Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

[Matthew Crocker <matthew () crocker com>]

On May 18, 2004, at 4:13 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Matthew
>
> Spamassassin needs quite a bit of tweaking above the out of the box 
> setup. I run about 7000 messages a day here, 70% spam, .5% virus 
> (clamav and Sophos), very very rarely a FP. I get bove 99% hit rate 
> after adding in bayes, serveral additional rules from 
> www.rulesemporium.org and the URI checkes. Runs on a 600mhz celeron 
> with load avg < .5

I agree that everything the Barracuda does can be done by hand.  I had 
a choice of either spending $4k for a 'set it and forget it' type spam 
solution or continue to spend days per month of my time tweaking my old 
setup.   I chose to go with the commercial route which will easily save 
me $$ and more importantly frustration over the course of this year.  I 
can spend my time building my business now instead of tweaking my mail 
server.

Barracuda is built on open source, It boots LILO then goes into 
'secret' mode.  I don't think they added any black magic to the box.  
They just assembled the open source parts and shrink wrapped it into a 
very easy to manage solution.

-Matt