[Cialug] Oooh, Barracuda (WAS: Sendmail spam rejection)

[Matt Patterson]

With all this talk about spam filtering appliances, I figured I better 
inject some insight into a company that I recently worked for.

MailFoundry also has a very nice product that will compete with Barracuda 
on price.  It has a nice UI which is easy to use, has nice pretty pictures 
and gives you a *lot* of control over what you can do with the appliance.

The biggest difference between Barracuda and MailFoundry is that 
MailFoundry is a human intelligence based email filtering solution.  SO 
you have actually humans looking at spam feeds / attacks and marking them 
spam or ham and rules are created based off those actions.  These rules 
are distributed every 1-3 minutes, though I think they advertise 5-10 
minutes.

They also have a 30 day trial and are worth a look.

-Matt Patterson



On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>
> Sonicwall email security (formerly mailfrontier) is excellent too.  It runs
> on much FOSS stuff as an appliance, on Windows Server or Solaris Sparc.
> I've been using it for about 2 years now and we are pretty happy with it.
>
> Too bad the fisher price of computer security bought mailfrontier.
>
> -Nate
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kristau [mailto:kristau at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:10 AM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Oooh, Barracuda (WAS: Sendmail spam rejection)
>>
>>
>> On 10/24/06, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>>> Take a look at Astaro (www.astaro.com).  They offer appliances but
>>> it's
>>
>> I was looking at Astaro, too.  Thanks for the testimonial and
>> information.  Looks like I might have to order some trials :)
>>
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