I've been using SpamTitan at my organization (200 employees) for a few years. For us it has been very effective, mostly set and forget, easy web based console, and has plenty of features and options for us. Includes Kaspersky AV, has a web interface for users to manage their quarantine, can send email quarantine reports to users, from which they can delete, white list, forward or delete messages directly. Cost is reasonable. I use it running as a VM under VMware server - they also have an ESX version. You can also use the ISO version, which runs under Hyper-V or can be loaded on dedicated hardware. Live demo at http://demo.spamtitan.com:8080/
________________________________ From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam solution You might take a look at http://www.proofpoint.com/ . It's worked very nicely for me. You can buy it as an appliance, software for RedHat, or a VM for ESX. False positive/negative rates out of the box are very low and the menus are easy to understand, IMHO. Wayne ________________________________ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists Sent: Thu 9/24/2009 12:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-spam solution http://www.proxmox.com/ works pretty well out of the box. I have the enterprise version clustered and host thousands of mailboxes and dozens of domains on it without a hitch. I probably do something on it once or twice a month when someone cant get an email due to the other side's issue. Last I looked their single domain version was free. 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/ 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
