Yup he did not know what he was talking about. If your license is for 4000 workstations you can protect 4000 email accounts a gateway license is for protecting a single email account on your promary mail server.
You can install the gateway on 5000 servers but they must only protect up to 4000 email accounts combined. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Jones > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SAV Mail Gateway [WAS Anti-virus] > > > 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/ > 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/
