[BlueOnyx:12405] Re: Mail filtering alternative to Postini

[Drew Happli]

David, 

My contract with Google ended in November, prior to that I
moved my services over to SpamHero. In fact with SpamHero I got a good
rate, and became the reseller. The only bad part about being the
"reseller" is that I now have to handle all tech support for the
product. 

Honestly it isn't that hard, but then again I don't have a
ton of customers either. When I compare SpamHero and Postini I find I
still have some messages that slip through, but there is a handy e-mail
address I can forward them to, so the filters help get trained better. I
have found the same amount of missed spam with both services. With
SpamHero I actually have someone I can contact if things have gone
horribly wrong. 

I know you had a reseller so your experience will be
different than mine was, but I had no way to get a hold of Google to
request help, or report bugs or feature suggestions. SpamHero on the
other hand has a ticketing system for submitting bugs and issues. They
have a community driven feature suggestion thingy. I can go read what
others have requested and either add my voice to that or say I think it
is a bad idea. 

There are other services out there as well, I looked at
a number of them last summer. I would need to find my notes on them to
give a run down of what I found on the other ones I did not go with.


Drew. 

On 03/05/2013 1:24 pm, David Thacker wrote: 

> Greetings
all,
> 
> I've been offering Postini mail filtering service to many of
my domain 
> hosting customers for several years now. As you might know,
Google bought 
> Postini a few years back, and this year they are
shutting down the Postini 
> service and migrating customers to Google
Apps.
> 
> My Postini service was obtained through a reseller, not
through direct 
> contracts with Postini, as this was the best option
for the number of 
> hosted accounts I have. This reseller is now
offering to migrate their 
> customers (including myself) to McAfee
email security services, similar to 
> what Postini was providing.
> 
>
I am taking this transition as an opportunity to consider other email 
>
filtering options. I do like the "mail filtering as a service" model 
>
compared to running my own mail filtering appliance, and am not really

> interested in adding spam & AV filtering duties to my BX server. I'd

> rather offload that task.
> 
> Do any of you have any suggestions of
mail filtering services to look at, 
> or other alternatives I might not
have considered? Have any of you gone 
> through the same transition
away from Postini, and if so, how has the 
> replacement service been in
comparison?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> David Thacker
> Thacker Network
Technologies Inc. 
> 
>
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