[ale] Spam Blocking Alternatives

[John Allgood]

We have about 100 employees.

Chris Fowler wrote:

>How many people are in your organization?
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>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:41, John Allgood wrote:
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>>Puremessage allowed the user to manager their own quarantine. If 
>>something was blocked they could approve within that interface or 
>>receive a email digest and approve that way. The amount of spam received 
>>here is unreal.  Over a 24 hour period purmessage blocked over 100 spam 
>>messages just to me. The price was about $20,000 dollars this included 
>>spam,virus, and policy management. Everything ran on linux it was 
>>developed using Sendmail or Postfix, Perl,  and Postgres. That is why I 
>>liked it so well. And it did a good job. Also allowed the users to have 
>>control of their own email. Plus it didn't have to sit down and right a 
>>bunch of recipes. I don't have time for that.
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>>Thanks
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>>Chris Fowler wrote:
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>>>What was the price?  Will it block enough that your employees will not
>>>be distracted by the spam?  
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>>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:35, John Allgood wrote:
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>>>>Hello
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>>>>We are looking into switching from our current MailScanner + SpamAssassin Gateway set-up over to a more flexible commercial software package. 
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>>>>We just got done evaluating Sophos PureMessage, but it was more than we wanted to spend. The Sophos software was blocking 98% of spam but it is more tailored to the enterprise market. 
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>>>>Any recommendations would be very welcome
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>>>>Thanks
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