Re: Fighting spam with IMF, alternative sollutions

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Regarding the finances, it was not meant literally, more so as a rhetorical
question.

OK, what I should have said instead of "Ask your client if he has any
areas..." is "Ask yourself if your client has any areas...."

That would make it clear that your client more than likely can indeed afford
it, regardless of what he told you. It gets to the point that the client
needs to decide what are his priorities. Does he want to cough up $40 month,
or does he want to wade through tons of spam, and have his employees waste
their PAID time to do the same? ANYONE in business can find $40 a month to
spend...it is just a matter of where they choose to spend it, which was my
point. Spend it on the business to improve efficiency and reduce
frustration, or spend it on beer, etc. Their choice.

Trust me, the **price** of $40/month is a lot less than the **cost** of his
dealing with the spam, both in money (time wasted), frustration, and money
to have you try to throw bandages at something that could easily be
remedied.

Try the IMF first. If it does not reduce it enough, tell him the only other
option is to pay some bucks, or find a free alternative product.

Gregg Hill



"Rosewood" <Rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well damn do I feel stupid. The article from the IMF page has that part
of
the instructions a little bit buried.

http://www.petri.co.il/configure_imf_in_exchange_2003_sp2.htm has me on
the
right page. I'll see how well it does now.

As for your monetary advice, I wouldn't ever dream of going into a
client's
office and doing what you described. If someone ever tried that on me,
I'd
be firing him and not the other way around. When someone tells me they
can't
afford it, they can't afford it. I've yet to meet a small business owner
who
enjoys getting his finances questioned by someone he hires unless he paid
them to question him.



"Gregg Hill" wrote:

When you say that you "turned on" IMF, did you configure it under Global
Settings > Message Delivery properties, then apply it under the SMTP
virtual
server properties?

Just configuring it will do nothing if it is not applied on the SMTP
virtual
server.

Also, did you set up connection filtering for RBL lookups? For my
clients,
RBL lookups drop about 80% of inbound mail, with almost no false
positives,
except for one Chinese client who had many suppliers in China that were
on
RBL lists.

Gregg Hill



"Rosewood" <Rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a user who has to put his e-mail address out in the public
domain.
This means he gets a LOT of spam. To try to curb this I made sure he
was
patched w/ Exchange SP2 and I turned on IMF. As soon as I did this he
reported that he was receiving a significant increase of spam coming
into
his
inbox. I lowered the SCL rating in IMF and have now done this 3 times
as
his
spam level stays pretty high.

Currently the threshold for storing junk e-mails in his junk e-mail
folder
is set to 2 and anything greater than or equal to 5 is being archived.

I also made sure to enable the registry setting that allows for IMF
updates
to be installed via Microsoft Update. As of 10:00 am CST 10/18/2006
all
available updates have been installed.

Is there something I need to do to tweak IMF because it seems like
Outlook
2003's default spam filter was doing better than this. Also, what are
some
other solutions that are out there for Exchange 2003? This guy is on a
shoestring budget but I feel bad for using IMF since it has apparently
made
the situation worse. (I'll concede that the spam increase may be
coincidental
but still...)

Thanks :)






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