had been a problem to the point of preventing staff from bothering to check
email from home. We're down to a few users with busy quarantines, but VERY
FEW spam messages get through.
Postini inserts nicely between The World and your mail servers and quickly
filters out incoming spam and viruses. CAUTION: Postini (probably) won't
filter emails within your domain, as they probably never leave your server.
So if somebody brings a virus into the school via jump drive, it can spread
between your users, and they can send it outwards. Postini doesn't look at
outgoing emails.
There are some nice things you can do to customize Postini. For example,
you can set the time of day when the quarantine notice is sent out. I
initially had those messages arriving overnight (when traffic was lower) but
that meant that if a parent sent an urgent email in the morning which got
quarantined, the teacher wouldn't know about it until the NEXT morning. So
I have the quarantine notice go out at 2:00 pm - late enough to include most
of that day's traffic but early enough that staff have a chance to review
the list before dismissal. You can also pull up aggregate reports for you
domain, add 'alias' accounts to regular users, etc.
Postini has greatly improved my staff's productivity.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:48 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Google/Postini SPAM and Archiving
We've been using their SPAM filtering for about a year now. Love it.
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Caballero, John
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:24 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Google/Postini SPAM and Archiving
Is anyone using Google's message and Discovery service? Google bought a
company, Postini, and has products that move SPAM filtering, AV
filtering, as well as Archiving off your network to Google's servers.
The cost of doing this is very reasonable and seems to be the easiest
and cheapest way of meeting compliance related to E-discovery. I love
the idea of keeping all of the SPAM and AV email from ever reaching my
network and putting the users in charge of their own quarantine.
If anyone is using all or part of this service please let me know how it
has worked, how hard it is to setup/configure/maintain. Any feedback or
thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks,
John Caballero
Heathwood Hall Episcopal School
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