So, in skimming the docs....I found:
Outbound access through the FOPE service network is IP and
domain-restricted. All outbound email messages that pass
through the FOPE pool of outbound email servers are scanned
for viruses, matches to policy filter rules, and spam
characteristics before they are sent.
* Important:
Outbound email from domains listed in the FOPE Administration
Center will be delivered as normal by one outbound pool of IP
addresses. Email classified as possible junk will still be
delivered, but through a separate pool of IPs, known as the
higher risk delivery pool. This process ensures that junk email
generated by compromised computers or improperly configured
domains does not affect the flow of legitimate email.
So, does this mean users on our system that have their account configured to
forward to another service....as in most current and all former students
(Alumni get forwarding for life). That FOPE would not accept mail originating
from outside our mail system to these accounts?
This would be a problem...since the reason its so important to get Microsoft to
stop blocking emails from us, is so that we can send email to (current)
students that forward all their email to Microsoft. (As well as allow faculty
to send personal emails to friends and colleagues with hotmail accounts without
requiring them to get their own personal email account from say....hotmail.)
----- Original Message -----
> Even though we outsourced our email (Zimbra), landing on Microsoft's
> blocklist has been a chronic problem. But, apparently through our
> Microsoft Campus agreement we can get access to their "Forefront
> Online Protection for Exchange" (FOPE) service. Which they said
> will guarantee to keep us off of their blocklists.
>
> From what I understand its just a spam/virus filtering service...so
> we need to get our hosting provider to send all our email to them,
> and then deliver the emails we get back.
>
> Though apparently this is hard for them to do....and they think their
> own IronPort cluster would probably be just as effective. Except
> that after a couple of years of talking about it, they still haven't
> done it.
>
> I'm wondering what people know about FOPE, and how well it works,
> doesn't work, etc. And, how to do it for a Zimbra environment.
>
> FWIW, our on campus smtp has always been doing filtering through
> clamav (which has the SANESECURITY filters, which on occasion does
> stop a compromised host sending phishing emails) and about a year
> and half ago I threw in spamassassin on the outgoing (though that
> has turned into a quite a bit of work in dealing with false
> positives, without increasing the flow of false negatives....people
> on campus can't seem to write non-spammy looking emails) Which is
> why their doing outbound spamfiltering has always been so
> controversial.
>
> ========================
>
> MS FOPE link:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/forefront-online-protection-for-exchange.aspx
>
> FOPE User Guide:
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715254.aspx
>
>
> --
> Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems
> Administrator
> For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally
> Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS)
> Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102
> Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected]
> Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> This list provided by the League of Professional System
> Administrators
> http://lopsa.org/
>
--
Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator
For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally
Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS)
Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102
Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators
http://lopsa.org/
