Re: Analyzing a mail box for spam, email SLA's and monitoring

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Easy buddy.  It's just a job.

Rules and agents are of some assistance on personal mail files.  But you 
can spend more time maintaining them then it would take to just delete the 
spam.

Don't know of anything on the mail.BOX.

Do you have Trend?  Trend has an antispam function.  Perhaps it might 
still work between your Domino server and the 'service' provided by 
corporate.

Sometimes people here have issues getting email.  Often I'll find that one 
service may send to use very fast, and others drag.  This is why I have a 
test account on more than one outside service.  I know that Domino has a 
'Trace entire path' option.  Don't know what the option is on some of 
those other services.

We have sprint doing our anti spam and anti virus for us and they are 
doing a bang up job.  We still have Trend for anti virus also.  The only 
that seem to be getting past Sprint is some of the other domains we are 
hosting, and, the virus people that bypass our domain and send directly to 
our mail servers IP address.  There, Trend stops the virus' cold.

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Sorry for the cross posting but I thought that some non-Domino folks might
have some input....


I've had it.  Our parent company 'provides' our interface to Internet 
based
email.  There are two problems that are driving me nuts.

1.)  Spam, I get more crap and they claim it's not a problem.  FYI - IBM
provides a nice little service in this area but they so far have ignored 
my
forwarded emails.  Since I don't want to do this manually is anyone aware
of a tool that allows you to analyze/quantify possible spam in a personal
Notes mailbox or even the mail.nsf file?  You'd think that would be a 
slick
tool to help sell anti-spam software and services...but I can't find one
yet.  I was thinking that I could run something to quantify the volume of
spam and attempt to use that number.

2.)  SLA.  Our Internet based mail is routed through a connection in Paris
and responsiveness seems to fluctuate from seconds to hours.  We still
maintain our 'illegal' domain mail server which I try not to use except
when the email absolutely positively needs to get to me.  I'd like to be
able to quantify availability and responsiveness for our email servers.
Ours is Domino, the other is the virus propagator.  Any thoughts?

The funny thing is the same procreator unit banned the access of personal
email accounts from work since they are a common source of virus problems.
Guess where I get 10x better anti-spam capabilities from?


Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
(765)741-7696
(765)741-7012 f
(800)428-8642

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just"  Abraham Lincoln




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