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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For our latest thoughts on the war on spam, visit the Anti-Spam Blog:

In The News

MailChannels Provides Outbound Spam Filter to Web Host VPS.NET

Web Host Industry Review, March 21, 2011

MailChannels Upgrades Spam Defense

Jun 15, 2009 - Web Host Industry Review (theWHIR)

MailChannels Makes the Most of HostingCon

Jun 05, 2008 - Web Host Industry Review (theWHIR)

Putting the Lid on Spam

Jul 23, 2008 - Globe and Mail

Popular Open Source Spam Filter Gets a Boost

May 19, 2008 - Network World

Former CTO of Lotus blogs about MailChannels

Jul 11, 2007 - Ferris Research

New Technology Aims to Bore Impatient Spammers

Apr 10, 2007 - The Washington Post

Tarpits Deter Impatient Spammers

Apr 2, 2007 - Network World

Spam: It Sucks Like a Tarpit

Apr 2, 2007 - The Register

Spamonomics 101

Jan 15, 2007 - O'Reilly Radar

Fingerprinting the World's Mail Servers

Jan 05, 2007 - O'Reilly SysAdmin

Pinging to Get Some Really Useful Data

Oct 12, 2006 - Network World