New Spam filtering service from LMI.net

[LMI Internet]

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because email for your domain is being  
routed through LMi.net.

We wanted to let you know about a new spam filtering service that  
LMi.net is now offering. We call it SpamGauntlet.

We have been fighting spam for many years, and it's to the point that  
over 60% of all incoming messages are being blocked at the border of  
our network because the messages are coming from known spam relays.  
Of the remaining 40%, a large chuck of that is also spam. Many of you  
are using SpamAssassin to help filter out this junk mail, but as you  
well know, a lot still gets through. The problem is that spammers are  
getting more and more clever about disguising their messages to get  
past the SpamAssassin filters.

We decided to enlist a third-party mail filtering service that we  
could offer to our customers. After looking at several vendors, we  
settled on Postini, who have been doing this for longer than anyone  
else. Postini has a whole fleet of engineers that do nothing all but  
come up with ways to correctly identify spam and virus-laden emails.  
In our tests, we have found that the Postini system was catching over  
90% of the spam we were getting in out test mailbox, with not a  
single false positive. That is significantly better than we were able  
to do with our combination of SpamAssassin and border spam filtering  
methods. So, we became a Postini partner, and call this new service  
SpamGauntlet.


How it works:

Every domain has information attached to it which tells the rest of  
the world where email for this domain is handled (they're called "MX  
records"). For most of you, your domain email is handled by one of  
our mail servers, such as lanfill.lmi.net. When you sign up for  
SpamGauntlet, we modify the MX records for your domain such that mail  
will first flow through the Postini servers, where the spam is  
"quarantined", and the rest flows on to our mail servers, where you  
can then login and retrieve them. Any viruses attached to email  
messages are automatically removed. The beauty of this is that you  
don't need to make any changes to the way you get your email- it just  
works like always, except there will be almost no spam.


No mail lost:

Mail that Postini has found suspicious is not just deleted- it's held  
in "quarantine" on the Postini server. Once a day (or less often if  
you wish), you will receive an email showing you what emails have  
been quarantined. You can click right in the email to have a message  
delivered if by chance it isn't spam.


You're in control:

Each mailbox comes with its own login on the Postini Message Center.  
You can login and check all your quarantined email, as well as adjust  
the sensitivity of the Postini filters. Individual domains can be  
either white or black listed. See http://www.lmi.net/services/ 
msgcenter.pdf for a sample of the Message Center.


Pricing:

SpamGauntlet costs just $2 per month for each mailbox, plus a one- 
time setup fee of $10 per domain. If you have multiple email  
addresses going to the same mailbox (for example "sales@" and  
"info@"), that only counts as one mailbox.


Satisfaction Guaranteed:

If you decide that you don't like SpamGauntlet within the first 30  
days, we will refund you your setup fee and the first month of service.


Sign me up!

If you are interested, you can just reply to this email. We already  
know what email addresses you have here, so we will confirm with you  
what addresses will be covered. If you have other domains that we  
aren't hosting, we can add those as well. You don't need to have  
email hosted here to use SpamGauntlet. You can find a sign-up form  
our our SpamGauntlet page: http://www.spamgauntlet.com

Other questions you have may be answered in our SpamGauntlet FAQ:  
http://www.lmi.net/faq/spamgfaq.php

Thanks for your time!

-LMi.net
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