Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

[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 other solutions (including our
> own, self built service)
>  
> 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 was thinking of testing it so I shot off a couple questions to them about a month ago.

Greylisting Support?  "Not currently but I will forward this along to the developers as a feature request."

This was a deal breaker for me. Greylisting stops 90% of our spam outright, so I feel it's a feature that I can't afford to lose.

Pre-Greeting Delay ala SendMail?  "We do not have this feature at this time. I will pass this along to the developers as a feature request."

Ability to add custom rules? "Since the Barracuda is an appliance and should not require much management we do not allow customers to adjust the weights assigned to the spam defintions."

SURBL Support? I deleted the E-Mail with the official response (Sorry), but it was something along the lines of: Not directly supported but we provide something very similar using our rule updates, features, etc.

Andy