Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Rogelio
Frank Muto wrote: Then you should be working with a reseller/distributor like us. Some of the services do require an annual fee, but none that require a minimum 3-year commitment. At 60k emails, plus using Exchange; you are at a whole different level of resources even with Barracuda,

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Rogelio
Travis Johnson wrote: We have been a Postini customer since their first year in business. Once you outsource that part of it, you wonder how you ever did it before. Right now it is probably saving us at least 10Mbps of bandwidth, which in our area is over $500 per month. We also charge

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Rogelio
Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Has anyone used this spam firewall? http://www.untangle.com http://www.untangle.com/ it is free to install on any server. I have a Barracuda SF200 and this thing is making me angry. It is so slow I don't even bother trying to log into it. It times out constantly and is

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogelio Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:18 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Has anyone used this spam firewall? http://www.untangle.com http://www.untangle.com

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Eric Merkel
: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda UPDATE I just got done messing with that Untangled garbage. It has absolutely no way to configure anything. It is basically setup so all you have to do is plug it in line as a bridge and hope that it does what you want cause you can't configure

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Muto
' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda UPDATE I just got done messing with that Untangled garbage. It has absolutely no way to configure anything. It is basically setup so all you have to do is plug it in line as a bridge and hope

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
. Faisal Imtiaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Muto Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:00 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda That still puts pressure on the system resources. As a wireless provider

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Muto
- From: Faisal Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda This is an age old argumentkeep it inhouse or outsource ? Outsource works very well as long as you have the right kind

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Scottie Arnett
, 2008 2:18 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Kurt Fankhauser wrote: Has anyone used this spam firewall? http://www.untangle.com http://www.untangle.com/ it is free to install on any server. I have a Barracuda SF200 and this thing is making me angry

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Scottie Arnett
Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda This is an age old argumentkeep it inhouse or outsource ? Outsource works very well as long as you have the right kind of (good match) outsource partner, and in-house works well is you are looking for full control and have extra available

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Rogelio
Eric Merkel wrote: We use the barracuda's and are gennerrally happy with the performance . We're running 500K plus thru a pair of 400's. We have had performance issues at times but if you pay for their instant replacement they'll swap out your hardware. What I find somewhat bogus is the 400

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Rogelio
Scottie Arnett wrote: Cheap P3 700Mhz Dell, Install Debian with Postfix, MailScanner, Spamassassin, Razor, Dcc, Pyzor, Clamav, and a few choice others if you wish. Have it relay to your internal mail server, and have internal not receive any email except from Debian box. Make sure you have

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Muto
Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda The barracuda should do all the checks it can before the bandwidth is every used. If its not, ditch it and go with the setup I mentioned earlier

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Jason Hensley
I've been very pleased with ModusMail/Gate (www.vircom.com). Great products and very effective. I'm running modusMail for my primary server and modusGate for filtering some business MS Exchange customers. WISPA

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread David E. Smith
Frank Muto wrote: Outbound is not as much trouble, unless of course a customer has a virus, than inbound. Just how would the Cuda box do any checks without receiving a message? You still have all those connections coming in, so the problem still exists. About 90% of our email is stopped by

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Scottie Arnett
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Muto Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 11:16 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Outbound is not as much trouble, unless of course a customer has a virus, than inbound. Just

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Scott Lambert
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:59:38AM -0400, Frank Muto wrote: That still puts pressure on the system resources. As a wireless provider you have enough on your plate to deal with. Options include, outsourcing email with integrated spam/virus (AS/AV) with IMAP/POP3/Webmail options, or outsource

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Muto
- Original Message - From: Scott Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:59:38AM -0400, Frank Muto wrote: That still puts pressure on the system resources. As a wireless provider you have enough on your plate to deal with. Options include, outsourcing email with

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-30 Thread George Rogato
Frank Muto wrote: Don't get me wrong, Barracuda makes a fine appliance and comparing them to a hosted solution with far greater processing power, 7 global data centers and 14 redundant systems, now with the strength of Google's cash and server farms, is two different things. Frank

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
Have you called Barracuda Support? They are good to work with and may be able to help you-you could have something weird going on in the box that needs to be fixed. We don't generally sell the 200's, but I have had 300's that handle 60,000 + emails a day and aren't breaking a sweat. John

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
, 2008 1:24 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Have you called Barracuda Support? They are good to work with and may be able to help you-you could have something weird going on in the box that needs to be fixed. We don't generally sell the 200's, but I have had

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Mac Dearman
Kurt, What firmware are you running? How many emails are you filtering? Have you done a hard reboot on it lately? How many Spam emails are you killing per hour? Per day? (There is a Daily Traffic graph/email that tell you this) I know mine too (Cuda) is sluggish, but it's the amount of

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Frank Muto
@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Kurt, What firmware are you running? How many emails are you filtering? Have you done a hard reboot on it lately? How many Spam emails are you killing per hour? Per day? (There is a Daily Traffic

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Travis Johnson
are pulling in substantial amounts of junk and direct harvest attacks. Frank Muto www.secureemailplus.com - Original Message - From: "Mac Dearman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'WISPA General List'" wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
are pulling in substantial amounts of junk and direct harvest attacks. Frank Muto www.secureemailplus.com - Original Message - From: Mac Dearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Frank Muto
PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Travis, because there is an element of control that you lose when you outsource. I have a client that got really upset when an email that was addressed to 3 companies

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Travis Johnson
250 are pulling in substantial amounts of junk and direct harvest attacks. Frank Muto www.secureemailplus.com - Original Message - From: "Mac Dearman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'WISPA General List'" wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:1

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread John Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Travis, because there is an element of control that you lose when you outsource. I have a client that got really upset when an email

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-29 Thread Frank Muto
service provider. Frank Muto Postini - Google Apps Distributor www.SecureEmailPlus.com - Original Message - From: John Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda Unless you

Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda

2008-06-28 Thread David E. Smith
I have a Barracuda SF200 and this thing is making me angry. It is so slow I don't even bother trying to log into it. It times out constantly and is so un-responsive. When it does work it takes a min of 30 seconds to change pages and that's when it is working properly. Its not overloaded I