Re: [cobalt-users] Spam/AV & Secure Encrypted Email

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Troy, thanks for the extensive list of links. This will help a bunch.

You're looking for a lot more protection in your system than we are here,
because you're asking it to do more. Our users here in the office are our
only users, so I have control over the desktops, which you don't.

> 3. Enhancing E-Mail Security With Procmail
> ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/sanitizer-configuration.html

This is an old URL. The most-current version will be linked from
<http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html>. Current version:
1.132.

> pjm says...
> <snip>
> and quotes me before putting me on the spot:
> <snip>
> I didn't put you on the spot! Your advice really cinched my decision to
> utilize Amavis w/Kasperksy for an added level of protection. So thanks! We
> want to provide spam & virus protected email accounts (at an added cost of
> course) along with providing our own encryption keys, see below.

Perhaps I should've said, "exposed the linguistic limb I was out on." :-)

This is really a business quibble, but: it would be more logical to charge
extra for the accounts which AREN'T spam and virus protected. After all,
they'll be sucking more resources in the long run - more network traffic,
more help desk calls, etc. etc.

More to the point, we've all heard the arguments about how one of the
significant problems with spam is that the cost of advertising is borne by
the consumer, not the advertiser. By charging extra for an account without
spam protection, you not only make this point clear, but avoid the creation
of a system whereby you have a financial interest in the continuation of
spam.

pjm