Inbound spam block on IMC with Exchange 5.5

[Guest_imported]

Hello

I'm trying to block spam mail coming into the company and one of our methods is to create a custom receipent which has a list of "dodgy" SMTP addresses. This is put on the reject messages section of the IMC delivery options.

At the moment it seems to not be working but we are sure it used to.

Please could someone confirm or deny that this should work theroretically?

Thanks

Simon

 

[Zelandakh]

No, don't do it that way.

Go to the connections tab and you'll find the message filtering button. In there add the @spamdomain.com entry for each spam domain. Or individual email addresses if you want to allow the rest of that domain (like yahoo spammers).

Then stop and restart the IMS.

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunatley we have around 15 IMCs in 12 different sites and really were trying to create a central administration point for the list. Adding them manually to each would be a nightmare. Will the custom receipent not work then?

 

[Zelandakh]

No, the reject doesn't work.

Set one site as the bridgehead server and have inbound emails sent there and routed internally - then you only need the one IMC.

 

[meso123]

Zelandakh,

Can you please suggest on how to setup a bridgehead server or specify a url that has information regarding setting up a bridgehead server?

Regards,

Menon