Sophos and Corrupt Files

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
   Back in April of 2002, I found MailScanner because the gang at
Sophos recommended it to me after I complained about aspects of
Mailmonitor that I didn't like (the fact that it wants to control
port 25 instead of sendmail; I want sendmail to have first crack
at incoming email, then virus-scanning downstream from there).

   Their recommendation answered all of my prayers and I bought a
SAVI license to use Sophos with MailScanner.  MailScanner clearly
has MailMonitor beat on technical merits, but I'll bet that you
*have* sold a lot of SAVI licenses for them.

   If Sophos had any sense, they would drop MailMonitor and support
your efforts 100%.  You have the better mousetrap.  I'm copying my
Sophos salesperson on this, in case she is listening...

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Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
Senior UNIX Sysadmin and Email Guru
Information Technology Services
Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,
Waterville ME, 04901-8842
phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076)
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:05:01 +0000
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Sophos and Corrupt Files
>
> At 22:24 05/02/2003, you wrote:
> > > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > > I would hope Sophos and I are in a position to be able to help each other.
> >
> >They may consider you to be competition, though.  When we were getting
> >together our anti-virus solution this time last year, they said "buy
> >SAVI from us, and we'll give our mail gateway for it for free".  But,
> >instead, we went with mailscanner.  It wasn't a loss for them in our
> >case, because they would have been giving it to us for free ... but
> >how many sales for their mail gateway have they lost because you have
> >a free thing in a similar market niche?  (and theirs might not do spam
> >stuff)
>
> I would hope that I made them more sales in extra SAVI licences than I cost
> them in lost MailMonitor sales. But maybe not :-)
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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>