What level of time is involved from the admin side with that? 10k messages a
week, say 5 seconds each, that's a hair under 14 hours a week. That's
awefully time intensive.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendel, Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: SPAM blockin software recommendations.....
> 
> 
> Out in the dmz we use qmail with a loop to spamassassin, for 
> inbound traffic to our internal Exchange organization.
> 
> If the email is ranked as spam, the envelope gets rewritten 
> and sent inbound to a quarantine mailbox which gets reviewed 
> daily by staff.  We're grabbing over 10,000 spams per week, 
> with less than one (1) false positive per week (yes, that is  
> over 1/10,000 or better than .9999 of reliability!)
> 
> And with the Bayesian filters - 
> http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html - enabled by default, 
> spamassassin automatically learns what is spam for our 
> enterprise, and what isn't.  Not to mention that we can and 
> do train the filters specifically for both non-spam (ham) and spam.
> 
> Our users love us.  And we love both qmail and spamassassin.  
> Greatest thing since (insert your own metaphor here.)
> 
> Jesse Wendel
> Sr. Technical Systems Analyst
> Primary Messaging/DNS Administrator
> www.pse.com
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:21 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: SPAM blockin software recommendations.....
> > 
> > 
> > There are lists of them at http://www.slipstick.com and 
> > http://www.mail-resources.com.
> > 
> > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
> > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dugas
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:36 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: SPAM blockin software recommendations.....
> > 
> > 
> > Good Morning,
> > 
> > I am currently using Trend eManager to block SPAM(in trial version 
> > still), it is not appearing to be very effective. What are 
> some other 
> > options for blocking SPAM?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
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