Junk E-Mail

Junk e-mail is a huge issue. One client with whom this author recently worked installed its first e-mail filtering software and found that it had 46 percent fewer inbound e-mails.

Exchange Server 2007’s new Edge Transport role has new capabilities that can help to significantly reduce the amount of junk e-mail that enters your environment. The Edge Transport Role server has the following agents that help to protect your e-mail infrastructure. The information in Table 19-2 is right from Microsoft’s Edge Transport server documentation.

Table 19-2. Edge Transport Agents

Agent name

Description

Connection Filtering Agent

Performs host IP address filtering based on IP Allow Lists, IP Allow List providers, IP Block Lists, and IP Block List providers. ...

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