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Re: anti-spam software
From: David Boyer <David () BVU EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:13:26 -0500
We use a Fortigate at the border to do virus checking and RBL-based antispam. Before the mail hits our SMTP server, it goes through an M+Guardian appliance. We've been using the M+Guardian appliance and its predacessor, GWGuardian for about 2.5 years. They both work with any SMTP server. We see very few SPAM actually hit mailboxes, and very few false-positives. -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Maria Iano Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:25 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] anti-spam software -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am hoping to pick your brains about commercial anti-spam solutions. The Math Department has roughly 1000 user accounts and currently uses SpamAssassin, as well as many of the spam filtering options in postfix such as header and body checks and DNS blacklists. Our users mark messages as spam and we feed them to the Bayesian database for SpamAssassin. Nonetheless, a lot of spam still gets through. So we are looking into commercial anti-spam software. Has anyone else gone the route of purchasing a commercial solution? If so, how did it work out for you? Has anyone else compiled a review of the different choices and how they compare? If so, I would love to see it. If you know of any commercial anti-spam providers that offer deep education discounts that would be good to know also. Thanks for any help you can give. Maria Iano - -- iano () math umd edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFIjh0oc8AgwQtz1wIRAtcvAKDv+QN8I1Plm+pZcX9zU+vV735rhgCgjxoq uctVUHIr8rTQigx6eviOopk= =KCHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Re: anti-spam software, (continued)
- Re: anti-spam software David Kovarik (Jul 28)
- Re: anti-spam software Bob Bayn (Jul 28)
- Re: anti-spam software David Lundy (Jul 28)
- Re: anti-spam software Paul Russell (Jul 28)
- Re: anti-spam software Jeffrey Ramsay (Jul 28)
- Re: anti-spam software Cody, James (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software Jason C. Belford (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software Ken Connelly (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software Michael Young (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software Jesse Thompson (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software David Boyer (Jul 29)
- Re: anti-spam software Maria Iano (Jul 29)