Does Tch Offer Server Based Virus/spam Filtering?

[tdhg566]

I currently have several extended family POP accounts on HalNET, the network operated by HAL-PC. They offer a great SPAM/AV service for an additional $2/month/account. Essentially I've "outsourced" my SPAM/AV management to them. They provide web access to the filter, where we can tune the rules that apply to our accounts, add whitelist entries, and review everything that's trapped in order to release things that were trapped incorrectly. I don't even run an anti-virus product on my home PCs.

 

Does TCH offer anything like this? I'm thinking through how to restructure the various services that I pay for underneath my extended family domain name (defenbaugh.com). I've moved defenbaugh.net to TCH and tied it to my photo gallery. I'm reviewing how much of defenbaugh.com I might be able to consolidate at TCH as well. It's not a trivial change, as it involves two vendors (cybercon who provides email and URL forwarding for defenbaugh.com, and HalNET, where the email accounts are hosted) and three POP accounts for three different people. Before you ask this complexity simply evolved over time. The one constant has been cybercon's forwarding of both email and web pages. I've been with them almost 10 years. They were the only company (that I could find) that offered these services in the early 1990s. The Hal-PC relationship is simply the latest in a long line of ISPs over time, as most went out of business, became too expensive or let their service deteriorate. But that's the reason I did this, to provide complete domain name independence from a particular ISP (except cybercon of course).

 

Thanks!

[LisaJill]

We offer spam assassin, so you can do all of that utilizing spam assassin. But we do not offer virus scanning on the servers. =)

 

With spam assassin you can choose if your spam mail has the subject changed (for filtering after download), or if it goes to a spam box (where you could review it via horde webmail). It does whitelisting and scoring of emails. =)

[tdhg566]

Thank you for your prompt reply. Without AV protection I probably won't move any POP accounts to TCH. But I'm still thinking through whether to move my other domain name from cybercon to TCH since I'm able to construct the proper email and URL forwarding rules back to HalNET on your end. I do have some questions about how the domain names would tie to one or more accounts, but I'll ask that in a separate post after I'm able to articulate my question(s) clearly. Thanks again

[stevesh]

While it's technically not anti-virus protection, TCH does a good job (too good for some ) of blocking executables from email which aren't zipped.