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Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
- From: Matthew Crocker
- Date: Tue May 18 07:20:14 2004
On May 18, 2004, at 4:13 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Matthew
Spamassassin needs quite a bit of tweaking above the out of the box
setup. I run about 7000 messages a day here, 70% spam, .5% virus
(clamav and Sophos), very very rarely a FP. I get bove 99% hit rate
after adding in bayes, serveral additional rules from
www.rulesemporium.org and the URI checkes. Runs on a 600mhz celeron
with load avg < .5
I agree that everything the Barracuda does can be done by hand. I had
a choice of either spending $4k for a 'set it and forget it' type spam
solution or continue to spend days per month of my time tweaking my old
setup. I chose to go with the commercial route which will easily save
me $$ and more importantly frustration over the course of this year. I
can spend my time building my business now instead of tweaking my mail
server.
Barracuda is built on open source, It boots LILO then goes into
'secret' mode. I don't think they added any black magic to the box.
They just assembled the open source parts and shrink wrapped it into a
very easy to manage solution.
-Matt
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