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echo3

Does anyone recommend any anti-spam solutions for businesses?

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NightShade1

echo3 wrote: »

Does anyone recommend any anti-spam solutions for businesses?

We sell Fortimail for antispam solution.. which works fine but its kind of hard to tune for the client....
We got it for a couple law firms which depends a lot of a good and tuned antispam solution...

the_Grinch

When I was at an MSP we sold our customers on McAfee's SaaS Email Protection. Cloud based and it actually worked really well (especially with Outlook). Only issue is on the rare occasion they had connections issues the customers would not receive email. It would spool and once the issue was resolved on McAfee's side it would be sent out. But like I said, very rare when that happened.

crrussell3

We use 2x Sonicwall ES300 as Remote Analyzers and 1x ES400 as a Control Center for around 350 mailboxes. This allows the RA (which do the actual spam filtering) to have load balancing and failover while the CC controls the configuration and stores the spam in the user junk boxes. Even though its three physical units you only have to pay for one annual license/support contract. You can also just do a single unit config which worked fine for us, we just moved to the split config for failover purposes.

fluk3d

echo3 wrote: »

Does anyone recommend any anti-spam solutions for businesses?

Are you looking for a hosted solution, or on premise solution?

RTmarc

Cisco IronPort MSA.

rsutton

fluk3d wrote: »

Are you looking for a hosted solution, or on premise solution?

This question really needs to be answered. We use Postini (hosted solution) for all our clients. It works well but I do not know what your requirements are.

echo3

We’re looking at both hosted and onsite. It always dependson the cost. Thanks for some of these suggestions.

ptilsen

I see why your screen name is echo...

MX Logic (McAfee SaaS Email Protection) is the way to go. I've definitely experienced more Postini problems than MX Logic problems. Considering I've only dealt with four Postini accounts and have dealt with close to 40 MX Logic accounts, I think my experience is a bit more than anecdotal. MX Logic support is also better.

Spam protection is one of the few things I'll almost never recommend going with just an onsite solution. The advantages to using a SaaS option (even if it's Postini, which, despite above, is not a bad product) are huge and the costs to implement, support, and pay for the service are minimal.

it_consultant

We use the Cisco Ironport 170s, 2 in a cluster. They work great (most solutions do), the reason we went with an on prem solution is the organization needs granular and on demand reporting - something Postini is not great at. If that isn't a requirement, by all means use Postini or Microsoft. Remember to relay through them too so you get the good outbound spam protection.

We paid $12,759.50 for the two boxes, centralized email reporting, and three year platinum support, and the key to cluster them. Without all that stuff they would have been much less.

claytonw1980

Use RedCondor from a reseller - hosted, secure, anti-virus attachment scanning as well. 4 mx records and if the cloud can't communicate with your servers it will spool for 96 hours. Support has been 5/5 - call up, talk to a human - a nice touch. Reporting, automated reports, per user or global blacklists, all in all - it's been a 5/5 stars. Always recommend them.