I got a notice from VamSoft (maker of ORF) that version 4.0 had been released and has 64-bit support. In the notice was a new feature that blocks Auto Replies (such as Out of Office) from adding the sender to the whitelist - an added risk I had not thought of. At least this way OoO messages sent to spammers do not inadvertantly hand the spammer's a bypass on future filtering. I am hoping that this lookup is further developed to block sending auto responses to non-whitelist addresses.
Bummer factor is that although version 4.0 supports 64-bit...they postponed acutal Exchange 2007 support until 4.1...in a couple more months. In the mean time I keep searching for some way to block these replies to non-safe-senders on the server.
-Todd C.
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Stulce
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:30 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
We're on Exchange 2003 so maybe in 2007 it's different, but you open the
user properties in ADS, Exchange General tab, then open the Delivery
Restrictions button. There is a dialog for Accept Email. Tedious yes,
but it would work... and the user wouldn't be able to manipulate their
own list.
SpamBayes will work with Outlook 2003 on the client side, I don't know
if they've added Outlook 2007 support yet.
We use GFI MailEssentials and set it up on a separate server (older
hardware we had onsite) as our spam filter. Incoming SMTP comes into
the GFI server then if deemed good is sent to the Exchange server via
SMTP. Exchange and GFI talk over SMTP. We get about 5000 emails a
day, 90% of it spam, by off loading to separate hardware from our
Exchange server, it made our Exchange faster. GFI does have an
integrated mode. We didn't use it because I wanted to off load the
processor load and we don't need to worry about the spam filter being
compatible with future versions of Exchange as the two communicate via
SMTP. There is an user client to train the GFI filters that is very
easy to use.
Thanks,
Randy Stulce
<http://www.companionsystems.com/> <http://www.companionsystems.com/>
<http://www.companionsystems.com/>
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:09 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
Thanks. I've looked all over to find a way to accept mail only from
"Safe Senders" but did not find it. Then again I was looking in the
rules wizard. I did not see a way to test against the safe senders. But
being on the client would not help my notebook users who "take it with
them". I was hoping for something on the server side. I'm not even sure
where the safe senders lists are stored for each user....the SQL Server
DB perhaps?
We had enterprise wide spam filtering until we went to Exchange 2007 (64
bit) and Open Relay Filter (ORF) would not work. ORF is cheap and does a
great job. They claim 64-bit support is on the way for the next version
but until then we make do with the limited Exchange capabilities. On the
clients I've used SpamBayes for years and I do like it a lot. Between
the Outlook 2003 junk filtering and it the spam is manageable but there
is no need to invite more with Out of Office confirmations.
-Todd C.
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Randy Stulce
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:03 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
Well, you could set their email account to only accept email from a
"safe senders list" then have them turn on out of office. You need
rights to change their ADS settings to do this though.
Do you have any Enterprise wide spam filter? If not you could setup
SpamBayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html
<http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html> ) it's a good
free Spam Filter for individual users. I use it at home to kill spam
and once trained it works great. But each of your users would have to
train it as it runs locally on their PC.
We used it at work for some users until we got our enterprise wide
filter up and running.
Thanks,
Randy Stulce
<http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> > <
http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> >
<http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> >
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>]
On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
I tell people to not use "out of office" notices in order to avoid
increase in junk mail. Our President requires people with customer
contact to use them. Then they complain about all the new junk mail. I
had the thought that it would be nice to limit these messages to people
on "safe senders list". Anyone know if this is possible in Outlook 2003?
Something to look forward to in Outlook 2007? Any way to construct a
"rule" that does this? Or maybe something in Exchange 2007 on the server
side that can limit OoO responses?
Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg Co.
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Bummer factor is that although version 4.0 supports 64-bit...they postponed acutal Exchange 2007 support until 4.1...in a couple more months. In the mean time I keep searching for some way to block these replies to non-safe-senders on the server.
-Todd C.
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Stulce
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:30 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
We're on Exchange 2003 so maybe in 2007 it's different, but you open the
user properties in ADS, Exchange General tab, then open the Delivery
Restrictions button. There is a dialog for Accept Email. Tedious yes,
but it would work... and the user wouldn't be able to manipulate their
own list.
SpamBayes will work with Outlook 2003 on the client side, I don't know
if they've added Outlook 2007 support yet.
We use GFI MailEssentials and set it up on a separate server (older
hardware we had onsite) as our spam filter. Incoming SMTP comes into
the GFI server then if deemed good is sent to the Exchange server via
SMTP. Exchange and GFI talk over SMTP. We get about 5000 emails a
day, 90% of it spam, by off loading to separate hardware from our
Exchange server, it made our Exchange faster. GFI does have an
integrated mode. We didn't use it because I wanted to off load the
processor load and we don't need to worry about the spam filter being
compatible with future versions of Exchange as the two communicate via
SMTP. There is an user client to train the GFI filters that is very
easy to use.
Thanks,
Randy Stulce
<http://www.companionsystems.com/> <http://www.companionsystems.com/>
<http://www.companionsystems.com/>
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:09 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
Thanks. I've looked all over to find a way to accept mail only from
"Safe Senders" but did not find it. Then again I was looking in the
rules wizard. I did not see a way to test against the safe senders. But
being on the client would not help my notebook users who "take it with
them". I was hoping for something on the server side. I'm not even sure
where the safe senders lists are stored for each user....the SQL Server
DB perhaps?
We had enterprise wide spam filtering until we went to Exchange 2007 (64
bit) and Open Relay Filter (ORF) would not work. ORF is cheap and does a
great job. They claim 64-bit support is on the way for the next version
but until then we make do with the limited Exchange capabilities. On the
clients I've used SpamBayes for years and I do like it a lot. Between
the Outlook 2003 junk filtering and it the spam is manageable but there
is no need to invite more with Out of Office confirmations.
-Todd C.
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Randy Stulce
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:03 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
Well, you could set their email account to only accept email from a
"safe senders list" then have them turn on out of office. You need
rights to change their ADS settings to do this though.
Do you have any Enterprise wide spam filter? If not you could setup
SpamBayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html
<http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html> ) it's a good
free Spam Filter for individual users. I use it at home to kill spam
and once trained it works great. But each of your users would have to
train it as it runs locally on their PC.
We used it at work for some users until we got our enterprise wide
filter up and running.
Thanks,
Randy Stulce
<http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> > <
http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> >
<http://www.companionsystems.com/ <http://www.companionsystems.com/> >
________________________________
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<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
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On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Outlook 2003 Out of Office Rules
I tell people to not use "out of office" notices in order to avoid
increase in junk mail. Our President requires people with customer
contact to use them. Then they complain about all the new junk mail. I
had the thought that it would be nice to limit these messages to people
on "safe senders list". Anyone know if this is possible in Outlook 2003?
Something to look forward to in Outlook 2007? Any way to construct a
"rule" that does this? Or maybe something in Exchange 2007 on the server
side that can limit OoO responses?
Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg Co.
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