[colug-432] in search of spam/phishing filtering that doesn't suck

[Robert Grimm]

Before we moved all of our mail services to Rackspace, my company used Microsoft Frontbridge. All of the clients loved it. We almost never had any trouble with spam or malware. The error rate was very low. I think they renamed it Exchange Hosted Services.

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> On Sep 17, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I ran my own mail server for several years with spam assassin from the late 90s into the early 00s. It worked well enough if you kept up with the ruleset changes and the like. Most of my handful of users had migrated to other email services around the time gmail came along. The web UI was light years ahead of any other web mail provider, and they were great at filtering spam. I rarely use the web UI anymore in favor of a desktop or mobile client, so the only thing left for me with my gmail account is how long I've had it and the spam filtering.
> 
> We've discussed on this list a few times how Google is filtering at least a few COLUG members' emails to spam without good reason, and there seems to be no way around it. Now I just found where Google filtered one of my own emails (not @gmail, but my linux.com <http://linux.com/> which is registered under my gmail account) -- to spam.
> 
> What are you guys doing for your email as far as spam and phishing filtering? Are you doing something yourself server side? Client side? I've found over and over again in the past (and when it is turned on by default and I don't realize it) that the filtering in email clients sucks, and so I always turn it off. Google has the advantage of bazillions of emails to make a decent guess at what's spam and what's not. Even with that, they're starting to suck at it too. I've been left very confused over the last year or so several times because gmail filters out a single message - or two - from a COLUG thread.
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
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