Thoughts on Barracudas?

[Randal, Phil]

One simple thing which would hepl is to use SA 3.1.4 and a daily
sa-update cron job.

If I read the changelog correctly, the issues surrounding sa-update have
been fixed.

Certainly no problems here.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> Of Martin Hepworth
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> Subject: Re: Thoughts on Barracudas?
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> Julian Field wrote:
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> > Folks,
> > 
> > I have had some comments from a few people leaving the 
> mailing list as 
> > they are ditching their MailScanner setups and switching to 
> Barracuda 
> > applicances instead. They claim that things worked fine 
> when they first 
> > installed MailScanner, but gradually more and more spam is leaking 
> > through, to the point where they have decided to abandon it.
> > 
> > 
> > Here is what he said:
> > 
> > "I've tried Mailscanner on FreeBSD for almost one year. It 
> worked great
> > for about two months, then after every upgrade it began to 
> let more and
> > more spam through. I've tried everything to fix it and just 
> got tired of
> > my users complaining of increased spam.
> > "It wasn't worth the headache. Your forums indicate that there are
> > numerous people experienced the same problems I have encountered.
> > "I have since purchased a Barracuda SPAM 200 firewall. This 
> device has
> > worked much better."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What is your opinion on the Barracuda appliance?
> > How easy is it to use?
> > Does it actually work?
> > Can it survive the loads they say it can?
> > 
> > And, of course, how does it compare with MailScanner?
> > 
> > Please be open and honest, and as impartial as you can.
> > 
> > All of your thoughts are most welcome.
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Julian Field
> 
> Jules
> 
> You need to maintain the SA side of things, make sure you have 
> RulesDuJour etc installed and picking up the SARE and other rules.
> 
> Spam is an evolving thing and therefore you need to spend a 
> little time 
> making sure you system can auto-update. It's not a 
> install/forget system 
> - I think this way of thinking is another example of M$ skewing the 
> market, you don't need all  those expensive well trained/experienced 
> sys-admins!
> 
>  From what I've heard of Baracuda they are not very good (I've heard 
> expletives use here). Cobweb (who run a hosted MS-Exchange 
> business in 
> the UK) used to use them but moved away about 6 months ago as 
> the spam 
> trapping was v poor.
> 
> Upgrading MS won't increase the spam getting through, this is just an 
> excuse.....ya gotta setup SA correctly in the first place.
> 
> The thing how can we get people to setup SA better?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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