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Skycon Talk – Email Filtering

February 17, 2007 by Michele Neylon 7 Comments

If anyone wants the slides from my talk yesterday afternoon here they are:
Open Office format
PDF format

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Filed Under: blacknight, Linux, MailScanner, Open Source, skycon, Spam Filtering, Techie :: Techno ::

Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight. Read More…

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  1. Robbert says

    February 17, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Hey how are you,
    Just read your presentation.
    Surprising to see that the TOP 5 contains 4 european countries. Even more since the EU has stated that spam is not to be tolerated anymore and is a criminal offense.
    Something that is not really clear to me (but you know im not native English ;)). Do you or don’t you submit back your scores to blacklists ?
    Anyway very clear story, when will the webcast be available 😉
    Rob

  2. michele says

    February 17, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Rob
    Don’t forget that a lot of spam comes from infected PCs, so the actual source of the spam may not be in Europe (it might be)
    Automated reporting of spam can be quite dangerous, but we do manually submit samples to spamcop and uribl
    Michele

  3. Robbert says

    February 17, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    Yeah that is why asked about the submission !
    I thought be reading your presentation that you automated that.

  4. Stephen says

    February 18, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    Good presentation Michele – quick one tho – I assume Blacknight doesnt spam/virus filter -all- it’s customer’s email? As you’re estimate of 100k-300k mail users on your network would require vast scanning resources?

  5. Robbert says

    February 18, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    I think they do indeed scan all mails from their clients. Perhaps for some windows users they dont..

  6. Stephen says

    February 18, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    Well, from our experience, we offer scanning as an optional extra, and see levels requiring 4 way xeon servers roughly per 10k users. 300k users would need 120 cpu’s just to process the spam/viruses, not to mention storage for qurantine, etc. Doing spam filtering and virus checking well is extremely difficult, especially when the end users expectation is that mail will not be delayed.

  7. michele says

    February 19, 2007 at 7:50 am

    Stephen
    We’ve always done filtering for ALL of our linux hosting accounts. While this does mean we need to use beefier hardware our setup is very different to yours
    Michele

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