http://blog.vamsoft.com Where TCO meets ROI Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some of you may know, software development is lots of fun and even more so is working with HTML. ORF 5 will utilize embedded IE browsers for UI purposes in more places and with lot more complex HTML code than previous versions did, so we got quite experienced with ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/08/25/html-bug-of-the-week/ Vamsoft ORF, leading software based anti-spam solution for Microsoft® Exchange and IIS SMTP was awarded the VBSpam Verified award second time in a row. The independent test conducted by Virus Bulletin's Anti-spam team included 23 leading spam filtering solutions from around the world. The aim of the testing is to benchmark ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/07/06/orf-strengthens-its-position-amongst-large-vendor-solutions-in-vbspam-testing/ We have been contacted by a few people last week about a small peak in the number of legitimate emails blacklisted by SORBS, which I believe was caused by escalated listings (see the blog post of SORBS for details). Though we discourage using the escalated zone of SORBS because of ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/06/22/tales-from-tech-support-sorbs-escalated-listings/ The ORF Log Viewer Tool is excellent for checking what happened to an email: by building simple filters with a few clicks, you have all the information you need. However, loading extremely huge log files (we are talking about hundreds of megabytes) may take quite a lot of time, as ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/06/08/searching-in-huge-log-files/ Quite often, our emails bounce back from our customers because of failed SPF test results. One might suspect our SPF record is broken, but actually the problem is caused by misconfigured ORF installations on the recipient's end in all cases (our SPF record is fine): Let's assume the recipient has a ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/05/26/spf-test-and-intermediate-hosts/ As you may have heard, ORF won the VBSpam Award for being super effective (caught 99.13% of spam emails during the test with zero false positives). A lot of you guys asked about the configuration used during the test, so here it goes. We used a very basic, quite conservative configuration ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/05/20/configuration-used-for-the-vbspam-test/ Welcome to our new series, which intends to demonstrate various features of ORF. The first part (and video) will show you the reporting capabilities of ORF, which were introduced in version 3.0. The reporting feature is enabled by default, so you can start creating reports immediately. Report Creation Let's start the ORF ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/05/17/orf-feature-highlights-reporting/ Of the 20 vendors who signed up for the test, ORF ranked 4th overall during the one month testing period. During the course of the test, ORF blocked 99.13% of all incoming spam with a 0.00% false positive rating. For more information: www.vamsoft.com/press-releases.asp http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/05/06/orf-wins-vbspam-award/ We often receive emails with questions like "Why ORF blocked this email?" and "Why this was allowed through?" and "Did ORF blocked this one or something else?". Of course, it is easy to check using the Log Viewer tool shipped with ORF, but it often turns out ORF users are ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/04/21/using-the-orf-log-viewer/ We received sporadic reports of ORF blacklisting emails from the users' own domain, because it does not find any MX or A/CNAME record for it. Of course, these records clearly exists when checked from the outside using nslookup, which makes the customer believe it is something wrong with ORF. Actually, the ... http://blog.vamsoft.com/2010/04/08/tales-from-tech-support-part-13-dns-issues-with-own-domain/