Re: email gateway appliance for antivirus and antispam for 3-5k?

[David Nalley <davidn () keymarkinc com>]

On Friday 18 May 2007 02:40:29 pm jpippin wrote:
> I know this has been covered several ways over the years, but searching my
> archives isn't bringing up what I need. Maybe some of you can help. I want
> to purchase a hardware appliance to take the "Edge Transport" role for my
> soon-to-be-installed E2K7 server. I want to know all the options and narrow
> it down to three or four. So please share opinions and experince on devices
> that meet the following requirements:
>
> - Hardware only. I don't care if I have to install management software,
> just don't want it on the server. I'm a big fan of decomposed architecture.
> - Anti-Spam AND Anti-Virus solution (excludes companies like Barracuda). -
> Less than $5k for 3 years TCO. I don't care if the box is $3k or $5k as
> long as maintenance and subscriptions keep the total under $5k.
> - Anywhere from 25 to 100 user device is fine.
>
> Possibilities so far (feel free to comment):
> IronPort C100
> Sophos ES1000
> Fortinet Fortimail
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>  -J

Take a look at Fort Systems Ltd. (http://fsl.com). Their appliance is 
reasonably priced, open source, and one of the most effective appliances I 
have used. 
Of course you could also run their software on your own dedicated hardware - 
or build it from the components at http://mailscanner.info


David Nalley