From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 18:22:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C498916A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA74F43D45 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B84E635A81; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:18:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CDC35805; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:18:30 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:18:30 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Troy Settle In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040129221626.Y6922@ganymede.hub.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: 'FreeBSD ISP List' Subject: RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:22:21 -0000 On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Troy Settle wrote: > > Andy, > > I take exception to your statements. I fit neither under A nor B. > > I figured it like this... I could spend $35k/year + to hire a postmaster to > keep up the spam/virus battle on our mail server, or I could pay Postini > less than $10k/year to do the same. I take exception to this ... I run >150 seperate mail servers, each configured either with/without anti-spam/virus software on it, and spend *maybe* an hour a month worrying about it. Anti-virus signatures are all auto-updated (in my case, 4 times a day), and anti-spam software doesn't change that often ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664