On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Karl Pearson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, fchan wrote:
Hi,
Sorry I don't have experience with this product.
I do have limited experience with Barracuda Networks appliance and I think
is a great product for an e-mail filter which I had experienced with my
friend to set up on their network & email server. It is easy to set up,
configure and maintain so for an alternative to spamassassin this is great
alternative. Price a fairly good and since they were a educational
institute they got an discount.
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_overview.php
I have to violently disagree. As an administrator of a system with 184 email
groups and over 7000 subscribers on it, I absolutely hate Barracuda products.
Out of the box, they specialize in creating huge amounts of backscatter (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail) for more info) which is
SPAM.
Ease of setup and use are not the primary reason for purchasing any product,
IMO.
One of the other things I've seen in recent weeks with Barracuda, is how
wrong they have their default reputation system set up (I assume it's the
default). I've had to speak with a number of admins about why the
reputation should ONLY reject messages where the source IP is found. As it
was, the appliance was rejecting if ANY IP in the received headers was
found.
-d
