We have two 400 for incoming and one 200 for out going. The main drawback is, it can't handle volume of emails. So we setup one 400 with some rules and one 400 with more rules.
In my opinion, it is one of the solution but not the best solution for spam, for high volume servers require something in front before Barracuda. Thank you Balaji. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Olson Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 Travis- I've been running a 400 for 9 months, couldn't be happier. It replaced Declude Virus and JunkMail that I was big fan of for years. Finally Declude could not keep up with the Junk Mail and I was having to change scoring weights and add other tests to meet our satisfaction. Last year at this time the amount of spam that was being delivered to our users mailoxes was ridiculous (sorry I don't have any stats). It was to the point where our students did not want to use our system because of the amount of spam. I sent my global config file and JunkMail settings off to Declude so they could analyze or make suggestions on what to add, but the response I got was to upgrade to one of their newer products, as the product that we had was limited compared to their new product, (their tech supports words, not mine). I did quite bit of research before purchasing the Barracuda. We looked at Mirapoint as well as Sophos. Mirapoint has had great reviews but was way out of the ballpark for us on price. Sophos was more interested in selling us a campus - wide AV solution, not to mention they mis-scheduled (putting it lightly, they plain forgot about the demo) their live product demo three times. I was a little leary about the Barracuda at first (before we tried it) because of some of the negative comments I had heard on the list as well as some other user groups. The negative complaints about the box not keeping up must have been related to older revisions with slower cpu or fw. We are receiving approx 100,000 email msgs a day. Average latency is 6 seconds. Our volume could have warranted a 200, but I wanted the RAID 1 hard drive as well as AD integration. Our stats for today are as follows Total Email Received = 56,930 Allowed = 2,813 Allowed but Subject Tagged = 465 Quarantined = 460 Blocked because Virus = 30 Blocked SPAM = 53,162 This is with the following settings Score <1 = Subject TAG Score <2 = Quarantine Score <4 = Block About three times a year(so far), I notice the amount of spam increasing. Usually the problem takes care of itself with in a few days. If not, I then go in and make the settings more aggressive. The interface is easy to learn and navigate. I have our system setup to notify the users once a day of the contents of their barracuda quarantine. Besides a handful of people, we have not done any training on the user's Barracuda quarantine account. Barracuda had a FREE 30 day trail. If you didn't like the product, all you had to do was pay for the shipping back. We purchased ours from ComputerLand of Silicon Valley, pretty substantial educational discount. I was literally up and running in 30 minutes. It took just as long to make room on the rack and re-arrange cables. Let me know if you have anymore questions. Thanks Neil Olson Information Technology Grand View College 1200 Grandview Ave Des Moines IA 50316 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 515-263-2961 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Travis Rabe Sent: Mon 10/8/2007 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 All, For those of you using Barracuda appliance, may I get your feedback on your experience. Ease of use? Versus Imail Premium? Versus Symantec Mail Security? Versus anything else? Reliability? Regards, Travis
