Duncan
Gornall
Knowsley Hall
and Safari Park
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SPAM?
What SPAM? From 09/03 until 04/06 we had an ever
increasing torrent of SPAM mail. Although we had
good quality local network solutions in place,
the ever escalating levels of rough emails being
handled by the server caused a great deal of instability
and downtime. Indeed, the last six months, for
me, became something of an admin nightmare – constantly
checking, seven days a week, that everything was
working as it should to keep the clients working
as best as possible (something of a pain for a
one man department).
However,
since April all that has changed. With the adoption
of MessageStream, and a new server, SPAM as we
knew it is a thing of the past. MessageStream
is blocking somewhere in the region of 20,000+
emails a week! That’s junk that used to
be processed here, junk that would from time
to time cause our Exchange Server to hang, requiring
a reboot and network wide disturbance to recover
from. It’s now quite rare to get SPAM mail
here. I only wish it had been available 3 years
ago!
It may
sound like I’m on commission from MessageStream,
but I’d never go back to using local filtration
as my first line defence. It’s simply not
worth the hassle. MessageStream has more than
paid for itself many times over and I’d
have now hesitation recommending it to anyone.
So, as
I said at the start. SPAM? What SPAM? I think
we’re as covered as we can be. Unless you
know different?.
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