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Better Spam Filtering with Exchange Online Mail Flow Rules

June 14, 2018 by Paul Cunningham 5 Comments

Better Spam Filtering with Exchange Online Mail Flow Rules

How to use Exchange Online mail flow rules to improve the effectiveness of your EOP spam filtering and protect Office 365 users from phishing attacks.

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Exchange Online Anti-Spam, EOP, Mail Flow Rules, Phishing, Spam, Transport Rules

The Curious Case of the Quarantined Azure AD Identity Protection Weekly Digests

December 5, 2017 by Paul Cunningham 5 Comments

The Curious Case of the Quarantined Azure AD Identity Protection Weekly Digests

A curious case of legitimate Azure Active Directory Identity Protection weekly digest emails being quarantined by Exchange Online Protection when international spam filtering is enabled.

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Exchange Online Anti-Spam, Azure AD Identity Protection, EOP, Exchange Online Protection, SPF

Advanced Threat Protection Notes from the Field

April 21, 2016 by Paul Cunningham 30 Comments

Advanced Threat Protection Notes from the Field

Here’s my experience using the Advanced Threat Protection features in Exchange Online Protection to protect my Office 365 tenant.

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Exchange Server Anti-Spam, Antivirus, Exchange Online Protection, Malware, Office 365

Managing Changes to MX Records and Incoming Email Traffic

November 22, 2012 by Paul Cunningham 13 Comments

Managing Changes to MX Records and Incoming Email Traffic

How to plan, test and implement changes to MX records and inbound email traffic routes in an Exchange Server environment.

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Exchange Server Anti-Spam, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, MX Records, Smart Host

Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Server: Configuring IP Block List Providers

May 14, 2011 by Paul Cunningham 17 Comments

Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Server: Configuring IP Block List Providers

How to configure an Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport server to use Spamhaus as an IP Block List Provider.

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Exchange Server Anti-Spam, Edge Transport, Exchange 2010, Spamhaus

Vircom modusGate and directQuarantine Review

May 1, 2011 by Paul Cunningham 2 Comments

Vircom modusGate and directQuarantine Review

modusGate by Vircom is an email security product that includes anti-spam and anti-virus protection, as well as a range of other useful security and administrative features that are configurable to an impressive depth.

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Reviews Anti-Spam, Antivirus, directQuarantine, Exchange 2010, modusGate, Vircom

What Are You Telling Customers About the Epsilon Data Breach?

April 10, 2011 by Paul Cunningham Leave a Comment

What Are You Telling Customers About the Epsilon Data Breach?

The Epsilon data breach that compromised tens of millions of email addresses has been the big news of the email world lately. What are you telling your customers to expect?

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Exchange Server Anti-Spam, Aweber, Epsilon, ESP, iContact, Phishing, Security, Spam

Understanding the Exchange Server Spam Confidence Level

June 24, 2010 by Paul Cunningham 1 Comment

If you have looked at Exchange Server’s anti-spam features or taken a peek at the headers of an email sent through an Exchange server you have probably encountered the term SCL before.

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Exchange Server Anti-Spam, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, SCL

Review of GFI MailEssentials

January 12, 2010 by Paul Cunningham 2 Comments

Review of GFI MailEssentials

GFI MailEssentials is an anti-spam and email management product from GFI Software delivering 99% accuracy for spam detection and email management tools for Exchange Server environments.

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Reviews Anti-Spam, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, GFI, MailEssentials

Evaluating Anti-Spam Software

May 28, 2009 by Paul Cunningham 1 Comment

Evaluating Anti-Spam Software

I used to do some work for a customer who’s idea of running an evaluation of a new system was to pick one product, put it in, then if it sort of worked good enough to just buy that one.  Over the long term some of these choices turned out to be less than ideal. […]

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