[BlueOnyx:12411] Re: Mail filtering alternative to Postini

[Gregg]

> > 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,

I have used barracuda but I've also tried the ESVA as a free community based
very similar to barracuda.
http://www.esvacommunity.com/

I have tested the virtual version of that, and it actually works pretty
well.

Gregg