The eDoxs service is an excellent way for companies to deal with SPAM. Once you sign up, you replace your domain mail server (MX) records with eDoxs servers, and they accept or deny the e-mail on your server’s behalf. Any valid mail gets forwarded on to your mail server.

eDoxs is the service that my company uses. This is not a pay for post, I was just reminded recently how much I love their service, and I wanted to post about it.

I’ll explain what reminded me a little later in this post. First, let me explain a little bit more about this service.

The SPAM and Nothing but the SPAM

There are a whole lot of anti-spam services and software out there, but eDoxs’ big selling point, for me at least, was that eDoxs has a 0% false positive for their SPAM scanning. In other words, not a single legitimate email is going to be labeled as spam.

I’ve had to deal with other companies blocking email from my company for really dumb reasons, and I didn’t want others to have to deal with that when they were sending email to my domain.

It isn’t a perfect system, but I prefer to know that I have some spam that gets through, rather than have valid email that get blocked.

Saving you Bandwidth and Server Space

Mail that is accepted is scanned for viruses and malware, compared to known black lists, and scanned to see if it matches any known SPAM. The virus definitions that are used get updated every 4 minutes, from Symantec, before the updates are available to the general public.

I signed my company up with eDoxs years ago, and have been a very happy customer ever since. As soon as I signed up, I saw a dramatic drop in my bandwidth utilization, and I think I would’ve  needed at least twice the bandwidth that I have now, if it wasn’t for eDoxs.

What brought this up

The reason this came up is that eDoxs called me a couple of days ago to let me know that for some reason, I have had a dramatic increase in the number of email coming into my company’s domain.

It looks like some bot net has singled my company’s domain out for a dictionary attack.

You see, lately we have been receiving about 3 Million emails a day.

Yes, that is a whole lot of email. About 2,083 emails a minute!

Thankfully only a fraction of them are sent down my Internet connection, and on to my mail server.

If you’re looking for a corporate email solution, I highly suggest eDoxs. The money saved in circuit costs, not to mention employee time, makes the service a bargain.

Thank you eDoxs!

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I posted recently about how to view Internet Mail in Outlook 2007, and I didn’t want to leave out all of the people who have Office 2003.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2003:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar, click on View > options.

3. You will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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Here are the instructions for Outlook 2003.

This seems really silly, but I end up forgetting how to do this, and then I have to go poking around for a good while before I find it again.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2007:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar ribbon, click the little arrow on the bottom right of the options section. You can see its location in the picture below.

3. Once you click the arrow, you will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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