Actually, we are researching spam prevention products right now and have found that in fact there are _not_ a lot of such products (i.e. products that work the way Abby describes below, which also happens to be the way we are trying to accomplish this). There are are a lot of products that try to solve the spam problem, but few to none work in this way (which seems like the proper way to work in an enterprise environment).
I do have a question for people using client-side software: what happens when the user doesn't leave outlook open? Doesn't that mean that mail received while outlook is closed will not be filtered? One problem with server-side software is that (I think) the admins will have to maintain whitelists rather than the users, which is annoying. There is a lot of room for improvement in this software space. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brightmail There are a lot of such products. Google is your friend. I wonder if Brightmail has anything to do with recent Hotmail not so hot performance. -----Original Message----- From: ITS.Teams.TNT.Mailing-Lists.MailingList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Brightmail We're currently investigating anti-spam products and are particularly interested in any products that allow the end user the ability to have some control over what is considered spam and what is not. Ideally, we'd like a product that places suspected spam into a separate folder within the clients' mailboxes where they can then deal with it themselves. In addition, we'd like for this to be a completely server-based solution. I know some products allow you to append a phrase to the subject of suspected spam messages so that users can then set up rules in Outlook to move those messages to a folder, but we'd prefer to have this happen automatically (without user intervention). The only product I've seen so far that can do this is Brightmail. Is anyone using Brightmail for Exchange? Are there any other products out there that would accomplish our goals? We're running Exchange 2000 SP2 and have about 2000 users. Thanks, Abby _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
