email filters

[billmoore]

I have placed close to 100 email filters on my primary domain. But they do not seem to work, I am getting just as much spam as I ever did and with the stuff that is supposed to be filtered !

after I enter the filters, is ther anything I need to do like restart the server or something ? any advice would be appreciated.

Bill

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

You'd need to view the source code of the emails to verify that you're actually filtering what they've written. Many spammers are getting quite crafy and doing things like:

<font>v</font><font>i</font><font>a</font><font>g</font><font>r</font><font>a</font>

which will show up as "viagra" in your email, but won't be cought by the filters.. You'd have to add <font>v</font>... etc. into the filter in order for it to be blocked.

Bottom line, you'll need to view the source of the email to see how the words are actually written.

John