Postini trial just started

[Natty]

We are a tiny company. I put 3 email accounts on Postini for the free trial this weekend. We customarily are getting several hundred spams per account per day.

I have read the posts where people's spam has increased dramatically with Postini. While I realize we've only been running this since Saturday, I've been amazed at the dearth of emails in our Postini message center. Granted, the weekend is usually lighter. However, Monday morning typically brings a couple of hundred spams. There are less than 40 in my message center junk folder since Sunday night.

We do have to check all the emails, b/c our clients (and potential clients) sometimes get spammed out. I'm just kind of worried b/c it seems like I should be seeing more emails, and I'm wondering where they are. Even if they're junk, shouldn't I be seeing them?

Should I be concerned?

Natty
:confused:

[mr. nervous]

The point of Postini is to eradicate spam, and since you were seeing a few hundred spams, now you're only seeing 40 because it filtered out the 60.

I'm not sure if it usually shows them though.

[Natty]

Thanks for the reply. But shouldn't I be able to see them somewhere, so that I can decide if any should be delivered? I'm seeing about 30-40, and I did choose 3 to be delivered. It just seems like there should be more.

Natty

[Early Out]

Just a hunch, but now that your messages are being routed through Postini's servers, they may simply be refusing to connect at all to certain types of other mail servers, and are thereby avoiding some of the worst spam dumps. The garbage never even makes it as far as the filters, so you never see it.

[Natty]

Wow. That's interesting. So emails from "legit" potential clients shouldn't be lost in that maelstrom (or MAILstrom!) of spam that whirls away into the ether without lighting on bluehost/postini servers.

Natty

[mrschwarz]

My experience with Postini is that it catches almost all spam and a whole lot of email that isn't spam. I am still searching for a way to train it better.

After more than a year, it's better than nothing. Not a lot better than nothing.

[Natty]

Well, after the trial weeks of Postini, I signed us up for real. It has changed my life! I'm not going through 700 (or more!) spams a day, looking for the two or three that are legitimate. We have found a few client emails that have been marked as spam, but as far as I can tell we haven't had any turned away at the server level.

I'm a happy girl!

Mr. Schwartz, I hope you find peace...


Robin

[WebshoppeSolutions]

700+ spams a day? .. :eek:

I don't even get 700+ spams a month and I'm a pretty busy guy on the mail server.

I get no spam at all on my domain mail and only 3 or 4 a day from the Google IMAP ... and that's about it.

As an added note;

I stopped using paid news/e-mailing/filitering services years ago, and have instead managed all of my mailings from my desk.
I use Outlook express, and have developed our own templated mail, complete with purchase links, if needed. Coding in Outlook Express isn't really any different than coding in Dreamweaver, as long as you remember to use absolute links in your newsletter, drawn off of your domain, your client will see all of what you see.

Chances are pretty good that if one were to learn how to read email headers, cPanel could do the rest in turning 95% of the spam around ... and this would be the kind of filtering that would never show you what you could've gotten by way of spam.