[125308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier class email security recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon Apr 12 10:15:09 2010
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BC32988.5080606@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:14:34 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 07:09 -0700, todd glassey wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 2:49 AM, Alex Kamiru wrote:
> > I am in the process of sourcing for a carrier class email security
> > solution that will replace our current edge spam gateways based on open
> > source solutions. Some solutions that am currently considering are
> > Ironport, Fortinet Fortimail, MailFoundry and Barracuda. I'd therefore
> > wish to know, based on your experiences, what works for you
> > satisfactorily.
>
>
> > Areas that are key for me are centralized management and
> > reporting, carrier class performance, per mailbox policy and quarantine,
> > and favourable licensing for an MSSP. I know Ironport is rated highly in
> > this space but I find its per user licensing is not favourable for a
> > MSSP.
>
> On the other hand installing a FreeBSD system with QMail/Procmail and/or
> PostFIX for the other stuff is a no-brainer especially with a Webmin
> Management front end.
Webmin? Are you serious?
William
