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Re: Postini.
From: "Daly, Douglas" <DDALY () NYMC EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:18:56 -0400
We've been using Postini for almost two years. We're very happy with the service. Customer Support and ongoing sales support has suffered since Google bought them but its tolerable. We use only their "ISP" service. That is they watch inbound SMTP traffic only and will queue messages if we go off line - no archiving or other advanced offerings. Filtering is good to very good. All services (Yahoo, Gmail, Postini) seem to have suffered a bit lately (Conficker botnet?). We've seen a bit more spam leaking through lately. Price is very good. Protecting 4600 mailboxes. We sync with our AD through a DSML server. We've had a few hiccups with this but, again, overall it works fine. Alias' (second email addresses) caused some initial set up issues. For precision, we chose to delete user accounts manually. Currently, if we change the user's primary address, it deletes the old user in Postini (hence all quarantine is lost) and creates a new user with the new primary address. We then have to update any alias' manually. We're thinking it's our DSML config (it shouldn't be able to delete a user) but we haven't found this one yet. Regards, Douglas Daly Associate Director, Technical Services New York Medical College Valhalla, NY 10595 914.594.4961 -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gracie [mailto:graciem () CANISIUS EDU] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:06 PM Subject: Postini. We're evaluating some anti-spam and anti-virus products for our mail gateway. If anyone has experience with Postini or other hosted mail processing services, positive or negative, I'd love to hear them. We've got a pretty good handle on some of the local processing possibilities, but this "cloud" stuff is a whole new frontier for me. Thanks, --Matt -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator graciem () canisius edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
Current thread:
- Re: Postini. St Clair, Jim (Jun 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Postini. Matthew Gracie (Jun 11)
- Re: Postini. Paul Kendall (Jun 11)
- Re: Postini. Timothy J. Fairlie (Jun 11)
- Re: Postini. Daly, Douglas (Jun 16)
- Re: Postini. Scott Dier (Jun 16)