Spam has become a serious concern for all businesses online

Due to the increase of the recent Spam attacks by Spammers, and studies indicating it will get worth we are suggestion that ALL EMAIL USERS of the standard POP service upgrade their accounts to Spam & Virus control protection on the domain level.

Even though Imail server subscribes to Blacklist to delete email originating from spam listed servers; all mail including Spam has to be processed prior to being identified. With the increase of Spam activity you may have been experiencing SLOW EMAIL PROCESSING (sending/receiving) &/or EMAIL CORRUPTION (losing good email sent to you or from you) 

Even though after processing thousands of spam is being deleted after processing; still spam accounts for most of the incoming email to users; companies wasting unproductive time sorting through the junk email and loose money at the risk losing good email.

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Spam Risen for Fifth Quarter in a Row to 95%

Ipswitch Inc has published the seventh Spamometer survey results, revealing that spam is now at its highest rate since recording began. How high would that be? Well for the same spring period last year the measure was some 62% of all received email, that has risen to an incredible 95% of all email received according to the network monitoring specialists.

Of this number, 34% can be attributed to the growing scourge of pharmacy spam, narrowly pipping financial and phishing on 33% to the top (dis)honor. Gambling on 7% and Pornography on 5% make up the top four spaces, assuming that we discount the actual third place category of ‘undecipherable’ on 12%.

This report comes hot on the coat-tails of an IDC study which warned that more than 40 billion spam messages would be sent worldwide during 2007, courtesy of a combination of the success in getting image-based spam past filtering mechanism and the increased response rates via email sender ID spoofing.

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Solutions To Combat Spam

We have been testing several services that filters Spam & Virus infected emails prior to getting processed. We were looking for a service that would:

• Eradicate Viruses and spam

• Nearly zero system downtime

• Affordable licensing

There are 2 very effective solutions:

• Managed Email:

  • This managed E-Mail Solution does more than handle all your business' email needs. It handles all of the email worries. The complexities and inconveniences of running your in-house email system are instantly relieved. Hardware and software issues are eliminated. Viruses and spam are eradicated. And system downtime is reduced to nearly zero.

• M/S Outlook Exchange Shared Solution:

  • Cost-effective shared service to give smaller businesses enterprise-strength Exchange without the expense, time and risk of an in-house server Our Exchange Hosting allows your team: to unlock the features of Microsoft Outlook®; Stops Spam, worms and viruses before reaching your inbox and Go Wireless with support for BlackBerry, Microsoft Pocket PC/ SmartPhone devices and Treo devices.

Main Features of BOTH:

• Equally effective at combating Spam & Viruses

• Monitored by 3rd party to filter out Spam & Viruses prior to email reaching email server.

• In box on server & local mail client is free from Viruses & Spam

• User friendly  Webmail environment

  • Managed Email uses yahoo like inter-phase

  • Exchange uses  MS Outlook

• Webmail designed to be used as web client

Main Differences M/S Exchange:

• MS outlook on local & server are synchronized with same messages, folders, calendar, tasks & address book

• Collaboration suite allowing team work with backend office environment & communication

• Perfect synchronization with  Wireless PDA messaging –i.e. BlackBerry, Microsoft Pocket PC/ SmartPhone devices and Treo devices