Hey Len, I agree you have a great solution, but we chose to go with the Barracuda as it allows users to set their own setting and view their quarantined email via a web administration area. Basically we chose the Barracuda for the many features it has that IMGate does not have. I do agree that you have a great solutions, but the features Barracuda has is what made the decision for our company.
Basically if you have money to throw at fighting spam, the Barracuda is well worth the expense. However smaller companies can get some of those features using the IMGate solution. Thanks, Grant Griffith EI8HT LEGS, A Division of ETC (877)483-3393 (812)933-5390 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Great MX firewall to put in front of your imail server >We use imail and declude and transact 400,000 messages per day over >about 250 domains. The fact is that neither declude imail combo, nor >imail internal antispam and antivirus could keep up with our traffic, >even though we had dual xeon's and a new high performance dell server. Yep, many IMGate users have observed the same. Imail+friends, already not inexpensive, simply don't scale for many people, even with $1000's of the best hardware and weeks/months of tweaking. >that would have been expensive in hardware and software. This got me >to thinking I would have to switch mail server software to sendmail sendmail is not IMail, not pop, not imap, not webmail. That switchover would be very expensive in hours and support and extremely visible to your users. >Then I found something that let me keep my investment in my current >mail server. > >For about $13K we bought a barracuda 600 spam fire wall You could have achieved, as many others have, the same rescue of Imail by installing IMGate for free, or pay $600 to have it installed. Most people have been able to minimize their dependence on proprietary hardware, the opposite of your choice. >saved me from switching mail servers. Most people here, having spent $1000's on Imail+friends, would not be feeling very "saved" when spending another $13K to get a mail system that worked. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites 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/
