Hi Eric, This is a good question that I don't know the answer to. Can you cross post it to the general Google Apps discussion group?
http://groups.google.com/group/apps-discuss There seem to be a few threads on this topic. Here's the help center entry on email IP whitelisting: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60751 Are you in a position where you can try a percentage of your users or even a few test accounts to see what the effect of IP whitelisting is on the spam volume? -alex On Feb 1, 11:48 am, "Eric Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many people out there are using the the Email gateway? > (http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60730) For those you > that are, are you doing your own spam scanning and not using Google's? I'm > worried that the gateway systems are going to get flagged as spammers very > quickly after launch. Let's say we have 5 machines that's are set as MX > records for our domain and we get a million messages per day and about 95% > of those are spam. From Google's perspective, our domain is receiving 950K > spams/day from these 5 IPs -- so I'm assuming that those IPs are going to > get throttled and/or blocked unless there is some way to tell Gmail that > those machines are our gateway systems. I sent a note to technical support, > but basically all I got back was that I could whitelist the servers. I > could do that (although I don't know if the whitelist actually applies to > connection throttles), but then *nothing* would get marked as spam. Someone > out there must have run into this already, so I thought I'd throw it out to > the group. > > -Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
