When not in the cloud, I generally prefer antispam appliances, rather than server-based software.
I've used http://www.sendio.com in the past, as well as MailFrontier (now owned by SonicWall) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <jra...@eaglemds.com > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > We recently replaced our AV (McAfee) with Trend for both clients and > Exchange 2007 (sorry Sunbelt – we came REALLY close to choosing VIPRE). We > did not purchase the spam filtering option with Trend ScanMail, but are now > considering it. We’ve been running GFI MailEssentials for years on a > dedicated box. We’re protecting between 400 and 500 mailboxes. > > > > The price for GFI continues to be attractive, so much so that hosted > solutions don’t seem to be worth the cost differential… The first logical > option to me would be to move toward Trend, but I’m not so sure that adding > spam filtering at the Exchange Server level is a good idea from a resource > perspective. We were there at one point years ago, with GFI and ended up > moving off to a dedicated box, because GFI was eating up too many resources > (we were getting HAMMERED with spam – million a month, easily). > > > > Has anyone on this list moved away from GFI to something else? If so, what > did you move to and what was your reasoning? > > > > I welcome any and all thoughts/suggestions/experiences. > > > > TIA, > > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE > Technology Coordinator > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA* > *jra...@eaglemds.com* > *www.eaglemds.com > > > > ------------------------------ > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is > CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to > view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This > electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or > legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) > and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended > recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete > this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this > message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on > the information that it contains. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
