Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business?

or_is_it writes "The company I work for has been growing dramatically and I've been charged with the task of being the gatekeeper for our GFI Spam filters. This involves manually inspecting the subject line/to/from for all caught messages in each filter rule folder. For a company of about 50 people, in one day the number of spam messages can exceed 2,000. Neglect it for a day and you end up with quite a task on your hands. I've made the rules lax enough so important messages can go through, along with a few stray spams, for which I get bitched at. Tighten the rules up and then maybe an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended recipient, and I get bitched at. Manually reading through all those subject lines is supposed to prevent that, but I'm only human and genuine messages can easily get overlooked. How do larger organizations deal with the spam issue? I can't imagine having one centralized person manually inspecting everyone's junk-mail header is the optimal solution. Purchasing a different commercial mail filter product is a possibility, but I'd like to hear some anecdotal evidence before jumping ship."

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Why doesn't spam filtering work?

[XxtraLarGe]

I use Apple's mail client on OS X 10.3.9 as my main e-mail, and the junk filtering is only so-so. I set it up so that unless a recipient's e-mail address is in my address book, it should go to the "junk" folder. Still, I get about a half-dozen junk e-mails in my regular mail in-box every day. I looked at the headers and there's nothing hidden in there to suggest that they're forging an e-mail address in my address book, but they still make it through. Seriously, the set-up is very straight-forward, why does it still not work?!?