Last weekend my company finally migrated over to a full Microsoft Exchange environment. A project that yours truly oversaw and is administrating. The project was kind of just tossed in my lap. Other than setting up some email addresses through an ISP, I had no prior experience. They did buy me two books though.
The migration went seamlessly this weekend. I was expecting some kind of disaster, but other than a few emails being marked as SPAM when they weren’t, everything worked out great. I’ve got some interesting statistics from my first full day as being an email administrator.
Using a licensed spam filter: Out of the 1038 emails inbound (today was a light day), 762 were marked as no-doubt-about-it spam, 18 suspected spam, and the rest (258) were genuine emails.
That works out to be 73% of our email was junk.
I have read the statistic many times that around 75% of all emails that travel through the internet are SPAM, but never really thought “this includes my work.” But then, I don’t get SPAM at work.
Number one reason why I don’t get SPAM at work… I don’t post or use my work email address to register for anything on the internet… including those animated gifs, flash games, or travel deals.
My coworkers are happy with the new filter, especially the chronic spam collectors.
I never USED to get spam at work, but I think one of my forward-crazy co-workers left my e-mail on a forward or something and now I get about three per day.
Oh, and congrats on your big project and new responsablities!