Strength of MailScanner vs w/SpamAssasin

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

It depends on your userbase. We are a hosting company, so we get all types
:)
I find it mildly amusing that our support@ email address attracts spam and
viruses.........

With regards to catchalls and common aliases .. ... We would advise people
to use an alternative, but you cannot force them.
The "bucket" aliases cause headaches, as you get loads of junk to addresses
such as john at blacknight.ie (we don't have a John .. never have and probably
never will). If the user does not exist the email gets dropped and people
are less likely to get upset about those "lovely" virus warnings to
non-existent users...

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
Hosting, co-location and domain registration

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Mark Steudel
> Sent: 16 April 2004 02:37
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Strength of MailScanner vs w/SpamAssasin
>
>
> Thanks for everyone's reply, I'll probably try and install SA and
> give it a
> go.
>
> "Stop users using "catchall" email accounts or info@ etc. (not MS
> related I
> know.. )"
>
> For those of you running or providing support in company IT
> departments. How
> do stop your marketing department from insisting on having these catchall
> accounts, and how do you go about transitioning end users (internet users)
> from using something like support to something not catch allish. I don't
> think we have support@ anywhere on our website, but it's so ingrained in
> people that everyone sends stuff there. We've put a responder in place to
> direct them to our web form, but have the rest of you done?
>


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