Anti Spam Options?

[Sylv3r]

Talk to the guys at Smoothwall about it, if you have the UTM1000 I'd think it would be fine, its a very beefy spec box. I haven't used the mail stuff before, but the pricing Gav sent me looked very good to say I already have the box (or will have once we've got it and trialled and paid for it) so I am confident if Smoothwall are willing to put there name by it and sell it that they trust it as a good product as if it was pants they risk upsetting a lot of people quickly, so I'm sure it will all be good and work well.

 

Based on sizing when being honest i'd get away with the new baby UTM-300 but as I told Gav and he confirmed that tbh that I should get the big one really as its got such good throughput etc that I should look at that and I did and have worked it out for that, as at the end of the day I could end up with 2 or 3 external feeds into it, 20 staff VPN'ing into it, Mail Filtering, Web filtering, virus scanning, caching, report creating etc etc etc so as you can see the list of potential is great for it, we have 250 workstations max and around 550 users at present so not a huge number of workstations but the potential for future is there with the bigger box.

 

We have the UTM-1000 yes. 850ish workstations and 1500 users, we will be looking at getting some of the things you have mentioned live in the summer holidays when I get the chance to have a play.

 

I'm especially interested in the VPN and e-mail filtering functionalities.

[gshaw]

I guess the main selling point of PureMessage at the moment is the price as part of the Endpoint Security and Email Control package and if we move from that then I think there may be better options for the price of PureMessage as a standalone product, hence the possible shift to something else.

 

Had some discussions with support on the AV side but without some form of software rewrite the desktop side of things is still a bit iffy imo

 

Edit: Just had more spam come through - thing is the spam scores are low at like 12, 19% so PureMessage doesn't seem to identify them as spam at all?!

Edited March 3, 2009 by gshaw