We understand how critical email is today. We use several of the top open source solutions to provide highly effective SPAM filtering. We have even made a calculator so you can see how hosting your email with Stratecomm can actually save your company money.

We have made several advancements to our email system in order to provide an even higher level of service and reliablitiy to our clients. One of theings we have done is move our primary email server to a dedicated server so that we could provide industry standard best practices to our email processing

Below is a description of some of the software we use in filtering every email that comes through our servers.

MailScanner

MailScanner is the most popular email gateway scanning software in the world. It is used at over 30,000 sites around the world, protecting government agencies, corporations and educational institutions. It processes over 750 million e-mail messages every day, removing over 10 million viruses and identifying 300 million spam messages. MailScanner can be used with almost any commercial virus scanning software.

Spam Assassin

SpamAssassin uses a complex set of scoring filters, heuristic tests, blackhole lists, collaborative databases of spam characteristics and Bayesian statistics to make spam identification as reliable as possible. Since most businesses fear losing any legitimate email, the real problem is not identifying spam; it's identifying the real email. SpamAssassin excels at reducing "false positives", the identification of REAL email as spam.

ClamAV

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date, checking for updates hourly.

DCC

DCC is a cooperative, distributed system intended to detect "bulk" mail or mail sent to many people. It allows individuals receiving a single mail message to determine that many other people have received essentially identical copies of the message sage and so reject or discard the message.

Pyzor

Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block spam using identifying digests of messages.

Vipul's Razor

Razor2 is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network. Through user contribution, Razor establishes a distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam in propagation that is consulted by email clients to filter out known spam. Detection is done with statistical and randomized signatures that efficiently spot mutating spam content. User input is validated through reputation assignments based on consensus on report and revoke assertions which in turn is used for computing confidence values associated with individual signatures.