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From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
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Subject: RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, ap296 wrote:

>
> Consider outsourcing to a professional organization that can keep up with
> updates and trends which constantly change -- that specialize in this sort
> of thing.
>
> I recommend www.postini.com

For what it's worth, postini is designed for two sorts of companies:

Company A: Tons of money, nothing to do with it.
Company B: No knowlegde of how to run unix servers.

Honestly, anybody who considers themselves competent whatsoever at a
command line who also pays postini their ridiculous monthly fees, is
wasting a considerable amount of money.

Amavisd-new has made implementing top-notch virus and spam filtering
trivial. Heck, it even has the ability to lookup per-recipient filtering
policies and whitelists/blacklists in a mysql database, an absolutely
essential component for ISPs.

Andy

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