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Sender Policy Framework

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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=3529
Printed Date: 26 December 2024 at 1:15pm


Topic: Sender Policy Framework
Posted By: keizersozay
Subject: Sender Policy Framework
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 10:41am

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Hi Roberto,
..Just checking to see if a future implementation of a 'sender policy framework' is still in the works. I hope so as this could be very promising if it gains enough steam.

one more wish...
If you do include the SPF feature in the future it would be great if we could give that priority over whitelisting. I know in the past people have asked to be able to set their own order of operations, but just being able to adjust this would be very helpful.

Thanks again.




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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 4:39pm

Actually SPF, along with integrating SpamFilter ISP with an email antivirus scanner, are the next top two items on the todo list that are going to be worked on. Hopefully pre-release builds will be available within a few weeks with these new features.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software



Posted By: bpogue99
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 5:13pm

Roberto, I dare say that most mail servers have some form of anti-virus running on them already so maybe there's a way to tell during the install. What I'm thinking is that multiple anti-virus engines running on a single mail server may cause problems. For the 12 or so installs of SFISP we have they all have some form of virus protection already installed that filters out virus emails. So maybe an option to install or not install this "add-on" would be nice. <G>

bill



Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 11:42pm

No need to ask, the enable/disable antivirus will be there!

RE the "most mail servers have antivirus" that is not actually the case... There's many users who either do not run any, or have a file-based antivirus that catches some, but not all, of the infected emails. We'll be partnering with another vendor to provide inline scanning of the SMTP traffic to block viruses before they're forwarded to your SMTP server. If users already have an AV solution, they can simply disable this feature.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software



Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06 May 2004 at 1:35pm

Roberto will there be a cost increase with the addition of using a third party for anti-virus in SFISP?  As I suspect a large portion of SF users already have anti-virus implimentations in place and would probably not want to pay for a feature they don't need.



Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 06 May 2004 at 11:43pm

Alan,

This issue is part of why we have not integrated an antivirus solution yet. We would not want existing users having to incur in additional cost since their software maintenance should include that, however the antivirus is a third party that requires fees to keep updated. We're looking for a solution that will make everyone happy, and hopefully we'll find one. In any case we'd never have users pay extra for a feature they will not use.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software



Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 May 2004 at 12:41am

Roberto,

I'd like to chime in on this topic.  We are very interested in seeing the SpamFilter antivirus solution.  Besides all of the different "types" of users that have been mentioned, there are a few of us who have an AV solution, but we are not satisfied with it... and would have much more faith in LogSat to provide an effective and reasonably-priced solution than our current vendor (this vendor will remain unnamed; I do not want to focus any attention on this sad excuse for a communications software company or inadvertently send any business their way).

We are still running their content filtering application that includes antivirus.  When we licensed this app nearly five years ago, it was "state of the art" and a very good package at an affordable price.  But then, the company was sold, and you can guess what happened... the new ownership group focused on sales, sales, sales, and forgot about product development.  They shut down the support center, dismissed the 10 year veterans who knew the company's software inside-out, and turned this job over to their in-house help desk people who thought "RBL" was chat-room slang for "Really Bad Looking."  They force-fed updates by making support prohibitively expensive on everything but their latest release, and charged ever-increasing prices for these bug-filled software releases.  It was our strong dissatisfaction with this company, their practices and their new pricing structure that sent us searching for alternatives. 

SpamFilter is handling ALMOST all of the content filtering capability that was once handled by this application, and doing a job that's ten times better for about 1/3rd of the price.  The only reason we still need to have the old application around is its virus filter (which uses a Norman AntiVirus engine -- the AV engine itself works great). 

If LogSat comes out with an affordable alternative that would allow me to drop this content filtering application once and for all, you can count me in!

Jim



Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 08 May 2004 at 5:31pm

Thanks for the comments Jim, we hope to have this plugin ready soon as well. FYI, Norman is the partner we're looking at.

Roberto F.
LogSat Software




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