From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 12:42:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6821A16A402 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A27513C45E for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:42:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 13428 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Apr 2007 12:42:51 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.107.100):. Processed in 6.507654 secs); 23 Apr 2007 12:42:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.210?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.107.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 23 Apr 2007 12:42:44 -0000 Message-ID: <462CA9CD.7040705@ibctech.ca> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:42:53 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Ragona References: <002001c7836b$06534bd0$6501a8c0@GRANT> <6.0.0.22.2.20070420163700.025578a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070420163700.025578a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Grant Peel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:42:52 -0000 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 11:43 AM 4/20/2007, Grant Peel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs >> using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either >> directly to me or to the list. >> >> We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we >> have been employing Spamassassin locally and using some 3rd party >> Anti-Spam servervices that are getting less and less reliable as the >> weeks go by. >> >> We are considering two hardware solutions, Easyantispam and Barracuda. >> Barracuda is very expensive, so the most likely candidate is >> Easyantispam. Does anyone out there have thought on either or both of >> these? Usability? Reliability? Total Cost of ownership? Integration >> issues? >> >> Any thoughts will be appreciated, > > If your volume of mail is >50000 per day don't use the baracuda. It > won't keep up. I agree that this statement depends on the unit(s) and setup. We use two clustered 400's, and we realize 500,000 - 1,000,000 emails every day, and it keeps up just perfectly fine. Steve