Imgate should work fine to fix this, we just didn't want to install another box, and have to maintain that as well so we went with the Postini service.
Regards, Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Jones, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] address harvesting... > wow, sounds like a sales pitch to me... just kidding... > > we looked into that before and into brightmail, but we really like to manage > things locally. > > is imgate something that would help for this? > > jim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Newland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:27 PM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] address harvesting... > > > > This was a HUGE problem with us as well. I got tired of blocking the > > specfiic IP's at the FW, so we signed up with a service called POSTINI. > The > > block Harvesting (dictionary attacks), spam, and viruses. All of the > levels > > are configurable via web interface, and the users can also set their > custom > > levels. when something is quarentined, the user can go and view the > > quarentined message, etc, etc. They also do automatic spooling (for > > outages), notifications, and a bunch more. > > > > Best of all, it isn't very expensive, and it has cut down on about 40% of > > our traffic to the mail server! > > > > www.postini.com > > > > Jason > > > > www.areatech.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Jones, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:14 PM > > Subject: [IMail Forum] address harvesting... > > > > > > > What is the best way to combat email harvesters? > > > > > > We are getting over 50,000 attempts a day at sending mail to random > > account > > > names, probably for harvesting. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > > to be removed from this list. > > > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
