I have been testing a few antispam solutions, and have not been happy with anything I have tested thus far. The one I have spent the most time trying to configure, and has become a nightmare is Premium Antispam from Symantec (Brightmail).
Does anyone else have any recommendations on other products they have found that you have successfully implemented and provide adequate results?
Thanks in advance
David
Subject: AntiSpam Solutions
I’m a fan of spamJam, too… but I encourage everyone to review their own particular needs and match them against the offerings of the many vendors. spamJam is particularly good for customers who want tight integration with the Notes client, the option of both centralized and end-user control over filtering, and a strategy that uses “the white list you already have” to allow stronger filtering without excessive risk of false positives. There are plenty of other good options, though, depending on specific needs. This is a little dated, but here’s a link to a presentation http://smokey.rhs.com/web/rhs.nsf/Main/spam-6-2004
It’s a mid-2004 update of the session I did with Dieter Stalder earlier that year at Lotusphere. It’s got a review of basic information about every vendor who showed an anti-spam product at the conference that year, including the points those vendors felt differentiated them from the rest.
Dieter and I will be doing a new session this year, but I won’t be doing the vendor-by-vendor information. It was just too hard to collect the information at the last minute – a lot of the vendors wouldn’t tell me about their latest release until after the show opened.
Subject: Check out Spartacus
I’ve installed it on one of my servers, it caught ~99% of all spam without any false positives. Plus, it’s extremely easy to install, there is virtually no configuration to fiddle with, and the implementation is very efficient (ie. doesn’t bog the server down by running an agent every time a mail gets delivered, etc.).
Thomas - IBM
Subject: Check out Postini
Instead of buying a product, have you considered buying a service like Postini? http://www.postini.com
I used them very successfully in the past. Nice thing about buying a service as opposed to a product is that once it is installed you really don’t have much to worry about - they handle all the updates, configuration etc.
Subject: RE: Check out Postini
The last time I looked Postini was about $5 per mailbox per month. For my 200 user environment that’s $12K per year. I paid $2K for my Barracuda spam filtering appliance. Configuration took less than an hour, and maintenance is maybe two hours a month.
Subject: On top of that…
…some folks just don’t feel comfortable having all their corporate mail routed thru a 3rd party organization, and having their email flow depend on external factors they can’t control once outsourced. Sure, there are service agreements etc., but things to consider nevertheless. I’ve seen from mail exchanges that large fortune 500 companies do use such services (I know that BMW for example uses or at least used such an ‘external’ service) though.
Subject: AntiSpam Solutions
We did an evaluation about 18 months ago and settled on a pair of Proofpoint (http://www.proofpoint.com/) appliances. In addition to their home grown anti-spam code, they also offer antivirus solutions from a couple of vendors. We went with F-Secure and have had great results. They seem to come out with new signature files quicker than most of the other A/V vendors. As far as support goes, the people at Proofpoint are top notch and I have nothing but good things to say about my experiences with them. The best part for me as an administrator was that their code automatically downloaded and applied all minor updates and their support staff connected and performed all major updates. I have written a number of entries about them on my blog, http://www.phigsaidwhat.com/, and will continue to recommend them to anyone who will listen. If you are not looking for a hosted solution, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who does it better.
Sean—
Subject: AntiSpam Solutions
This has been asked and responded to numerous times in this forum. Personally I use a Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall 300, which is a spam filtering appliance that works beautifully. I talk about it more in a number of posts.
Subject: checkout spamjam
Subject: *I’ll second that
Subject: AntiSpam Solutions
just try www.spamjadoo.com and your nights will be much more easier. Its an amaging antispam and Data Infocom provide 30 days free trial too. Spamjadoo is already certified and tested on IBM platform and listed in Global Solution Directory.
Subject: AntiSpam Solutions
Hi David,
take a look at my DomSpamC/DSCLearner. It’s an integrated spam solution for Notes/Domino.
DomSpamC/DSCLearner is an interface to SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org). It traps incoming SMTP emails and transfers them to the spamd (SpamAssassin daemon) which is on your internal network. So the efficiency relies on SpamAssassin. DomSpamC integrates as extension manager into the nsmpt.exe process.
DomSpamC/DSCLearner can be configured to allow users to learn to SpamAssassin’s bayesian database (MySQL). Both, for Notes client and Domino Web Access (iNotes)!
One chart to illustrate DomSpamC:
DSCLeaner is an Domino server task which enables users to learn/unlearn/filter emails from Notes client.
Here the DSCLearner chart:
Illustration of Domino Web Access (iNotes)interface:
Interaction with the Notes client:
Requirements: DomSpamC (Domino >v6.x), DSCLearner (Domino >v5.09), Domino Web Access interaction (Domino >v6.5.x), Win32, Linux
If you’re interested mail me at: nico.prenzel@pn-systeme.de and visit my forum to gather more informations at: http://prenzel.dyndns.org/Anwendungen/Internet/Bulletin/DominoBulletin.nsf