RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)

From: Troy Settle (troy_at_psknet.com)
Date: 01/30/04

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:37:49 -0500

    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@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andy Dills
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: ap296
> Cc: isp@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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