We have released mppd version 4.21.2, which will perhaps be the last feature release for mppd 4 as we are moving our packages to mppd 5. Mppd is the core of Mailspect Defense and Mailspect Archive and contains our core ESM (Email Stream Management) technology. All of the developments in this release have been discussed but some of the highlights are improved WBL processing, precedence for WBL processing, updated libraries and cartridges for partner engines and many other small fixes. All packages, repositories and the VMWare appliance have been updated as well.

Release Notes:
ftp://ftp.mailspect.com/pub/mpp4/docs/RELEASE.txt

Mailspect Manager 1.6.21 is released as well and has many cumulative fixes including fixes for printing, releasing, whitelisting, branding, customization, WBL management and a ton ton more.

ftp://ftp.mailspect.com/pub/mppmanager/
We will be working now on a new YUM repository as well as new packaging for mppd v5.

Talk to you soon

Mailspect Manager, a complete spam quarantine management solution for service providers, has been upgrade for multi-domain branding. By supporting per-domain options service providers can easily customize the quarantine interface to tailor their customers needs. Mailspect is an excellent spam quarantine manager for service providers who wish to control their customer experience rather than outsource to a competitor.

Additionally, in this new release of Mailspect Manager we have added important usability features for service providers. A provider can now tailor which configuration options are presented to their customers and large white and black lists can be more easily managed.

These features and more are included in the latest release of Mailspect Manager, email us for download information.

Mailspect helps service providers maximize revenue from email management.

Check out the new Mailspect site on answervad.it, our Italian distributor. Answervad has extensive expertise in Mailspect products and solutions as well as in Communigate and other messaging related servies.

We’ve been working on a reference design for a customer and have arrived at something that is pretty interesting. Our reference design allows large scale anti spam for service providers, scalable spam protection for enterprises and fully redundant antispam protection.

Mailspect Defense Antispam Reference Design for Large Scale Antispam Deployment

In this reference design we have Postfix handling SMTP relays and transports from LDAP. Each Postfix instance speaks remotely to mppd for policy services through a load balancer. Mppd handles STMP checks (per domain or per policy) WBL’s, Spamtraps, SPF, SMTP logging and AutoWBL’s at this level. The Postfix Policy Server of mppd is highly intelligent and works in tandem with the post-queue processor component of mppd. So for example, if we find a remote system is sending too much spam they are added to a dynamic blacklist and then cut off at the SMTP transaction.

After the SMTP session is accepted then Postfix, if required by the Stream Policy, Mailspect will send the message using the Postfix Content Filter protocol, to a pool of load balanced mppd servers.

All of the servers share common configurations and quarantine and settings databases so a new node can be quickly added for expansion.  A cluster like this can easily scale to many millions of messages a day with surprisingly sparse hardware.

Please ping me back if you have any questions or concerns!

ESM, the core technology of Mailspect has raised the bar in contextual email processing. Check out this blogpost on connect.mailspect.com that tells how ESM can be used to capture leads into Salesforce.com directly from the email stream. This leads to guaranteed lead registration whether the lead comes from a web form, request for information, email form, etc. Mailspect Connect captures the emails generated by your processes and populates Salesforce.com with the

We have made a major improvements in Mailspect Defense to our WBL processing for antispam system designed for email service providers. We have reduced the queries to MySQL from 6 to 1 and we have have also introduced precedence for tighter controls. Now more specific WBL entries to take precedence over less specific. If a user whitelist a domain he can blacklist an individual contact from a domain. For example he whitelists domain yahoo.com but blacklists a contact anoying.man.from@yahoo.com It sounds reasonable in general. We used to always prefer whitelist entries, now we don’t. This is required to scale WBL’s as the scale to millions of entries, as we see with the email service providers and antispam services who use Mailspect Defense.

We are pleased to announce single click installation of Mailspect Connect in Salesforce.com. Mailspect Connect offers complete visibility of email communications by automatically sorting email and storing business email in Salesforce.com. Mailspect works in the background to intelligently associate email to leads, opps, cases, person accounts or contacts. Email attachments can be stored in SFDC or in Google Docs, automatically. Managers can monitor the teams business email as RSS in Outlook, Mac Mail, Blackberry, iPhone or any web browser. Mailspect filters out the personal email so only email related to important opps, leads, contacts, etc. will be monitored. Mailspect Connect is a SaaS that works with Exchange, Gmail or any IMAP email system.

Mailspect Connect Package Installer for Salesforce.com

Mailspect is pleased to announce a great advancement in content driven email processing with new pattern matching abilities. With this powerful new capability Mailspect can extract content from emails and use it in web services or mysql queries. Patterns can be stored in a database or in a web service. This means that Mailspect can be used for contextual based processing of email based on things like key words, case numbers, status id’s, header content like fw: or re:, etc. It is extremely powerful and flexible and massively reduces the development time of contextual based processing. Since our expressions are compiled at run time are performance is loads faster than most scripting languages.

Email Stream Management is the core of all ailspect products. In the ESM model email is sorted into streams and services are applied to streams. ESM processing is made up of a series of engines with programmable logic and complete flexibility in service application. Mailspect specializes in handling email based on content and there are few products, if any, that match the flexibility and powerful of Mailspect.

Check out this podcast by Netzlink from the 8Soft training session in Hannover, Germany. http://www.netzlink.tv/mailspect-in-hannover/

Come to the NYC Salesforce.com user group meeting, June 10th from 8:30 to 10:00 at the NYC Downtown Conference Center. Register Here, it’s free!