Yes, mainly for redundancy. One could handle our incoming mail load. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you .. will check that out as well … that seems like a lot of VM’s > for 15k mailboxes but assuming there’s room for growth and this includes > redundancy too > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Baird > *Sent:* July 22, 2016 12:09 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Antispam Appliances/Solutions > > > > At $mainjob, we use Trend Micro IMSVA which is a Linux based VM > appliance. We run a cluster of 3 of them which support a fairly large mail > infrastructure (~15k mailboxes). > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey folks… > > > > You guys/gals always have great suggestions and this time I’m wondering > about email antivirus/antispam appliances (outsourcing not an option) of > mid sized scale… > > > > Today at $$$job we run Ironport appliances for antispam/antivirus > protection. One of the appliances is end of life and needs to be replaced > and the other two are coming up for maintenance renewal. These boxes, from > what I understand, are very expensive. I have a call into Cisco for > pricing but they usually take weeks to call back if they ever call back at > all … enough about them…. > > > > So wondering if we should continue down the road with Ironport or consider > something else. The number of email accounts continues to drop off over > time with folks moving to Gmail, Hotmail etc. These boxes work * > *extremely** good … right now seeing about 3.5% of email is legit and > rest is spam/virus etc. Very rare for a spam message to make it through … > > > > Outbound email messages per day approximately 100,000 (varies but average > number) > > Inbound email messages per day approximately 2.6 million on average > > > > Anyone use anything on similar scale to provide insight into what they are > using and how it works? > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > >
