My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam

Tue Oct 30 14:30:43 GMT 2007

Gosh, I must be really bad at this. Everyone is trying to switch us from 
home-managed to someone else managed;-)

Thanks for all the help so far (I think)

steve

Julian Field wrote:
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> As do the excellent Blacknight Solutions as well. They will happily
> have MailScanner scan your incoming mail feed for you, and at a
> fraction of the price of people like MessageLabs too. Give them a look
> at www.blacknight.ie or talk to Michele (nickname blacknight on the
> MailScanner IRC channel).
>
> I'm sure they could put a quote together for your boss.
>
> Matt Hayes wrote:
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>> Steve,
>>
>> Where I work we do email scanning for spam and viruses.  We do this
>> for quite a few clients.  We do it for email domains we host and we
>> do it for email domains that just want the scanning done then hand
>> it off to their host.
>>
>> Works quite well.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> Steve Campbell wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks, Martin.
>>>
>>> I'm sort of trying to convince whoever is behind this that giving
>>> up control of our spam and virus checking is a bad idea. We're a
>>> newspaper, and actually publish two papers, a morning and evening
>>> paper. Not only do the reporters get information by email, but
>>> advertisers send ads in using email. The deadlines issue just
>>> won't fly with offsite email management. At least that's what
>>> I've been trying to tell them everytime this crops up.
>>>
>>> Either I'm doing a very bad job of handling this, or they just
>>> want me for something else around here. I fight this about once
>>> every 6 months.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Martin.Hepworth wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> Hmm looks like cotentcatcher ONLY does spam - no mention
>>>> whatsoever of viruses!
>>>>
>>>> -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic
>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From:
>>>>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>> [mailto:mailscanner- bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>>>>> Behalf Of Martin.Hepworth Sent: 30 October 2007 08:48 To:
>>>>> MailScanner discussion Subject: RE: My boss wants to try out
>>>>> a service provider for spam
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're looking for managed hosting the two I'd suggest are
>>>>> Postini (now owned by google) and Messagelabs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Never heard of content catcher.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fsl.com also do an appliance/software based installer that's
>>>>> based on MailScanner. Again this is managed by them so there
>>>>> little for you to worry about.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State
>>>>> Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From:
>>>>>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>>> [mailto:mailscanner- bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>>>>>> Behalf Of Steve Campbell Sent: 29 October 2007 20:28 To:
>>>>>> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info Subject: My boss wants
>>>>>> to try out a service provider for spam
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My boss informed me that we might want to try out a
>>>>>> provider of spam content blocking. Has anyone ever dealt
>>>>>> with ContentCatcher?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any ideas, experiences, and the like.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve Campbell
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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