Filtering Spam on MS Exchange Email Server
MS Exchange Server – Filtering Spam Effectively
By: John J. Oimann
Due to the increasing amount of spam, effective filters are needed to monitor and block junk messages, it is the only way to ensure correct functioning of Microsoft Exchange
Unwanted mail adds trouble and decreases productivity and is a major threat to todays business world . Thousands of deceptive and indecent e-mails are sent to companies in bulk on a daily basis. The term Spam is a commonly used jargon to explain promotional and undesirable e-mails. Spam is not an acronym, thus it doesn’t denote something. A spam e-mail is usually an e-mail with commercial content that is sent to thousands of recipients who never requested any kind of information from the person or organisation sending it.
Getting huge volume of unwanted commercial e-mails can significantly cost the individuals and businesses a lot of time and resources as they have to sort out the legitimate mails, removing the unsolicited messages and this process, at times, become very exhaustive and frustrating, thus hindering efficiency.
Removing spam is a lengthy process; performance of the e-mail server gets several affected and network security is also put at greater risk from malevolent e-mails. Added to that, a company also risk that spam e-mails causes harm to systems and network that cannot be repaired which means disorder, work loss and increased costs.
The only guard against the threat from spam is professional asistance ensuring complete security and protection. Make sure your mail server is shielded properly to assure that every byte of passing data is filtered and blocked against spam. Normally a spam filter for an e-mail server is software that analyzes every incoming e-mail, detects spam based on standard configurations and removed the unwanted junk mails so they never end up in the users’ inbox Microsoft Exchange Mail Server is often used as preferred mail server for businesses and this system makes e-mail communication fast and resourceful.
Anti spam plugins for Microsoft Exchange is a great help filtering and preventing junk mail. Filtering spam at server level allows for an automatic spam dectection and removel process that occurs before spam reaches your internal network and internal computers An automatic procedure that filters out spam is recommended because it protects your internal network and each single connected personal computer. In addition is prevents loss of work and user downtime.
No technology used to filter spam is perfect. Periodically a network administrator still needs to monitor all filtered mails to prevent that Microsoft Exchange does not block legitimate mails.
