F-prot revisited

[Steffan Henke]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Alan Fiebig wrote:

> While F-Prot's $29 Linux workstation version is all you technically need
> to run with MailScanner, per F-Prot, you would be in violation of their
> license. Their expensive 'per user' mail server version contains a whole

But they don't sell the command line version for servers ! They just sell
bigger products - and we don't need that, we use MailScanner.
It's really disappointing looking for quotes on products from all the
vendors I have looked at.
We just need a command line scanner, nothing else.
Last week, a Panda sales rep called me because I dl'ed the trial version.
They could NOT tell me what the price for the final thing was ! They went
on with "how many users you have, how many mboxes ?" - geez, I don't count
my users` mboxes every day.
And the funny thing in their trial is that it prints "FREEWARE" when
running - in a recent comparison of Linux virus scanners, it was also
mentioned "Freeware" in the German computer magazine "c't" lately.
I told Panda their product is useless if it does not include automatic
signature updates.

> liked what I saw, and I supplied Jullian with a licensed copy so he
> could add support for their product, e-Trust, to MailScanner.

Even on the CA page, I didn't see a final price for the product I need,
but maybe at that time I was already too tired after trying to find a
price.
Maybe all MailScanner users should unite and buy licences together, I'm
sure we would get a discount :)

Regards,

Steffan