Re: Outsourcing spam filtering and secuirty

[Chris Ditri <chrisd () better-investing org>]

Hi.

I would say that if you control your own email server, I would just implement 
something locally.  If you don't own manage your own email server, then I 
don't think you will be significantly secure by letting that same company 
filter your spam.  If you open it up to yet a 3rd company, then obviously 
your risks increase.

If you are using sendmail, or qmail, I would take a look at bogofilter.  It is 
available at sourceforge, and it is open.  I have done wonderful things with 
this package at my place of employment.  After about a week of training, it 
was better than 99% effective, after two months, it was better than 99.999% 
effective.  It is simple to use, just plugs right into a procmailrc -- and 
fast.  We have a rather wimpy email machine, pentium III with ide drives and 
it doesn't even break a sweat on processing.

I have also heard good things about spamassassin, but found no need to pursue 
it since bogofilter is working so nicely.

Maybe a little more than you wanted, but my too sense :0).

Good luck.


Chris



On Thursday 18 September 2003 11:22 pm, Tony Brisco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is trusting third party with the corporation's MX
> records for spam filtering purposes is widely used ?
> Accepted ?  And how secure ?
>
> I appreciate in advance your comments and suggestions.
>
> Tony Brisco
>
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