Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam/Malware options
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Symantec/Message Labs in the cloud here, pretty good 
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Messagelabs tbh. iCritical is also an option but their support isn't amazing
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Postini in the cloud - I love this product but Google are killing it in favour of Google Apps for Business - not sure what will happen. I guess the backend will be the same, just a different front end.
Also using ExchangeDefender in the cloud - this works and support is quick and knowledgeable but I the user interface is not to my liking.
I don't run anything on the servers themselves...
Also using ExchangeDefender in the cloud - this works and support is quick and knowledgeable but I the user interface is not to my liking.
I don't run anything on the servers themselves...
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Neither is their spam filtering. Their spam scoring system is rubbish. It seems to discriminate massively against free email services which results in us either blocking some legitimate mail (which is unacceptable as a public sector organisation), or having offers of Ukrainian women and fake degrees in user's mailboxes from spoofed addresses.
SpamHero has now taken over Postini as the number 1 cloud based spam filter. Postini, as you say, is being phased out.
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I saw you use this - always interested in new cloud anti-spam options. Not heard of them before...
I read a bit about them charging extra for per mailbox quarantining - i.e. default is to quarantine into one place - is that right?
Hi mate, I think there is some mention of a cost for per mailbox quarantining in the future, but if you sign up for their reseller program now you get that free as part of it and it doesn't cost anything to join their reseller program so it's a no brainer if you need the per mailbox quarantine. I don't use it at the moment as the shared quarantine is easy to use (and I haven't had to actually use it yet either).
It performs incredibly well. I noticed the change straight away after we'd changed our MX records, there isn't really a noticeable delay in mail delivery either and if anything slips through that is still spam all you have to do to submit it to them to be added to their filters is forward it to a specified email address.
We use mxguarddog for our spam filtering, it's cloud based, very cheap and does the job with very few false positives, redirect your MX records to their servers, set up users and you're good to go, doesn't sync/integrate with AD or exchange though which would be nice.
Guys, the filtering services you are using at the moment, i'm just curious, but do any of them double as a proper contingent mail store in the event that a primary exchange server goes down, i.e how long does the service retain mail, and can users access the email directly via a web portal in the event of an emergency?
To the OP what has GFI Mail Essentials been like for you cons/pros wise? I was looking at it a while back, but never got around to trying it. I've used the GFI Vipre AV and found it to be satisfactory enough at keeping malware out of a clean system, but absolutely awful at cleansing systems post infection, in fact i've lost a mail store due to it's 'remedial' actions in the past and i've never forgiven it since, so i'm little dubious as to GFI products to be honest.
Guys, the filtering services you are using at the moment, i'm just curious, but do any of them double as a proper contingent mail store in the event that a primary exchange server goes down, i.e how long does the service retain mail, and can users access the email directly via a web portal in the event of an emergency?
To the OP what has GFI Mail Essentials been like for you cons/pros wise? I was looking at it a while back, but never got around to trying it. I've used the GFI Vipre AV and found it to be satisfactory enough at keeping malware out of a clean system, but absolutely awful at cleansing systems post infection, in fact i've lost a mail store due to it's 'remedial' actions in the past and i've never forgiven it since, so i'm little dubious as to GFI products to be honest.
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Hi pjansell
GFI has been generally reliable to be honest. We've had a couple of instances where we'd run out of disc space and it appeared to lose a load of emails which we could never recover. This has kind of made us lose our faith in the product. But to be fair, when it was set up (not by me!), it was set to email of low disc space notifications to an unmonitored address which really didn't help matters! Had we'd have seen the email alerts it would have been just fine I'm sure.
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Postini will queue (they call it "spool") 1GB of mail by default if your server or internet is down (think you might be able to purchase more storage), but you can't access the mail while it is spooling. But as Positini is going to the grave, this probably isn't relevant any more.
ExchangeDefender on the other hand has a system called "LiveArchive" which is basically OWA 2010 - this holds 1 years worth of incoming and outgoing mail. The primary goal is for service interruptions (internet down or Exchange awol), but it's also useful as an archive of all incoming/outgoing mail sent outside the organization. You can send and receive from it - although the outgoing email address is not set as the user's default address, so really it is only useful in a real emergency. I've had cause to get user's to use it only once when a RAID back plane failed on a client's SBS server taking three days for Dell to replace.
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Doesn't surprise me. I know some of our clients use it but I've only ever been involved with their web filtering service - not a brilliant interface, it's slow
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