Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam

As part of this Exchange roll out, I've experimented with the built-in anti-spam features of Exchange 2007. I expected it to be horrible and it wasn't as bad a I feared.

The good:

• Simple, easy to understand interfaces
• Easy setup

The bad:

• No manual sender whitelist
• Not much control over whether the mail gets dropped or redirected
• You have to have an Edge server to get the best benefits.

That's right - to get the best benefits of the built in anti-spam, you have to sacrifice a whole server license of Exchange 2007 to get the half the functionality of ORF or any of a half dozen open source RBL filters. I am shocked that is sucks that badly. I really don't get it...