I manage a small network (84 users) We currently have a Barracuda Email Security 300 that is getting a bit long in the tooth and is in need of replacement. So, with that said I am looking at Fortimail (Because we have a Fortigate 200D) and Barracuda Essentials for Email Security.

I do know that in terms of price that Barracuda solution is cheaper but I hate having to evaluate based on price (But that's what the higher Up's see) Has anyone used the Fortimail solution? is it more or less the same compared to the Barracuda solution? I do think both offer "sandboxing" and that is something I am interested in..

Hello,

Looking for suggestions for the best anti-spam solution (software, not hardware)

Currently using Spamexperts, but still receive 5-8 spam messages per week, perhaps this is the best possible without blocking valid / clean messages?

I am looking for a hosted solution.

Thank you,

I am at wit's end with something that I cannon understand is happening.

My boss signed -up for a newsletter from a website called "fisherynation.com". This news sites send several email out per day and they will not go into my bosses Outlook 2016 Inbox but rather to the Junk-Email folder. Here are the steps I have taken:
- In Junk Email Options, set to "No Automatic Filtering"
- Added fisherynation.com domain to "Safe Senders List"
- In Outlook Web Access (OWA) under setting for "Block or Allow" is set this to: "Don't move email to my Junk Email Folder"
- In Exchange Administration, Mail Flow.. I created a "Bypass spam filtering" for the sender of the emails in question.

Noe of this works! This particular sender of email is the "one and on;y" emails to go into his Junk Email folder. nothing at all besides.

Maybe this is a bug in Outlook 2016? Any ideas anyone?

Sincerely,
Steve

Hi, I have a justspam.org issue. Our WP web server has been compromised and has been infected with a spam-sending virus. We have cleaned the infection but we got to many spamlists including justspam.org. The problem is, that we have never used this server (IP) as a mail server and we are using google services (not only) for emailing. We have made actions to block any smtp traffic from or to our web server. But that aslo means that we are not able to send de-listing email from our  IP.  This is a "catch 22 situation" when we are not able to send mail from that ip but the justpam.org server still keeps record that we used to spam and some of our customers' mail servers deny our mails as spam because they check our domain IP which ends on this IP... . How to get out of that? Is the only way to start webserver on that IP and send delisting mail? I would really hate to do that...

Hi, we are deploying our own Exchange Mail server but do not have budget for Email security devices, such as Dell Sonicwall or Barracuda. How can anyone please suggest the best AV software (license) for Exchange Mail server? we did some research and found out some options like Kaspersky , Avast , ESET, AVG but have not decided yet. Thank you.

Currently our Proofpoint can take from a few minutes to 3 hours before it detects new
emails containing certain attachments & links (ie new threats) are 'malicious' or spam.
To claw back malicious emails 2-3 hours later is rather late. Wud rather have late delivery.

Our Bluecoat MAA that protects against malicious downloading (or malicious sites) can
take up to several minute : just encountered one case yesterday where malicious .eot
files were downloaded by several users before it blocked users from downloading.
This Bluecoat MAA is supposed to protect against 0-day and unknown threats as well
but we have got quite a few infections/downloads in the past: possibly its 'sandboxing'
is not real-time / fast enough.

I'm hesistant to deploy endpoint IPS (HIPS) on workstations at this moment so skip
this for the time being as HIPS can impact legit services/apps if not tested thoroughly
while network based tools like MAA (& Trendmicro Discovery) are less disruptive.

Besides educating users (which we have done quite a lot), I'm looking for sandboxing
products that could perform much faster : I read one academic article that products
that implement 'prefetching' using multi layer of caches are much faster.  If they use
SSD, wud it be faster?

In particular against ransomware as one highly successful one as extracted below:

Sky News Technology Correspondent Tom Cheshire described the attack as "unprecedented". The ransomware appears to use NSA 0-day …

Some (not all) spam emails are not detected by the DNSBL filter.
In the hMailServer log I can see:
DNS lookup: 200.197.98.172.zen.spamhaus.org, 0 addresses found: (none), Match: False

But, if I try to execute the following command:
host 200.197.98.172.zen.spamhaus.org
it does return a match:
200.197.98.172.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.3

The hMailServer's spamhaus entry is configured as follows:

<DNSBlackList Name="zen.spamhaus.org" Score="3" RejectMessage="Rejected by Spamhaus." Active="1" ExpectedResult="127.0.0.2-7"/>

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We are using local Windows Server DNS service for caching and I can't find the missed DNS requests in the cache.

How that could be fixed?

Having a spam problem when I send the emails directly from my server, I asked my client to open an email account on her server.
I used smtp authentication with email address and email password.
Here is the detailed answer, can anybody explain me the reason that I cannot send and the solution please.
Thank you.


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    [level] => 1024
    [code] => 10006
    [message] => Failed to send data [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 550, response: 5.7.1 Rejected by spam filter (17211ed8-34a9-11e7-9a8c-336c9f1d8145) [CSP-02])]
    [userinfo] =>
    [backtrace] => Array
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                    [file] => /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/share/pear/PEAR.php
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                        (
                            [0] => Failed to send data [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 550, response: 5.7.1 Rejected by spam filter (17211ed8-34a9-11e7-9a8c-336c9f1d8145) [CSP-02])]
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