jrquint
03-26-2008, 12:19 PM
I have been testing untangle for a few weeks now and I'm fairly impressed with its ease of use and setup.
I'm testing it specifically for use as an OUTGOING spam/virus filter.
We have a solution for incoming spam(maybe not anyones favorite, but its in place and cost $$$ so no one wants to replace it). We need a system to limit spam emanating from out network(we are a small ISP) as we get blacklisted once in a while if one of our customers gets 'zombied' or a virus starts spewing email. Our SMTP server has a rate limit, but the zombies can easily outsmart this.
I set up a test network and started sending messages out through Untangle(5.0) and it did log and score the email. The most I could get out of an email was a score of 2.7. I set the filtering to extreme and it simply would not block or tag ANY email.
Am I barking up the wrong tree with this product? I like its transparentness and ease of setup, but it seems a bit oversimplified. With the proper hardware will this handle a fair load(we get about 400,000 messages/day incoming, but not near that many outgoing and this will only see outgoing) ?
I'm testing it specifically for use as an OUTGOING spam/virus filter.
We have a solution for incoming spam(maybe not anyones favorite, but its in place and cost $$$ so no one wants to replace it). We need a system to limit spam emanating from out network(we are a small ISP) as we get blacklisted once in a while if one of our customers gets 'zombied' or a virus starts spewing email. Our SMTP server has a rate limit, but the zombies can easily outsmart this.
I set up a test network and started sending messages out through Untangle(5.0) and it did log and score the email. The most I could get out of an email was a score of 2.7. I set the filtering to extreme and it simply would not block or tag ANY email.
Am I barking up the wrong tree with this product? I like its transparentness and ease of setup, but it seems a bit oversimplified. With the proper hardware will this handle a fair load(we get about 400,000 messages/day incoming, but not near that many outgoing and this will only see outgoing) ?