Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

OK, for all of you out there who work in a small business environment (or a “stingy” company, IT-wise), I have a recommendation for you on an excellent way to filter spam/virus email and even limited web traffic virus scanning - and best of all, it is free.
CopFilter (for the IPCop software firewall distribution)
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From the “You Had Me At EHLO” (aka, the Exchange Team):
The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) version 2.6 has been released.  Click here for the direct download as the ExBPA page hasn’t been updated from the 2.5 version as of yet.
Source:  You Had Me At EHLO 

Tags: ExBPA, Exchange

This is a rare Exchange posting, but with the release of MSFP ROM updates for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones, Direct Push is now a reality.  However, there are some optimization tweaks that can be done that would extend the battery life of the smart phone devices, plus there are some caveats [...]

Heads up from Susan about Verizon’s new policy on SMTP relaying with Dynamic IP’s…
I thought the reasoning of the ISP’s to port block TCP Port 25 was to direct all traffic through the ISP mail server (for spam and virus control - although I haven’t seen many major ISPs virus check on the gateway level).� [...]

On the matter of SpamAssassin, here is a good howto on how to install it on a Windows system:
USING SpamAssassin WITH WIN32
For low volume Exchange Systems, click here for a link on how to integrate SpamAssassin with Exchange Server 2000/2003 using event sinks.
Finally, click here for an Outlook SpamAssassin Plugin…

For those of you out there who use SpamAssassin to filter junk mail from your mailbox, I want to point y’all to a tool that can help decrease the amount of SPAM you are getting now that spammers are adjusting to the new SA rules. Take a peek at the Rules du Joursite - [...]