You make some excellent point David. The more I think about it I might go with a comercial solution. I am afraid of adding anything else complicated to the mix here as I am the only network guy here and if I leave I think my shoes would be hard to fill as I run so many different things between Cisco, Motorola, AS400, Citrix, Linux (snort) Windows yadda yadda. Why add the to the complexity. " someone else is responsible/accountable if the product fails to deliver!!" is the major kicker here for me. 8-)
I am mainly looking at Symantic Brightmail, Iron Port, Barracuda, Cypertrust, Trend Micro (since we have there desktop AV solution). Thanks! Chad On 12/22/05, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm stuck with Exchange as well. I went with a purchased solution > from Symantec that includes the Brightmail plugin to their Mail > Security product for AntiSpam/AntiVirus. I have to say it works quite > well. The amount of spam in our inboxes has gone from 100 a day for > some people to less than 2 per week - for each employee. The CEO was > getting over 300 per day... she now gets about less than 1 every other > week. The results are mixed in that sense, but I'd say that's about > 98% give or take. > > Now if you want open source... I'm sure others in the thread will > suggest the popular postfix + spamassassin + clamAV + postgrey (new > greylisting stuff). There have been various discussions on these mail > gateways over the last couple years on list so you may be able to > google search using "site:trilug.org" and find some of that > information. The greylisting stuff is new. People are apparently > raving about it... spamassassin simply isn't cutting it by itself > anymore it seems. I know at home I'm getting 30 spams a day right now > that get through. It totally sucks. I have instructions for > implementing greylisting and will probably do so this weekend. > > good luck on your choice! BTW, another reason I went for a paid > solution... someone else is responsible/accountable if the product > fails to deliver!! :) Yes I chose the product, but when you pay for > something (in the CEO's eyes) you have greater accountability for it > to work properly. The SPAM issue was too huge here (b/c of their > previous admins never teaching them anything so they used their email > addresses EVERYWHERE on the Internet) ... so I had to make sure that > solution worked (and I didn't have extra hardware for the SMTP Gateway > either). > > David McD > > > On 12/21/05, Chad Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am going to put an Exchange server in for email and I have no choice on > > that. I do however have a choice in Spam/Virus/HTTP filtering for a > gateway > > solution. Want to filter spam, viruses, spyware and possibley stop > users > > from visiting black listed web sites that are against company policy. > > > > I am looking at all types of products form Symantec, Barracuda, Iron > Port, > > Trend etc etc. I thought I might even build myself an opensource one. > > Question for you all is there a good open source solution? > > > > I am open to any suggestions. This is for a corporate environment with > > about 250 users. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chad > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
