Outlook 2003 is missing support for Realtime DNS Black Listing.

[brainsto]

Microsoft Outlook 2003 is missing support for realtime bns black listing. Go
to http://www.spamhaus.org/. You can find out all about it. Microsoft Outlook
2003 needs support to use realtime dns blacklist servers, in addition to
blacklisting ip addresses that emails are generated from, or passed through.

The end result, would be to automatically flag all mail received from the
blacklisted servers as spam, and to treat it as such. I know Exchange has
some sort of support for that. But, since I don't use Exchange, and I don't
have control over what my mail provider does, I need the control to be
available in Microsoft Outlook 2003.

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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

The end result, would be to automatically flag all mail received from the
blacklisted servers as spam, and to treat it as such. I know Exchange has
some sort of support for that. But, since I don't use Exchange, and I
don't
have control over what my mail provider does, I need the control to be
available in Microsoft Outlook 2003.

Hopefully you don't want to get mail from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo or any of
the other free mail services again. You'll blacklist their IP address the
first day.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
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[brainsto]

Actually, I was referring to just tagging, not flat out blocking/dropping.
And you should go check out how www.spamhaus.org runs there stuff. I really
don't think it would happen that way. Either way, if it did. Tagging would
still allow the spam in, it's just presorted. Merely enabling an extra notch
of spam filtering above and beyond what Microsoft has already included in
with their Microsoft Outlook 2003 anti-spam update patches.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Actually, I was referring to just tagging, not flat out
blocking/dropping.

Ah. Well that would be better, yes.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
http://www.scgab.com

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You're better off with Bayesian filtering instead of using RBLs. They suck
big time and often have IPs on them they shouldn't. (I'm on roadrunner's
RBL - except their business accounts are the ones spamming me. Makes a lot
of sense, eh?)


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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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[brainsto]

Actually, I used to use popfile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net), it uses
bayesian statistics for it's filtering. But, seeing as how it's still a work
in progress, and how I've yet to see Microsoft publish what exactly is being
done/introduced with Microsoft Outlook 2003's anti-spam updates... I am
desiring additional measures. Much like Spam Assassin, using a realtime dns
black list would help to add weight against an email that is also identified
as spam through means other than realtime dns black listing. Besides,
Microsoft already has the realtime dns black listing in their Exchange
server... I just want to see it in my personal Microsoft Outlook 2003 (which
does not access an exchange server), so that I can have the email
tagging/filtering control that I desire.

You're better off with Bayesian filtering instead of using RBLs. They suck
big time and often have IPs on them they shouldn't. (I'm on roadrunner's
RBL - except their business accounts are the ones spamming me. Makes a lot
of sense, eh?)


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Microsoft Outlook 2003 is missing support for realtime bns black listing.
Go
to http://www.spamhaus.org/. You can find out all about it. Microsoft
Outlook
2003 needs support to use realtime dns blacklist servers, in addition to
blacklisting ip addresses that emails are generated from, or passed
through.

The end result, would be to automatically flag all mail received from the
blacklisted servers as spam, and to treat it as such. I know Exchange has
some sort of support for that. But, since I don't use Exchange, and I
don't
have control over what my mail provider does, I need the control to be
available in Microsoft Outlook 2003.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...57f700532&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hopefully you don't want to get mail from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo or
any of the other free mail services again. You'll blacklist their IP
address the first day.

Nonsense.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Microsoft Outlook 2003 is missing support for realtime bns black
listing. Go to http://www.spamhaus.org/. You can find out all about
it. Microsoft Outlook 2003 needs support to use realtime dns
blacklist servers, in addition to blacklisting ip addresses that
emails are generated from, or passed through.

Since Outlook is a mail client and not a router, I'm not sure I agree that
Outlook should have this. Outlook doesn't allow connections from any of the
SPAMmers. They connect to whatever server hosts your mailbox. That's where
the filtering should be. Moreover, add-ins like
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ help in the filtering of junk.