Thoughts on Barracudas?

[Mike Jakubik]

Julian Field wrote:
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> Folks,
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> 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.
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Because of the nature of the application, it has to be constantly kept 
up to date in order to be effective. This is a bonus that you get out of 
an appliance, as everything (should be) kept up to date for you 
automatically. If you are interested, i am developing such an appliance, 
which is based on MailScanner and FreeBSD and will have a more 
attractive price than most of the commercial alternatives. It's still 
not finished, but i am testing it with at a few sites, so far so good. I 
believe i should have it ready for prime time within a few months.