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Re: Openwave Opinions

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Sat Nov 08 19:36:02 2003 
Rubens Kuhl Jr. writes on 11/8/2003 5:53 PM:




Anyone have any openwave mail MX opinions or experience good or bad?



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).



Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like
us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go.



Or you might elect to get a managed antispam solution that plugs into
your mta (kind of like brightmail or spamsquelcher.org)




Design question:  Is it better to have integrated or seperate Anti-spam



and



Anti-virus built into the mail platform?




The unix way - one tool per job. Build a mail system out of components
- it is often the best way to go.



srs



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