I understand about learning another OS, although the education into SUSE Linux has been well worth it for me.
If you had the inclination and you needed a user manageable interface for each user where they can view and control their own settings and spam then Maia would do it. http://www.maiamailguard.com/maia/wiki I just looked at the Barracuda and it appears you need at least the 300 to get individual mail box settings - about $4500 for 3 yrs with service and warranty if I am looking at it right? The 400 mentioned would be $9100 for 3 yrs? For our environment it would have required two 600s which would have cost $20,000 for a single box. This avenue saved us about 38K! Todd _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Rabe Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 It does sound like IMGate is great, but I don't want to learn another OS and I love the flexibility if giving users the ability to handle their own filters and quarantine with the Barracuda. And If things get really busy, I drop another one in and do some clustering. TR From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 I agree with Len. IMGate can handle a substantial volume of email, on relatively modest hardware. AND you can have redundancy by adding RAID or a whole second server for the cost of the hardware. Personally I hate annual subscriptions. But I love flexibility. This does both. Todd _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Barracuda 200/400 We have two 400 for incoming and one 200 for out going. The main drawback is, it canBt handle volume of emails. This is the main complaint I see from my clients who have Barracuda. More than one has placed IMGate out front in exactly the same role as IMGate plays for IMail, to remove the 90% of the crap at the envelope stage and allow the next hop system (Barracuda or Imail/stuff) to keep running for years. IMGate allows running a much cheaper Barracuda, both as a purchase and as annual subscription. Barracuda is fine as content-filter if you can afford the power of a machine that meets your laod, but of course exactly the same, and more, can be done with free software on generic hardware and no annual subscription. Looking at the log messages that IMGate logs in talking to Barracuda, Barracuda also runs postfix as MTA, just as IMGate does. Len
