Jason, I've been using both Mailenable Pro and SmarterMail so I'll give my input and hope it helps. Personally I would love to see Declude in both products and it seems to be viable since both allow third party "hooks" (especially mailenable.
sl> Just looking at the screen shot for the sl> SmarterTools Mail product, that doesn't look that flexible to me on sl> killing spam. They say they scan viruses but can't find out how. They have per domain settings (generic) 3 different weight settings with different actions and then per user setings that can (if enabled) override the per domain. Spam tests are done on blacklists that you specify as a server admin (with a specified weight for each) and bayesean filtering. In addition to that (and I've found most of my users don't use them) they have content filtering in a seperate area so users (or domains) can setup specific content filters based on from, header, body etc. One thing I do like is that you can blacklist servers for too many errors (mailenable does the same thing), block Ip's for x minutes if they check pop too often etc. It's not as good as declude of course but if declude could plug in it would be great - allowing a nice user interface and the best spam/virus around. As far as virus scanning it's VERY basic - you have to set a delivery delay on the spool and real-time scan it with a virus scanner that can delete messages. We use trend server protect and it works ok. (again declude please...) Another cool feature of smartermail is a second (free 1domain) copy can act as a backup MX for the primary without having to duplicate domains or users. It's very basic right now but hopefully it will just get better. sl> MailEnable ... they say they do "MailEnable Anti-Virus" and then they sl> have "Enhanced Anti-Spam facilities" but what does that mean? Well the enhanced anti-spam is for the entire server (enterprise edition in rc does per user) it's really just blacklists and blocking IP's with too many errors. They do have plugins to use third party products like snmita and spammassasin though - definately needs declude:) Mailenable's virus scanning is nicer than SmarterMails as you call the scanner for each message in a similar way to declude now, you can also have it use multiple scanners. I have my servers using server protect then f-prot and it does a pretty good job and offloads a lot from my Imail/Declude server. In my opinion both mail servers are very nice and actively updated but Declude is what they both(and I guess all mail servers) are missing. I do have a big preference with SmarterMail over Imail or Mailenable though after using all 3 in production for some time. Alex --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
