[BlueOnyx:06519] Re: OWM and Spam

[User Ernie]

I use the sendmail milter called j-chkmail it's very powerful.

http://www.j-chkmail.org

- Ernie.


> 
> On 2/15/2011 10:31 AM, Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
> > It seems no where you turn in web hosting these days, we are much like the
> > hometown hardware stores trying to compete against the Lowes and Home Depots
> > of the world, getting priced out of the market.  In this specific situation,
> > it involves one client that was hosted on Network Solutions who used their
> > webmail to do all their email needs.  Like Gmail, NS can afford to throw a
> > lot of resources at spam.
> > 
> > I am probably going to tell this guy to set up Outlook Express and let his
> > AVG software handle the junk.  The amount of time I have spent with this
> > client and his email compared to the free first month, free setup, then
> > $4.95/month, has put me at about a 10000% loss on this account compared to
> > others.
> 
> But once you have a system of rejecting spam, you won't have this with
> the next account. We abandoned any kind of spam processing on the Cobalt
> servers way back when they were Cobalt due to the processing required as
> discussed in this thread. I'm sure today's solutions are much better,
> but our setup gained us another great revenue. Originally intended to
> just relieve spam from the mail servers, it is now a growing percentage
> of our revenue blocking spam and viruses for company mail servers
> located in their own offices.
> 
> We setup a gateway in front of the servers using Postfix+Maia using SA
> and ClamAV for scanning for spam and viruses. Maia Mailguard is an
> amavisd spin-off that has a GUI where people can manage their
> blacklists/whitelists, train messages against the SA bayes system and
> get digest email messages periodically like Postini with their blocked
> caches where they can click to release/whitelist. After scanning,
> Postfix just transports the message on to the mail server based on
> domain, whether it be our mail server or the customers. Customers
> absolutely love it. Actually, these gateways are now offering Smarthost
> services as well for those company mail servers to send out so they
> don't have to worry about tainted/dynamic IP's or other blocks.
> 
> --Robert
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> Robert <robert at webtent.org>
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