As an Admin of email service (10 Exchange servers so far on Campus) I'm very interested in the Anti-Spam features. I watched the video "Anti Spam Protection With The Edge Transport Server Role" hoping to see a change in the way the system works from Exchange 2003.
Of course any improvement would be great and I can see that the features with Exchange 2007 are good and step forward. However there is such a black and white view of the world with this feature.
In the University environment, mine at least, we have a mandate "don't block any email". Given the many and varied courses taught at a Uni, any and all topics can be covered in an email. As an example Sexology 101 doesn't want all their course queries and communication blocked. [I hope that sentence passed any filters you have ;)]
Other Anti-Spam products, that we pay your competitors for, have a huge range of configurable responses to an email considered spam. We choose "Tag as 'Spam', assign high SCL, and move to the Junk E-Mail folder". As such all email is received but the user can deal, hopefully, with the simple process of scanning the Junk E-Mail folder and deleting the spam and while still being able to read the false positives.
The issue is that Anti-Spam features of Exchange 2003 (IMF) and what appears to be the case in Exchange 2007 seem to be "block yes/no". What about tagging? What about allowing the email in but modifying it? What about options except blocking?
I hope to see some improvements with Exchange 2007 but if the only option is block or let it through then we will still have to pay another company a heap of cash each year to use their prodcut on top of Exchange.
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