We have it installed here. I liked the support we got from MF better than what we get from Sonic. However, in their defense, I did talk to the tech support manager sometime ago and he admitted it dropped a bit when Sonic bought MF. It is better now. As to the effectiveness of the product itself, I'd say it catchs about 95%. It seems that MF takes a while to catch spam when a method is used. Last week, quite a few spam pdf's got thru before they started getting blocked. I also use SpamBayes on my pc and it catchs what MF misses. Having said all that, we are looking at maybe going to a managed service like Postini. As Dean wrote earlier, bandwidth is also a considertion. Right now, about 90% of inbound email to us is spam.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Mellott Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:12 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions You could look at Mailfrontier which is now owned by Sonic. It's a solid solution not requiring much admin'ing at all. I am no fan of Sonic's support but the one's I have installed just run and do it well. I occasionally have to do an update when they release a newer version bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Brasslett Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions They get an email occasionally (you can define how often) that alerts them they have email in the quarantine. The email contains a link to the Postini mailbox. They must enter a password at this point, but the password is in sync with their password on our DCs, so they don't need to remember another password. They can also manage (if you want them to) their white lists, black lists, and spam filter sensitively from this interface. Basically, the only thing we have to do is add and remove users and there are ways to automate that as well, but we have very little turnover here so we just do it manually. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi Posted At: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:00 PM Posted To: Exchange Mailing List Conversation: Spam Appliance Suggestions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions How do your users check their hosted mailboxes to check for false positives? I had no problem with the hosted solution, but I spent far more time helping my users remember how to connect to their remote mailbox than I do now simply supporting a set it and forget it box. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Brasslett Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions Sounds like you may have picked the wrong solution provider? We use Postini and we spend minuscule amounts of time supporting it. I can't imagine ANY on premise solution that could be as painless as our hosted solution. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi Posted At: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:24 PM Posted To: Exchange Mailing List Conversation: Spam Appliance Suggestions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions Speaking from personal experience (I went from on premise to hosted back to on premise) I can tell you that a hosted solution will not save you time. We were spending easily 10 times the man hours supporting our hosted solution compared to having it on site. Granted, it easy to get to am increment of 10 when the onsite system takes all of 1 minute per month, but still, hosted doesn't save you time. (That doesn't mean there aren't other valid reasons for using hosted solutions.) TVK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rappaport Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spam Appliance Suggestions Have you looked into a hosted solution? If you have limited staff, adding another piece of hardware might not be the right way to go. www.postini.com www.messagelabs.com http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1008&pvid= 863_ 1 http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/default.mspx www.exchangedefender.com There are plenty more too. I've used them all; they all work well, but each has their own nuances. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Spam Appliance Suggestions We are looking to implement an anti-spam appliance. We need something that is mostly hands-off as we have limited staff. 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