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If you are looking a inexpensive tool that provides Exchange IMF whitelist functionality, have a look at SmartIMF Manager. http://www.n2nets.com/SmartIMF.html They have a 30 day free trial. It runs as a background service and can automatically delete old spam from your Archive folder too. You can also...
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Another IMF tuning product called IMF Tune also looks to have some promise. They don't have a free demo so I have not tried it yet. http://www.windeveloper.com/imftune/default.htm
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There are a number of tools that allow for IMF whitelisting. I ran across a very cheap option called Encoda’s IMF Whitelist Service today, however I have not tried it yet. http://www.encoda.com/iws/index.html Has anybody used this product?
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IMFv2 (the version with Exchange 2003 SP2) can now update itself using Windows Update, it just needs to be configured to do so. To turn on the IMF Update feature create the ContentFilterState registry key with the DWORD value 1 must be created under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange . More...
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IMF myths and facts Submitted By: Lars Pettersson Posted On: 3/17/2005 Description: There have been a few articles describing how Microsoft’s Intelligent Message Filtering (IMF) works. This one does this as well but also explains how the end user can configure and use it in a better way. Full article...
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As reported at bink.nu, Microsoft has released an update for the SmartScreen Filter that IMF uses. This requires that IMF already be properly deployed in your Exchange environment. You can download the update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c1ea8cf1-48c9-4e43-a4eb-82d9a83fd4a7&DisplayLang...
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This utility is very similar to IMF Manager, an open source utility written by a Microsoft employee. This utility is very promising and is worth a look, however I have been unable to get it work properly in my environment. Notes from site: Microsoft® Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) is an extension...
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Microsoft has released a hotfix for machines that are trying to use IMF and that have a NetBIOS machine name that is greater that 15 characters. The patch information is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=873434
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I was reading through http://jameswho.blogspot.com and noticed that he referred to an update of the Release notes for IMF. After reading the updates, they seemed significant enough to point out here as well. The full updated release notes are here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/C/22CCB3FB...
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I'm not sure why I didn't post this earlier, I thought I had. There is a way to expose the IMF SCL ratings from within Outlook. This will help you to tweak IMF's settings and better gauge what types of email fall into a SCL rating. It is a bit of a hack currently, but I expect someone to come up with...