Microsoft's own email filtering

[Ken A]

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Wow. Take an expensive solution and add 3rd party software and an RBL,
but be sure to ask geeky questions of the rbl operators first. I'm sure
if you pay them, they'd tell you what the secret questions were...
Brilliant. And Exchange can even refuse connections from certain IPs!
That's powerful stuff.

Earthlink's antispam autoresponder sends from <> too, unless they've
fixed it, as do many other dumb autoresponders.

Ken
Pacific.Net



Julian Field wrote:
> But they do some lovely things. They block all incoming mail that
> doesn't have an envelope sender address. This of course includes error
> messages when people have spelled an email address incorrectly. But I
> guess everyone at Microsoft is so clever they never mistype addresses.
>
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>> Julian
>>
>> interesting indeed, and looking the the ppt presentation they've got
>> eTrust on the desktops!
>>
>> There stats are consistent with mine...percentage wise..
>>
>> More than 8.8 million external e-mail messages per day
>> More than 7.5 million e-mail messages blocked per day
>>
>>
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>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> If, for a laugh, you want to see what Micrsosoft run themselves in the
>>> way of virus/spam scanning, take a look at the first document listed at
>>> the bottom of
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=17DC35AD-8BA1-48B1-91F3-563313EE878A&displaylang=en
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's a real hoot :-)
>>>
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