Hi,
at work, someone dropped a flyer about the product mentioned in the subject on
my desk...
seems to be one of those linux-based "appliances", meaning, 1U rackmount box
running linux, a smtpd of unknown brand, a spam filter, and some f-prot based
mail scanner...
the leaflet itself is full of hot air, and almost totally devoid of any
substance, for example sentences like his (translated from german):
"the ProofPoint Spam Detection (TM) module uses the ProofPoint MLX(TM)
technology for automated learning (pat.pend.)" which in itself doesn't tell
me that much about why/how this would be better than a bayes-based filter in
combination with the usual blacklists...
So, has anyone here seen/touched this thing before?
For me, the only strong point with it seems to be the combined
firewall/AV/spam scanner thing (waitaminute... single point of failure??),
and the web admin frontend which can generate colorful pie charts about
spam/virus statistics (which, of course, can be printed on overhead films and
used to increase the IT budget...).
Anyone ever seen one of those?
bye,
MH
