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Spam Sleuth User's Guide
recommend that you uncheck your characters such as (Ã and ã). If your country uses other
characters, we recommend that you uncheck them so that they aren't assigned points.
You can increase the points given for any particular character.
You can have Spam Sleuth scan the Subject of the message, and the Body of the message. By
default, Spam Sleuth only checks the Subject.
3.1.14 BlackLists
Ever wish there was a comprehensive list of spammers? Well so do we, but unfortunately the closest
thing is the blacklists. The blacklists contain the IP addresses of all the known spam servers and
open relay servers (used by spammers). These lists of spam servers are built different ways. Some
of them set spam traps where they put an e-mail address out on web pages and other public places
so that it gets on the big lists of e-mails. Then they blacklist anybody who sends to that e-mail
address. Others collect the spam e-mail from lots of people and if there are enough of the same
message they assume it is spam and blacklist the server. The Blacklist Analyzer lets you check the
list to see if the e-mail was sent from a blacklisted server. There are lots of blacklists and Spam
Sleuth includes most of them. You should only use one at a time because they can take several
seconds per message to check.
The BlackList Analyzer uses free blacklist databases to check whether the e-mail in question
was sent by a known spam server. These databases allow Spam Sleuth™ to look up an IP
address and determine whether it came from a known spam sending machine.
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