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July 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Hardware Anti-Spam for SMBs

TAGS: SMB Hardware

Newly-minted contributing editor, Jamie Bernstein and I are finishing up a review of Exchange 2007 as I write this--should be out in early August. As news stories about Exchange 2007 have previously stated, one of the new email server's notable features is upgraded support for anti-spam and anti-phishing along with the option to get even more serious using Microsoft's hosted FrontBridge filtering services.

But just because Microsoft got into a market doesn't mean you should default to them. Especially when there are plenty of innovative companies still looking to deliver anti-spam technology on a value basis. One such is MailFoundry.

MailFoundry just put out a box called the MailFoundry 1150. While this box is priced for the SMB set at about $800 for the hardware, it's not skimping on technology. (That's $800 for 150 users; $1999 for 2500 users and up from there into non-SMB land.) The 1150 does all the usual tricks, including blocked senders and reverse DNS lookups, but adds a service level as well. This service costs $99/year from MailFoundry, gets updated regularly and automatically adding specific email signatures to the 1150 that MailFoundry identifies via ongoing spam analysis.

Haven't seen it work yet, so don't take this as a review, but given the feature set and the price point, it's worth checking out. Especially as it's email server-neutral so you're not tied to Microsoft or any other server platform.

Posted by Oliver Rist on July 20, 2006 10:39 AM

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