RE: [10] [IMail Forum] Newbie needs help on SPAM

[Kevin Gillis]

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Hi Dave and Lim,   I completely agree.  Outsourcing or at least implementing as a service where small, but frequent incremental updates are delivered to your server in near real-time and automatically makes sense given the climate for spam (and viruses).   that's essentially what we did for our (ipswitch) corporate solution and we have seen false positives go to 1 in 500,000.  updates occur as frequently as every 10 minutes (24x7x365) and we just don't have to deal with it anymore.     <miniplug> - customers who are running imail secure server or ics premium have said that spam has all but fallen off the radar as a time consumer  - they seem to be very happy with it.   it catches spam in 30 languages with human editors also looking at it (one in japan, one in england, 2 in US)</mini plug>   bye for now,   kg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:27 PM To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [10] [IMail Forum] Newbie needs help on SPAM Hi, Lim-   If you have no tech support people, you probably should outsource spam control. It's pretty much hands-on to do it right.   Having said that, there are some gateway products, and Declude interfaces directly into IMail. Declude has gotten pretty expensive for new users, though.   -Dave Doherty  Skywaves, Inc.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Lim Siew Yin To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: [10] [IMail Forum] Newbie needs help on SPAM Hi ppl,   We're still using IMAIL 7.5 and I need help in getting an affordable yet reliable SPAM filter... (I hope there is such a thing). Since we have 0 Tech support personnel.... I am hoping for a user-friendly solution. I know IMAIL has some sort of built-in SPAM filter... but that works by manually maintaining a filter LIST .. is that so? (I am guessing here)   Again... we have 0 Tech support ppl.... so noone is gonna maintain the list... which is why I am hoping there is a solution where by it retrieves/updates the filter list automatically.. something like an anti-virus program.  Is this how SPAM filters works?   Or does it always need a tech guy/gal to maintain it?   We are a small company... we dont have a lot of emails (less than 1000 emails per day - 70% of them SPAM...)   Sorry if my question is too noob... I don't have much tech resources to turn to.  Any help/info is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.     Lim.