I look forward to checking this out, thanks! -- ME2
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists < li...@levelfive.us> wrote: > www.proxmox.com > > > > works pretty well out of the box. I have the enterprise version clustered > and host thousands of mailboxes and dozens of domains on it without a hitch. > I probably do something on it once or twice a month when someone cant get an > email due to the other side’s issue. > > > > Last I looked their single domain version was free. > > > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, September 18, 2009 8:25 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/> ~
