-----Original Message----- From: Tim A [mailto:tim-surbl@kosmo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:37 PM To: discuss@lists.surbl.org Subject: RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chan jeffc@surbl.org Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:21:59 -0800 Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Thunderbird and SURBL? To: "SURBL Discussion list (E-mail)" discuss@lists.surbl.org
On Monday, December 13, 2004, 8:14:51 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
Thinking out loud....
Anyone have contact with thunderbird devs? Could a pop
proxy be used to
check emails being downloaded by thunderbird on SURBL,
then decline to
download the ones that hit? Obviously with whitelist bypasses?
Then the user could use a web client to delete spams without downloading? Or whatever.....
That's an interesting idea, but it could generate more DNS traffic than our name servers can handle. It's probably better to do these kinds of things in a centralized way on mail servers to take advantage of DNS caching, etc. more strongly.
Since we provide a service to do just this using SURBL hopefully this isn't taken as a spam to this list. I thought it would be useful for folks at SURBL and list members to know who use SURBL. Perhaps a list should be kept somewhere listing folks making use of SURBL.
We have high regards for the SURBL folks and it is in the mix of many methods we use to combat spam at SimpleFilter. We have a POP3 and SMTP service that uses the same backend anti-spam engine and can be used from Thunderbird as it works with any POP3 email client. The SMTP service has some additional features I won't go into here.
Hi Tim!
Are you saying you will check during download and not download the messege if it thinks it is spam? Cause that would give you an A+ in my book!
And secondly, please make sure you have a local whitelist! We have seen other companies using SURBL that don't whitelist the top doamins, like yahoo.com, w3.org, google.com,........ Those kinds of domains should be skipped from being looked up.
We do have a list on surbl.org. Granted it isn't very prominent. :) Perhaps Jeff will add you?
--Chris