Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)
Troy Settle
troy at psknet.com
Thu Jan 29 15:37:55 PST 2004
Andy,
I take exception to your statements. I fit neither under A nor B.
I figured it like this... I could spend $35k/year + to hire a postmaster to
keep up the spam/virus battle on our mail server, or I could pay Postini
less than $10k/year to do the same.
I have not the time myself to do this, and $25k/year or more is more than
enough reason to go with a commercial solution for spam/virus filtering.
In addition, Postini catches MUCH more spam than any open source solution I
had previously looked at. It's not perfect by any means, but more effective
than anything I've seen in the open source arena.
--
Troy Settle
Pulaski Networks
http://www.psknet.com
540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638
Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andy Dills
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: ap296
> Cc: isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, ap296 wrote:
>
> >
> > Consider outsourcing to a professional organization that
> can keep up with
> > updates and trends which constantly change -- that
> specialize in this sort
> > of thing.
> >
> > I recommend www.postini.com
>
> For what it's worth, postini is designed for two sorts of companies:
>
> Company A: Tons of money, nothing to do with it.
> Company B: No knowlegde of how to run unix servers.
>
> Honestly, anybody who considers themselves competent whatsoever at a
> command line who also pays postini their ridiculous monthly fees, is
> wasting a considerable amount of money.
>
> Amavisd-new has made implementing top-notch virus and spam filtering
> trivial. Heck, it even has the ability to lookup
> per-recipient filtering
> policies and whitelists/blacklists in a mysql database, an absolutely
> essential component for ISPs.
>
> Andy
>
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