When I was running an Exchange consulting gig at a big oil company
(100,000+ seats) we used Tumbleweed's product.  The thing I really liked
about their product was that it is very fast and VERY flexible (SQL
backend\web front-end).  We were using it for keyword filtering (string
matching (with wildcards) with a point scale, so each string has a point
value...once the defined threshold for that value it reached  while
reading through a message it does the desired action on a message) and for
AV scanning.  You can use a number of different scan engines (I seem to
remember using Norton's, but the point is you can choose so you can have a
different engine on the SMTP scanner then you do downstream).  This was by
far the best SMTP scanner I have worked with to date.

Anyhow...I highly recommend it as it is fast, flexible, and the support
was excellent (plus I believe it does everything that you require).

-Steve


> I'm looking for a new AV gateway product. I'm looking for something that
> has the following features. Right now we use NAI Websheild SMTP gateway
> which does a pretty good job but is getting rather dated and it does not
> appear that this program will updated past its 4.5 version. The program has
> some nice features, but anything NAI blows, the support gets worse by the
> day, so I want to move on.
> The current setup I have is a single server that receives to WebSheild for
> AV scanning and keyword content filtering. Then it passes it on via port 26
> to my MailFrontier for antispam scanning (both run on the same box) which
> then finally passes it on to the Exchange server boxen on port 25 just like
> usual.
>  
> Here are the features I am looking for
> 
> *     Keyword Blocking 
> *     The ability to turn anti spam off and just use keyword blocking. 
> *     AV scanner 
> *     Ability to pass the mail on another port (such as when an AV gateway
> and an        Antispam gateway are on the same box) 
> *     Recipient Exclusion 
> *     Sender exclusion (allow mail to pass directly from specified email
> addresses     without scanning for content or virus's) 
> *     Originator Blocking (just dump any email that comes from specified
> persons) 
> *     A bonus would be that if it could do a lookup against my GAL and
> just dump any         email for an address that does not exist 
> *     Must run on Wintel platform 
> *     Customizeable NDR's for content filtering, etc
> 
>  
>  
> Martin Blackstone
> Director, Information Technologies
> Microsoft Exchange MVP
> Superior Access Insurance Services
> 949.470.2111 x279

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