Blog Entries

Outbound Email

robin@fsl.com — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0100

A variety of mechanisms can generate email that appears to come from your site. These include:

User generated mailApplications that send email List ServersMTA error messagesEmail enabled applications Third Party Senders Forged Emails

You need to be aware of all the mechanisms your site uses to generate email so you can:

Configure email leaving your site to be generally accepted at other sites.Exercise controls over outbound messages that will prevent messag [...]

Domain Name Services (DNS) and Email Delivery

robin@fsl.com — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Domain Name Services (DNS) and email delivery are closely linked services so unless DNS services are correctly configured for sending and receiving email servers, mail delivery will be broken. Please note that statement,”It takes two to tango,” absolutely and positively applies to email transfers. Seldom do customers realize that most of the time it’s not their email sever that broken, it’s the other guys server [...]

Tracking Email Delivery Problems

robin@fsl.com — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0100

By far the most common tech support call we get concerns a missing email. And the most common solution is that it went missing because of a badly configured server that sent the email. In fact the sender's server and not a server that is using our BarricadeMX products cause most of the delivery problems we see. We get these support calls because tracking email delivery can be a confusing and complicated process.

Finding an email problem can be simplified if you follow some basic [...]

Back to the Past for Email

robin@fsl.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:14:50 +0100

by Steve Swaney

After ten years in the anti-spam business, I’ve come to realize that what email users and administrators really want is not exactly what the typical anti-spam software provides or delivers.

E-mail users and administrators simply want using email to be exactly like it was in 1995, before spam and malicious emails became the problem they are today. In those days, you simply used email and didn’t need to spend hours cleaning out junk out of your inbox, or se [...]

Cyber Crime

robin@fsl.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

by Martin Hepworth

As if you didn't already suspect it, the BIG BOYS are now running a lot of cyber crime according to a recent article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pune/Russian_mafia_is_largest_cyber_crime_syndicate/articleshow/3803018.cms in the India Times. To most people in the anti-spam and cyber crime industry this isn't a surprise. The economics are a lot better than peddling class A drugs (heroin etc) as you need a lot less response to get a profit, only 1 in 12.5 million [...]

Spam, spam and more spam. When will it stop?

robin@fsl.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

by Stephen Swaney

Spam, spam and more spam. When will it stop?

I've been working as an e-mail administrator since 1987 when my company, Summit Computers Inc., joined the Internet as summit.com. A trickle of e-mail then started flowing, mostly to and from our high tech partners Sun, DEC and Silicon Graphics. Most of the business world was still blissfully unaware of e-mail.

While unsolicited e-mail existed even then, most of the net abuse took place in USENET and ot [...]

Welcome to the FSL Company Blog

robin@fsl.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The FSL team would like to welcome you to our new Company Blog. We are eager and excited to tor provide you with up-to-date information regarding antispam, antivirus and email.

Our goal is to provide you with interesting and relevant information that you can use on a daily basis.

Our first posting will be coming shortly. We will try our best to post information on a bi-weekly basis. As always, your thoughts and deas are appreciated. If you have a specif [...]