That may be an awful lot of users for hiring an external service that charges per head, but for a SMB, I can very very heavily vouch for onlymyemail.com, we have had them hosting our anti-spam services for about 2 or 3 years now, we have about 30 mailboxes, its about 2 bucks per month per box, not terribly expensive, and our spam levels are now _zero_. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107
_____ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anti-spam solution 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 _____ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam <http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6OTY1NTY2OTE2O nBqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D> THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
