Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Aug 11 18:50:32 CDT 2007
Hi Doug: I have not tried it myself (My ISP is Shaw which has excellent Spam filters) but actually know of a company that uses Gmail spam filter for their company and I have heard of others who swear by Gmail. Excellent choice. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:28 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam Folks, I'll add my recent experience, i.e., today. I act as webmaster for an organization I belong to;( gratuitous plug www.sdfwa.org ) I have all the email directed to the organization, not specificly to one of the accounts we have set up for officers sent to the webmaster account which is forwarded to my email account. Today some one started sending spam spoofing random names at sdfwa.org as the sender. I started getting all the bounces. I got something like 500 messages in a couple of hours. I just redirected the club email to one of my Gmail accounts and it filtered all the bogus messages as spam. I am impressed. This works way better than any of the spam blocking programs I have tried. FWIW Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:20 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam I get my (home) mail from a POP3 server too, and while my ISP does offer some Spam filtering, it's not up to much. *However* I long ago set up my Gmail account to go retrieve my POP3 mail for me. I get to see all my mail in one place, and Gmail's SPAM filter works a treat. If you need to you can also set up your mail client to retrieve your mail from your Gmail inbox via POP and have the best of both worlds. Lambert -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:25 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam Gustav, As soon as I pick you up on the control panel I "allow" your email so in fact you do not have to respond. Your email as well as every one else on the list that has popped up so far is now coming right through because I manually "allowed" you to. Either way, you respond or I allow, it only has to be done one time and then it works just fine. I have not had time yet to evaluate the full impact, but I am a small company, with a small number of regular correspondents (with the exception of this list). I can appreciate the "challenge / response sucks" mentality but I don't have a mail server under my control. I use the pop server that comes with my web site. This works at the client level and so I am trying it. My apologies for any inconvenience. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:06 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam Hi JC et al JC has sent this out, so now you cannot get to him directly. Aside the good intentions behind doing so, this will cause a lot of trouble, and I don't say too much if I - as a general warning - mention that the consensus between system people is, that as tempting these challenge-response system my seem, they represent a bad idea because the negative impact outweighs the positive. If you or your client run a mail server, I can strongly recommend SpamBunker: http://www.aimconsulting.ch/Spambunker/sbk-strategy.asp which is not free but cheap, and is superior to the common mail filtering systems. Thus, it requires no "learning", no maintenance, it works from the minute it is installed, and it handles massive amount of spam and/or mail even on modest hardware. We operate it here where we went from about 4000 spam mails per day to a handful per week after we had been under a week long attack with constantly 20 connections and more than 16000 connections per day. As a result we now promote this to our clients with serious spam troubles. /gustav --- >>> <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> 10-08-2007 13:58 >>> Hi, it's jwcolby. I finally decided I'd had enough of junk mail, and installed a fantastic application that gets rid of it all. Unfortunately, you are not yet in my trusted senders list!! 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