Ferrari Mailing List: Re: [NFC] Spam Filters & Cellular Repeaters?

[Pat Scopelliti (pscopell]

You might want to give postini.com a call.

To use them you point your incoming email to their servers.  They trim out
the spam and viruses, then forward the rest to your normal servers.  They
miss a few, but catch the vast majority.  They also have a web page where
you can view what was blocked and specify that a particular email sender not
be blocked.  Works well.

Pat

Pat Scopelliti
pscopell [at] stny.rr.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Perry [mailto:charles [at] carolina-sound.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:49 AM
To: Pat Scopelliti
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] [NFC] Spam Filters & Cellular Repeaters?

Wonder if I could tap the list's expertise outside of cars for a few
minutes.

Last year our company bought a server (Dell Poweredge 1900, I believe,
running MS Server 2003) which is doing our domain hosting and Microsoft
Exchange e-mail hosting. We're a pretty small group - about 20 employees
and about a dozen full-time terminals with occasional laptops. This is
the first time we've hosted our own e-mail, as opposed to letting our
ISP do it. Over the course of the year our spam has gotten completely
out of control, like a lot of people's I'd guess. I get about 200 spams
a day, and most of my other people have the same problem to a lesser
extent. The IT people who set up the server for us did not implement any
spam controls as they said they had not found a solution which did a
good job without being overly intrusive. If I remember correctly,
Exchange has the ability to reference someone's spam list for doing
simple filtering, but I couldn't use that because it would automatically
kill messages with lots of recipient names, which interfered with some
other e-mail based lists we use at the office.

Do any of you know of or use a good spam solution that can work for our
entire enterprise on a MS Server/Exchange 2003 box? Obviously I don't
want any consumer-level crap like McAfee, but other than that I'm open
to suggestion. Don't care if it's hardware or software as long as it's
easy for a non-IT guy to administer and reasonably effective.

Second problem. We are about to move into our new headquarters building
and have found that the cellular signal inside the building is unusable.
It is a steel frame building with metal roof & walls, so it makes a
pretty effective Faraday cage. However, the building we're moving out of
had the same construction and no issue with cell signal. Has anyone
successfully used any sort of cellular repeater where we can put
something inside the building to boost the cell signal to a usable
level? The signal seems fine if you're outside the building, but not
inside.

Thanks!

-- charles




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                          Charles G. Perry IV

Carolina Sound Communications           (843) 571-4488
1941 Savage Rd., Suite 200G             (843) 571-4492 fax
Charleston, SC 29407                     www.carolina-sound.com


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