Re: Email Spam (inbound and outbound) and Malware Protection

[Jeff Hardy <hardyjm () POTSDAM EDU>]

On 01/31/2010 04:09 PM, Russell Fulton wrote:
> On 30/01/2010, at 4:51 AM, Feehan, Patrick wrote:
>
> > We are polling members to determine how they perform e-mail spam and malware protection:
> >
> > ·         How many outsource spam protection (e.g., to Postini)?
> > ·         How many perform spam protection in-house (e.g., using Ironport or Forefront)?
>
>
> installing Ironport box in the next few weeks.
>
> > ·         In either case, what service or application do you use?
> > ·         In general, are you satisfied with your solution?
>
> We currently use postfix, amavisd, spam assassin&  two AV packages.
>
> This worked reasonably well until two years ago when the labour of keeping it effective began to bite us.  Since then 
> the techies have been campaigning to get an appliance or outsource.
>
> We looked at Postini, Borderware and Ironport.  Ironport won because it was flexible enough to cope with our 
> multi-domain setup.
>
> Russell

If you are familiar with amavisd/spamassassin/etc., you may want to look
at Maia Mailguard.  It provides a feature-rich web frontend to amavisd,
for per-user quarantine and white and blacklist management with a tie in
to Bayes training.  We moved to that a few years ago and have been very
pleased with the results.

-Jeff