30 are getting through, but how many are you blocking?  If you are only 
blocking 10 and letting in 30 you need to address it. But if you are blocking 
5000 a day and only letting in 30 you are doing about as good as you can.

Do you have your Ironport set up to check RBL's like spamhaus?  That is a must, 
they react much faster than you can. And dig into those IP addresses a little 
more, are they coming from commercial mailing houses....then you need to block 
the whole range, not just the single IP addy.

From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Unsolicited emails from mailing groups

Hi All,

Just wondering what you folks do to combat unsolicited emails from Mailing 
lists.
We have Exchange Server 2007 Sp1 with 2 x Clustered C150 Ironport.

Our CEO and executives are getting about 30 unsolicited email's a day. At the 
moment they collect this mail and then hand over to me after about 5-6 weeks 
for me to deal with.

This is what I have don't to try and limit these unsolicited and marketing 
emails.

*         On the Ironport device I have tried to block the senders via IP and 
domain name.

*         Created a mail flow policy to mark marketing mails and deliver these 
mails to a separate mailbox via a transport rule.

*         Exchange transport rule to deliver emails containing certain 
wording's to  a separate mailbox.

*         Continue to unsubscribe the user from various mail lists.

But it appears that I am just going around in circles. The problem is how do I 
put a stop to this?

Any thoughts?



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