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[OUPA]MrNutz

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Hey peeps,

looking for some 2c here.

I've got a small company i do support for - they have 13 pcs - each with email [email protected].

Their email is pulled from some server in jhb , but it contains ALOT of spam - and on the increase.

I would like to know - if it is possible to setup one machine - make mail central filtered - process all 13 accounts - and then distribute it to the end points - without changing the sender/receiver addy inside the mail.

Big problem with current setup is - their email service provider doesn't update it's spam filter fast enough.
 
I use a state-of-the-art PIII with 156mb RAM Gentoo box to do my spam filtering. :D Spam Assassin & ClamAV run like a charm and you can set up cron jobs to update as often as you like. This box does around 150 mail boxes on 15 domains. Filters off more than 10k spam messages a day. Oh yes I also run grey listing on it. All the docs on how to set it up are on the Gentoo web site. :cool:
 
Don't know if this will work, but why don't you let a Gmail account fetch the emails from the Jhb server, and then you just let the company pull their 99%-SPAM-Free mail directly from Gmail via IMAP/POP3 or whatever? Should work and Should not destroy the sender/receiver header afaik. Give it a test run...
 
Threaten your ISP to take your business elsewhere - and look for an alternate ISP.

IMHO any ISP's core business is email, and in light of the current electricity climate, is one you should start thinking of outsourcing to - so that the emails will be spooled and none lost, and they'll do the filtering for you.

Takes a load off your admin work by not having to process spam and filtering rules :D
 
ld13 said:
Don't know if this will work, but why don't you let a Gmail account fetch the emails from the Jhb server, and then you just let the company pull their 99%-SPAM-Free mail directly from Gmail via IMAP/POP3 or whatever? Should work and Should not destroy the sender/receiver header afaik. Give it a test run...
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As a slightly modified measure, have the domain email hosted by Google Apps (http://www.google.com/a) for FREE, and you get all the benefits of Gmail. You need to be able to modify your domain records to use it, so I suggest hosting DNS yourself, or using something like ZoneEdit (http://www.zoneedit.com).
 
All our companies email is routed via GMail using Google Apps. Also means you have a searchable online record of all company email.

Spam literally went from 'out of control' to Zero by running this setup.

GMail FTW!
 
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