[159317] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Postini Exiting ISP Business?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Khosla)
Tue Jan 8 13:16:59 2013
From: Sameer Khosla <skhosla@neutraldata.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:09:30 +0000
In-Reply-To: <0B224A2FE01CC54C860290D42474BF6005832510@exchange.nff.local>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We use mailfoundry internally ourselves, but I have a customer who has been=
raving about mimecast for years and I am on the verge of switching over to=
them.
Thanks
Sameer
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Soosalu [mailto:erik.soosalu@calyxinc.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:27 AM
To: Paul Stewart; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Postini Exiting ISP Business?
I am an enterprise guy, but we've been running MS Forefront Online Protecti=
on for Exchange for a number of years with very few issues (that aren't det=
ermined by flags/polices we've set). The few issues that we have had have =
been with delayed SMTP handoffs between Hostopia (Bell's backend provider) =
and FOPE, but I haven't had reports of that for a couple of years.
Thanks,
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stewart [mailto:paul@paulstewart.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:51 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Postini Exiting ISP Business?
Hey there.
=20
We have been using Postini for a number of years as our anti-spam/anti-viru=
s protection for customer email accounts.
=20
Mid last year we received a notice from Google that "In 2013, we plan to tr=
ansition your Postini services to Google Apps for Business."=20
=20
As part of this notice we were also told "You don't need to make any change=
s to your Postini service or sign up for a Google Apps account. Your Postin=
i service will continue as usual until your migration begins. We will be in=
touch at least 60 days before your renewal date."
=20
In mid November, Google sent us a letter that stated that we had until the =
end of 2013 to basically get off their service or to contact their preferre=
d partner (Tech Excel) and migrate to Google Apps with them.
=20
Recently we have now been told in email by someone at Postini that we "must=
transition ASAP" and that we really only had til the end of 2012.
Geesh,
talk about confusing.. Not a great way to treat a long term customer!
=20
Anyone else getting the complete "run around" by Postini? We are fine with=
leaving them, especially now. Having said that, I'm interested in hearing=
about competitive solutions either in appliances or in cloud based - this =
is
*not* an invitation for sales people to call me please.
=20
Thanks,
=20
Paul
=20
