This interesting article from Destination CRM points out that CRM, from a corporate sales perspective, is brilliant in theory,but CRM strategists forgot salespeople are only interested in things that help them sell more now.

Our mail server is termporarily offline while we perform a service upgrade. We were planning the service upgrade for over the weekend, but sadly the parts just arrived today. We should be back live and recieving email by mid-afternoon.

C2C announced that test lab results have shown up to 75 percent reduction in traffic between Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 for attachments compressed with C2C’s MaX Compression Enterprise. MaX Compression Enterprise provides automated compression and decompression of email attachments through components for Outlook, Outlook Web Access, Exchange Server and SMTP Gateway.

Here’s an article from Entrepreneur Magazine that can help you deal with spam. According to a recent study by eMarketer, the average Internet email user now receives 81 emails per day, and nearly one-quarter of them are spam. Spam now makes up more than 40 percent of all email and costs U.S. companies more than $10 billion annually.

McAfee Security Consumer unveiled a new version of McAfee VirusScan. The new version, now available on the company’s Web site, has a number of new features including WormStopper technology. WormStopper automatically detects and alerts users when their systems are attempting to send email to an unusually large number of addresses and also alerts users when the system attempts to send out too many single emails within a 30-second period. McAfee VirusScan automatically scans both inbound and outbound email and attachments for viruses within the most popular email clients including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, Eudora, Pegasus, and others.

PeopleSoft will roll out the first phase of its plan to ease application integration headaches of enterprises that deploy the company’s software in combination with applications developed by SAP AG and Oracle. eWeek reports that PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 Productivity Release includes six new process integration packs. The new Infosync Server in PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 supports bidirectional, server-to-server synchronization with Lotus Domino and Microsoft’s Exchange servers.

Firetrust Limited announced Benign, a new email management solution. Benign breaks down incoming email and re-writes it in such a way that it is free from any malicious code. It is compatible with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Netscape and Eudora.

This article from the New York Times looks at whether or not the Homeland Security Department can keep the Internet safe for surfing. Late last month, as the Blaster worm was emerging, but before it had made headlines, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning. In the warning the department suggested that Internet service providers and other corporate network administrators should shut off several network ports to block the spread of the Blaster infection. Free registration is required to view this article.

InternetNews.com reports that Symantec and Network Associates are ready to roll out new versions of Norton AntiVirus 2004 and McAfee VirusScan, respectively. Network Associates also announced it is rolling out the Netasyst network analyzer, which is able to monitor, troubleshoot and secure their 10/100 LAN and 802.11a and 802.11b wireless networks.

ENT News reports that Sonic Mobility upgraded its utility for remote management of Windows servers and networks from handheld wireless devices to add support for managing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Organizational Units.