On 01/15/11, James R Grinter wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2011, at 04:31, Matt Lawrence wrote:
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> > In this case, I think it will be more cost effective to use an appliance.
> > And since upper management wants to use an appliance, I'm going with
> > they're decision.
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> Do watch out for some Applia
On Jan 15, 2011, at 12:43 PM, James R Grinter wrote:
> I like Ironport boxes too, but they seem to drop support for older hardware,
> requiring new capital purchase, more often than I'd prefer.
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> Anti-spam is, like AV, something which you can't afford to run without
> updates.
I can't speak
On 15 Jan 2011, at 04:31, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> In this case, I think it will be more cost effective to use an appliance.
> And since upper management wants to use an appliance, I'm going with
> they're decision.
Do watch out for some Appliance centric vendors quickly obsoleting hardware.
I
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, John Jasen wrote:
> I may be in a vanishing category, but above and beyond network gear, I
> hate appliances. There is almost always going to be a case where you
> need it to do X in order to work within your environment, and the
> appliance doesn't support X. So, you will be
My experience with the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall was a pleasant one.
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At the risk of hijacking this thread, has anyone got any experience with
Symant
Being a .edu, we were big fans of Sun hardware - with the various
(large) .edu discounts they had, we have ended up with a huge collection
of Sun models across the past few years, 2200, 2250, 4100, 4150, 4170,
and tons more. We've been pleased with all of 'em.
But yes, sadly the recent events wi
On 01/13/11, Iain Morris wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
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> > > My boss has asked me to research email appliances.
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> We have had good luck with the Sophos
On Jan 14, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Jonathan wrote:
> At the risk of hijacking this thread, has anyone got any experience with
> Symantec Brightmail? Available as a VMware image.
I consulted with Symantec some years ago on their Norton Anti-Virus for
Internet E-mail Gateways, and I have some knowledg
On 01/13/2011 10:17 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brodie, Kent wrote:
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>> Not sure "which kind" of email appliances to which you're shopping for,
>> but..in terms of spam filtering, we really like the Barracuda line
>> of products.Linux-based. They do the job, well.
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:17:31PM -0600, Matt Lawrence spake thusly:
>> networks isolated. And instead of a general purpose unix system bridging
>> this, they want a single purpose, dedicated email appliance.
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> Of course you realize that this "dedicated
IronPort++
Seriously, I've never seen a mail appliance succeed that well at blocking spam
and viruses, and require that little actual care and feeding. Yeah, it's extra
coin, but it is SO SO worth it.
D
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On 14/01/11 07:51, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:17:31PM -0600, Matt Lawrence spake thusly:
>> networks isolated. And instead of a general purpose unix system bridging
>> this, they want a single purpose, dedicated email appliance.
> Of course you realize that this "dedicated emai
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:17:31PM -0600, Matt Lawrence spake thusly:
> networks isolated. And instead of a general purpose unix system bridging
> this, they want a single purpose, dedicated email appliance.
Of course you realize that this "dedicated email appliance" will most likely be
a gene
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> Not sure "which kind" of email appliances to which you're shopping for,
> but..in terms of spam filtering, we really like the Barracuda line
> of products.Linux-based. They do the job, well.
Something to sit between isolated production networks
IronPort++
More expensive that Barracuda, but more powerful. Either would work,
depending on how many users you have.
I saw a spam message once, after installing the IronPort two years ago.
--tep
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Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Email appliances
On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> My boss has asked me to research email appliances.
> Any recommendations, suggestions or insights?
On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
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> > My boss has asked me to research email appliances.
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> > Any recommendations, suggestions or insights?
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We have had good luck with the Sophos products. We're not huge (~250 users
with some heavy lifters) but their lower-end appliance has
On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> My boss has asked me to research email appliances. We need to replace our
> existing email gateway between a fairly secure network with production
> servers and the corporate Exchange servers. While I know it would be easy
> to set up a linu
My boss has asked me to research email appliances. We need to replace our
existing email gateway between a fairly secure network with production
servers and the corporate Exchange servers. While I know it would be easy
to set up a linux system to do this function, there is a desire to buy a
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