Hi all,
does anyone have any experience with e-mail protection appliances?
Ideally this would be a standalone box, serving as an ISP's SMTP relay, with the following functions:
-- Detect spam coming from the ISP's customers, and automatically throttle the bandwidth or block SMTP for a given IP address.
-- Alert the administrators when the spam or viruses are originating from ISP's network
-- Manage the incoming email, and throttle the bandwidth for external IP addresses that send too many SMTP requests
-- Built-in antivirus would be a plus
-- management web interface with privilege levels
-- interesting would be to have per-user spam filtering settings for incoming email...
Your advice in choosing or avoiding vendors and solutions is very welcome.
Also there should be service providers that outsource such activities. Would be great to know the names as well.
thanks in advance, stan
Hi,
Ideally this would be a standalone box, serving as an ISP's SMTP relay, with the following functions:
Have a look at http://www.roaringpenguin.com, Canit Pro is IMHO one of the bests products available.
Also there should be service providers that outsource such activities. Would be great to know the names as well.
Yes we have such a service. Have a look at http://antispam.imp.ch. The main advantage here is that we activly develop SA-Rules and maintain several blacklists and spamtraps which we share with other swiss ISPs.
Martin
--- Martin Blapp mb@imp.ch wrote:
Have a look at http://www.roaringpenguin.com, Canit Pro is IMHO one of the bests products available.
from its features description, it does not do bandwidth throttling, and that's one of the things we'd like to have.
and -- I've accidently deleted a message from Filip Mitev in my spamfolder, without opening it. Filip, would you please send it again? Funny that Yahoo determined it as spam :)
thanks
--- Martin Blapp mb@imp.ch wrote:
Have a look at http://www.roaringpenguin.com, Canit Pro is IMHO one of the bests products available.
from its features description, it does not do bandwidth throttling, and that's one of the things we'd like to have.
and -- I've accidently deleted a message from Filip Mitev in my spamfolder, without opening it. Filip, would you please send it again? Funny that Yahoo determined it as spam :)
thanks
Hi Stan,
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:49:10AM -0800, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
does anyone have any experience with e-mail protection appliances?
Have a look at IronPort (http://www.ironport.com/).
Ideally this would be a standalone box, serving as an ISP's SMTP relay, with the following functions:
Ok.
-- Detect spam coming from the ISP's customers, and automatically throttle the bandwidth or block SMTP for a given IP address.
Ok.
-- Alert the administrators when the spam or viruses are originating from ISP's network
I think this is not possible with this appliance right now. But I am sure, that IronPort can (and will) implement this if requested.
-- Manage the incoming email, and throttle the bandwidth for external IP addresses that send too many SMTP requests
Ok.
-- Built-in antivirus would be a plus
Ok. (SOPHOS) (and others in upcoming releases)
-- management web interface with privilege levels
Yes. More granular privilege levels in next release (IIRC).
-- interesting would be to have per-user spam filtering settings for incoming email...
You can create different policies for different users. You can apply these policies to users using attributes stored in a LDAP (or you can have static mappings on the appliance itself of course).
Regards, Matthias
Hi Matthias,
This is a very interesting product. What would be the price range for an installation at an ISP with 5 thousand cablemodem users?
thanks, stan
--- Matthias Geiser matthias.geiser@dodeka.ch wrote:
Hi Stan,
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:49:10AM -0800, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
does anyone have any experience with e-mail protection appliances?
Have a look at IronPort (http://www.ironport.com/).
Ideally this would be a standalone box, serving as an ISP's SMTP relay, with the following functions:
Ok.
-- Detect spam coming from the ISP's customers, and automatically throttle the bandwidth or block SMTP for a given IP address.
Ok.
-- Alert the administrators when the spam or viruses are originating from ISP's network
I think this is not possible with this appliance right now. But I am sure, that IronPort can (and will) implement this if requested.
-- Manage the incoming email, and throttle the bandwidth for external IP addresses that send too many SMTP requests
Ok.
-- Built-in antivirus would be a plus
Ok. (SOPHOS) (and others in upcoming releases)
-- management web interface with privilege levels
Yes. More granular privilege levels in next release (IIRC).
-- interesting would be to have per-user spam filtering settings for
incoming
email...
You can create different policies for different users. You can apply these policies to users using attributes stored in a LDAP (or you can have static mappings on the appliance itself of course).
Regards, Matthias _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
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