I have to agree to both points. That's why we setup a cheep Xwall box in front of our Exchange servers. We have it using several lists and some custom filters to tag spam before delivering it to exchange. Our users can then use the tags to create server side filters for their mailboxes as THEY wish.
While I would love to not have the spam traffic hit my network at all, the only effective way to do that is with the blacklists in blocking mode. Doing that is just not acceptable in a business environment. On the other hand, my Exchange 2003 lab server that receives my personal mail has those RBLs turned on in full blocking mode. My main personal account was getting about 200+ spams a day and maybe 5-10 real mails before I turned on the RBL blocking in Exchange 2003, since then it has cut it to maybe 10 spams still making it to my box, and frankly if some real mail bounces, my friends and family know how to get me another way. ----------------------- Miles Holt, MCP Network Engineer Summit Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-303-0426 ----------------------- "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune" -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 RBL Unfortunately, they're about the only method that really works. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Matteson Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 RBL RBL's are not a good thing. They tend to jam legit users/companies in with the spammers. A couple of them just went poof here recently and marked the world as spammers. Do you really want to trash your communications link that way? John Matteson Geac Corporate ISS (404) 239 - 2981 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Clishe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:36 PM Posted To: Exchange Discussion List Conversation: Exchange 2003 RBL Subject: Exchange 2003 RBL Has anyone used the RBL feature in Exchange 2003? How effective is it? What is / are the most reliable list to use? Thanks Jason _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
