Totally agree. Having helped a number of companies of companies with their internal mail systems, it seems "control" is the major issue that drives them to insourcing. However, with appropriate convincing, some realize the benefit of outsourcing or gatewaying for spam control.
Most naively think that either they won't get much spam, or their out of the box software will handle their spam control needs with little effort. Over time most realize the mistake and end up at least outsourcing spam filtering. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Antispam Alternative - Mail Frontier 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 > > > > >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/ > > > > -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ ===================================================== 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/
