E-Mail and Spam Musings

The big client switched to AppRiver SpamLab, and for the first week I made fun of them because the percentage caught ranged from 70 to 90; no better than the alternative.

Since then, they’ve been reliably at or barely missing 100%, day in and day out.  I’m impressed.

Now it’s something else.  Each day they produce a held mail report so you can review what they caught and release anything that wasn’t actually spam.  I thought it was mildly amusing that everyone there was chided about checking their report each day, since I know even dealing with spam to that extent is the last thing some of them want.

After initially coming in the morning after the day they reported on, now the reports often come wildly late.  Strange.

Other than that, though, the service is excellent.

I found it interesting to learn recently that Google offers Gmail-based domain mail service.  I could take one of my domains, have MX records created pointing to Gmail servers, and then it would all flow through them.  It can be accessed through a special Gmail-like web interface, or through POP.  If the server that hosts the domain and web site is down, e-mail still gets through because it’s not going to the same place.  And of course it gets Gmail’s excellent spam scanning.

It’s tempting for the business, where I’m concerned enough about that sort of thing to be setting up a secondary (or possibly even mirror) site on different hosting.

1. I use Google Mail for Applications on all of my domains.  It’s totally awesome.  Great spam filter, easy to get your mail from anywhere.  And I pop it at home to keep a copy for myself.

   Now if only I could figure out how to sync my address book with Google, I’d be set.

   Posted by sama  on  05/02  at  09:57 AM  from 
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