Hi,
How much do want to spend? If you want a rackmount hardware appliance,
there's Barracuda Networks:
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_overview.php
You could manage spam yourself. I don't recommend this after doing it
for years now with DSPAM. My DSPAM has a 94.304 % accuracy. Not horribly
bad, but not great. I could probably do much better with something like
Mai Mailguard that uses several methods to block spam, tied into a
single web interface. Nice, but too much effort to get setup and
configure correctly, and too many points of failure for my tastes.
Personally, I'm a big fan of outsourcing everything possible that's
within reason and budget to do so. Time is money.
There's a few different options:
Google Apps:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/gmail.html
Cost is $50 per user per year. Basically, Google will host your domain
name for e-mails. Each user gets a G-Mail account with 25 GB disk space.
They use Postini to deal with the spam:
http://www.google.com/postini/index.html
No limits on how many e-mails subject to the 25GB disk space. Other
niceties like the Google Apps suite and mobile sync.
Rackspace Hosted E-mail
http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email
Similar to Google, but offers ala carte services. $2.00/e-mail account
per month. You can resell this service. They deal with the spam probably
in a similar way to Google.
Another option is to simply run your e-mail through a 3rd party spam
filtering service. If you're running your own mail server, this might be
an attractive option for you. Personally, I'd go with this one for you.
It keeps your IT foot print smaller, there's no additional hardware to
purchase and maintain, or software to install, keep current, and/or
troubleshoot. It saves you time...and I would argue that it will save
you enough time to effectively more than pay for the service. There's
several of these services out there, but this one looks to be one of the
better ones:
http://www.junkemailfilter.com
This one you pay by number of domains plus e-mail volume, not number of
Inbox's. And, if you're a "progressive" non-profit you can get the whole
deal for free. If you're not a progressive non-profit, then their
pricing is very reasonable...and if you pay for a full year of service
up front, you get two months free. You can also resell this service.
Regards,
Chris
On 4/7/2010 8:45 AM, [email protected] wrote:
We are looking to replace our SPAM/AV appliance with another appliance or
system that is fairly easy to manage and offers end-user quarantine
management. Its been a while since I've researched SPAM/AV solutions so
thought I'd ask what others are using these days.
Thanks,
Eric
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