[Cialug] Looking for recommendations for spam filtering service

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Mon Jan 3 12:58:20 CST 2011


I don't know how cheap MS is, but godaddy has hosted exchange for 
$3/month/user (according do a co-worker).  I don't know about their 
filtering specifically

-barry



Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> I did consulting for an office that used postini in front of Exchange. They
> were extremely happy with the filtering but I observed users often didn't
> know how to look for messages that were mismarked as spam. They expected it
> to be in their Outlook, instead they had to go to the postini website. The
> only people who did that were power users (3 out of the 20).
> 
> I would seriously look at hosted exchange imho. MS makes it pretty easy to
> set up but it is a very powerful and flexible tool and really warrants a
> knowledgable sysadmin. It's hard for a 5 person office to have the resources
> to do that. I've not used the latest editions but backup and restore are
> examples of tasks that can be really challenging to figure out in the
> versions I've used. Such that it's common for offices to have no usable
> backup. Web access is another example of an important feature that can be
> difficult to administer properly.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:14 AM, John Lengeling
> <John.Lengeling at radisys.com>wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have recommendations on a 3rd party spam filtering service
>> like Google Postini?  I want something to frontend an exchange server or
>> maybe the better route would be to host use a hosted Exchange service
>> since we are only talking about 5 users...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> johnl
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