Even though we outsourced our email (Zimbra), landing on Microsoft's blocklist has been a chronic problem. But, apparently through our Microsoft Campus agreement we can get access to their "Forefront Online Protection for Exchange" (FOPE) service. Which they said will guarantee to keep us off of their blocklists.
>From what I understand its just a spam/virus filtering service...so we need to >get our hosting provider to send all our email to them, and then deliver the >emails we get back. Though apparently this is hard for them to do....and they think their own IronPort cluster would probably be just as effective. Except that after a couple of years of talking about it, they still haven't done it. I'm wondering what people know about FOPE, and how well it works, doesn't work, etc. And, how to do it for a Zimbra environment. FWIW, our on campus smtp has always been doing filtering through clamav (which has the SANESECURITY filters, which on occasion does stop a compromised host sending phishing emails) and about a year and half ago I threw in spamassassin on the outgoing (though that has turned into a quite a bit of work in dealing with false positives, without increasing the flow of false negatives....people on campus can't seem to write non-spammy looking emails) Which is why their doing outbound spamfiltering has always been so controversial. ======================== MS FOPE link: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/forefront-online-protection-for-exchange.aspx FOPE User Guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715254.aspx -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: lkc...@ksu.edu Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
