Thanks for your post, it's good to hear good or bad things about products that are available that will do what should already have been done with what we have :)
I think I have everything I need now to setup MXGate and am leaning that way. I was able to use what IMail does have built in along with blocking some IP addresses at our firewall which has reduced the amount of spam we get which was between 2000 to 4000 per day down to as low as about 350 to 500 per day. However that was a very high maintenance solution requiring a lot of hours of looking at log files. While the percentage is not all that great, I haven't had anyone report any false positives at all yet. However in order for me to keep this not so good ratio I will need to keep working at it, again very high maintenance picking through the logs and whatnot. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Blank Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 5:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] [IMail_Forum DIGEST] Re: Fighting Spam - I know I'm repeating myself but... I like iMail, but have not been pleased with its anti-spam features.. this led me to try the open-source ASSP (assp.sourceforge.net). My clients are extremely happy with it, as am I. I don't make a cent from recommending it or from anyone using it, except for what my clients pay me to set it up. I have shut off ALL of the iMail anti-spam features, btw. I and my clients get VERY few false positives, although they do occasionally appear. For example, in the last month I have had two false positives on my own lightly loaded mail server, am rejecting 90% (325 emails or so per day!) of all email as spam, and get 1-3 actual spam emails in my inbox a day. My clients' experiences are similar (79-91% of **their** incoming mail is spam). And maintenance is as close to nil as can be. I now can spend my time on other issues. Manually fighting spam is a bear, as you already know. So until there's a new Internet standard in place that fights spam better.. ASSP is where I'll be. -Paul At 03:00 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote: >From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Great MX firewall to put in front of your imail >server >Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:53:14 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >2% is a lot of spam these days. With a recent spike that lasted for most of >a week we saw ~95% of all incoming mail to our mail servers be spam. If our >filtering had only been as good as 2% then the result to the customer would >have been about 30% of received email being spam....totally unacceptable. >With Declude/Message Sniffer we're currently hovering around 5% of received >email (to user mailboxes) being spam (~1 message in 20)....a 6x better >filtering than the 2% slipping through you mention with Barracuda. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
