What's a good alternative to the Barracuda Spam Appliance?

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Solution 1

Our office uses the spam blocking feature from WatchGuard firewalls, this way we don't need another device on the network. You could also look to external services that block email before hitting your network like Securence or Postini (albeit Postini support is non-existent).

Solution 2

Have you looked at Postini(google bought it) as hosted spam prevention?

Solution 3

If I was trying to build a high speed large scale filter for email to remove spam and viruses with Open Source software I would look at:

DSpam + ClamAV

They can be configured to work together pretty simply and DSpam has a nice Web Interface for managing everything.

Solution 4

'Should be commercial'? Don't look at the Open Source MailScanner system then http://www.mailscanner.info/, have a look at its commercial cousin instead: http://www.fsl.com/

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johnny

Updated on September 18, 2022

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johnny almost 2 years

Searching for Barracuda alternatives didn't yield much. Can anyone recommend a good spam appliance like Barracuda?

I want something that will strip bad stuff out like if I have a .txt attachment that is really an .exe. It sends the email but strips out the attachment. I didn't think Barracuda did that.

Update: It should be a commercial product (but thanks for other suggestions for open source.)

Update: Must work with Windows and Exchange.
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gravyface almost 13 years

+1 spam appliance = wasting your own bandwidth, power, and cooling to block spam on-site.
uSlackr almost 13 years

You will get back a lot of bandwidth by killing the spam before it hits your link. The cost is excellent and you can allow users to manage/retrieve their blocked mail
Philip almost 13 years

We use Postini and basically hate it. We're switching to an in-house solution. YMMV.
johnny almost 13 years

@Chris what are you switching to?
johnny almost 13 years

Yes. Should be someone we pay...commercial. Plus this one is Linux only...Windows is coming they say. I didn't specify that though. Thanks.
Philip almost 13 years

@Johnny Switching to Microsoft Forefront 2010 for Exchange; haven't used it enough to have an informed opinion yet.
johnny almost 13 years

@chris does that reside on the edge server itself or do you have a separate box that has forefront on it?
Philip almost 13 years

@Johnny it's on the Edge server. It also has the option to run on a separate server, but it didn't make sense for our setup.
Greg Merideth almost 13 years

We tried Postini and after a year of terrible service, gave up and moved to another spam blocking service. Tech support is non-existent and to this day I cannot log into the domain billing system to cancel the account. After 5 failed attempts to bill us we canceled the CC we used and got a new one.