Another EFM question

[steve3]

I've got another EFM question, If I add for example, free@yahoo.com to the blocked addresses, will that also thake care of freesoftware-1603t13@yahoo.com, and free-4014a04@yahoo.com. I'm pretty sure it will, but I want to make sure. Thanks.

[sheila]

Steve, unfortunately, no. EFM will not do what you are describing here.

If you black list free@yahoo.com then that will take care of
anything-free@yahoo.com

but it will not match free-anything@yahoo.com.

However, free
will match free-anything.

That last one might be a bit too powerfull though, and you may end up catching a lot of false positives.

Basically, you have to be able to find the exact thing that you have listed contained within the address you are currently testing.

Is this any clearer than mud?

[steve3]

Originally posted by sheila:
Steve, unfortunately, no. EFM will not do what you are describing here.

That last one might be a bit too powerfull though, and you may end up catching a lot of false positives.

Is this any clearer than mud?
Thanks, maybe I'll give the UCE blacklists a try.

[ljvideo]

Originally posted by steve3:

Thanks, maybe I'll give the UCE blacklists a try.

I highly recommend using the blacklists. I tried them with logs enabled for a couple of months. Not once did they trash a non-spam email. In conjunction with the blacklists, I also use a whitelist so that mail that I'm expecting to get from some subscriber lists, etc. do not get trashed.