Re: Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam

- Update-Safelist takes the addresses added by Outlook users to their Safe Senders List and populates it in AD. This allows the Hub/Edge Transport servers to use them.
You can verify by sending an email from an address that is on a user's Safe Senders List and looking at the antispam headers. You can also look at the agent logs and determine if any addresses on users' Safe Senders list are being blocked:
Exchange Server 2007: Managing And Filtering Anti-Spam Agent Logs
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/04/managing-and-filtering-anti-spam-agent.html

- Note, the Update-SafeList command should be run on a schedule to continue updating. You can also use Scheduled Tasks to accomplish this.
How to Configure Safelist Aggregation
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998280(EXCHG.80).aspx

- Updating multi-valued attributes/properties like BypassedSenders or BypassedSenderDomains:
HOW TO Update multi-valued attributes in PowerShell
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/02/how-to-update-multi-valued-attributes.html

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"Brian" <user34@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uNotEBdlIHA.5956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I think i found this problem, this crazy Powershell only remembers the last entered command. So you need to keep all 50,000 people who you whitelisted in a spread***, and when you add new ones, you have to reenter them all. What a crock!

"Peter Lawton" <DevNull@fakedomain> wrote in message news:OA3pc3YlIHA.944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sorry I can't be more help, but I've never actually used it myself, I only know what it's meant to do in theory

Peter Lawton

"Brian" <user34@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23FD6f0YlIHA.1164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, I was looking at that. But for some reason, when I enter in the compand "UPDATE-SAFELIST" it doesnt work in the powershell. I am going absolutly crazy with the command line stuff not working. I add users to the whitelist in the command shell, and add domains and they still get flagged as spam. The technet docs are very thin and basic. I love Exchange 2007 and at first I was recommending everyone to jump on it, but the lack of documentation beyond just the vanilla commands are extremely lacking, especially on the anti-spam and powershell stuff. I know this is just because SP1 just came out.

For instance, even if update-safelist did work, how in the HECK can i verify it? I bought the only book on SP1 available by Jim McBee. Do you know how HE suggests to verify it? Go and make yourself a GMAIL account, then send your domain an email with it. GRRR! I mean think about it? Is that how you check if you made a new user account on the domain? You send an email to the user? Heck no! You would never do that in a million years. I have also been trying to find documenation on how to print out my whitelist I put into the powershell. I even posted it on Experts Exchange for the highest amount of points, no one could answer it. I mean, if you do all this programming in the powershell, there should be a way to print out the list and verify what is in there. It is really like flying blind from my experience so far.

I have whitelisted users several times, still to get mail flagged as spam by them. I will probably pay to have a ticket open for MS today because of it.

Thanks for your help! I will continue to try to get my update-safelist to work!

when I do:

update-safelist

I get:

cmdlet update-safelist at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Identity:




"Brian" <user34@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O88CspPlIHA.2368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I migrated from Exchange 2003 with GFI antispam to Exchange 2007 just using the built in spam.

In GFI there is a setting that remembers everyone the clients sends to, and puts them on a whitelist. Is this feature available in 2007?

How can I show and verify my complete whitelist? I have added using the command shell, but it is not work for domains, nor regular users.

Help! and Thanks!



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