RE: Spam appliances/services

2010-09-26 Thread Brian Desmond
ndesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services Indeed... ASB On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Ben Scott mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu,

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2010-09-26 Thread James Hill
I've had great success with MailMarshal for many years now. It's simple to configure and just works. SPAM filtering as well as content filtering and just about anything else you may ever want to do with gateway email control is included. http://www.m86security.com/products/email_security/mai

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2010-09-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Alex Eckelberry wrote: > We need to fix that page… we’re actually not shipping that product. That's never stopped anyone from advertising something. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

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2010-09-24 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We need to fix that page... we're actually not shipping that product. We are coming out with an appliance in December. From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services In fairness t

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2010-09-24 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://www.gfi.com/hosted-email-security Excellent continuity feature in this product - truly remarkable. Antispam and Antivirus are also quite good. Alex From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spam appliances/

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2010-09-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed... *ASB * * * On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > > IMHO, email filtering is the ideal application for cloud computing. Most > of > > the nasties originate out there anyway, so keep all that junk off your > > cir

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2010-09-24 Thread Chipshead
ember 23, 2010 10:52:13 AM Subject: RE: Spam appliances/services Barracuda.  No per-user fees, very configurable and awesome tech support.  I had them at %previousjob% and am trying like heck to get them in at %currentjob%. They’ll even send you a 90 eval unit for free if you want

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2010-09-23 Thread James Rankin
* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Spam appliances/services > > > > We had Barracuda, and loved it. When it came time to replace due to age, > we looked around again. This time we went with Ironport. We like it even > better. The big difference (to us) is the reputation f

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2010-09-23 Thread Brad DeHart
+1 for IronPort. From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services We had Barracuda, and loved it. When it came time to replace due to age, we looked around again. This time we went with

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2010-09-23 Thread N Parr
o: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services Got pricing: $1,000 one time fee for VM. You actually have per user licensing with the VM. $160 per 100 users for a year. N Parr wrote: I ran in to the replacement issue on my web filter, turned out it was much cheaper to

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2010-09-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > IMHO, email filtering is the ideal application for cloud computing.  Most of > the nasties originate out there anyway, so keep all that junk off your > circuit entirely. +1 First-pass email filtering is one of the few things I like to pu

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2010-09-23 Thread Bill Humphries
gt;> >> +1 on the Barracuda, been using one for 4-5 years now. Using global >> policy and once I had the spam and ham trained it was set and forget. >> >> >> *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:

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2010-09-23 Thread Bill Humphries
g one for 4-5 years now. Using >> global policy and once I had the spam and ham trained it was set >> and forget. >> >> >> *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] >> *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:52 AM >> >> *To:* NT System Adm

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2010-09-23 Thread Richard Stovall
-- > *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] > > *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:52 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Spam appliances/services > > Barracuda. > > No per-user fees, very configurable and awesome tech support. I had th

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2010-09-23 Thread Roger Wright
IMHO, email filtering is the ideal application for cloud computing. Most of the nasties originate out there anyway, so keep all that junk off your circuit entirely. Roger Wright ___ When it's GOOD there ain't nothin' like it, and when it's BAD there ain't nothin' like it! On Thu, Sep 23, 20

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2010-09-23 Thread N Parr
to:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services Good things about the barracuda that standout are no per user licensing and easy to setup for multiple domains with or without ldap lookups. Since looking at other optio

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2010-09-23 Thread Jeff Brown
n the Barracuda, been using one for 4-5 years now. Using global policy > and once I had the spam and ham trained it was set and forget. > > -- > *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] > > *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:52 AM > &

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2010-09-23 Thread Bill Humphries
forget. > > > *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:52 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Spam appliances/services > > Barracuda. > > No per-user fees, very configura

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2010-09-23 Thread Sam Cayze
+1 on Brightmail. Every time I needed support, their support staff is awesome. I know, hard to imagine :) Sam From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam appliances/services I

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2010-09-23 Thread Martin Blackstone
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam appliances/services We had Barracuda and moved to Brightmail a while back. I know, it has the shame of Symantec about it but it's an awesome product anyway. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HAR

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2010-09-23 Thread Brian Desmond
www.exchangedefender.com has a really good reputation in the SMB space and I have been really happy with them as a customer also. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, Septem

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2010-09-23 Thread Don Guyer
sday, September 23, 2010 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > I'm in the market to replace my current spam filter. I can say this: Avoid MX Logic (now owned by McAfee (now owned by Intel)). -- Be

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2010-09-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > I'm in the market to replace my current spam filter. I can say this: Avoid MX Logic (now owned by McAfee (now owned by Intel)). -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

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2010-09-23 Thread N Parr
Subject: RE: Spam appliances/services Barracuda. No per-user fees, very configurable and awesome tech support. I had them at %previousjob% and am trying like heck to get them in at %currentjob%. They'll even send you a 90 eval unit for free if you want to try it out. Jim Holmgren Ma

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2010-09-23 Thread Graeme Carstairs
+10 for the Barracuda. 90% of our SPAM is blocked by reputation services, and doesnt even get to the appliance so not using bandwidth. Out the box it just works, and with a little tweaking you may never see SPAM again. The only time I personally see spam is when I decide to check the message log

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2010-09-23 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Currently everybody but myself here has their email being filtered by a hosted antispam service at onlymyemail.com. We've been using them for several years now. Spam has dropped to literally zero. False positives are very few and far between. You get a daily email with what has been blocked,

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2010-09-23 Thread Richard Stovall
Barracuda works well. We don't use the per-user quarantine, but it is available. They now offer a VMware VM in addition to hardware solutions (see http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/vm_overview.php). One thing I've always like about Barracuda is that you can demo the products for a mon

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2010-09-23 Thread John Aldrich
Our mail is being filtered by our ISP using a RedCondor appliance. Barracuda wasn't doing so hot for us. We were seeing a lot of stuff get through, so they switched us over to their RedCondor. Unfortunately there was an issue with delivering email to their mail server directly from the RedCondor, s

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2010-09-23 Thread Jeff Steward
In fairness to the list sponsor, the do have an appliance that doesn't require you to run Exchange: http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Blade/ -Jeff Steward On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > Folks, > > I'm in the market to replace my current spam filter. Google

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2010-09-23 Thread Damien Solodow
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services We had Barracuda, and loved it. When it came time to replace due to age, we looked around again. This time we went with Ironport. We like it even better. The big difference (to us) i

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2010-09-23 Thread Terry Dickson
A year ago I would have recommended the Ironmail Product. I still love ours, but since it was purchased by McAfee I am less hesitant to recommend it. The customer service with McAfee, well I guess I really don't need to say any more. If I had to purchase it now, I am not sure I would. The Pr

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2010-09-23 Thread Roger Wright
I've used Google's Postini mail filtering service very successfully in two environments. I found it cumbersome to setup initially but very effective and hands-off once configured. Users receive daily quarantine summaries and can easily tweak their individual approved/blocked lists. I selected in

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2010-09-23 Thread Kevin Lundy
We had Barracuda, and loved it. When it came time to replace due to age, we looked around again. This time we went with Ironport. We like it even better. The big difference (to us) is the reputation filter simply drops a large part of spam and malware laden email at the network connection level

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2010-09-23 Thread Jim Holmgren
Barracuda. No per-user fees, very configurable and awesome tech support. I had them at %previousjob% and am trying like heck to get them in at %currentjob%. They'll even send you a 90 eval unit for free if you want to try it out. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporati