Travis- We are using the per user mode, but all of our accounts are now on exchange. So, yes the Barracuda integrates quite well with exchange, but I have no idea on any other system. We didn't even try when we were on iMail. 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 Neil Olson Sent: Mon 10/8/2007 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 Yes, sometimes too well. There are two versions. Version 1 basically lets you report an email as spam or not spam back to the Bayesian db related to your acct. The Bayesian db does not go into action until there are 200 entries reported. Version 2 adds the functionality of whitelisting by contacts in your address book. So, if someone has inadvertently added a contact that was actually a spam sender, then they start receiving those in their inbox and wonder why. This has happened multiple times here. The nice thing though, many of our faculty work in conjunction with other faculty across the globe as well as many publishers. In this particular case, those email addresses are already added to the users whitelist and I didn't need to do a thing. The Outlook plug-in was something we thought we would make part of the standard staff/faculty pc build, but we are now just pointing people to the webpage to download it when they ask for more anti-spam functionality in outlook. 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 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 Does the Oulook plug-in work well as well as the quarantine? TR 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
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