Travel Technology - Best SPAM remedy for POP3 accounts?

This is for a small home health agency, about 25 users. There's no in-house mail server. We are contemplating moving their website and mail to an ISP that polices SPAM better at their end, but want to explore other solutions first.

Most use Outlook 2003 but nearly a third use Incredimail - this is an almost all female office, and they like the stupid smileys. Would like the solution to be under $1000 (which rules out Barracuda), and not add complexity to their VPN configuration (which may rule out Fortigate and similar gateways).

What's working for you these days?

Take a look at Google for domains. I find their spam filtering to be the best out there, it'll easily do 25 people and everyone can still use their own email client (or the web frontend). It's easy to set things up and you can keep web and other services hosted elsewhere and only use Google for the email portion.

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html

Take a look at Google for domains. I find their spam filtering to be the best out there, it'll easily do 25 people and everyone can still use their own email client (or the web frontend). It's easy to set things up and you can keep web and other services hosted elsewhere and only use Google for the email portion.

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html

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I've migrated my domains over to Google hosted apps and have been incredibly happy with the spam solution, among other things. You can enable IMAP and/or POP3 or just use the web interface. It supports things like a custom URL for the web access (webmail.companyname.com), creation of groups, shared calendaring and some other neat features. It isn't great for shared mailbox access like Exchange/Outlook is, but should definitely meet the needs of the company as you've described them.

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I'm also pondering this for a small non-profit, most using Outlook 2003...I know you can't share the mailboxes such as in exchange, but how well does the calendaring function work? I think I read somewhere that it's possible to have meeting invites come through Google mail and show up in Outlook as an invitation - accurate?

I'm also pondering this for a small non-profit, most using Outlook 2003...I know you can't share the mailboxes such as in exchange, but how well does the calendaring function work? I think I read somewhere that it's possible to have meeting invites come through Google mail and show up in Outlook as an invitation - accurate?

The meeting invitations generally work pretty well. You won't be able to use the Outlook shared calendaring function really where you can view others' calendars and overlay them looking for conflicts/availability (an OL2007 feature) but it should work OK for "regular" functions.

Bah, duplicate post. Mods - can you delete?

+3 on Google. Plus, it's free and you get 6 GB of space per user.

I've migrated my domains over to Google hosted apps and have been incredibly happy with the spam solution, among other things.

Can somebody explain the Dummies version of how to do this?

I've moved a few small companies over to gmail. The Mobile apps work great and the calendaring seems alright. The issue I wish they would improve is the "contacts" option. No syncing with either mobile apps or Outlook.

Can somebody explain the Dummies version of how to do this?

Start here (http://www.google.com/apps/business/index.html#).

You'll need to be able to manage your DNS records and either own or be looking to buy a domain name. Once you have an account set up they walk you through setting the DNS records. MX records are the most important record to set. Some A records will also likely need to be configured (e.g. webmail.domain.com). And you should also set your SPF records, though that isn't mandatory, just a really good idea. At that point you'll basically pick a point in time where you cut over from your existing server to the new one. You change the MX records at that point and the mail starts flowing to the new system. In conjunction with that you also update the configuration of the mail client per the instructions that Google gives you.

That's pretty much it.

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Best spam filtering ever

You might also look at spamarrest, which uses a whitelist/blocklist system to foil the spambots.