Anti-Spam Defence

Fighting Spam costs money! Not fighting Spam costs even more money. Lost productivity for North American companies is reaching staggering proportions, billions of dollars per year. The nature of UCE (unsolicited commercial email) is that once a way has been found to defeat one method, another is found to avoid detection. It is for this reason we continue to work on finding solutions that are both reliable and affordable while still being flexible enough to address your individual requirements. With this in mind, we are very pleased to announce the addition of a new Spam & Virus fighting solution, the Barracuda Spam Firewall 600.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that has the power of an enterprise-class solution and includes all the features needed to eliminate Spam and completely protect email servers from all forms of attack. Email may be blocked, quarantined, tagged, or delivered based on global policies or the preferences of the individual user.

The following provides an overview of the features and pricing for this new solution. For more information, please read AntiSpam-FAQ and Barracuda

	Virus scanning. Email is tagged and blocked based on system wide settings. All suspect messages will be tagged [BULK] and delivered to your inbox for further evaluation and action. External RBL (Real Time Blacklist) checking. Mail queuing in the event your mail server is unavailable (Mail is stored on the firewall). No user level controls.

	Virus scanning External RBL (Real Time Blacklist) checking. Mail queuing in the event your mail server is unavailable (Mail is stored on the firewall). User level controls Quarantine Enable/Disable Ability - Controls the user's ability to enable/disable their personal quarantine inbox. Spam Scan Enable/Disable Ability - Controls the user's ability to modify their personal spam settings. Notification Change Ability - Controls the user's ability to change the frequency and language of their quarantine summary notifications. Scoring Change Ability - Controls the user's ability to change the spam scores at which their emails are tagged, quarantined, and blocked. Use Bayesian Ability - Controls the user's ability to manage their personal Bayesian database. the spam scores at which their emails are tagged, quarantined, and blocked. Whitelist/Blacklist Ability - Controls the user's ability to add email addresses and domains into their personal whitelist and blacklist MS Outlook & Lotus Notes plug-ins that provide direct control of some features right from your inbox.

When you consider the cost of lost productivity alone, due to Spam, a company with 10 employees could very easily spend the cost of these new services within a day or 2 and that is a very conservative estimate. That cost is actually much higher when other factors such as storage, management and down time are considered.

Please read the Barracuda Usersguide and AntiSpam-FAQ for more information. The Barracuda Usersguide is only relivant if you are using Advanced Spam Protection. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this new Spam fighting solution, you may email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call us at 1-877-842-5150.

Please note that this system does not require any installation or configuration changes on your part if your domain has been registered with Expiry. Otherwise it will require that you make an mx record change in your DNS.