Re: [exim] Filtering outgoing email - need advice

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Author: Pete McEvoy
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Filtering outgoing email - need advice
Hi Marc.
Unless your customers are in the bulk email business, you should be able
to identify unwanted traffic by volume.
If not, why not turn on your much talked about spam filter, or does it
not do outgoing spam?

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Pete

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:28:33AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm thinking about starting a service to filter spam on outgoing email.
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this and has some
> advice on how to do it. These customers will be businesses, not freemail
> customers, and one of the only real threats is if someone gets hacked or
> has some kind of web form that gets abused.
>
> The advantages for customers would be that many of them have dynamic IPs
> or static IP names that look dynamic and are worried about being
> blacklisted. And I'm hoping that by tracking who they send email to that
> I can match up replies and white list them.
>
> Does this sound like a good idea? I'd like to hear from someone who is
> doing this or people who have ideas about it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
>
>
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