Comments on: Reduce SPAN and unwanted email with MS Exchange 2003 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/reduce-span-and-unwanted-email-with-ms-exchange-2003/ Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: dougporter http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/reduce-span-and-unwanted-email-with-ms-exchange-2003/#comment-45418 dougporter Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:33:26 +0000 #comment-45418 IMF with Exchange 2003 helps the Outlook 2003 Client do a better job of identifying what should go into the Junk email folder. You can enable the “delete” option in the IMF settings, but my users would rather just see the message moved to their Junk email folder. In this context, IMF enhances Outlook’s Junk Email capabilities, but it’s not a a stand-alone “best of breed” type of spam filter & admin tool at the smtp gateway (eg., before it hits the Exchange server. I’ve been using IMF with Exchange 2003 for several months now, with no complaints from end-users about email delivery or the filtering of emails into the Junk email folder. I have yet to see any discernible effect on server performance, or even see any junk email exceed my thresholds and get dumped into the UCE archive (even after setting the thresholds to their lowest levels). All in all, IMF is a helpful addition to Exchange 2003, and has yet to interfere with anything, as far as I can tell.

]]> By: stevesz http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/reduce-span-and-unwanted-email-with-ms-exchange-2003/#comment-45419 stevesz Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:13:27 +0000 #comment-45419 Despite what ursulus said, Sinclair has you on the right track.I’ve just set up a 2003 Exchange server and will be putting IMF on it to try it out, since it is to be a low usage server, and we can play with it 9 months of the year. From reports that I have seen, IMF does a fair to OK job of blocking spam. What I use on th emain Exchange server, which is 2000, but it doesn’t matter, is GFI’s Mail Essentials. It seems to be doing a most excellent job, with very few false positives, and false negatives. I believe it to be fairly priced as well. I belive it can be used in conjunction with IMF, but have no tlooked into it thoroughly yet in so far as placing it on a 2003 server with IMF. Included are some nifty features that you may well wish to take advantage, such a a listserv, placing a disclaimer on outgoing mail, auto replies, etc.

Steve//

]]> By: ursulus http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/reduce-span-and-unwanted-email-with-ms-exchange-2003/#comment-45420 ursulus Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:14:26 +0000 #comment-45420 The short answer is NO.. but Outlook 2003 has a very good SPAM filter which can be updated regularly. Go into the Junk Mail setings in Outlook 2003. If you are running a previous version of Outlook.. Sorry!

Malcolm

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