The company I'm at now uses the Proxmox mail gateway. I have no idea if
it will scale to the volume you're talking about, but they say it's at
least as effective as the Barracuda box they had before but at less
cost.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Paul Stewart" <p...@paulstewart.org>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 7/22/2016 10:56:16 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions
Thanks… interesting and will chat that out …
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of DJ Anderson
Sent: July 22, 2016 9:27 AM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions
I've been using https://efa-project.org/.
I have a cluster of 4 of them and they seem to work pretty good. They
don't work as good as the Barracudas that I used to have, but they are
free. Has a nice web interface for management, and you can give users
access to manage spam for their specific domains and what not.
Regards,
DJ Anderson
Operations Manager
Shelby Broadband
Office - 502-722-9292 x110
Cell - 502-647-8101
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org>
wrote:
Hehe... murphy at work there ;)
Thanks
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Alcantar
Sent: July 22, 2016 2:52 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions
Just a heads up barracuda has an aws hosted version. We ran one for
some time on aws worked nicely we were able to import out physical
barracudas backup. Note the reason we had to switch to aws hosted
version was we had never turned power off to the unit in 4yrs the
first time we had to move server into a different rack, power supply
gave out. Go figure!
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com
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From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Paul Stewart
<p...@paulstewart.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:28:27 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions
Sure thing – let you know what we decide on doing …. We already have
an investment in their gear (Ironport) and it works extremely well,
but the real costs are annual support/licensing.
I looked at Barracuda for ideas and it’s priced similar to Ironport
and not sure it’s as effective …
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jon Auer
Sent: July 22, 2016 12:19 AM
To: Animal Farm <af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions
If you find something, I'd like to hear about it.
At one point we were doing 1.2M inbounds per day on a cluster of
Barracuda appliances but the $/box didn't work once you included
hardware refresh.
Last time we looked around it seemed like everyone had a pet project
that's fine for small scale but as soon as you want multi-tenant +
clustering the cost went through the roof.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Paul Stewart
<p...@paulstewart.org<mailto:p...@paulstewart.org>> wrote:
Hey folks…
You guys/gals always have great suggestions and this time I’m
wondering about email antivirus/antispam appliances (outsourcing not
an option) of mid sized scale…
Today at $$$job we run Ironport appliances for antispam/antivirus
protection. One of the appliances is end of life and needs to be
replaced and the other two are coming up for maintenance renewal.
These boxes, from what I understand, are very expensive. I have a
call into Cisco for pricing but they usually take weeks to call back
if they ever call back at all … enough about them….
So wondering if we should continue down the road with Ironport or
consider something else. The number of email accounts continues to
drop off over time with folks moving to Gmail, Hotmail etc. These
boxes work *extremely* good … right now seeing about 3.5% of email is
legit and rest is spam/virus etc. Very rare for a spam message to
make it through …
Outbound email messages per day approximately 100,000 (varies but
average number) Inbound email messages per day approximately 2.6
million on average
Anyone use anything on similar scale to provide insight into what they
are using and how it works?
Thanks,
Paul
