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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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Joseph:

We use a combination of a number of DNSBLs and MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin,
which between them detect on average 66% of inbound mail as spam/virus, a
small amount of other spam gets through undetected, but it's very little.
MIMEDefang is a great solution that you can customize to suit your
environment, assuming you use sendmail and know a little perl.

 - Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

>
> I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get
> an opinion
> from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of
> SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way
> to reduce
> it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job.
> We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the
> server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are
> certainly
> on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
> Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and
> testing) a
> switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice,
>
> Joe
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