We also have their mail archival. So far, so good. We only archive certain addresses.
-----Original Message----- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anti-spam solution We are much smaller at 100 users but the ROI on Barracuda is well worth it. I have been very happy with it coming from several other products. The success was so good we ended up getting their web appliance and are also looking at their mail archival. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ray <rz...@qwest.net> wrote: > We're at about 5,000 users. We looked at several solutions, including > Ironport and Proofpoint. We liked them both. However, money was an > object, and we ended up getting a Barracuda. It was significantly > cheaper than other 2, and works good enough. Can't say it stops > 100%, but I know the guy that's responsible for it rarely has to mess > with it, and we get virtually no complaints. > ________________________________ > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Anti-spam solution > > I am currently tasked to get rid of our ineffective Symantec Mail > Security which is, at the moment, our only anti-spam defense (besides > Outlook's junk mail folder). We have about 500 users running on > Exchange 2007 with several different domains. > > I have trawled the archives of the list getting some suggestions for > various appliances/software/hosted solutions. I was wondering what the > community considered to be the best configuration for an org of our > size. Our problems with Symantec are that if it is turned down, we > have too much spam getting through, and when turned up high, it is > still letting enough spam through to be annoying whilst pulling out > some rather important false positives. Cost is not usually too much of > an issue for us (we have ESX, Citrix MPS4, XenApp, AppSense, SCOM and > SCCM amongst our chunkier products), but if there is something cheaper > (especially for non-profits), that could be factored in. I'd also be > interested in anything that did antivirus as well, as I am not convinced by Symantec's products at all. > > Do most people favour the belt-and-braces solution for smaller orgs - > a hosted solution or appliance at the edge and software running on Exchange? > Or are there any products out there that do the job well enough on > their own? From looking at the archives it seems that IronPort and > the-product-formerly-known-as-Ninja are two of the most highly recommended. > Does anyone have any particular recommendations for hosted solutions - > MessageLabs seems to be quite highly-rated, and I'm tempted by the > pricing of Google's offering. > > Finally, I was wondering if any of MS' products (like ForeFront) are > worth a look? > > Sorry for rambling on, all advice, hints, tips, gratefully received > and compiled. > > > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am > not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > could provoke such a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
