[BlueOnyx:12408] Re: Mail filtering alternative to Postini

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 3/5/2013 12:24 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,

Hi David,
A couple of things:

#1: If you're already supplying the email service, you may want to 
consider the AV-SPAM option.  I know your hesitation, but once it's 
installed, it pretty much just works.

#2: We do offer a filtering service that works similarly to your Postini 
service you have now.   A few of the folks on this list are using it. 
We spin an individual "cloud-based" instance for each customer so there 
is a good deal of customization that can be done.

Let me know (offlist, please) if you'd like more information on our 
offering.

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Chris Gebhardt
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