OT: anyone know how to do server-side MS-Exchange filters?

[Jason Haar <Ja...@trimble.co.nz>]

We currently have to rely on users to create "Rules Wizard" settings
under Outlook to filter off their Spam (via "X-Spam-Status:" headers).

What would be better is if Exchange could do like procmail/maildrop and
allow the SysAdmin to create the rule on the server - so it hits everyone.

It should create a "Spam" folder per mailbox and deliver high-scoring
spam to that instead of the INBOX

Has anyone done this, and if so, what sort of tools allow it?

Thanks!

(2006, and still waiting for Microsoft to do what was done 15 years ago
on "older" systems...)

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Re: OT: anyone know how to do server-side MS-Exchange filters?

[Tim Litwiller <ti...@litwiller.net>]

When you create filters in outlook connected to exchange you can chose 
if the filter is server or client side. 

disclaimer - I don't know what versions of outlook or exchange are 
required to make it work.
at my previous job where we had exchange I had outlook 2000 and I don't 
know what version of exchange.

The main problem was that sometime it would mess up and try to run a 
client rule on the server and fail.

Jay Lee wrote:
> John D. Hardin wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Jason Haar wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Has anyone done this, and if so, what sort of tools allow it?
>>>     
>>
>> A Linux mail relay in front of the Exchange server. :)
>>   
> That wouldn't allow messages to be put in a subfolder instead of 
> inbox, just to do the header tagging.  Not having used Exchange I 
> can't answer intellegently on whether or not it supports server side 
> sorting.  However, if it doesn't you could use something like Maia 
> Mailguard and a Postfix frontend to the exchange server to quarantine 
> and report the spam, users would be able to configure and safely view 
> and "free" tagged spam messages via a web interface.  It also can send 
> regular reports to the users on what spam they've gotten, senders and 
> subject, etc.  Website is:
>
> http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/

Re: OT: anyone know how to do server-side MS-Exchange filters?

[Jay Lee <jl...@pbu.edu>]

John D. Hardin wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Jason Haar wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone done this, and if so, what sort of tools allow it?
>>     
>
> A Linux mail relay in front of the Exchange server. :)
>   
That wouldn't allow messages to be put in a subfolder instead of inbox, 
just to do the header tagging.  Not having used Exchange I can't answer 
intellegently on whether or not it supports server side sorting.  
However, if it doesn't you could use something like Maia Mailguard and a 
Postfix frontend to the exchange server to quarantine and report the 
spam, users would be able to configure and safely view and "free" tagged 
spam messages via a web interface.  It also can send regular reports to 
the users on what spam they've gotten, senders and subject, etc.  
Website is:

http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/

Re: OT: anyone know how to do server-side MS-Exchange filters?

["John D. Hardin" <jh...@impsec.org>]

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Jason Haar wrote:

> Has anyone done this, and if so, what sort of tools allow it?

A Linux mail relay in front of the Exchange server. :)

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