[OT] IronPort mail servers
I know this is not OpenBSD related but I'm just asking for if someone has any first-hand experience with IronPort [1] My company has decided to move away from Solaris 8 mail system (sendmail, clamav, mimedefang, relaydelay and god-knows-what-else) - the reason for the move is that the current system is kind of glued together and no one knows how it all works. People who implemented these have left with no documentation behind. Anyhow, we have acquired one IronPort for free plus free training. After doing the training it looks like an extremely powerful little box that can do the whole lot: mail, spam, virus checking, LDAP lookup, SPF...everything from a nice GUI and also CLI. I just wonder if anyone has any first-hand experience with IronPort and would share their experience. Thanks. -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPort
Re: [OT] IronPort mail servers
We have been using Ironport for about a year now as our email security appliance. We have roughly 60,000 addresses that we route mail for and take in about 16 million messages a day. We went from a total of 16 systems running just about everything imaginable including email encryption, to 2 Ironport C650 appliances. We have been very happy with Ironport up to this point, the boxes are very low maintenace and they have given us the ability to perform some more advance mail routing functions that were not supported in our old system. The support and response from Ironport has also been exceptional. They have processed feature requests, and depending on the contract that you have they can provide 24-hour on-site support. Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not OpenBSD related but I'm just asking for if someone has any first-hand experience with IronPort [1] My company has decided to move away from Solaris 8 mail system (sendmail, clamav, mimedefang, relaydelay and god-knows-what-else) - the reason for the move is that the current system is kind of glued together and no one knows how it all works. People who implemented these have left with no documentation behind. Anyhow, we have acquired one IronPort for free plus free training. After doing the training it looks like an extremely powerful little box that can do the whole lot: mail, spam, virus checking, LDAP lookup, SPF...everything from a nice GUI and also CLI. I just wonder if anyone has any first-hand experience with IronPort and would share their experience. Thanks. -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPort -- Thx Joshua Gimer
Re: [OT] IronPort mail servers
Joshua Gimer wrote: We have been using Ironport for about a year now as our email security appliance. We have roughly 60,000 addresses that we route mail for and take in about 16 million messages a day. We went from a total of 16 systems running just about everything imaginable including email encryption, to 2 Ironport C650 appliances. We have been very happy with Ironport up to this point, the boxes are very low maintenace and they have given us the ability to perform some more advance mail routing functions that were not supported in our old system. The support and response from Ironport has also been exceptional. They have processed feature requests, and depending on the contract that you have they can provide 24-hour on-site support. Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not OpenBSD related but I'm just asking for if someone has any first-hand experience with IronPort [1] My company has decided to move away from Solaris 8 mail system (sendmail, clamav, mimedefang, relaydelay and god-knows-what-else) - the reason for the move is that the current system is kind of glued together and no one knows how it all works. People who implemented these have left with no documentation behind. Anyhow, we have acquired one IronPort for free plus free training. After doing the training it looks like an extremely powerful little box that can do the whole lot: mail, spam, virus checking, LDAP lookup, SPF...everything from a nice GUI and also CLI. I just wonder if anyone has any first-hand experience with IronPort and would share their experience. Thanks. -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPort I can only second that. I implemented a couple of systems at big customers and they never looked back. Easy to configure, low maintenance, very high catch rate. When customers ask me what to do about spam, my answer is simple: IronPort. Have fun (doing something else than cleaning up spam messages), Stijn
