Expand OpenDNS to have an email anti-spam filtering service

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cgcollins

June 18, 2013 07:12

Is it possible to have an email anti-spam filtering system for users with ISP based email accounts which may access their email from (say) a IMAP mail server using their WIFI connected iPhone, android phone, tablet, PC or MAC from their home internet?

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  rotblitz June 18, 2013 17:36

  Sure such services are possiible and exist with nearly all mail service providers. But this is highly unrelated to DNS what OpenDNS is in business for.

  You woudn't ask your car repair shop to expand their business also offering laundry cleaning and TV repair, would you? ;-)

  At least, you can get a T-shirt from OpenDNS... https://community.opendns.com/merch/
  But this is apparently the only non-DNS related service they offer. LOL

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  cervezafria June 19, 2013 19:27

  "Do No Evil" Google has already mastered anti-spam filtering. Route your email through them.... Works for me!

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  cervezafria June 21, 2013 02:20

  I probably should point out that these forums continue to be spam plagued... so, OpenDNS may not be your best spam filtering solution :)

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  adam255 June 21, 2013 11:44

  @cervezafria "I probably should point out that these forums continue to be spam plagued... so, OpenDNS may not be your best spam filtering solution :)"

  Ha ha, that's true, but I've noticed they've cleaned the forums up a lot. It looks much better!

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  Brian Hartvigsen June 25, 2013 16:12

  As mentioned by rotblitz and cervezafria, this goes well outside the core competency of OpenDNS.  While some anti-spam solutions leverage DNS for Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) look-ups, DNS is just the transport, the actual information is being gathered by hundreds of companies, users, network administrators, researchers, etc before being correlated, reviewed, and eventually listed.

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