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> > Every mail product that costs lots of money will yield a worse overall > > solution that using a good free/open-source mail software (postfix, qmail, > > exim... pick one) and spending money on people with good technical skills to > > tune and adapt the system. Unless, of course, your financial resources are > > unlimited... > > It is not just financial resources - it is also a factor of time to > build a filter / set of filters from scratch (even with spamassasin + > bogofilter you need to train it extensively, and tweak its rulesets to > suit your mail flow). I think this part of question was referring only to MTAs, not MTA + anti-spam/virus tools. Anti-spam tuning is really a bit slower to do than general performance tuning (MTA or MTA + anti-virus), but this will be true to whatever MTA software and anti-spam one might buy. > Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like > us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go. Outsourcing is usually a good way to get a solution with expertise instead of a next->next->finish software installation and license to use it... but for ISP use, integration with internal OSS (billing, tech-support etc.) seems to be a challenge. Outsourcing costs also keeps most ISPs from using such a solution, unless time-to-market is the one and only criteria. Rubens
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