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Anti-Spam

Review of GFI MailEssentials

January 12, 2010

GFI MailEssentials is an anti-spam and email management product from GFI Software delivering 99% accuracy for spam detection and email management tools for Exchange Server environments.

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I used to do some work for a customer who’s idea of running an evaluation of a new system was to pick one product, put it in, then if it sort of worked good enough to just buy that one. Over the long term some of these choices turned out to be less than ideal.
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Backscatter Spam and Exchange Server 2007

April 30, 2009

Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article on protecting both yourself and others from backscatter spam. Backscatter spam is also known as NDR spam and is the result of address spoofing combined with spam addressed to invalid recipients. As an Exchange administrator you want to be sure you aren’t contributing to the problem with your own email server. Read the article to find out how to avoid send NDR spam to others.

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Articles about Exchange Server and spam prevention

February 18, 2009

I’ve written some more articles recently at AllSpammedUp.com. One of the interesting things about writing these articles is that is has forced me to take a deeper look at Exchange Server 2007 antispam features and consider their effectiveness. My view at the moment is that with the right attention and configuration Exchange Server 2007 can [...]

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Spam quarantine features in Exchange Server 2007

December 27, 2008

With the right configuration and ongoing tuning the built in Exchange Server 2007 anti-spam features can be effective in many environments. One thing I’m not a fan of though is the quarantine feature. You can read more about it in my latest post to AllSpammedUp.com here.
Link: Managing spam quarantine for Exchange Server 2007

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How to configure Exchange Server 2007 Connection Filtering with SpamHaus

December 15, 2008

Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article on the Exchange 2007 Connection Filter agent, and I walk through the steps to configure it to use SpamHaus as an IP Block list provider.
A correctly configured Connection Filter agent saves the Exchange administrator a lot of time by avoiding the need to manually maintain a large list [...]

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