Actually I mentioned that to my Barracuda sales person (we have the
Spyware Firewall which is really good) and he told me that they started
with SpamAssassin, but have since moved to their own software. 


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Benjamin Story, CCNA CCDA
Network Administrator
Dot Foods, Inc
www.dotfoods.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:46 PM
To: qqqq
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: For those who are considering a Barracuda Network Device
server

On Monday, June 12, 2006, 10:23:20 AM, qqqq qqqq wrote:
> I bought a Barracuda Model 400 last October.  My current setup is as
follows:
Barracuda GW --->> Internal servers ---> Spamassassin server --->
Quarantine or local delivery.

> Although there was a small percentage of spam being caught by adding 
> the Barracuda, this was because I added my own Regex rules on the 
> Barracuda.  Without my Regex rules, using their "intent" RBL, a 
> trained bayes, and SBL-XBL RBL, the devise gave me nothing in terms of

> more spam captured than Spamassassin with SARE.  In fact, I don't have
concrete numbers but I am willing to put $100 and say SA/SARE does
better.

Doesn't Barracuda use SpamAssassin in their boxes?  If so it's not too
surprising that it wouldn't perform much differently from
SpamAssassin....  :-)

Barracuda may not use SARE, so SARE may indeed be better.

Jeff C.
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