[139482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Sun Apr 10 18:34:36 2011
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <FA592245-882B-4574-B337-8354F7840562@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:32:50 -0400
To: Joshua Klubi <joshua.klubi@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I agree. Simple clean perl proxy. Lots of GUI config. Can use ClamAV =
and other AV systems. Easy to deploy. Is no brainer to manage.
Comes in single and multithreaded. Your call. I get a lot of email =
through the single thread version. Handles TLS and more.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/files/
On Apr 10, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Joshua Klubi wrote:
> The best of them is A.S.S.P. and it works wonder I have deployed a =
couple and I love it
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> On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:46, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> =
wrote:
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>> FreeBSD, Postfix, Amavisd, Spamassassin, Clamav and TLS
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>> I have seen and deployed this combination as a mail relay to exchange =
both in and out of large organizations 35,000 plus hosting multiple =
domains as well as small organizations. With a few scripts it is =
essentially self containing very little maintenance.
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>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:51 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
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>>> OK, its been a year since my Barracuda subscription expired. The =
unit still stops some spam. I figured that I would go and see what they =
would do if I tried to renew my subscription EXACTLY one year after it =
expired. Would their renewal website say "Oh, you are at your =
anniversary date", and renew me for a year?
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>>> No such luck: They want me to PAY FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR for which I did =
NOT receive service and then for the current (upcoming year). Sorry - I =
don't allow myself to be ripped off like that. Sorry Barracuda - you get =
no money from me and I'll tell everyone I know about this policy of =
yours.
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>>> I posted an article about this unscrupulous practice on my blog last =
year at http://www.john-palmer.net/wordpress/?p=3D46
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>>> My question is - does anyone have any suggestions for another e-mail =
appliance like the Barracuda Spam Firewall that doesn't try to charge =
their customers for time not used. I should be able to shut off the unit =
for a year or whatever and simply renew from the point that I =
re-activate the unit instead of having to pay for back-years that I =
didn't use.
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>>> Thanks
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