Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Richard, Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) There is something of a major dispute going regarding whether this represents better value for mney than other solutions (including our own, self built service)

[OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Niek
On 2/28/2005 8:13 AM +0100, Michael Stauber wrote: Hi Richard, Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) There is something of a major dispute going regarding whether this represents better value for mney than other solutions

Re: [OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Niek, Sorry to get off-topic-ish here, But could you tell us what Barracuda uses for: - MTA - Anti spam software - Anti virus software Can't say for sure as it's a black box to which you don't get real shell access. The command line only grants access to a tool from which the most

RE: [OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Philipp Snizek
Sorry to get off-topic-ish here, But could you tell us what Barracuda uses for: - MTA - Anti spam software - Anti virus software Can't say for sure as it's a black box to which you don't get real shell access. The command line only grants access to a tool from which the most

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Tim B
Gray, Richard wrote: Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) There is something of a major dispute going regarding whether this represents better value for mney than other solutions (including our own, self built

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Tim B, They bounce EVERYTHING causing a ton of backscatter. They seem to accept all mail, process it then bounce it back to the sender which is usually fake. Yeah, that's sad but true for the default configuration. Since long I set mine to Reject instead of bounce and completely forget to

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Tom Gwilt
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Gray, Richard wrote: If any of you fine people has any experience with this (tested it, use it, know someone else who uses it) I'd really appreciate any feedback you could give me on its pros/cons. Thanks. Richard I checked into it several months ago. Seemed nifty, so I

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Cris Fuhrman
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:43:32 -0500 (EST), Tom Gwilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response was along the lines of not available at this time, and it would cost you tens of thousands of dollars to implement with existing hardware, etc. OK - so I found a Dell 1600SC, put FreeBSD, Postfix, and

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Girard
: Barracuda's Spam firewall On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:43:32 -0500 (EST), Tom Gwilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response was along the lines of not available at this time, and it would cost you tens of thousands of dollars to implement with existing hardware, etc. OK - so I found a Dell 1600SC, put

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Mitchell D. Baker
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:07, Cris Fuhrman wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:43:32 -0500 (EST), Tom Gwilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response was along the lines of not available at this time, and it would cost you tens of thousands of dollars to implement with existing hardware, etc. OK

Re: [OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Stuart Johnston
Philipp Snizek wrote: Sorry to get off-topic-ish here, But could you tell us what Barracuda uses for: - MTA - Anti spam software - Anti virus software Can't say for sure as it's a black box to which you don't get real shell access. The command line only grants access to a tool from which the

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Bellears
Several months later, a sales rep called and tried to sell me on it. I told him I wasn't interested in it as it stood, but might have some interest if they had an outbound scanner. They have that capability now: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/products/key_features_ob.php

RE: [OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Bellears
Virus checker ... no idea. Sorry. I believe they use two Virus Scanners - One is ClamAV + Secondary ? MB

RE: [OT] Whats inside ? Was: Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Bellears
Virus checker ... no idea. Sorry. I believe they use two Virus Scanners - One is ClamAV + Secondary ? Sorry for replying to my own post, but secondary is reported to be Sophos

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Richard, Friday, February 25, 2005, 7:58:54 AM, you wrote: GR Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this GR particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) I'm an end-user of an Exchange server based system that has a Barracuda front-end, and also the email admin of

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Rob McEwen
Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) A few months ago, I was chatting with an IT contractor guy in my city who had installed the barracuda firewall for many large clients, including a large hospital. I sent this guy a

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Jason Bennett
, February 25, 2005 8:36 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) A few months ago, I was chatting with an IT contractor guy in my city who had

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-25 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Friday 25 February 2005 07:58 am, Gray, Richard wrote: Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) There is something of a major dispute going regarding whether this represents better value for mney than other solutions

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Parker
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:20:13AM -0800, Brook Humphrey wrote: making a killing on the hardware depending on what they are using on the software side. If it's a bunch of oss stuff on the inside then their development costs are next to nothing and they in essence are charging allot for a

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-25 Thread Andy Jezierski
Gray, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/25/2005 09:58:54 AM: Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) There is something of a major dispute going regarding whether this represents better value for mney than

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-25 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Friday 25 February 2005 09:26 am, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:20:13AM -0800, Brook Humphrey wrote: making a killing on the hardware depending on what they are using on the software side. If it's a bunch of oss stuff on the inside then their development costs are next to nothing