RE: Content Filtering and User Statistics

[Abercrombie, Sherry]

Title: Message

We had to place a call since we were removing a Linux flavored filtering box that was in front of Exchange that we were paying monthly on.  When we did that, in testing we discovered it was relaying.  Another Exchange admin and I spent two weeks doing everything every Tech Net article we could find on relaying said to do and nothing was working.  We were beginning to think we didn't know how to read & follow instructions :)  It had the Microsoft tech stumped too for a while until I opened the port for him to telnet to the Exchange box, then he saw what we couldn't see because he was on the "outside looking in", that Mail Essentials was acting as the mail gateway, not Exchange.  Once we realized that, we got Mail Essentials configured & were good to go.  Fortunately during that time we weren't discovered by spammers, so we were never used as a spam relay.  (Been down that road once before Exchange was installed on a cc:Mail smtp gateway, it wasn't pretty.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Content Filtering and User Statistics

Just do add a different option, we use Praetor by CMS Connect. I have been very happy with the monitoring and flexibility, although I am not sure about reports. I can see the traffic, but would have to inquire about that aspect. I love the antispam layout, and options it provides.

 

I am surprised you had to call MS to know about the relaying. Exch is very vulnerable; there are not enough built in tools for 5.5 to do much about relays. Praetor slams that shut as well as ME.

-----Original Message-----
From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Content Filtering and User Statistics

Ditto here.  We've been very happy with the content filtering from Mail Essentials.  You can also setup company wide disclaimers on outgoing email & auto-replies for mailboxes, and set size limits on outgoing mail.  We would be very lost without this software. 

Word of advise though, if you are using Exchange to prevent relay's, you'll need to set this up in Mail Essentials because ME gets the smpt mail first and then passes it to exchange and exchange will accept it & relay it on.  This bit of info cost my organization a $245 call to Microsoft.

Sherry Abercrombie

-----Original Message-----
From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Content Filtering and User Statistics

I am very happy with Mail Essentials from GFI, and bought through Sunbelt. Just keep in mind it will not filter in-house messages, just what goes out through you Internet mail connector. It logs the mail as two CSV files, one for incoming, and one of outgoing, and I just import them in to Access or Excel, and then you can sort the data anyway you like.

John Majetic

-----Original Message-----
From: AdminLists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:03 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Content Filtering and User Statistics

To All:
 
I have been asked to begin filtering messages based on the content of the email or the content of the attachment.  I also need to be able to call up statistics on who sends the most mail, who gets the most mail, etc.  I am currently running Exchange 5.5. And have Antigen for Antivirus. 

Thanks for any suggestions,
Vince

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