Anyone that has had email for more than a day has heard of spam.  It seems to come from nowhere and arrive in our mailboxes from people we’ve never met.  It is completely indiscriminant in whom it targets; it crosses all socio-economic boundaries, and yet, we can’t get rid of it.  The government has outlawed it, prosecuted offenders for it, and yet, it seems to be growing at an alarming rate. 

Time spent by employees removing spam from their inbox is time better spent on a task that actually contributes to the growth and profitability of your company.  This article goes beyond the basic enablement of Amavisd, ClamAV and SpamAssasin by showing autolearn Bayesian filtering and how to stop the ever so trendy file attachment spam.  Also covered is Greylisting and the popular new Razor-agents as well as several options of the postfix UCE Controls section of Insight Server. Do your company a favor and let Insight Server put a can on spam. 

There seems to be a bit of confusion about what e-mail archiving is, and how it differs from e-mail system backups. After all, both are about saving mail for longer periods of time and recovering items at will. I hope to shed a little light on the subject by explaining the differences between archiving and backup, and in which situations the one or the other is most appropriate.