What is the infrastructure requirements for IronMail?

If you had to design a product that would eliminate spam what would be the requirements and design line items?

You know, it would be very simple for people to only receive e-mail from the people who are in their address book. For example, inputting a name into an address book on the client-side would be functionally putting the name into an address book database on a server that is outside the firewall that uses 128bit encryption to communicate with the mail servers inside the firewall.

This is a very high-level approach that would minimize network traffic (mail traffic) inside the firewall, increase e-mail security encryption, decrease traffic on your mail servers (inside the firewall), and the server outside the firewall would also run miscellaneous e-mail security tasks.

Tasks could include virus detection/prevention of e-mail, encryption code analysis, etc. If Microsoft or someone else built something similar to this it should come as an infrastructure package...not an additional piece. As it stands right now, e-mail server software that does not have support for security, which includes spam, is an incomplete solution.

But I could be incorrect.


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