Commercial Product

[Steve Mason]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Schmitt, Andy C - CIDD-2 [mailto:acschmitt at BPA.GOV]
>Sent: March 24, 2004 2:56 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Commercial Product
>
>
>I thought my response would be of interest to anyone else who had to
justify an expensive server with MailScanner to managers who read about the
latest low->cost toasters or outsourced services to hit the trade magazines.
>
>Short answer: Whenever my managers ask me this, I tell them, "because we
own it and we know what it's doing."
>
>
>Long answer:
>
>1. In-house rule-writing can provide rules tailored to the organization. I
have a rule that will whitelist replies to employees based on the fact that
most >mail clients will put the human name (routing and all) in a reply to
the address. If a new kind of spam comes flooding in, I can probably react
faster and

--snip--

Excellent response Andy!  Think I'll file this away for the next time my
bosses want to buy a toaster, or <gasp> McAfee anti-spam for the desktops.

My main employer uses a third party service for anti-spam and anti-virus,
and while they do a fairly good job, I still have to scurutinize their web
portal looking for false positives, which happen regularly. I often have to
remind them that since we are an accounting firm, in the middle of tax
season, a score of 3.2 on the text "additional income" is a *bad* idea :) so
far this year I've had end-users point out virus infected attachments before
our third party service, or the lame AV software on our Exchange server knew
anything about it.

I use MailScanner on my own domain, and for a non-profit organization that I
volunteer admin for, and it's doing a fantastic job!




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