Your environment and mine are comparable. I just lost my battle with managment and had to move forward with an eManager solution on 3.52 Trend Suite. I setup W2K server front end with Interscan and eManager. I have to admit I spent about 1 week slowly implementing additional rules above what came out of the box and have seen a steady reduction in SPAM. Average daily traffic is between 1500-2500 emails and we are now filtering 250-400 emails / 24 hour period, I have yet to have anyone make me go through the filtered mail for something caught that should not have been. I spot check the filtered mail notifications I get for header info just to verify.
Since the original week I spend maybe 1-2 hours reading requests from users for additional word(s)/from domain tweeking and making any changes if I so decide. eManager lets you archive filtered mail after a rule change, archiving filters but also sends the mail to the original recepient. You can verify that you did not start pulling out huge amounts of valid mail with a rule misjudgment. The exception rules are great considering any of my sensitive word filters would greatly reduce the humor and knowledge gleaned from this list. I would only get posts from Trolls. **As an additional note Jim Schwartz's letter made it through from a hotmail account as a test. Great test though. I also don't deliver notifications to senders about blocked mail with just this list in mind. If you have any questions contact me. Allan -----Original Message----- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Trend e-manager opinions/caveats/complexity? Then I would tell my managers that the amount of time it would take would be zero. I'm not qualified to decide what is and is not business related. Although if you want to send what ever you consider porn to me, I'll let you know what I think. ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Smith, Ronni [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Trend e-manager opinions/caveats/complexity? > > Hence my last question as to the amount of time spent pulling the good > mail > out of the filtered mail. I am already aware of many of the pitfalls of > content filtering. Anything I didn't already know I learned through an > experiment with the Outlook rules which resulted in noticible amounts of > my > list mail moving into the junk folder. Something about "friggin lyris" and > "fsck" iirc. > > Ronni > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:39 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Trend e-manager opinions/caveats/complexity? > > > > > > Amen. The other consideration you should look at is will you > > filter e-mails > > that are really business related, but for whatever reason > > appear to be spam. > > This blocks legitimate mail and could possibly lose you > > business. Example: > <snipped> > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
