Re: [Assp-test] Moving to 3rd party email archiving service - What settings should I change?

[Hill, B. <bre...@nl...>]

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> From: Grayhat [mailto:gr...@gm...]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Assp-test] Moving to 3rd party email archiving service -
What
> settings should I change?
> 
> 
> > My company is moving to a 3rd party email archiving service.  Our MX
> > records will be changed to point to that service.  They will run
their
> > anti-spam checks on incoming email and then pass through the emails
> > that pass the checks (sounds like a store and forward type service).
> 
> Hmm... from the above description it resembles a lot this service
> 
> http://www.exchangedefender.com/
> 
> now, it isn't all that bad, especially if your bosses want a "set and
forget"
> solution, but it also means that you'll totally loose control over the
filtering;
> not just that, due to the "general" approach, you will get more junk
mail
> since such a service can't perform "fine tuned filtering" or they'll
risk FPs or
> face the "my spam is your ham" issue so, if the whole thing works as
above
> (see URL) you may still make use of ASSP; keep it running as it is but
ensure
> to add the "external MX"
> IPs to your "ISP IP" at that point, you may use ASSP to perform the
"fine
> filtering" while the upstream filters will run the "coarse" one

It is similar to Exchangedefender.  I've got it set in ispip now.  It
seems to be working well so far.  However, I don't know that it's caught
any spam yet.  I'm trying to clear out my ccspam mailbox so I can get a
good idea of what's going on.

Thanks,
Brett