[65002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Openwave Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Nov 8 19:33:47 2003
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:31:37 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
Cc: "Fisher, Shawn" <SFisher@Bresnan.com>,
"Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
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Rubens Kuhl Jr. writes on 11/8/2003 5:53 PM:
>
>>Anyone have any openwave mail MX opinions or experience good or bad?
>
>
> Every mail product that costs lots of money will yield a worse overall
> solution that using a good free/open-source mail software (postfix, qmail,
> exim... pick one) and spending money on people with good technical skills to
> tune and adapt the system. Unless, of course, your financial resources are
> unlimited...
It is not just financial resources - it is also a factor of time to
build a filter / set of filters from scratch (even with spamassasin +
bogofilter you need to train it extensively, and tweak its rulesets to
suit your mail flow).
Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like
us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go.
Or you might elect to get a managed antispam solution that plugs into
your mta (kind of like brightmail or spamsquelcher.org)
>>Design question: Is it better to have integrated or seperate Anti-spam
> and
>>Anti-virus built into the mail platform?
The unix way - one tool per job. Build a mail system out of components
- it is often the best way to go.
srs
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