Justification for mailscanner.

[Randal, Phil]

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf
Of Limmer, Jim
Sent: 01 March 2004 21:35
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Justification for mailscanner.





 My company has budgeted a good amount of money for a spam/virus filtering
email gateway, similar to what I can accomplish with mailscanner. We've
tested a few commercial products, none to our satisfaction. While we are
meeting with their sales staff I typically jot down each application they
are using. It's amazing the amount of money some of these vendors are
charging for what is 99% open source software. Typically these boxes are
running redhat, postfix, sa, razor... the list goes on. The only proprietary
software I see on these boxes are their web gui front ends, which are
typically attractive, but IMHO - useless.

Anyway, the question was put to me today - how can you justify wanting to
spend valuable man hours building and configuring our own system based on
open source, when we've already budgeted enough money to cover a commercial
solution?

While the simple answers are the ones that make sense to us technological
people

1> open source is good.
2> personal satisfaction of putting your own system together
3> It's just darn cool & techo-geeky.

Unfortunatley, those answers arent going to satisfy the higher ups.

Anyone seen any good articles, or have any comment that may help me put
together a good answer to this?

Thanks,

-Jim

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