Re: Classic Aliases list in Exchange 2003?

"Cary Shultz" <cwshultz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know! I know!

If I am not mistaken , there is an MSKB on this topic. I will find it and
post it so that the OP (and everyone reading this post) will have a point of
reference.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915863/en-us

We have been working on several major projects (okay, for us little folks in
Christiansburg, VA) and this IMF thing is a wonderful thing - don't get me
wrong. But in some environments it can be a pain! It just seems like you
can not satisfy everyone all the time (now, where have I heard that
before?).

When IMF works well, it works well. When it works poorly you have
little control over it to compensate. Statistical filters work well
when applied to spam corpa, or when used for individual filters. They
don't work so well (by themselves) when asked to work in specialized
environments (medical, legal, technical, etc.) -- unless they're
allowed to learn which words are guilty and which are innocent in
those environments. The IMF is incapable of learning unless it's
instructed by MS. All you can do is adjust a dial, from 0 - 9, on the
outside of a black box. You can fall back to the 1980's BBS mode of
message weighting by using the XML file. But that's an ineffective way
of dealing with spam.

I have been implementing SPF (creating the SPF record in the public DNS) but
have not yet implemented SenderID. I need to educate myself a little bit
more....I have a couple of candidates for "learning on the job" (something
for which I typically have little tolerance...I am going to break my own
rule for this one). While I would like to create "safe and secure"
environments (with respect to Spam in this context)

There are none of those. Some are more safe or more secure thna
others, but none are exempt from receiving junk email.

I sure do not want to
create a "Gosh dang it!!!! Where is that dang e-mail?!?!?!" environment in
the process....Try doing that in a Law Office! See what happens!!!!!!!
Been there, done that! ;-)

Then don't discard any mail -- quarantine what you think is spam and
be prepared to have a largish white list. I think you'll find that
dealing with each message, instead of each connection, is going to
produce large numbers of quarantined email and people will still lose
messages when they delete them from quarantine, or they'll release
everything from quarantine and then complain the the admin about the
spam they have to wade through to find what they think is in the
quarantined messages. It's a thankless job -- and there's no such
thing as zero false-positeves, so bon't believe the marketing hype.

--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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