Aximsite, Spam, and Firewalls?

[Chris Leckness]

Can everyone share their current expeirence with the site behind firewalls and with spam filters.

A huge amount of people have reported not receiving the validation emails. A few pointed out that their spam filter ate it.

- What proxy filter software are you guys/companies using.
- What Spam Protection?
- Why is Aximsite.com getting proxied and spam filtered??

Who knows.... May be the X? Heck I dunno.....

[rhyno]

Chris,


Send me a sample validation email and I'll take a look at what could be triggering red flags...

[TSB8C]

My company uses Microsoft's Proxy 2.1 and ALL web traffic must go through that proxy before accessing any external web sites. That proxy also uses a package called "SmartFilter" that allows the company to filter out certain sites based on specific URL's, keywords, etc (no porn or NRA sites at work).

I have had no problem using this site or receiving emails.

[pyro]

I'm only a home-user but I thing I can also describe my settings :)

First, on every PC there's a software firewall - this blocks a lot.
You can for example block ports and it acts like a proxy for web and mail. You can filter mails with it and web sites. Many banner companies are already blocked by the firewall - you can everytime add new blocks.


After my PC data goes through my switch and then to my router.
In my router there's the second firewall - mainly for filtering ports, but you can also add other things.

This is very secure for me.


But if that's not enough for you you can easily connect a 2nd Software firewall between the internet connection (router) and the switch. There you can also filter what you like.


So most secure way:

PC with local firewall (also mail and web proxy) to filter spam/ads -> Switch -> if you like a gateway pc with another software filtering -> router (or internet access) with hardware firewall, for first blocking (mainly ports).



For the local firewall I like Norton.
as Gateway I'd use a PC with Linux/FreeBSD as it has a better performance and security.



Hope this helped you a little :)