Spam Filtering

[genesiswave at gmail.com (James Costello)]

I've had experience with a variety of services, software and devices over
the years:
Services
Postini - currently the 800 pound gorilla - responsive to customers and
senders - straight forward controls but not overly granular
MessageLabs - very thorough system - great for their customers - difficult
to work with if you are a service provider and are trying to get unblocked
AppRiver - long history with these guys - super responsive, great reporting
- good granularity

Software
SpamAssassin - good base level, used as a secondary system for additional
configuration
Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange - best I can say is meh, it enhances
Exchanges message filtering but most of it can be done with proper
configuration
Symantec AntiVirus Exchange Agent - just avoid it, last I used it it liked
to mark PowerPoint files as unacceptable - not so good for my advertising
client

Devices
IronPort - liked the system - the secure send was a bit weird
Barracuda SPAM firewall - started off as a great product, more recently I
have experienced a lot of issues with false positives.
MailFoundry - simpler system, lower price point.  Was easy to set up for
multiple clients and give them each their own login.



On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Scott Webster <websterstech at gmail.com>wrote:

>  We use PineApp Mail-SeCure
>
>
>
> *From:* pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] *On Behalf Of *Arch Angel
> *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2009 6:39 PM
> *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Pauldotcom] Spam Filtering
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>
> I am looking to see what everyone is using for Spam / Virus Filtering on
> their Email.
>
> Are you using open-source, software based, appliance based, etc..
>
> Right now we are having ours done through outsource and I am thinking this
> is a bad solution as it relies on outside people to maintain security of the
> email for one, and their ability to catch things is not the best from what I
> have seen.  I am not going to say what we use as I want to see if anyone
> else is using it as well and then see if maybe it is a configuration or
> setup issue we are having, although being out sourced I still don't feel
> that warm and fuzzy about it...
>
> Thanks ahead of time for the time, I know we are all really busy!
>
> Robert
>
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