Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Protecting Against Spam

If you have ever had an email account, odds are you have also been a victim of at least one spam message. If you have only had a few spam messages, you are one of the lucky ones. Unfortunately, having an email account somewhere is going to put you at risk of receiving unsolicited and often pornographic email messages.

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It has been estimated by many organizations that billions upon billions of spam messages will be sent in less than a year's time. In fact, some estimates predict that out of all of the Internet email messages, roughly 70% will be spam. Whatever the numbers turn out to be, it is definitely too high.

Spam does not just affect your patience and productivity. It affects companies, Internet service providers, ...