A humble opinion is needed

[Martin Hepworth]

Kevin Anderson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have had MailScanner installed for quite some time, and it works great,
> still there have been calls that it's not quite good enough.  The latest
> "Manager" wants to get in for discussion "Messagelabs" product for
> spam/virus/porn filtering. www.messagelabs.com.
> 
> I would like to keep MailScanner up and running, basically I need some
> info on Messagelabs if they are good or bad or are they using MailScanner
> in the background? :)
> 
> I apologize if this is not the appropriate forum.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> Kevin Anderson
> 
> --
> @
> _____________________________________________
> chaos, panic and disorder... my job is done...
Kevin

heard nothing but good reports about Messagelabs service.

provides mailscanner like service, but obviously costs more around £5000 
as a minimum per year.

Their reporting seems OK, but I've not tried it only looked at the 
interface, so I'm not sure they compete against the mailwatch/mailstats 
extenstions, but it did seem pretty basic.

Other commercial alternatives are postini and brightview.

At the end of the day it depends whether the PHB can justify the costs 
of messagelabs vs whatever the costs are for mailscanner (av licences etc).

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300




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