Re: Spam Filtering.

["Gregg, Christopher S." <csgregg () STTHOMAS EDU>]

We’re using MailMarshal on our Exchange environment for incoming messages only.  We’re pretty happy with it, but we’re 
getting close to the time to review our options as well.   I have sat through a couple of demos on Ironport and it 
looks good too.

A related question – anyone filtering outbound mail, but also allowing constituents to forward their mail to personal 
addresses?  I’d like to move us to scanning outbound messages to decrease our likelihood of being black/grey listed and 
as another layer of defense against phishing schemes.  However, my guys are having trouble working out the issues with 
notifying someone that an outgoing message was blocked when they’re having their mail forwarded.  We’re left with not 
notifying them or creating possible mail loops.

Chris

Chris Gregg
Director of Information Technology
Information Resources and Technologies
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
csgregg () stthomas edu


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of leo song
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:18 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Spam Filtering.

We've been using Ironport over one year, pretty happy about it, and we are filtering both in/out-bound email messages 
(~10 millions every day), whereas 97% of incoming messages are dropped by Ironport which is a huge relief to the 
inhouse email servers. feel free to contact me off-line if you have any questions.

Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU<mailto:Matthew%20Gracie%20%3cgraciem () CANISIUS EDU%3e>>
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Subject: [SECURITY] Spam Filtering.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:10:18 -0400



Hello, everyone. I hope you're enjoying a calm and peaceful beginning to

another semester.



Though this is a recurring question, I haven't seen it posed on this

list in a while. What is everyone using for anti-spam/anti-virus

filtering on email these days? We're moving away from our current

appliance, and exploring our options for the first time in a few years.



Feel free to email me off-list. If people are interested, I'd be happy

to summarize numbers and comments. Let me know.



--Matt