With SPAM often accounting for up to 90% of the
email traffic on the internet, it is essential that counter-measures be
put in place to keep email as viable service. As a preferred email
hosting company, Alentus has made a significant investment in cutting
edge anti-spam technology to ensure that our email systems remain
viable. We have chosen a premium product recognized industry wide as the
best anti-spam / anti-virus firewall device - Barracuda
(http://www.barracudanetworks.com). To ensure that email is delivered
to your mailboxes in as timely a manner as possible, with the least
amount of Spam and Viruses possible, we have put multiple Barracudas in
place per Mail Server.
You may notice a few messages in your inbox which have "[Spam]" added to
their subject line. These are messages that fit enough criteria for
the Barracuda to suspect it as spam, but not enough for it to be sure it
is spam. We have adjusted the Barracuda to error on the side of
caution with such messages and have them delivered. If you find that
most of the messages suspected of being spam, are spam, you can setup a
filter in your mail client to move them to a folder automatically. If
you are receiving messages that are not spam but are labelled with
"[Spam]" in the subject line you can safely ignore the warning. Since
the Barracudas are continueally being updated with the latest detection
algorythms, chances are good that this condition will not persist for
long.
Even though the Barracuda units block some viruses we still recommend
that every computer should have an up to date virus scanner running on
it at all times.
Article ID: 94, Created: March 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Modified: March 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM