[colug-432] Off site email hosting

[Angelo]

David - I know where you're coming from. At one time, I ran my mail though a spam filter kit that I liken to the way the commercial spam filters are built: using a layered defense strategy. I blocked known RBL IPs on connection; I verified the recipient and sender address were valid, I used distributed checksum checking, spamassassin rules updated daily on a feed, virus definitions updated hourly, ocr of graphic images to look for image spam, and so on. My hit rate on killing spam was near perfection and my false positives were equally as good.

The beauty of my system was that the earliest checks in the stack were also the least resource-intensive. Only after a message had passed the early tests would my system spend the system resources to scan the content beyond that.  The system works very well end very efficiently. 

But then I realized the overhead of running that, and the amount of touch required is more time than I have. Kids, real job, family stuff-- or spend every available minute of spare time maintaining mail...

Enter gmail:  I run my domain there, and have pop, imap, catch-all, and any other reasonable feature available to me. The spam filtering is a learning filter so it gets better the more mail of yours it sees. 

Bottom line:  gmail is as good as what I can do on my own, free, and I don't have to worry about it.  The difference in the spam it doesn't catch (less than one piece per week) versus the time commitment I no longer make managing mail made it a no brainer.

Angelo



On Aug 29, 2011, at 6:24 AM, "David Sherman" <davidhsherman at insight.rr.com> wrote:

> Gmail doesn't work for me. Some days, I get about 500 email messages with
> 400 spam messages. I could never get gmail to filter the spam properly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colug-432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug-432-bounces at colug.net] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Potter
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:41 PM
> To: colug-432 at colug.net
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Off site email hosting
> 
> On 8/28/2011 10:39 AM, David Sherman wrote:
>> I want to purchase an email account. My needs are:
>> 1.    Mail come from a pop account. This is an individual account thus no
>> MX record.
>> 2.    Spam filter that goes into a junk filer.
>> 3.    Mail check every 30 minutes.
>> 4.    Mail starts copy to your account and after testing then moves to
>> your account.
>> 5.    Cost for 1 account of around $5.00 a month.
>> 6.    I want to copy the email messages to Outlook 2010 on 2 machines and
>> later move to another email package
>> 
>> I have looked at Microsoft Office 65 but for me there is no spam filer.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a way I can do this?
>> 
>> thanks
> 
> I guess what I don't understand from your requirements is why gmail isn't a
> valid alternative for you?
> 
> -spp
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