I am currently
having some huge SPAM related issues related to our Imail 6.0 server and I was
hoping someone could provide some guidance. We have well over 100K
users and they are not an especially active bunch and the majority of e-mails we
get tend to be SPAM. I am talking roughly 1M+ messages in a 3 day span
(98% being SPAM). The machine is overkill for what we are doing but Imail
can just not handle the messages fast enough and it makes using the system
impossible. We have even written custom apps to recurse the spool
directory and kill SPAM mail but it can't keep up. I don't want to spend a
lot on fixing this because it seems like we should be able to handle SPAM
properly.
So here are my
questions:
1. What
products will fix this? I have looked at Declude, but before we buy this
will it really do the trick? We are talking a lot of messages and people
want to be able to use this system.
2. Can someone
explain what the kill file actually does? I have yet to see this thing
work properly and maybe it is because of the load on the mail system that causes
it. When does this get called and when does it perform a kill? If
this file is very large (ie. a lot of domains) will it cause additional
stress?
3. Any out of
the box ideas? Has anyone done anything inventive to solve SPAM problems
themselves with custom apps or anything.
I really need the
help and I am totally open to suggestions. Anyone?
Thanks in
advance.
