Guys, do any of you know of other spam mail service, like mailbait? (used to test for preventing spam, not for abuse)
Hi All,
Happy New year to you.
We have implemented an email protection service over the last few months which works in parallel to 0365, rather than a smarthost (such as Mimecast or Messagelabs) where it analyses the emails as they hit Exchange and analyses them quickly before taking action.
Now, we have a problem where some of our more exposed mailboxes (such as customer related mailboxes) are getting a lot of junk, causing a lot of pain for some of our staff to trail through. We are looking at hardening some of the rules to reduce this.
At the same time, what we're trying to do is to understand what is not working and how to improve it by actually recreating the spam email situation and sending them to some of our test mailboxes. For us to recreate this scenario, we started using a service called 'Mailbait' to send spam. However, even though it claims to have sent lots (and it takes forever to go through its entire list), barely anything hits our email exchange.
We need to be able to test this thoroughly, but Mailbait hasn't proved to be that reliable. Are there any spam services you could recommend (we would even pay for it if needed)?? Also, the other thing we thought about is that even if we do get recommended a service, I wonder whether that service would be 'trusted' across the internet and therefore our email protection may in fact let the emails in due to the Mx record lookups that are genuine. So it's not easy, but any recommendations you have, would be awesome.
Thank you
Yashy
Happy New year to you.
We have implemented an email protection service over the last few months which works in parallel to 0365, rather than a smarthost (such as Mimecast or Messagelabs) where it analyses the emails as they hit Exchange and analyses them quickly before taking action.
Now, we have a problem where some of our more exposed mailboxes (such as customer related mailboxes) are getting a lot of junk, causing a lot of pain for some of our staff to trail through. We are looking at hardening some of the rules to reduce this.
At the same time, what we're trying to do is to understand what is not working and how to improve it by actually recreating the spam email situation and sending them to some of our test mailboxes. For us to recreate this scenario, we started using a service called 'Mailbait' to send spam. However, even though it claims to have sent lots (and it takes forever to go through its entire list), barely anything hits our email exchange.
We need to be able to test this thoroughly, but Mailbait hasn't proved to be that reliable. Are there any spam services you could recommend (we would even pay for it if needed)?? Also, the other thing we thought about is that even if we do get recommended a service, I wonder whether that service would be 'trusted' across the internet and therefore our email protection may in fact let the emails in due to the Mx record lookups that are genuine. So it's not easy, but any recommendations you have, would be awesome.
Thank you
Yashy
SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ArneLovius
What is this email filtering service that "works in parallel to O365"?
ASKER
David - thank you for your responses. Regarding your initial comment, did you mean to publish the robots.txt file in the folder location where the contact is on our website?
ASKER
ArneLovius - The product is called Darktrace, you have probably heard of it. Brilliant product, but it isn't like Mimecast or Messagelabs or Barracuda which act as smarthosts or as 'gateways'. It uses journaling rules, hence it sits parallel and your Mx records end up pointing to 0365 rather than a smarthost.
The natural placement of robots.txt will be https://yoursite.com/robots.txt for a site wide file.
If you place your robots.txt file anywhere else, likely this file will be missed.
When thinking in terms of classifying Bot Visitors, thing of Bots as dirt stupid.
Taking this approach means you can easily manipulate their behavior.
If you place your robots.txt file anywhere else, likely this file will be missed.
When thinking in terms of classifying Bot Visitors, thing of Bots as dirt stupid.
Taking this approach means you can easily manipulate their behavior.