Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Antispam Alternative - Mail Frontier

[Matt]

Not that I'm trying to solicit business here, but it is beyond me why 
many regular E-mail admins don't look to outsource instead of purchasing 
expensive software licenses, boxes, and spending oodles of time trying 
to figure out how to get everything to work right.  There is no way that 
something out of the box can outperform a well maintained service, and 
you often get better redundancy including having the scanning MX hold 
E-mail during outages.

I'm pretty certain that a by doing a proper TCO analysis that you 
couldn't come up with an advantage to insourcing until you reach at 
least 500 accounts, and most likely several thousand would be the true 
break even number.  It just takes that much time and other hard to 
measure costs to do this properly, let alone, with spam reaching 90% of 
E-mail volume (for our clients at least), leakage of just 2%, which is 
much better than most large services, software and hardware products, 
that won't be enough to keep some heavily spammed users happy.

I can certainly understand the desire to tinker with the stuff, after 
all, that's how I got into the business (expanded from primarily Web 
hosting and design). But without that potential payoff, I don't really 
think that many here could make a business case for going it alone with 
some black box or magical product.

Do we all host our own Web sites?  Some of the same reasons apply to why 
not, but they are much more extensive when it comes to spam IMO.

Matt

Pete McNeil wrote:
On Monday, February 7, 2005, 3:32:45 PM, Herschel wrote:
HJIA> Just got out of a meeting with my boss about this 
HJIA> software.  Not sure if he's up for purchasing it or not, but he
HJIA> told me  that it was in the neighborhood of $12k per year for
HJIA> the Enterprise  version.  
HJIA>  
HJIA> Herschel Jones
HJIA> Email Administrator - MIS
HJIA> Boral Industries
HJIA> 800-627-5527

That's high - there are much cheaper alternatives out there that are
at least as good if not better.
_M
Pete McNeil (Madscientist)
President, MicroNeil Research Corporation
Chief SortMonster, www.sortmonster.com

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