I have had great success with Sunbelt Software's VIPRE Email Security (formally Ninja Email Security) in three deployments. It's great for an in-house solution and requires almost no management effort once installed. Google's Messaging Filter (Postini) is very cost-effective and self-managing cloud solution, and keeps all that garbage off your circuit entirely. I've implemented this twice and the users love it.
Untangle appears to be worth serious consideration if cost is your biggest concern. I've not installed it in production, but did get it running long enough to play with it. Roger Wright ___ On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:24 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently tasked to get rid of our ineffective Symantec Mail Security > which is, at the moment, our only anti-spam defense (besides Outlook's junk > mail folder). We have about 500 users running on Exchange 2007 with several > different domains. > > I have trawled the archives of the list getting some suggestions for > various appliances/software/hosted solutions. I was wondering what the > community considered to be the best configuration for an org of our size. > Our problems with Symantec are that if it is turned down, we have too much > spam getting through, and when turned up high, it is still letting enough > spam through to be annoying whilst pulling out some rather important false > positives. Cost is not usually too much of an issue for us (we have ESX, > Citrix MPS4, XenApp, AppSense, SCOM and SCCM amongst our chunkier products), > but if there is something cheaper (especially for non-profits), that could > be factored in. I'd also be interested in anything that did antivirus as > well, as I am not convinced by Symantec's products at all. > > Do most people favour the belt-and-braces solution for smaller orgs - a > hosted solution or appliance at the edge and software running on Exchange? > Or are there any products out there that do the job well enough on their > own? From looking at the archives it seems that IronPort and > the-product-formerly-known-as-Ninja are two of the most highly recommended. > Does anyone have any particular recommendations for hosted solutions - > MessageLabs seems to be quite highly-rated, and I'm tempted by the pricing > of Google's offering. > > Finally, I was wondering if any of MS' products (like ForeFront) are worth > a look? > > Sorry for rambling on, all advice, hints, tips, gratefully received and > compiled. > > > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
