Re: SBS 2003 mail retention - does it include deleted spam?
From: Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP] (les.connor_at_DEL.cfive.ca)
Date: 01/22/05
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:55:26 -0600
I'd say ixnay on spam alltogether, keep it out of the store -
even/especially a public folder. Don't waste your resources on spam, that is
the objective.
Do use a product like IMF or eManager (part of Trend C/S/M SMB), and do set
the AD filter in Exchange. Preserving spam somewhere on your system so that
you might be able to recover the 1% of false positives that might exist in a
properly configured anti spam solution is a terrible waste of resources,
IMO. Both system resources and human resources - somebody has to sift
through all that crap if it's archived, or what's the point of archiving it
?
-- Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP] ----------------------------------------------------------- SBS Rocks ! "Terry Dansey" <nospamthankstdansey@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uDAwclKAFHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > Thanks - that what I thought. The postmaster account needs to be carefully > thought out. > > You could create a DOS (Denial of Service) by feeding sufficient spam with > attachments in it and the receiving exchange server would come to a halt > even though you were deleting them. > > GFI as far as I know adds the detected spam mail into a subdirectory > called spam and I am deleting about 400 messages a day that it is > ctahcing. > > Retained messages set to 180 days... this could be fun. > > So if the 2Gb mailbox limit includes the deleted messages, the only way to > back out of this when it grinds to a halt is to reduce the retention day > setting so that it trims it down? > > Hmmm, it sound like spam should be saved to a public folder and deleted > from there maybe? > > Thanks - Terry > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Are you still wasting your time with spam?... > There is a solution!" > > Protected by GIANT Company's Spam Inspector > The most powerful anti-spam software available. > http://mail.spaminspector.com > > > "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@DEL.cfive.ca> > wrote in message news:Oy1sPfJAFHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... >> Hi Terry, >> >> Anti-Spam measures at the exchange or gateway level are recommended. IMF, >> for example, can remove the spam prior to it getting into the mail >> stores. Any decent third party anti spam application will do the same. >> >> If your anti spam measures are at the mailbox level - meaning each user >> deals with it himself, then the spam is part of your mail store. >> >> -- >> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP] >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> SBS Rocks ! >> >> >> "Terry Dansey" <nospamthankstdansey@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:OCJ3j4GAFHA.2112@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... >>> Hi all. >>> >>> If you set Exchange to retain mail after deletion, does that also >>> include mail that has been deemed as SPAM? >>> >>> If so, then whoever is working as the SPAM administrator is going to get >>> a lot of messages that they delete but will become part of the retained >>> store. >>> >>> Is it better that a separate account is set up so that the mailbox can >>> be deleted and purged every so often? >>> >>> We have been telling clients to opt for larger hard drives, but when we >>> make the calculations of how large the drives ought to be we tend to >>> look at files and possible email usage into the future, but if we are >>> using shadow copies, retaining deleted mail and versions of files, has >>> anyone worked out roughly what extra this adds to the necessary >>> capacity? >>> >>> Thanks - Terry >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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