corporate Anti-spam

[utshost]

We are almost up on our current out sourced IT contract. He handled most of the needs of the company before I started. We are redoing all IT stuff because its just a mess and cheap. The company is doing well enough that they said the want everything done right this time around, to keep the problems of the old days out. I have just about everything nailed down, but the antispam part. so what have you guys seen and liked? i want to keep it in house so don't want to go with managed, was thinking of a few

barracuda device
Interscan viruswall
Ironport
mcafee antispam


what do you guys use/like ?

was disappointed that ESET doesn't have server level anti spam

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

In re-thinking the "in house vs managed" debate..an advantage of going with a solution like Appriver or Postini..is you never...ever...ever..have to deal with RevDNS/PTR, and getting on spam lists, and having your port 25 wiiiiiide open to the world (since you can ACL it to your smart host)

If inhouse is an absolute must...free...www.untangle.com

 

[IceWeasel]

the past two companies I've worked for have used Ironport and it seemed to work very well.

 

[supergper]

what size of company and how much mail are we talking about?

 

[Captain Colonoscopy]

if you want a host solution then I would recommend postini. if you want to manage your own box then I would suggest ironport or astaro or untangle.

 

[mngl1500]

For a hosted solution I like Securence.

 

[utshost]

what size of company and how much mail are we talking about?

<50 users, and somewhere in the 5k a day range. and one day a month add 2500 to that for news letter.

 

[StarTrek4U]

We just went with an ironport solution (C150) and it's been great, another vote for them!

 

[marley1]

under 50 users, o man just go postini.

either through google or a reseller.

through google = no phone support
through reseller = phone support

we get it for 36/a year per email addy, much smaller as we do like 5-10 user setups, but i bet in a pack of 50 ud get awesome deal.

 

[dragontales]

We use Barracuda for our firewall/spam filter. We are happy with it.

 

[sdotbrucato]

For that many users I'll have to co-sign going with a hosted solution. Hell even putting a UTM should work just fine.

 

[Captain Colonoscopy]

yeah, for less than 50 users and high-availability I would go with Postini.

 

[calikool]

There are 3000+ users at my company so we use message labs as one of our layers of proctection fro SPAM. We block in the range of 3 million+ spams / virues each month. The stats continue to grow too!