Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Service Pack 2

With a company like mine, where my e-mail address has been given out to so many people, I decided that with the changeover to the new server, I had to enable Intelligent Message Filtering again. I’m getting over 100 e-mails/day, mostly spam. I’m wasting way too much time deleting junk.

With Exchange Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003, all you need to do to enable IMF is to start the System Manager, go to Servers -> your servername -> Protocols -> Default SMTP Server. Right click, select properties, and then click on the advanced button in the window that pops up. There is a check box for “Apply Intelligent Message Filtering”.

Then, go to Global Settings in System Manager, right click on “Message Delivery”, and click properties. There is a tab in the window that pops up, where you can set your spam levels. I also set mine to “reject”, instead of archive.

I also use lower numbers, which might mean that a good message might occasionally get flagged as spam and deleted. Do I care? No, if someone wants to do business with me, they will call. I’m willing to lose a good message once in awhile if I don’t have to continually prune my mailbox.