened, these Blacklists should be removed from the Add DNSBL service in the Edit Filtering Rules so that no one gets false results or slow downs while checking mail.