Spam/Virus filtered SMTP feed

illusion · 3rd March 2007

Hi,

I'm helping a friend set up a small office. I'm looking to get a spam/virus filtered SMTP feed into their Exchange server. Just inbound would do but outbound would be nice also. This is just a small office with under 10 users. Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Dan

midnightsoftwar · 3rd March 2007

Hi,

Midnight Software would be able to offer this service for 10 users at £90/year +vat.

Comes complete with control panel for scanning admin, with the capability of assigning each email user with their own login.

aguk · 3rd March 2007

Hi,

Feel free to take a look at our EBAGS system.

http://aguk.net/objects/pdf/email-ba...way-system.pdf

If you have further queries please feel free to get in touch. I can forward a full technical specification of how the system works if required.

wise · 3rd March 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by illusion

Hi,

I'm helping a friend set up a small office. I'm looking to get a spam/virus filtered SMTP feed into their Exchange server. Just inbound would do but outbound would be nice also. This is just a small office with under 10 users. Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Dan

- antigen
- sophos pure message
- symantec for exchange
- mcafee (although no spam for exchange)
- mimesweeper from clearswift

there are many others - including nod32 etc but it depends on budget etc. These software sits on the exchange store (except mimesweeper) - you may want to consider a linux gateway box running mailscanner etc or a dedicated appliance

thanks
Brian

Jon-NC · 3rd March 2007

There are also providers like message labs and black spider who are very good.

Dhosting · 4th March 2007

Dan,

No extra cost on your current plan for that

We filter around 3,000 spam emails a day with a very low false positive rate!

othellotech · 4th March 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dhosting

We filter around 3,000 spam emails a day with a very low false positive rate!

Lucky you, today so far filtered 16,270 on my email account alone !

Dhosting · 4th March 2007

LOL i can only wish.

That count of course doesnt take into account connections

Anyways its all good!

aguk · 4th March 2007

We are currently handling 1m connections a day with around just 90k being genuine mail

I've also seen other set-ups handling 10m+ connections with less than 0.01% being genuine mail. Reveals the high level of spam doing the rounds.

othellotech · 4th March 2007

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Originally Posted by aguk

We are currently handling 1m connections a day with around just 90k being genuine mail

Sounds about right - we see well under 1% being "real" email - as a communications medium its becoming much less useful because people are stupid enough to buy from spammers, so spam becomes "effective" hence the amount of it

aguk · 5th March 2007

Your right Rob and I actually mistyped that and shoudl be around 9k genuine (just under 1%).

I read an interesting article that some of the spam is deliberately kept high in order to percipitate a "cascade" effect when the spammers do launch new type of spam email. Thereby overloading systems which are already on the brink.

internetod · 5th March 2007

Hi Dan,

Drop me an email to martin[@]internetod.co.uk and I'll discuss your needs.

BurtyB · 5th March 2007

I've sent a PM regarding what we can offer.

Chris.

philb · 11th March 2007

Filtering entire domain - you change the MX records to point at us and we forward it to your SMTP server.

Each 10 Mailbox "block" £75/pa + VAT (You must buy enough to cover all the addresses you use at the domain).

Control panel, so on and so forth, one month free trial available.