Corporate Email Services
Small Business Service
We are often asked how a small business of 2-500 employees can protect
itself against spam. There are four main alternatives, depending on
exactly how you want your email structured:
- The first option is to create individual SpamCop accounts for each
of your users. On the existing mail setup, mail would be set to forward
to the new accounts. The users would configure their mail clients to
POP mail from the Corporate Email Services (CES) servers. There are
several advantages to this method:
- Existing mail setup stays intact. Existing forwards and aliases
continue to function as normal.
- Totally under the control of the business administrator to add or
remove accounts.
- Easy to pick certain accounts to filter or not filter.
- The second option is just a variation of the first. You can create
a shadow set of accounts on your existing mail server. Forward email to
SpamCop for each account and set SpamCop to forward back to the
corresponding shadow account. This lets your users continue to use their
local mail server, which might be an advantage.
- CES can be set to be the MX for your mail domain. This means email
from the internet would go directly to CES instead of to your mail server.
Individual accounts with your domain name would be established on the
CES server. Those could be accessed from there or forwarded to your
existing mail server. A reasonable number of forwards/aliases are provided
for free so you only pay for individual accounts, not email addresses.
This setup uses the least forwarding, but requires CES to add/remove
accounts and aliases for you.
- Finally, there is a variation on the third option. CES can be your
MX but instead of holding mail, it can "tag" suspected spam in the
headers of the email, then forward all email to your existing mail server.
In this configuration, CES does not need to establish individual accounts
for your users or even have a list of users. All email is filtered and
sent to you, regardless of the destination address. The disadvantage is
that your users must configure their email program to filter the spam,
or you must filter it at the server level. It is very simple to configure
Outlook and other popular email programs to filter tagged spam into a
separate folder. Pricing is per user even though a list of users isn't
required to set up the system.
Pricing for any of the options above is the same: $30 per year per account.
This is only a fraction of what studies have estimated spam costs
companies every year per user. And, it keeps all that junk out of your
employees' inboxes, allowing them to concentrate on more important tasks.
If you have questions or need further information, please write us at:
corp-support@cesmail.net.
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