[BlueOnyx:12416] Re: Mail filtering alternative to Postini

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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:24 PM, David Thacker <David at thackernet.com> 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.
>


I'm quite a big fan of SpamTitan, they also do a hosted version.

I particularly like the "clustering" capabilities between two
instances that can be on different subnets.

I also quite like the Sophos UTM (ex Astaro) "appliance"

Cheers

Arne