Will check it out and thank you … a quick browse of their documentation doesn’t show much about scaling which isn’t a good sign :)
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: July 22, 2016 11:20 AM To: af@afmug.com; af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions 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" < <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> p...@paulstewart.org> To: <mailto:af@afmug.com> 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: <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of DJ Anderson Sent: July 22, 2016 9:27 AM To: <mailto:af@afmug.com> af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions I've been using <https://efa-project.org/> 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 < <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> p...@paulstewart.org> wrote: Hehe... murphy at work there ;) Thanks Paul -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto: <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Alcantar Sent: July 22, 2016 2:52 AM To: <mailto:af@afmug.com> 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: <tel:%2B1%20415%20376%203314> +1 415 376 3314 / <mailto:car...@race.com> car...@race.com / <http://www.race.com/> http://www.race.com ________________________________________ From: Af < <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Paul Stewart < <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> p...@paulstewart.org> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:28:27 PM To: <mailto:af@afmug.com> 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: <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: July 22, 2016 12:19 AM To: Animal Farm < <mailto:af@afmug.com> 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 < <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> p...@paulstewart.org<mailto: <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> 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
