On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 02:09 PM, K Old wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I've been using SA for at least a year or two now and love it! We > combine it with MailScanner with ClamAV and out of 20,000 emails per > week receive no viruses and block out around 4,000 pieces of > spam.....and really only about 100 pieces of spam slip through the > cracks. I think that is awesome! > > My problem is the IT Director loves SA too, but is wanting to purchase > one of the Spam Appliances that handles all the updating, etc. for a > fee. I can't see that it would be a wise investment as the appliances > are at least $1500 and yearly subscriptions are around $150 for spam > and > virus updates. He's thinking that in addition to not having to add > rules for spam slipped through the cracks to SA that the appliance will > be more accurate. I think it'll be about the same. > > Can anyone offer advice on this? Any good arguments I can bring to the > table against getting the appliance? > Chad is correct. We have done the due diligence on the appliance devices and MOST use SA. Bluecat Meridius, McAfee, Symantec, IronMail just to name a few use it combined with their own little add-ons. Please be aware that very few of them offer the ability to change and control SA (ie increase/decrease points, turn on/off checks). Just an fyi for you :) Jay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
