Put Your E-mail Server to Good Use Pierre SD

Posted by : Drew Robb

Nobody likes to think that Big Brother is watching them. But with spam, viruses, other security threats and internal espionage running rampant these days, companies had better do some monitoring of their e-mail systems or they face could face trouble ahead. This article discusses ways to minimize these issues to discover such things as:

• How to eliminate virus troubles such as those caused by SoBig
• What service providers have customers which are trying to use your server for spam?
• And who in the company is receiving the most email and who do they receive it from?

For the purposes of this article we will focus on the popular iMail Server by Ipswitch Inc. in conjunction with a plug-in tool called Logalot by Somix Technologies.

“iMail is an inexpensive tool and includes a number of valuable features such as good anti-spam filtering, anti-virus, calendaring and multi-language support,” said Michael Osterman, an analyst at Black Diamond, Wash.-based Osterman Research. “But it needs a monitoring and reporting tool like Logalot to detect spam sources, email bandwidth hogs and other such problems.”

Let’s start with how to block viruses like SoBig. First, click on the hostname in IMail Administrator, select the Inbound Rules tab and click Add.

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