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by epait 1 view

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HI,

I run a network (Win 2000) for 50 CPAS and need to find a product to control spam. I have tried Mcafee spam killer software for Exchnage 2000 demo. The problem ..it still sends the spam to the users junk folder so users can still be offended by email in there when they open it and there is so much hype about protecting your business enviroment. I attended a webcast for Intellireach SMTP appliance. It had some good features where users could change something in the junk folder to accept as mail. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a budget of about $2K..My wish is for a SMTP appliance to stop at the gateway. Please let me know what you are using and how you like it. I use Mcafee anti virus at the servers and workstations. I have upgraded to Mcafee Enterprise 7.0 on my XP pro workstations and plan to move from 4.5.1 on my servers.

thanks,
Rob

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by jereg

Several months ago I started using a service:

www.spamrejection.com

My companies email is routed through their servers. It strips off spam from known spammers. I had several users that were getting about 100 a day. Now they're getting 4 or 5 a day. It's not perfect, but my whole company is happier. And I don't have to do a thing. They charge a low monthly fee, and I can cancel anytime I want to.

Check them out.

by tammye7

I currently use earthlink as my internet provider and not only do I have spam block with it but I also have a protection from tracking. This is an excellent protection that also has the virus protection built in for one flat fee. Best of luck to you.

by ldelmarter

I just finished evaluating anti-spam solutions for Exchange Server 2000 for my business. The thing you didn't like about McAfee was one of the reasons I settled on GFI MailEssentials. Spam for each user could be routed to a personal Spam folder which each user could then review before deleting. My biggest concern was the volume of mail and time taken to sort through it, not so much the offensive nature of the spam.

One solution that I tried and that you might like is Surf Control. It worked very well and didn't put the spam in a user folder where they could see it. However, another big factor for me was the price - Surf Control was much more expensive and the minimum number of mailboxes you could license it for was 50.

by dermottr

I high percentage of spam that my company gets comes from the spt34567@hotmail.com type email account. With all of its technical and financial resources you would think Microsoft could work out how to stop spammers signing up for email account after email account and using Hotmail for this purpose. The answer Microsoft is for you to stop it at the source. At the very least filter spam out so it is never sent out from Hotmail in the first place.
An analogy - you can either buy your liquor duty free before you get on the aircraft and then the airline pays the extra weight cost of transporting x number of gallons of liquor from say New York to London, or you can allow people to buy their duty free goods after they land.
Same with spam, stop it before it is sent at the ISP.

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