Spam Questions


Symantec Resources
Our company has just partnered with Symantec and being new to their products, I’m finding myself a bit overwhelmed. Are there any websites that offer mailing lists or online forums that can help with some of the issues I’m running into? This seems like an interesting concept for user-to-user support, but it’s not the friendliest [...]

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2006  10:14 PM
Access control, Application security, backdoors, Backup & recovery, Brightmail, Browsers, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, McAfee, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Servers, Software, Spam, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Symantec, Systems management software, Trojans, Veritas, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms
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setting up pop3 email in exchange 2000
I’m having trouble finding documentation on how to configure pop3 email for our remote sites to use. I have exchange 2000 running on 2000 domain. I also have gfi mail essentials 11 which has some sort of pop3 option in it. What all do I need to get pop3 set up so users can use [...]

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2010  4:38 PM
Exchange, Exchange security, Spam
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DNS Domain Problem
When my mail recipients try to resolve my IP address to my domain name, resolution fails. This is because the receiving email servers are seeing my local domain name and not my public domain name. Local is blueridgepro.local and public is blueridgepro.com. Local Ip address is 10.11.102.105 and public address is 66.110.220.152. How do I [...]

Answer Question   |  July 20, 2009  10:34 AM
Exchange, Spam
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554 Relay rejected for policy reasons
A user was communicating with a contact(external email address). He was able to send an email to him but when he replied to his contact’s email he got a delivery failure report. That report is pointing “554 Relay rejected for policy reasons” as the cause. Could you help me understand this delivery failure report? We’re [...]

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2005  4:30 AM
Exchange, Spam
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Email Notification If Scheduled Task In Windows Fails
Hi All, I have scheduled an archiving process using the Scheduled Tasks in windows (2000 server). The task is running fine as per the schedule. But everyday I have to manually check whether it went fine or not. Is there any way by which I can send an email notification if the scheduled task fails [...]

Answer Question   |  January 4, 2011  1:00 AM
Brightmail, CipherTrust, ClearSwift, Desktops, Exchange, Management, McAfee, MessageLabs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Postini, Rockliffe, Security, Servers, Spam, SpamAssassin, SQL Server, SurfControl, Symantec, TrendMicro
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How to stop Spam???
I am running Oracle Collaboration Suite 9.2.0.4.0 on RHEL 2.1. My domain *@abc.com has been receiving lots of spam. The messages are usually from yahoo with randomly generated username’s like abasdaczxcuz@yahoo.com or ffafaxoie@yahoo.com, etc. The IP’s behind all of them are different. The problem is that the Oracle Email component doesn’t check and filter emails [...]

Answer Question   |  August 29, 2005  7:53 AM
Spam, SpamAssassin
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FTP Sites
Hi All, I am a IT Security Personnel and i look in to the Information security of my company.To protect the information of our company we have blocked all email sites from our Proxy server ..so that staff cant send our company data outside our office using public email sites like hotmail ,yahoo , rediff [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2005  1:56 AM
Brightmail, CipherTrust, ClearSwift, Data analysis, Exchange, McAfee, MessageLabs, Microsoft Windows, Spam, SpamAssassin, Symantec
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Merak Mail Server Problem
We use Merak mail server for emails. About 8 days ago, some email accounts on the server started receiving the same emails that go out more than 5 times. In other words, emails that go out from the server would get to the receipients repeatedly over and over again. I am not sure what causes [...]

Answer Question   |  August 22, 2005  10:21 AM
Exchange, Spam, SpamAssassin
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Hyperlinks included in e-mail body are dead
Our sales department sends out many e-mails every day to current and prospective customers. These e-mails include a picture and a link to a demonstration video. Many customers are unable to click on the link, and can only access the video by copying and pasting the link into their browser. Does anyone know of a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2005  2:17 PM
E-mail applications, Exchange, Outlook, Spam
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Email Spoofing?
Can the “To:” field in email be spoofed by spammers? I’ve searched the web for spoofing information and everything I’ve found has reference to the “From:” field being spoofed but not the “To:” field. A user in my company keeps getting spam in his inbox and his “To:” field is that of another user in [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2005  3:30 PM
Exchange, Spam
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Reverse DNS
I have an Exchange 2003 server that functions fine. My problem is with the amount of spam that gets through the filter I have in place. We are already quarantining too much legit mail to tighten the filters any more. I have RDNS enabled, but don’t understand the purpose because when the lookup fails, the [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2005  11:52 AM
Administration, Exchange 2003, Spam
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vpn through s-box firewall of checkpoint
i’m try to create a vpn from the internet to my “small buisness server 2003″ that act as vpn server without any luck, if i try to connect to my server from the internal network it’s work just fine, iv’e mapped the correct ports according to the microsoft article that say to forward port 1723 [...]

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2012  6:01 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, Database, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Network security, Planning, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Service and support, Spam, VPN, Wireless
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Anti-Spam solution
Which one is better in message gateway solution ? IronPort or barracuda ?

Answer Question   |  December 28, 2004  5:10 AM
Spam
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Spam guards
Hi guys…u all know abt the problem with spam these days…I have just abt had it now, I have tried everything but there still a small percentage of spam coming through, I am having using an exchange server and McAfee as the virus guard, any sugestions on a good spam guard to go for?

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2005  2:50 AM
CIO, E-business, Information risk management, IT architecture, Networking Products, Security, Security management, Security products, Spam, Vendors
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Monitor Internet Bandwidth
Good day, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server in our organisation with Exchange,Dns and Isa server configured. 1. I want to monitor the internet usage by the users. 2. I want to take a report on monthly or daily basis how much mb/gb utilised By Each User. Thanks for u’r reply in advance.

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2004  1:55 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Auditing, Availability, Backup, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, BroadVision, Business Objects, Call Centers, Clarify Inc., CLB, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Component Load Balancing, Content filtering, Corporate portal applications, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Datacenter Server, DB2 administration, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Distributed File System, DNS, E-business, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, FAT and NTFS, Fault isolation, Firewalls, General Directories, Graphical User Interfaces, Handheld, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Integration/Connectivity, Intel servers, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Licensing, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Maintenance, Major Vendors, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Netscape Mail, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network requirements, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Office Applications, Operating system platforms, Operating systems, Outlook, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance management, Performance/Tuning, Planning, Policies, POP3, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Reporting, ROI & cost justification, Routers, S/MIME, Security, Security management, Security products, Sendmail, Server consolidation, Server management, Server-based/Thin-client computing, Servers, Services, Software, Software distribution, Software Quality Assurance, Spam, Storage, System monitoring, System utilities, Tech support, Technical support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Virus protection, Web services, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003
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Surfcontrol Email Filter 4.7
Good Day Everyone, I am a net admin in a W2K networked environment with approximately 50-60 users. We utilize exchange 5.5 for email and SC EF 4.7 for anti-spam and extra security. However, I have found several messages saying that I have sent an infected message to someone, and also, NDR’s from my own mailbox, [...]

Answer Question   |  November 16, 2004  3:17 PM
Spam
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Exchange Server 2003 Intelligent Message Filter (IMF)
I’m looking for anyone who has implemented the IMF event sink for SMTP on a production Exchange Server 2003 server? If so can you share how the product is working for you as well as any pitfalls or lessons learned?

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2004  10:52 AM
Exchange, Spam
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Spam Filter
I am looking at replacing our SPAM filter. We currently use XWALL and it doesn’t meet our needs. Can anyone tell me of a good SPAM filter?

Answer Question   |  May 28, 2004  2:13 PM
Spam
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