search exchange mbx for spam?

2013-04-12 Thread Jimmy Tran
My client said he heard of some software that can search mailboxes, find spam, give you a dashboard on what it found and prompt to delete it or not. Is anyone familiar with such software for Exchange 2003? Jimmy --- To manage subscriptions click here: or send an email to with the body

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-21 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
the plugin. So for example, they start getting spam from some.address.they.do.not.k...@somewhere.com. They tag it for spam, but keep getting them every day. I go onto the barracuda and discover it's an address they whitelisted at some point in time. With our industry (Edu), it usually turns out

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-21 Thread Kurt Buff
The version of the plugin we have doesn't offer whitelisting, AFAICT, just marking ham and spam - the white/black lists are only available through the web interface. I've never found the Outlook Junk Mail Filter to be useful, and in conjunction with the Barracuda's addin and web interface it just

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-20 Thread Ransom, Charles A
Interesting We were looking (a looong while ago) at Trend Micro for just that reason - a Outlook addin. Other than Barracuda, does anyone know of any other Anti-Spam server that has an Outlook Addin? This is just in case the question comes back up... KB We're using a Barracuda 400

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Ens
: Interesting We were looking (a looong while ago) at Trend Micro for just that reason - a Outlook addin. Other than Barracuda, does anyone know of any other Anti-Spam server that has an Outlook Addin? This is just in case the question comes back up... KB We're using a Barracuda 400

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Just to be clear... The Barracuda addin for Outlook doesn't categorize anything on its own - the appliance does that. What the addin does is allow the user to mark emails that get past the Barracuda as either ham or spam. If marked as spam, it sends the email to the deleted items folder

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-12 Thread Tim Evans
because I don't have to deal with the code. It's a pretty solid piece of work if you stick with the stable version. ...Tim From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what spam or edge server are you using

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Alfano
; if you have the need. We have not found any other product that can do what they do, at any price. We have a pretty good success rate of stopping spam but phishing is another story. Steven Alfano The Rockefeller University salf...@rockefeller.edu From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-12 Thread Jimmy Tran
spam or edge server are you using? We use Sendmail (http://www.sendmail.com) for edge / AntiSpam / Antivirus; Symantec Endpoint for servers and clients, and Symantec SMSMSE on Mailbox Servers. I don't know price but the Symantec is part of bundle package and very reasonable. Sendmail

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Ens
Vipre - GFI. Works pretty decent. Great technical support. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jimmy Tran ji...@jt-solution.com wrote: I’m looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern since that has

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Adm
ji...@jt-solution.comwrote: I’m looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern since that has not been decided on yet. ** ** Thanks, ** ** Jimmy ** ** --- To manage subscriptions

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Damien Solodow
We use Brightmail (aka Symantec Messaging Gateway) and it's quite nice. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: what spam

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Hart
[mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: what spam or edge server are you using? I'm looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern since

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Johnson
). Has a few issues with multiple domains. Steve Hart Network Administrator 503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: what spam or edge server are you using

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Quite happy with my Barracuda. On Mar 11, 2013 11:17 AM, Jimmy Tran ji...@jt-solution.com wrote: I’m looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern since that has not been decided on yet

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Ralph Smith
Tran [mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: what spam or edge server are you using? I'm looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jimmy Tran ji...@jt-solution.com wrote: I’m looking for some opionoins on what to use as a spam/edge server for Exchange 2010. What do you all recommend or use? Budget is a concern since that has not been decided on yet. We're using a Barracuda 400 - it's

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Jimmy Tran
Any recommendations for ones that are free if not near free? I'd like to have something hosted on my servers for long term testing purposes? From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Tim Evans
I use assp. It's a very powerful, but complex, open source program available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp. ...Tim From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:ji...@jt-solution.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what spam or edge server are you using

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
, March 11, 2013 7:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what spam or edge server are you using? I use assp. It's a very powerful, but complex, open source program available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp. ...Tim --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
piece of ware, only shame is that its Perl. If I never have to work with Perl again, its to soon:) jlc From: Tim Evans Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 7:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what spam or edge server are you using? I use assp. It's

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Dude, you called him out? That was not a particularly pleasant ordeal... From: Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Paging Mr. Espinola... Mr. Espinola

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I still chat with him on FB, but have not seen him here in a long time... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 11:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Paging Mr. Espinola... Mr

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Paging Mr. Espinola... Mr. Espinola to the white courtesy phone, please... Kurt --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 11:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Paging Mr. Espinola... Mr. Espinola to the white courtesy phone, please... Kurt On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote

RE: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
From: Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Don't know anything about that - all I know is that he touted it for quite a while, and I actually looked it over before settling on Maia Mailguard. Bringing

Re: what spam or edge server are you using?

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
that has spoiled me:) jlc From: Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what spam or edge server are you using? Don't know anything about that - all I know is that he touted it for quite a while

Spam relay problem

2013-02-04 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
: lvelizy-156-45-11-122.w80-11.abo.wanadoo.fr[80.11.32.122] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1359697244 X-Barracuda-URL: http://securemail1.brgeneral.org:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Orig-Rcpt: vacacu2ped...@gmail.com X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 69.2.47.143 X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at brgeneral.org X-Barracuda-Spam

RE: Spam relay problem

2013-02-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
. But be aware a lot of so called legit email will spoof your from address. For example amazon.com order confirmations do, or at least used to last time I looked. From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Spam

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-14 Thread Carol Fee
I agree. We've been using the physical 300 for 5 years - no complaints. CFee -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? I had the physical 300 model for 5

SUSPECT: RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-14 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
We use SonicWall for anti-spam and it has been great. We looked at Barracuda and a couple of cloud services as well as the SonicWall, but they were all significantly more expensive with no additional wins to make the added expenditure worth it (in our opinion). If you have the budget in place

Re: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-14 Thread Peter Johnson
Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? I had the physical 300 model for 5 years or so and have had the virtual appliance version of that model for 2+ years and can't say I've experience

Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Benedict
Just wondering if there's anti-spam recommendations for either appliances or standalone server based software (we need it to front-end a mail router ahead of Exchange)? I currently use Barracuda and while I feel it represents a good value, I'm interested in a next-step solution that allows

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm rather fond of Vircom's ModusGate solutions. -Original Message- From: Mike Benedict [mailto:benedic...@palmer.edu] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anti-spam choices in general? Just wondering if there's anti-spam recommendations

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Benedict
Too rich for my budget at ~3000 users. Any less expensive alternatives come to mind? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? I'm rather fond

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Tom Miller
. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? I'm rather fond of Vircom's ModusGate solutions. -Original Message- From: Mike Benedict

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Ellis, John P.
Have you looked at the offering from Clearswift? Linux based appliances and I think also available as a soft-appliance? John -Original Message- From: Mike Benedict [mailto:benedic...@palmer.edu] Sent: 11 January 2013 16:13 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices

Re: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Kevin Lundy
Admin Issues Subject: Anti-spam choices in general? Just wondering if there's anti-spam recommendations for either appliances or standalone server based software (we need it to front-end a mail router ahead of Exchange)? I currently use Barracuda and while I feel it represents a good value

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Shanks, Brandon C
Ditto. Brandon From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anti-spam choices in general? We love our Iron Ports ... On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich

Re: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Ens
ninja On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Mike Benedict benedic...@palmer.eduwrote: Just wondering if there's anti-spam recommendations for either appliances or standalone server based software (we need it to front-end a mail router ahead of Exchange)? I currently use Barracuda and while

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Theochares, George
Same here From: Shanks, Brandon C [mailto:bran...@utdallas.edu] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? Ditto. Brandon From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 10:24 AM To: MS-Exchange

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Bolser, Scott
Proofpoint has a great solution and includes the ability to define custom rules. -Scott -Original Message- From: Mike Benedict [mailto:benedic...@palmer.edu] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anti-spam choices in general? Just wondering

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Benedict
no interest in. Rate limiting has always been inconsistently applied and support has no idea why. Inconsistent message log search results (which is really annoying when you're trying to help a user find their e-mail). Seemingly simplistic (and obvious) spam is often not blocked (e.g. porn e-mails

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Hart
We're using Spam Titan. It's worked pretty well for our small organization. (100 mailboxes) From: Mike Benedict [benedic...@palmer.edu] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam choices in general? Too

RE: Anti-spam choices in general?

2013-01-11 Thread N Parr
I had the physical 300 model for 5 years or so and have had the virtual appliance version of that model for 2+ years and can't say I've experience much of what you mention below. Everyone's spam is going to be subjective though. I've always had it in global mode. Just mark a few hundred spam

OT: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Steve Hart
Sorry for the non-Exchange post, but it is email related. We're getting a lot of spam from .info domains. Even though most of it is filtered out, a couple of executive level users are seeing 3 or 4 a week get through. The only way to block all of these with our anti-spam system is to block all

RE: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Osborne, Richard
-Original Message- From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Spam from .info domains Sorry for the non-Exchange post, but it is email related. We're getting a lot of spam from .info domains. Even though most

RE: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
I have a couple of customers that use .info as their primary domains. I personally could not block that TLD. -Original Message- From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Spam from .info domains Sorry

RE: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
: Osborne, Richard [mailto:richard.osbo...@wth.org] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam from .info domains I have been seeing the same thing for the past week or two. They were all coming from Romanian IP ranges. I was a bit scared to block all

Re: OT: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com wrote: Sorry for the non-Exchange post, but it is email related. We're getting a lot of spam from .info domains. Even though most of it is filtered out, a couple of executive level users are seeing 3 or 4 a week get through

RE: OT: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Kurt raises a valid point. 3-4 per week out of how many emails? Stopping spam is like an exponential graph. The closer you get to stopping 100 percent of the spam the more legit email you will block. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday

RE: OT: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Steve Hart
I understand this argument and agree completely. Unfortunately the particular people involved are more interested in seeing their spam go down than they are in missing the occasional important email. I'm also getting complaints that their spam reports are too long. Makes no sense at all to me

Re: OT: Spam from .info domains

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt Buff
You'll need to point out to them that approaching zero percent spam comes at a cost of rejecting email from real paying customers. Ask them if they've ever taken a statistics course as part of their MBAs, and whether they understand the relationship between type 1 and type 2 errors - trying

RE: Test Inbound Spam

2012-11-07 Thread Steve Goodman
Hiya, You could try the GTUBE Test http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/ Steve From: Tanya Pinetti [mailto:tpine...@outlook.com] Sent: 06 November 2012 22:55 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Test Inbound Spam I'm evaluating a new anti-spam / anti-virus vendor and need to send test

Re: Test Inbound Spam

2012-11-06 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
Well, you could create an email account, then use it to sign to every site with mail lists that you can find. The discount ones, group buy and the like, along with forums of any type, are sure to generate a lot of spam . Of course, use an address / domain that you can easily dispose later

RE: Test Inbound Spam

2012-11-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
No sure what your current setup is or which you are testing but most anti-spam software will let you get it into a test mode of some sorts. For example you can set a Barracuda to 'tag' the subject line of messages it identifies as spam. When I test a new rule on ours I set it to 'tag

Re: Am I sending out SPAM?

2012-10-02 Thread Kurt Buff
That looks like option b). Kurt On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Kelsey, John jckel...@drmc.org wrote: Exchange 2007 all patched up hosting a handful of domains. I’m seeing several suspicious emails in the queue viewer that seem to indicate my server is either a) sending out spam messages

RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Eldridge, D K,
just this. Anyone running a barracuda have this version running? thanks From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options? Second that ! CFee From: Richard Stovall

Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
] *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:56 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options? ** ** Second that ! ** ** *CFee* *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:00 PM *To:* MS-Exchange

RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Eldridge, D K,
Thanks Richard, my thinking is the same about Vipre on exchange. It’s certainly weird that since our decision to finally move to 2010 and get spam filtering off the exchange box that Barracuda includes an agent to put it back on the mail server. Not necessarily a bad thing but I will wait

RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Serebin
Hello All, I run and manage a # of Barracuda units (been a Barracuda partner since 2006) and would not recommend using the agent (too new don’t believe in this approach). I would suggest you smtp relay mail via Barracuda for inbound and outbound scanning (it’ll also do spam

Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Richard Stovall
the various anti-spam settings honed well enough, that IT moderates all incoming quarantined messages. The total number of those messages amounts to 20 / week, so it's not a big deal. That posture, in and of itself, eliminates a lot of hassle for IT since we don't manage a Barracuda client for each e

Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-03-02 Thread Kurt Buff
and notificatiion. Several small reasons for my dissatisfaction: o- Just because you mark an email as non-spam with the Outlook plugin, it doesn't mean you want to whitelist the sender. o- Yes, for Bayesian scoring to work you want to be have 200 each of ham and spam. Why doesn't the Barracuda keep

RE: internal spam

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Davies
All very valid points. I'd add to the mix that the OP's endpoint protection strategy probably wants some looking at. If you regularly fall victim to phishing attacks that successfully infect hosts, then spam is one very small part of your worries - DLP and other such issues may be even higher

RE: internal spam

2012-02-27 Thread Randal, Phil
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: internal spam The accounts have been compromised…usually via a phishing attempt. So the entire process of the internal attack is with a valid authenticated acct. We have our SMTP services set to be authenticated…the problem is looking for a process that we

RE: internal spam

2012-02-27 Thread Randal, Phil
Admin Issues Subject: RE: internal spam You need to restrict which boxes are allowed to talk SMTP to your SMTP relays. Should only be your exchange servers and a few other boxes, as needed. It’s worth packet-sniffing the SNMP traffic to these boxes (which will identify the spambots if they’re

RE: internal spam

2012-02-25 Thread Glen Johnson
Just an FYI. If you allow OWA to the iinterweb, these scammers have scripts that can spam via compromised accounts also. We’ve never allowed pop or imap outside but we had 2 accounts compromised and they each sent several thousand emails over a weekend. IIS logs ballooned during the time. Oh

RE: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Randal, Phil
Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk From: Sharp, Kevin [mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca] Sent: 24 February 2012 17:20 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: internal spam I'm wondering how people are dealing

RE: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Campbell, Rob
Maybe easier said than done if the clients are using POP. From: Randal, Phil [mailto:phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: internal spam The devil's in the detail? How are the infected boxes sending the emails? Via SMTP

RE: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Young, Darren
, Kevin [mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca]mailto:[mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca] Sent: 24 February 2012 17:20 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: internal spam I'm wondering how people are dealing with compromised accounts in Exchange sending large volumes of email...essentially an internal spam attack

RE: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Beckers, Shawn (IT Services)
. http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/monitoring-operations/preventing-autoreply-storms-part1.html From: Sharp, Kevin [mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 11:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: internal spam I'm wondering how people

Re: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Tavares
that is a legit address? From: Sharp, Kevin Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: internal spam I’m wondering how people are dealing with compromised accounts in Exchange sending large volumes of email…essentially an internal spam attack

RE: internal spam

2012-02-24 Thread Sharp, Kevin
helped, but like any good phishing attack, it only takes one bite to cause this problem. Thanks Kevin From: Mike Tavares [mailto:miketava...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: internal spam 1 question just to clear up some confusion

Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Stovall
to touch it to fix anything. I used to use Ninja, but only for A/V. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Eldridge, D K, d...@parkviewmc.com wrote: We are finally gearing up to move to 2010 from 2003. We currently use Sunbelts/GFI/ninja/vipre spam filter. It has worked fine over the years but now

Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-02-23 Thread Kurt Buff
IMHO, the Exchange server is the wrong place to do virus/spam filtering - it should be done with a mail gateway. We've recently installed a Barracuda box, and I suppose it's adequate. I'm not a fan of the way it handles user notifications and email scoring, but seems to do the job. I'm a bigger

RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-02-23 Thread Carol Fee
Second that ! CFee From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options? I like my Barracuda very, very much. It just flat works, and I only have to touch it to find something

RE: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options?

2012-02-23 Thread Don Andrews
Postini From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Moving to 2010 - Spam filter options? I like my Barracuda very, very much. It just flat works, and I only have to touch it to find something for someone

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Link
I'm not sure why Yahoo actually wants to disclose this... On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: http://visualize.yahoo.com/ and click the green buttons. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Link
Nevermind, actually clicking into it, it becomes more informative. Still, saying upfront how much SPAM your network generates isn't a huge selling point. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure why Yahoo actually wants to disclose

RE: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Chinnery, Paul
Thanks, Kurt. Kinda mesmerizing, isn't it? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Yahoo spam load http://visualize.yahoo.com/ and click the green buttons. --- To manage

RE: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Eric Wittersheim
I don't see anywhere that it is blocking SPAM generated by Yahoo. It could mean that it is blocking SPAM generated from other providers as well as their own network. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 9:17 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
Sympathy? Respect? On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 07:15, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why Yahoo actually wants to disclose this... On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: http://visualize.yahoo.com/ and click the green buttons. --- To

RE: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-02 Thread Nicholas Turner
My reading of it was how much incoming spam they were blocking, especially when you drill down, although I could well be wrong! From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 December 2011 15:17 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Yahoo spam load Nevermind, actually

RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-30 Thread Sobey, Richard A
September 2011 06:52 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam I also have customers that use the built-in and are generally satisfied. But is possible to find some step-by- step guidelines about tuning it ( or a third party even not free like IMF Companion) ? TIA Guido Elia

RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
I use xbl and sbl from spamhaus.org and have recipient filtering turned on and enable the junk mail filter in Outlook. I may get a spam message every other day (and I get hundreds of real emails every day, and my email addresses are posted on websites for easy harvesting). The next thing I

Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-29 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Hi all, I'm just playing around with the anti-spam in Exchange 2010 SP1. Has anyone used this, and actually found it worthwhile? I must have configured it wrong, because: * Mail that is not spam is being marked as such (Crackberry.com, MSExchange.com newsletters to name two). * Very

RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-29 Thread Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:34 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam Hi all, I'm just playing around with the anti-spam in Exchange 2010 SP1. Has

R: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-29 Thread HELP_PC
...@smithcons.com] Inviato: venerdì 30 settembre 2011 0.47 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam I've got probably a dozen customers that ONLY use the built-in antispam and they are happy with it. That's all I use here too (smithcons.com/smithcons.pro

tracking offending spam machines

2011-06-15 Thread Sharp, Kevin
Hi: If a machine gets infected and sends email as an authenticated exchange user, is there an easy way to identify where the offending machine is? Back in Exchange 2003 you could identify the Exchange version, client IP, etc. of connections but I've never found a way to do this with message

RE: tracking offending spam machines

2011-06-15 Thread farooq . ahmed
IIS logs can help -Original Message- From: Sharp, Kevin [mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: tracking offending spam machines Hi: If a machine gets infected and sends email as an authenticated exchange user

OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Al Rose
Hello all, Since a few days a random number of users are receiving Out of Office notifications from users that they didnt even send an email to... This does not look like spam as this comes from domain users. I have checked headers but they are empty. The other weird thing

RE: OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Wade
Some one validating e-mail addresses before sending spam? Dave Wade From: Al Rose [mailto:arose...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 11:11 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OOO issue looks like spam

Re: OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Al Rose
Could be but what puzzles me is that the message itself is a correct out of office notification. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Dave Wade dave.w...@stockport.gov.ukwrote: Some one validating e-mail addresses before sending spam? *Dave Wade* -- *From:* Al

RE: OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Young, Philip
Are any of the replies coming from delegates to the original recipients? We get that quite a lot. Regards Phil Young Global Messaging Admin _ From: Al Rose [mailto:arose...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 11:46 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OOO issue looks like spam

RE: OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Wade
Could be but what puzzles me is that the message itself is a correct out of office notification. Sorry I am asleep. If some one sends spam with a forged from address and Exchange generates an Out-Of-Office it will go to the forged from address. So if you users:- 1. Have out-of-office enabled 2

Re: OOO issue looks like spam

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Probably spam sent that is spoofing a return address of your users. Did multiple users get these around the same time? -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Al Rose arose...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Since a few days a random number of users are receiving Out of Office

anti-spam DNS requests

2011-01-20 Thread Osborne, Richard
Our anti-spam solution sits behind our firewall with the necessary ports open to the Internet. We recently changed from a Windows-based (Symantec Mail Security) to a Linux-based (SpamTitan) anti-spam system. My firewall guy is concerned that the number of DNS connections on the firewall

RE: anti-spam DNS requests

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Hutchings
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: anti-spam DNS requests Our anti-spam solution sits behind our firewall with the necessary ports open to the Internet. We recently changed from a Windows-based (Symantec Mail Security) to a Linux-based (SpamTitan) anti-spam system. My firewall guy is concerned

RE: anti-spam DNS requests

2011-01-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: anti-spam DNS requests Maybe it queries more RBLs, maybe it does root hint lookups rather than forwarders, it could be a lot of things depending on how it's configured vs. the old

RE: anti-spam DNS requests

2011-01-20 Thread Osborne, Richard
Our previous Windows-based anti-spam queried the same 3 RBLs, so I don't understand the increase. -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: anti-spam DNS requests

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