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 they sold us a couple years > ago is not the same as what they are selling today. We just got a 400 > replaced last week and the new unit came with 16G of memory and 10K drives. > The old unit had a 1G of memory and slower drives and I'm sure much slower > processor.
Pairing them up like that is what I've done. They run quite ok in that configuration. Expensive, but solid. I'm still guessing (on what little I know from the orginal poster) that a managed Postini solution is up his alley. > > In any case, if you really are strapped for cash, I would recommend checking > out MailScanner http://www.mailscanner.info/ . This software is highly > configurable and works quuite well so your only cost would be hardware and > your time to configure. If you are comfortable with Linux and the command > line this would be a good option for you. We're using mailscanner for our > outbound processing as well as inbound/outbound for our web hosting domains > with good results. Some like mailscanner even better, as it allows you to check mail (if I remember right) with up to like a dozen AV scanners before it hits your MTA. Here is more on the AV settings http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#anti-virus Their overall documentation is very good, IMO http://www.mailscanner.info/documentation.html While zen.spamhaus is one of the more conservative solutions, you might sometimes get some false positives. (I personally have no problems blocking *all* MTAs listed by SpamHaus) You'll probably have more success blocking per spam URIs. e.g. http://www.surbl.org/ Stay away from greylisting unless you're really wanting to get your hands dirty! I set that up a while ago and had some major problems with gmail email getting snagged. Eventually things sort themselves out, but in the interim, you will have a lot of really pissed customers! HTH! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/