On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 10:00 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 22:59, mouss<mo...@ml.netoyen.net> wrote: > > Justin Mason a écrit : > >> In fairness, they got in touch to ask for help in setting up a more > >> recent SA, but none of us (ie the PMC) had the spare cycles to help > >> out. Comparative third-party tests like this always take a lot of > >> hand-holding. We don't have the same kind of marketing budget as the > >> commercial companies, needless to say. > >> > >> OTOH, I think that McAfee's Email & Web Security Appliance runs on > >> SpamAssassin, or at least it did when I worked there ;) > > > > they acquired Secure Computing. so I'd say the test involved what was > > called Ironmail. Did Ironmail use SA? > > from TFA (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/anti_spam_run_off/ ): > > 'McAfee's Email & Web Security Appliance was alone in achieving the > level needed for VBSpam Platinum certification' [...] > > 'Five products performed well enough to be awarded VBSpam Gold awards > [...] including [..] McAfee's Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) > software.' > > so the ex-IronMail product is still a different product. they tend to > not do such a great job in product line consolidation, in my > experience... ;) > Here we go again.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/anti_spam_run_off/
No mention of Barracuda here..... I guess it's a *non* starter?
