Resources
Datasheets
MailChannels Transparent Antispam
Datasheet: Transparent Antispam
MailChannels Outbound minimizes the impact of outgoing spam sent from your network by transparently filtering port 25 traffic in real-time. This two page briefing describes how the product works.
"MailChannels Transparent Antispam" (2 pages, PDF)
MailChannels Smart Outbound Relay
Datasheet: Smart Outbound Relay
MailChannels Smart Outbound Relay ensures reliable email delivery and prevents blacklisting by blocking outbound spam and tracking the reputation of users within your system or network.
"MailChannels Smart Outbound Relay" (2 pages, PDF)
Whitepapers & Technology Briefings
A Multi-Layered Approach to Outbound Spam Protection
Technology Briefing: Outbound Antispam
This technical briefing describes the necessary techniques that sending networks must implement to defend their email sending reputation and ensure highly reliable email delivery for their users.
A Multi-Layered Approach to Outbound Spam Protection (10 pages, PDF)
MailChannels Transparent Filtering Briefing
Technology Briefing: Transparent Antispam
For service providers, MailChannels Outbound minimizes the impact of outgoing spam sent from your network by transparently filtering port 25 traffic in real-time.
"MailChannels Transparent Filtering Briefing" (9 pages, PDF)
Osterman Research: The Growing Problem of Outbound Spam
Analyst Report: The Growing Problem of Outbound Spam
Two-thirds of email service providers consider dealing with outbound spam to be an important or extremely important issue for them in 2010. Outbound spam is also a high priority issue for end users: when asked about their preference for email providers that actively ensure that spam is not sent out from their networks, 80% believe that this is important or extremely important.
Osterman Research: The Growing Problem of Outbound Spam (9 pages, PDF)
Policy Delegation
Technology Briefing
Learn how MailChannels Policy Delegation offers complete a flexible extension mechanism which allows for the delegation of message handling policy to a cluster of separate policy servers.
"Policy Delegation" (4 pages, PDF)
Case Studies
Ezecom
Case Study: Transparent Antispam
"Ezecom's subscriber network was delivering up to one million spam messages per hour. As a result, Ezecom's IP range was at risk of being blacklisted, which was causing severe email delivery problems for subscriber customers."
SherWeb
Case Study: Inbound Antispam
"Traffic Control considerably reduce the number of connections managed by the Barracuda cluster [...] solving the overloading issue that was causing excessive queues..."
Cornell University
Announcement
"Traffic Control assists PureMessage, Cornell Information Technologies' anti-spam software, by reducing the amount of spam that Cornell servers have to process."
Sunflower Broadband
Case Study
"Traffic Control reduced the flow of email to the PureMessage server, so much so that I could redeploy the [separate Xeon server for PureMessage processing] for other tasks."
Northeastern University
Case Study
"Traffic Control makes countless smart decisions in handling connections and determining which are potentially harmful."
Deerfield Capital
Case Study
"Traffic Control was catching stuff sneaking through the back door [...] After installing Traffic Control, only 10-15% [of spam messages] reach the quarantine, while the rest is dropped off during the traffic shaping phase."
City of Richmond
Case Study
"Traffic Control at the gateway saves our downstream infrastructure from working so hard."
Video
What is outbound spam? (2010)
YouTube Video
MailChannels CEO, Ken Simpson, talks about the outbound spam problem.
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