I am actually using both right now. We use the SMS SMTP as a gateway for all incoming mail from the outside world and all outgoing mail to the outside. We are actually running two internal mail servers an Exchange server and Imail. We started out with just the gateway in place but when are Exchange server started finding viruses that the gateway product had missed and our end users on the Imail system found a few viruses with their desktop scanning software we decided to add the additional layer of the Symantec engine within Imail. Since implementing it our clients have not found any more viruses, but the Symantec engine has only found four viruses on the server. The Gateway product detects and removes around 150 viruses a day. One nice thing that Symantec has added was the ability to drop mass mailer viruses, instead of responding to them or notifying about them, this allows us to still notify on viruses that require it, like word or excel macro viruses. We are also using the gateway to reduce spam with decent results. It blocks about 58% of all messages delivered to us by using RBL and Hueristic scanning. There is a low rate of false positives that can be managed by whitelists.
Tim Altena -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Jones Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail - Symantec AntiVirus Software We use Symantec Antivirus for SMTP Gateways (now known as Symantec Mail Security) .... has anyone used this as well as the SAV that Ipswitch sells? I am interested in a comparison between the two if anyone has tried both. Thanks. Chris Jones Rural Press Limited, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 6:07 PM To: Jim Mc Cay Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail - Symantec AntiVirus Software > Just a quick question. Does anyone know if the Symantec Anti-Virus > software that can be purchased from Ipswitch scans both incoming and > outgoing email or just incoming (pop3 and Imap). It scans all mail, i.e. all mail processed by the local/remote delivery agent. POP3 and IMAP4 are neither incoming nor outgoing in common mailserver parlance. They are mail client protocols. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/rel ease / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/dow nloa d/release/ http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/downloa d/re lease/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
