You'll probably want to Blackhole obvious spam, and this will prevent 70% or more from even hitting the remaining filters.
Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:52 PM, John Hornbuckle < john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: > We had looked at them, but they were considerably more expensive than > Postini. And, frankly, we trusted the Google name. > > > > The archiving feature works great, and the service has never had a hiccup > (in terms of mail flow) since we started using it. No complaints there. > > > > Just too much mail going into quarantine that should be blocked outright. > > > > I’ve got the filter sensitivity set to 3, which is the middle of the road > between the lenient and aggressive ends. I would’ve thought that was okay. > I’ve just bumped it up to 4 for my own account to see if that makes a > difference. I don’t want to get too aggressive, though… > > > > > > > > John Hornbuckle > > MIS Department > > Taylor County School District > > 318 North Clark Street > > Perry, FL 32347 > > > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > > > > *From:* Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:43 PM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Postini Quarantine > > > > MX Logic. Now, they do have their good and bad moments, but nothing like we > experienced with Postini. > > > > Don Guyer > > Systems Engineer - Information Services > > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > > Devon, PA 19333 > > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > > don.gu...@prufoxroach.com > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:42 PM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Postini Quarantine > > > > And what are you using now? > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Don Guyer <don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> > wrote: > > We dumped Postini because of reasons such as this. > > > > Don Guyer > > Systems Engineer - Information Services > > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > > Devon, PA 19333 > > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > > don.gu...@prufoxroach.com > > > > *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:33 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* OT: Postini Quarantine > > > > I'm having rotten luck with Postini's junk mail filtering, and wondering if > I was the only one. Here's a typical example: > > > > > > Note that only 2 messages were blocked outright as spam, while a couple of > thousand were quarantined. When I look at the quarantined messages, they’re > very blatant spam--various colon cleansers and enlargers and what not. > > > > I’ve been working with Postini support, but am going around in circles with > them. They say everything is configured correctly, and they say something > about them making some changes on their end, and something else about me > submitting spam headers to them, blah bah. Nobody there seems to think this > is quite as problematic as I do. And granted, the junk isn’t making it into > my users’ inboxes—but it’s making it into their quarantine, and it takes > time to look over that (my personal daily quarantine summary generally has > 150 or so messages in it). > > > > So I’m wondering of those of you who use Postini… Do you see similar > results? Or do you have better luck having spam blocked outright? > > > > > > > > > > John Hornbuckle > > MIS Department > > Taylor County School District > > 318 North Clark Street > > Perry, FL 32347 > > > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > > > > NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications > to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the > public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to > public disclosure. > > > > NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications > to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the > public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to > public disclosure. > >
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