Yeah, I liked TumbleWeed. Back when I used it, it was still called WorldTalk WorldSecure Server. It is very flexible and configurable. It is also a powerful SMTP gateway.
Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: New AV Gateway Recommendations 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 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
