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April 25, 2006

My oh my, I get this much spam?

Filed under: $work, Spam — cricalix @ 13:15

$dayjob, as written previously, is a managed anti-spam, anti-virus service.  One of our first customers was our ISP, so we’ve always been protected by our software - good way to tell if it’s working!

Things have changed, we’re moving away from that ISP, and they’re changing to an in-house solution tailored for their needs.  Our MX records now point straight to the mail store server, so all the wonderful spammers in the world can now e-mail us, and our accounts have no protection.

I didn’t realise how much spam I get at my work account - I’ve never run a report on my own mail before, and I’m thinking I should, because it’s absolutely nuts how much I’m getting.  I’ll be changing to a fetchmail + SA pickup for now, until we get our SDSL line and pull our mail in-house.

3 Comments »

  1. Yo Duncan,
    We installed a Barracuda 300 Spamfirewall in house, and our spam has been cut up to almopst 75%!

    Comment by Ben — April 25, 2006 @ 21:14

  2. The software we write has about a 95% hit rate for my account, if not higher. Barracuda are a competitor :)

    Comment by cricalix — April 26, 2006 @ 6:08

  3. Darn, if I knew you guys did stuff like that I would have asked you for a friend hookup, dicount on the software hehe.
    :)

    Comment by Ben — April 27, 2006 @ 13:05

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