My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam

Tue Oct 30 17:46:12 GMT 2007

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)

Yeah, back to your old paper route! :-)

If you have more than one domain, let them test it on a less used domain 
and see how it goes. Send it some spammy looking attachments that you've 
received, send it some real spam, etc. Try to whitelist something. Try 
to get funny filenames through like "this is the attachment i 
promised.doc.pdf". Then try to get it released from quarantine.
There's nothing like proof.

Ken

> 
> 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:
>>  
>>> 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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