OT: Exchange vs MS question

[Scott B. Anderson]

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex Neuman
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 5:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: OT: Exchange vs MS question
> 
> That's more difficult than it sounds, since the way Exchange accounts are set
> up you usually don't have the ability to change the outgoing server.
> 
> What you *could* do is tell one server that outgoing e-mail should go to a
> "smart host", in this case, one of the MailScanner servers. Either that or a
> "mailertable" like entry somewhere that states that mail to a particular
> domain should go to a particular MailScanner host.
> 
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 6:09 AM, mog wrote:
> 
> > Can't you get your users to send their outgoing mail through a MailScanner
> SMTP server, which can check the mail for infection and such, and then send
> it on to the Exchange server for final delivery?
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One other solution you may want to look into is Microsoft's own Forefront for Exchange.  I won't go into details but it can utilize more than one AV scan engine (I think 6 of the biggest are built in) as well as do content and file filtering between your users with (in Exchange terms) relatively small additional resource usage.  I used to use McAfee Groupshield for Exchange but found that the overhead was higher, had only one (McAfee) AV engine, and similar licensing fees and features.  After a long term trial I switched. Any way you look at it, you will want a AV/Anti-Spam solution for your Exchange server. 

Please note that basic anti-spam support is built-in to Exchange 2007 and 2010 via a mechanism very similar (read - near copy of) to SpamAssasin with sender confidence level (SCL) blocking and DNS RBL support. 

Scott Anderson