RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering

[Steve Shaff]

Title: OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering

I would have to recommend the Mailfrontier Spam Gateway.  It is a product that is relatively cheap and really does a great job on the SPAM portion.  They also have an add-on for doing AV screening at the gateway, but it uses MacAfee.  Which is crap, in my humble opinion.  For AV software, I really like Sybari’s product.  But, they too have a SPAM add-on for their AV software.  But, it really does not compete with Mailfrontier’s gateway.  Two great products in their own realm.   S   ***************************************** Steve Shaff Active Directory / Exchange Administrator Corillian Corporation (W) 503.629.3538 (C) 503.807.4797 (F) 503.629.3674 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering   If you're going to go that route, you may also want to check out spamassin as a possible product. You'd want something that handles anti-virus to compliment the product.   al   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering I'm using MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info/) running on FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/) You need a bit of Unix experience to set it up (but not too much) and it's working very well for us. A (sort of) diary of how I did it is at http://techinfo.cnwl.ac.uk/MailScanner%20on%20FreeBSD/   Steve   From: Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 July 2004 13:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 SPAM Filtering Our organization is running Exchange 2000.  We recently put up an SMTP Gateway between our firewall and Exchange 2000 Email Gateway to fend off SPAM and viruses giving us a good choke point for both.  We are using Symantec Mail Security for SMTP which does not require Exchange 2000 to run on.  It is a very good product by Symantec but we remain unimpressed as it gives no automated reporting or performance monitoring.  Does anyone have a product that combats viruses and SPAM while providing automated reporting and performance monitoring, preferably one that does not require Exchange 2000 to run?  We want to stay away from having to maintain another Exchange server if we can help it as we would not put any user mailboxes on it.  Thanks in advance and sorry for the OT discussion if it offends anyone. Jeremy ----------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270