Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-28 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2013-01-28 at 15:25 -0500, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > But, we're doing a poor job on educating our users to not respond to > phishing and having their accounts compromised or that its not funny > to mark emails forwarded from their accounts in hotmail/gmail/etc. as > spam just because the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-28 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
We outsource email to Zimbra, initially to Yahoo! and currently being hosted by Merit. I was originally stumped on why FOPE would restrict forwarding...but than I remembered that Universities are kind of special when it comes to email. How soon I forgot what life outside was like At previ

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-25 Thread David Moran
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote: > AV Test does not think very highly of FOPE. I heard a report from the > folks > managing our enterprise anti-virus solution. Forefront is the only major > player in the market that AV Test has "decertified". The do not recommend > using i

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-25 Thread Billy Vierra
AV test is a test of obscure virus' that completely misses the biggest test, usability. Sure if you have a 400mb definition you are going to catch a lot more of the obscure virus' out there but you also make computers a lot slower. Before I switched from Symantec endpoint to forefront I had a minim

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-22 Thread Lance A. Brown
AV Test does not think very highly of FOPE. I heard a report from the folks managing our enterprise anti-virus solution. Forefront is the only major player in the market that AV Test has "decertified". The do not recommend using it for enterprise anti-virus. http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/corp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-20 Thread Greg R
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:37:10 -0500, John Slee wrote: On 21 January 2013 00:58, Greg R wrote: We had a regular flow of forward-to-gmail users wondering how mail from us ended up in the google spam bins, and getting told that's the price of not using the University mail-systems. Really? D

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-20 Thread John Slee
On 21 January 2013 00:58, Greg R wrote: > We had a regular flow of forward-to-gmail users wondering how mail from us > ended up in the google spam bins, and getting told that's the price of not > using the University mail-systems. Really? Did you ever stop to wonder _why_ Google might think they

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-20 Thread Greg R
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:59:33 -0500, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: So, does this mean users on our system that have their account configured to forward to another serviceas in most current and all former students (Alumni get forwarding for life). That FOPE would not accept mail origi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
So, in skimming the docsI found: Outbound access through the FOPE service network is IP and domain-restricted. All outbound email messages that pass through the FOPE pool of outbound email servers are scanned for viruses, matches to policy filter rules, and spam charac

[lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
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