By Chris Coulson, MCSE, MCP, Network Consultant 

(Editor's Note: Due to reader interest and many positive comments, we are repeating this article from a previous edition.)

Kudos keep coming our way from clients who have experienced the relief from Spam that their new Postini Service delivers, and we have documented proof (see chart below). Here's a very enthusiastic one:

"The filtering is very effective!  I have locked down our exchange server to only accept connections from Postini's servers and we now get very little Spam (still see one or two once in a while). Also, I have not had to deliver any messages yet in my quarantine folder! The other noticeable improvement is the amount of traffic we have removed from the gateway! If you get the chance to see our Postini filtering reports you will see what I mean!"

If each of your company employees spends an average of 15 minutes per day clearning spam from his or her email box, how much time and money does that add up to each year? Add to that the savings resulting from NOT having to add bigger hard drives or more Internet bandwidth, and you will understand why our clients are so satisfied with their decision to use Postini.
 
This indicates the value of the Postini Anti-Spam solution. Significantly less e-mail traffic, lower disk storage needs, less user action and anti-virus support as well. Time saved equals lower costs.

If your e-mail systems have been a source of concern and frustration at your business, we have good news: SN Business Solutions can implement this leading solution in your business in a very short period of time. You, too, will immediately begin to see the positive results.

The outstanding benefits that the Postini service provides include:

• Reduction in Spam support and management in your business

• E-mail filtering through Postini's managed e-mail security service which is located between the Internet and your company's e-mail gateway; Postini blocks unwanted e-mail before it hits your corporate mail server, significantly lightening the load on your server, IT staff and end-users.

• A very high rating in anti-spam effectiveness with the best overall balance of accuracy at 97% and false positives at .08%

• A strong anti-virus defense that has blocked billions of viruses through Postini servers in the past few years

• A decrease in e-mail server storage since spam is filtered at the Postini servers and not on corporate e-mail servers

You may read the original Postini article written by Director of Information Technology Consulting Services Chip Hayden, MCP, by clicking here.

We have included, below, a chart that details the amount of inbound spam stopped for a dozen of our clients during the month of February. The chart indicates that 2.3 million e-mail messages were sent to the domains of the clients listed in the report. Only about 198,000 were sent to valid e-mail addresses, about 118,000 or 60% were blocked as known SPAM and were never seen by our clients, about 62,000 or 31% were deemed as good e-mails and were forwarded to in-boxes, and about 17,000 or 9% were questionable and were sent to a quarantine folder.

Client	Messages	Bytes	Account Messages	Account Bytes	Forwarded Acct Messages	Forwarded  Acct Bytes	Quarantined Acct Messages	Quarantined Acct Bytes	Blocked Messages	Blocked Bytes
Client  A	1763215	16687284477	213	3363110	3	4710	22	629365	188	2729035
Client B	273167	2760174650	6261	218416097	1094	170289290	590	7886425	4577	40240382
Client C	51705	2419817445	23878	2138572452	11100	1980398230	1380	22290023	11398	135884199
Client D	49546	1249292686	29088	935341135	6095	647029485	2590	59823881	20403	228487769
Client E	35143	745133488	20505	586424636	4595	441329831	1972	20197368	13938	124897437
Client F	32760	946982919	32760	946982919	7561	637992557	3757	90367564	21442	218622798
Client G	27771	999410339	26657	973101782	13226	831235226	1602	25216583	11829	116649973
Client H	13456	279966055	5658	179140871	690	143314495	810	8190613	4158	27635763
Client I	10787	125970874	3545	41484521	523	17029900	330	5687027	2692	18767594
Client J	10776	390695728	8693	364422743	3418	313710612	719	11779722	4556	38932409
Client K	9737	194194159	3318	111178991	650	81607670	292	7267685	2376	22303636
Client L	8682	206192079	8265	195013330	2300	115078829	603	12267343	5362	67667158
Grand Total	2318458	28170300145	198043	7819595189	62247	6297845157	17386	315239949	118410	1206510083

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If you are interested in more information on Postini or a FREE 30-day trial please call Chip Hayden at 717-757-6999 or 800-745-8233 or submit an email to Chip using the form below.

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