Spam filtering on an exchange 2007 box...

[Ben_Stanton]

...what do people use? Pro's and con's?!?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Ben

[Zorba]

Hi Ben, if you have 2003 onwards have you tried the built in Intelligent Message Filter. Details of how to configure here:

 

IMF

[Ric_]

Alsso take a look at mail proxies that sit in front of Exchange and check for spam, viruses, etc. before the mail even reaches Exchange. Proxmox is an open source option for this.

[Zorba]

Sorry ben I did not read your post title properly. I am running 2003 but it looks like Exchange 2007 does a similar thing, found these links below:

 

http://www.petri.co.il/install-anti-spam-exchange-2007.htm

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123737.aspx

[john]

Microsoft do a Spam / Anti-virus program, as do others, Sophos Puremessage is good (I can't believe im recomending a Sophos Product!?) but it does work fine for me on E-mails. They also make a Hardware Box that you put between the web and exchange.

[Ben_Stanton]

Excellent, thanks for all your input. I'm already building an edge server as we speak so IMF can go on there (along with forefront probably). I'll trial a few other apps too. Just wanted peoples real experience and effectiveness for packages x, y and z.

 

Thanks

 

Ben