From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 10:28:07 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 3C64B16A401 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:28:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from smtp807.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp807.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.188.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 962DB13C44C for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: (qmail 71184 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2007 10:28:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (thomasjudge@btinternet.com@86.140.150.175 with plain) by smtp807.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2007 10:28:04 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 6LjqZzMVM1nQuMMiyd8J2gLyQVCpAu5OThanef14k35_f51t7o0zTfu3dUQ0Lm8X59gw6g5Qs.HGGouDtuiLOz4- Message-ID: <4629E7EA.6040405@tomjudge.com> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:31:06 +0100 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <002001c7836b$06534bd0$6501a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <002001c7836b$06534bd0$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:28:07 -0000 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, > > -Grant I would recommend Postini (www.postini.com), it is not a hardware solution but they are cheep and the service is very good. Also they are not a store and forward filtering company, they have a much more real time system that connects to your mail server as they receive the email so that the sending server gets the response from your server rather than from their server. Tom J