formis.net has hit by a tsunami of spam these past few weeks. Initially, it was thought that the increase in spam was due to the expired anti-spam software in our mail server.  However, ever since the upgrade, spam is still an issue.  Of course, things got complicated by the departure of our mail administrator, John Raymond Lobo.

The job now rest on K. Hariharan who takes over from John. While he will be taking some time to come up to speed on managing the mail services, spam will continue to be a problem.

As employees of an IT Group of Companies, you all should know that spam can be controlled at both server and client level. While spam control at server level is being mitigated, everyone should look at how to control it at your email client level instead. 

As for me, I am aware of the spam problem but is not affected by it. And that is only because I only use email clients with adequate junk mail features. Microsoft Outlook has the features but is not so easy to configure. I am not sure about Microsoft Outlook Express but then again it has been superseded by Windows Live Mail which have them.

Those who are looking for better spam control on their email client should look at Mozilla's Thunderbird (for ease of spam configuration) or Windows Live Mail. Good Luck!