I actually spoke to Symantec as well as our supplier, and apparently every licence you buy for the corporate edition gives you 1 licence for SMS SMTP. I thought this was odd....so I asked the question, does that mean I could install 400 instances of it. And the answer Symantec gave me was Yes.
Weird I know....but that's what they told me. Maybe the guy I spoke to had no idea what I was asking. We have 2 SMS for SMTP gateways (one in the DMZ and one on our mail server). There is no way I am going to allow anyone from the outside world to have full SMTP access in to our mail server, which is on the inside of our firewall. On both of them the antivirus and spam definitions are: Virus definitions version (revision): 2004-07-21 (8) Spam definitions version (revision): 2004-04-18 (1) So yeah, April Spam definitions. This was better than version 3 at least. It never seemed to update the definitions. Not sure how often Symantec release them. I got a list from the Ipswitch website of about 500+ domains they reckon you should blacklist. So I just added them all to SMS SMTP. Reduced the number of spam immensely as blacklist emails are dropped immediately. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee Sent: Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] SAV Mail Gateway [WAS Anti-virus] > We use Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Gateways. We use Symantec Antivirus > Corporate Edition for all our users, so we don't have to pay any extra to > use the Email Gateway solution. If you have 4000 Corporate Edition Clients, > that gives you 4000 licences to use the Gateway product. What I think you mean is that you have the ability to protect 4000 mail accounts not licenses to install the gateway product 4000 times. But you can install the Gateway product on multiple servers to have some redundancy. > > The "out-of-the-box" heuristic spam engine is fantastic. We do not even > bother with Imail's anti-spam features as they are just useless really. > There are 5 sensitivity levels for spam. We have ours set at 4 (second > highest) and there are very few false positives. You can use Internet > Blacklists, custom blacklists, auto-generated whitelists, custom-generated > whitelists, body and subject content filtering. It pretty much does it all > for us. I am glad you are getting such great results with the heuristics but I have not had such good luck. It regurally false positives for us so I have set it to level 1 and catch the header of "Bulk: 99" with declude at 98 they were all false positives. Also the heuristics have a date of april on our box. What is the date of your heuristics file? Kevin Bilbee To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
