We provide service mostly to business, many of them run their own
email servers.
So we are looking for a transparent outgoing email filter
Any sugestions?
Sent from my Motorola Startac...
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:25 PM, "Josh Luthman"
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> I use Gmail for ISPs. Minimal support.
>
> On 6/26/09, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote:
>> Email? We don't need no stinkin' email!
>>
>> We gave up email hosting. We were sending invoices via email and
>> lots of
>> the customers were never getting them because they never used the
>> email
>> address we gave them, they were mostly using Yahoo online! The user
>> accounts were jammed packed of just junk mail and such because they
>> never
>> grabbed mail from their box. Well! After some thought, we stopped
>> giving
>> out email addresses and giving them a list of free email sites such
>> as Gmail
>> and yahoo. ("In an effort to keep our prices as friendly as we
>> can.....
>> blah, blah, blah.....) We grandfathered the existing users and
>> hosted them
>> but eventually they all moved to the free providers also. So now
>> what? No
>> more support calls on the email, I can tell ya that! More than
>> half of our
>> trouble tickets went away. I no longer have to recite to grandma
>> how to
>> reenter her user name and password just because the grandkids wiped
>> it out
>> of her incredimail. YES!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-
>> boun...@wispa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer
>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:33 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What are you guys doing for email these days? I LOVE my setup for
>> it's
>> reliability, ease of use etc.
>>
>> Hacked customer accounts and virus's are killing me though. We
>> don't catch
>> things until 100,000s of messages go out and we get black listed.
>> This has
>> now happened 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years.
>>
>> My server admins aren't coming up with a solution to this other
>> than to
>> limit cc's to 25 per message. We did that once before and my phone
>> rang off
>>
>> the hook because people can't send jokes to their friends.....
>>
>> The other thing that makes it hard is that the log files that I get
>> (up to
>> 40 megs per day!) don't list the authenticated sender, only the reply
>> address. So I see tens of thousands of messages from a user that's
>> not even
>>
>> mine (faked info). sigh
>>
>> We use Courier MTA.
>>
>> My thought is to set the server to allow a max of 1000 messages per
>> day per
>> user. And to somehow make the log file ONLY send me the number of
>> messages
>> received per a user, and the number sent, user name and ip addy of
>> all those
>>
>> sending. Twice now I've asked about that idea and gotten no
>> response from
>> the server admins.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> laters,
>> marlon
>>
>>
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