(Sorry for the top-post... Corporate E-mail system...) We used to run Brightmail. I noticed that my rate of false-positive complaints at least quadrupled when Symantec acquired the product. Knowledgeable support also became difficult to obtain at that point and the software started requiring a lot more care and feeding (log files mysteriously eating up disk space whereas they hadn't previously, for example). I had to actually do some "under the hood" work on the servers at least once a week.
We considered both Sophos and IronPort as replacements. Our decision was to go with Sophos E-mail security appliances to see if they would operate acceptably well despite the significantly lower price tag than IronPort. We were willing to reconsider after a year if Sophos didn't cut it. That was three years ago and we're still running Sophos. -----Original Message----- From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 3:01 AM To: tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Email appliances At the risk of hijacking this thread, has anyone got any experience with Symantec Brightmail? Available as a VMware image. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
