or_is_it writes "The company I work for has been growing dramatically and I've been charged with the task of being the gatekeeper for our GFI Spam filters. This involves manually inspecting the subject line/to/from for all caught messages in each filter rule folder. For a company of about 50 people, in one day the number of Spam messages can easily exceed 2,000. Neglect it for a day and you end up with quite a task on your hands. I've made the rules lax enough so important messages can go through, along with a few stray Spams, for which I get bitched at. Tighten the rules up and then an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended target and I get bitched at. Manually reading through all those subject lines is supposed to prevent that but I'm only human and genuine messages and easily get overlooked.
How do larger organizations deal with Spam issues? I can't imagine having one centralized person manually inspecting everyone's Junk mail header is the optimal solution. I'm not afraid of purchasing a different commercial mail filter product, but I'd like to hear some anecdotal evidence before jumping ship."
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...we finally offloaded this chore to MXLogic. We just pointed our MX records to their server and all mail gets filtered for spam, viruses, content, size restrictions, type of attachment, etc.
It is highly configurable through an easy interface, generates alerts when email is blocked, sends a daily digest to each user detailing their spams that were caught and allowing them to be released, and lets users manage their own allow/deny lists...as well as having global allow/deny lists.
The cost was on the or
I'd recommend the IronPort C150 (http://www.ironport.com/ [ironport.com]) or the Dell Blocker equivalent: (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&sku=A0652840/ [dell.com]).
It gives you all the features and flexiblity of the enterprise class Anti Spam, Anti Virus, Encryption, Compliance, etc. features that IronPort's high end systems provide at a fraction of the cost.
These systems are true appliances - set it up (or have one of their SEs do it for you) and forget it.
Lennart
I work for a 150 person company as IT Admin and (Score:1)
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Lennart
P.S. I work fo