My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam

Tue Oct 30 14:48:11 GMT 2007

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We're just trying to ensure that even if you are pushed down the
out-sourcing track, you still end up with a decent service for your
users. I hope you get to keep it all in-house, but the PHBs don't
always see it our way :-(

Jules.

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 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: 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:
>
>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- MailScanner mailing list
>>>>>>>> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>>>>> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Before posting, read
>>>>>>>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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> Jules
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Jules

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University of Southampton
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