I just couldn't justify $13K for spam control; I need to spend that money on other projects with better ROI for our company. I understand your ROI is different than mine, and you are a service provider. I agree everyone should look at all options before settling on one or many solution(s) that fit the problem.
I also appreciate you posting you results/experience with another product that helps in this battle against SPAM. Maybe my previous post was rash and short. I'm just a amazed with the results of our IMGate/CLAM antivirus ... the ROI on IMGate, even if I had to buy a new DELL server (we are an all DELL shop) would be about 4 months, since it extended our Imail servers life for several more years and we were able to use an old PC for IMGate our real ROI as less than a week! I also looked at the ePrism product but like barracuda, the cost was too high for my budget. A question ... would you want to risk 25 million messages a day on one box? Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Cox Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Great MX firewall to put in front of your imail server Before everyone caps off about "free solutions" (I still would have spent some money on hardware you should look at the features of the barracuda system. Web based admin, quarantine boxes that allow users to get a daily digest of the quarantined messages using a local, LDAP, or Radius authentication. Users can set their own spam scores with simple to use sliders, they can enable or disable SPAM and virus filtering, they can manage their own block and white lists. There is domain level control as well. Everything is web based management, no config files, and it turns up fast and easy. The reporting is amazing! This is only a few of it's features. IM gate seemed fairly good and seemed like a good alternative to declude... however all these processes are 1 thread per message processes. To box Barracuda 600 can handle 25 Millions messages per day on one box. The features are amazing, and the ease of use is simple and fast. I appreciate IMgate and Declue and these low cost solutions, but you may want to at least compare features before you decide that the best solutions are free. =Jeff Cox -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Checca Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Great MX firewall to put in front of your imail server WOW $13K ... IMGate fixed our problem with SPAM for free! Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Cox Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [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. With our junk mail traffic doubling every 3 months as a small ISP with only about 3K customers we were going to have to buy and deploy multiple imail servers that would have been expensive in hardware and software. This got me to thinking I would have to switch mail server software to sendmail that is more efficient as well as can more easily be spilt up across severs based on process (pop, smtp, imap, etc) rather than by accounts. 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 (http://www.barracudanetworks.com/). The features are amazing, it can cluster easily, and the updates are fairly cheap. You still need imail and /or declude for internal mail protection and outbound mail (and unless you want to buy an outbound unit from barracuda as well). But this product has saved me from switching mail servers. You can apply for a free 30 day demo! =Jeffery Cox Chief Operating Officer McMinnville Access Company DBA OnlineMac / Centricata www.onlinemac.com www.centricata.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail Scanned for viruses by Onlinemac.com] 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/ --- [This E-mail Scanned for viruses by Onlinemac.com] --- [This E-mail Scanned for viruses by Onlinemac.com] 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/
