MPP Australia Email Security Blog

It has never been easier to install MPP than now. With the MPP Virtual Appliance you can have a complete antispam and email archival gateway running in less than 10 minutes after download. You can install on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X and the user needs no knowledge of Linux to configure the system in a typical application.
MPP Virtual Appliance is a semi-configured Linux gateway solution using Postfix and MPP (between real mail server and firewall/NAT host/router). All you need is the VMWare Player and you can start !! OS: Windows / Linux, OS: MacOS X / Intel OS: MacOS X / Intel
The VMware engine comes configured with-
* OS: Debian Linux 4.0 (Etch)
* MTA: Postfix version 2.3.8
* MPP version 3.6.1 trial
* DB server: MySQL 5.0.34
* MPP Manager 1.0.5 (Qreview 3.2.2 + MPP GUI 3.6.1)
setup ready to start! Further into available at ftp://ftp.messagepartners.com/pub/appliance/README.txt
Get your free trial today from our website – http://mpp.ezylink.net.au/trial.php

We have been running the MPPD for a few years now to i thought it would be intersting to see the stats that the server is producing for our email filtering.

Date

Total

Clean

Virus

Spam

Error

WBL matched

RBL matched

11-19

24527

Clean 1996 (8.14%)

Virus 49 (0.20%)

Spam 2184 (8.90%)

0.00 (%)

0 (0.00%)

RBL 20298 (82.76%)

We sampled 1 days email (20 hrs) to see how it was performing – and the figures are amazing. Over 24000 emails hit our server, of which only 8% were legit! so over 22000 emails were junk – with the MPP filter blocking RBL (black list), Commtouch traced spam and ClamAV ID’d virus’ at the front door of our sendmail box. Some were rejected, some sent to SQL quarantine, and some passed through with no noticeable affect on the server boxes performance.Its incredible to think what end users would be getting in their mailbox each day if MPP wasnt there protecting the system.