For a small company, I highly recommend this hosted service that we're using at the moment (we have about 30 users), onlymyemail.com. You point your MX records to them, then firewall off your own email servers port 25 to only accept email from them. You get a daily email with a list of all the spam they blocked, and can request a list on demand at any time. False positives are extremely rare, and almost zero spam actually makes it past them. They handle viruses as well. I think we pay just a couple bucks per user per month. Very affordable for small business.
Nice side bonus; if our email server or internet connection is down for any reason, they store the email until our servers are accessible again. On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: > It all depends on number of users and throughput. We have a DS3 > Internet connection, so I had to have the higher throughput device, > which was more expensive. > > I want to say it was like $7000 for the device and 4 years of service. > > I have a small customer that has one for 10 users and I think we > paid about $2K for it and 3 years. > > Bob Fronk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:53 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Barracuda Web filter > > Can you give a ballpark figure on how expensive iPrisms are? > > stbernard.com makes you fill out a form for a quote, which generally > means you subject yourself to endless harangues by sales people. I > hate that. Usually if a company doesn’t post their prices, I figure > their product is probably over priced anyway and I just skip it. > > > From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:43 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Barracuda Web filter > > Dropped Surfcontrol and got an iPrism 4 or 5 years ago. Never > looked back. > > http://www.stbernard.com/ > > I do have a Barracuda Spam/Virus filter and it is great. They did > not have a web product at the time. (I don’t think anyway) > > Bob Fronk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: mqcarp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:16 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Barracuda Web filter > > Anyone use their web filter? We use SurfControl and I have had > enough with it. It is expensive annually and Websense is even > higher. We love the Barracuda SPAM filter, which is perfect for our > business size. Is the web filter a solid product too? > > > > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: > > ****************** > > This communication, including any attachments, may contain > confidential information and is intended only for the individual or > entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or > copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended > recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and > destroy all copies of the original message. > > > > > > > > > > > > If this email is spam, report it here: > http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
