RE: OT : New domain provider need - with wildcard email forwarding

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We just use Exchange 2003 with its IMF filter enabled and SPF tagging
(so,
the SPF affects the Spam score).



Works a wee treat - I dropped from around 100 or so spams a day to single
figures in a week - and the only spam I ever do get is delivered to the
backup MX, rather than the main one. What I do now is use a copy of outlook
running in cached mode as a POP3 collector, rather than SBS's builtin one -
it neatly handles multiple accounts, applies spam filtering to all incoming
POP3 mail and is generally great.



Exchange 2K3's filters are updated fairly regularly too - any time we see a
subtle increase in spam again it gets knocked on the head pretty sharpish.



Ian.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Gareth Cook
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Actually they wont - they want 70 quid a year for this service

Gareth Cook
IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales
IBM SWG Sales - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
email: g@xxxxxxx <mailto:g%40uk.ibm.com>

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I've never used MS email products - Ive been using Notes since 91.

Jim's suggestion of Gradwell looks like it will fit the bill (logic done
at the forwarding point) - so the emails i dont want never get to me.

G.

Gareth Cook
IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales
IBM SWG Sales - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
email: g@xxxxxxx <mailto:g%40uk.ibm.com>

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I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by installing the McAfee Spam
software for Exchange 2k3. All mail is now delivered to Exchange (Using
POPCon) and is distributed out after virus and spam filtering. IT works
VERY VERY well and is fully configurable.
Since I did that I have moved my domain to Fasthosts and their inbuilt
spam filters work really well and most spam caught in Exchange has already

been tagged by the fasthosts servers. This is very different to the
Eclipse spam filters that never seemed to be effective for me.

HTH

Rob

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Not quite what Im after - that means I still get mail - the sender is a
random address every time from the domain, so that wont directly help

G.

Gareth Cook
IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales
IBM SWG Sales - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
email: g@xxxxxxx <mailto:g%40uk.ibm.com>

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Gareth Cook wrote:
> I've started to get a lot of spam from my personal domain - mostly
cause
i
> use a *@domain.com <mailto:%2A%40domain.com>  to redirect
everything. I
then use a unique
identifier
> for each site i use/register with so i know where the mail has
originated
> from. Unfortunately, wkjfhadsiuhflas@
<mailto:wkjfhadsiuhflas%40domain.com>
domain.com comes through to me.
>
> I use DirectNIC and have for years - but they dont support anything
other
> than a basic wildcard * for email (unless you specify an exact name
such

> as ukha@domain. <mailto:ukha%40domain.com> com
forwards to this email
account). i can then start
using
> *_mail@domain. <mailto:%2A_mail%40domain.com>
com which is generic enough
for me to use, but not for the

> spammers.
>
> Anyone use this type of facility ?
>

Yes, Gradwell.

When you get fed up receiving spam on an address, you just redirect it
to <blank> and it gets bounced as an invalid address.

Jim