Hi folks...
Anyone have much experience with outsourcing antispam/antivirus to
Tucows? We use Postini today and are overall pleased. The Tucows
pricing seems to be MUCH lower so curious on any feedback...
Thanks,
Paul
Depends on your operational needs and size. For some people, nowadays you can
go to a hosted email solution for the price of filtering.. and besides, any
form of 'filtering' appliance or service comes at a price compared to
solutions built into your mail servers..
It would be helpful if you provided the following:
Type of Email Server/Service you want to protect
Number of Email Boxes.
Any other custom wants/needs.
I never want to slag on anyones' service, but even if I did, I am sure you
will get votes both ways. Your decision might need to be based on other
factors that you are not aware of at this time. Cost is an obvious concern,
but if say you are an ISP, and end up with more support calls with one company
or the other.. it might outweigh the monthly cost differences.
You would get better results if people with the same size and environment
commented....
-- Michael --
Thank you .... I apologize if this is off-topic... a couple of folks
have answered me offline and mentioned that it might be...
Basically, we are interested in one particular domain name containing
35,000 email addresses as an ISP. Antispam/Antivirus and a quarantine
option for 14 days minimum. Preferably an API of some type that can
automate against our SQL backend.
Open to ideas (on-list or offline by all means). I'm very happy to stay
where we are, but our GM got a phone call today from a sales rep at
Tucows and now price is of great interest.. Basically the Tucows price
is a fraction of our Postini costs so it's getting attention and I'm
just looking for input...
Paul
nowadays you can go to a hosted email solution for the price of
filtering
iff you do not care about the privacy of your communications. i am
horrified at the folk using gmail for corporate communication. their
mommies need to read the google eula and tos.
randy
Anyone have much experience with outsourcing antispam/antivirus to
Tucows? We use Postini today and are overall pleased. The Tucows
pricing seems to be MUCH lower so curious on any feedback...
Tucows' mail system had some fairly bad operational problems last year
(no mail lost, but offline for a while). They've fixed them and in
recent months they've been quite solid. I have some customers' mail
hosted there and they've been happy. I also happen to know several of
their managers who are reasonable people and actually respond to
problem reports.
If you're thinking of using them, it's also worth thinking about
letting them handle the entire mail setup. Along with POP and IMAP
they have usable web mail and a web management portal so your
customers can do the usual stuff, add and remove accounts, reset
passwords, and also an xml/http interface if you want to provide your
own management front end.
R's,
John
Paul Stewart escreveu:
Hi folks...
Anyone have much experience with outsourcing antispam/antivirus to
Tucows? We use Postini today and are overall pleased. The Tucows
pricing seems to be MUCH lower so curious on any feedback...Thanks,
Paul
I personally run Postini, Tucows' and MailFoundry on the clowd (hosted)
for some of my customers, so, its all about my very own personal
experience. Tucows has a way better ROI rates, however they used to be
very, very unstable, with really higher outages than any other of the
mentioned players. Nowadays things just seems to be pretty much
improved. However, when downtime is not a problem anymore with Tucows,
sometimes messages just happen to take real longer to show up in the
inbox. Seems like large mail queue or alike (information-less
diagnostics, in other words just a feeling). Therefore performance is
still lacking from Tucows compared to Postini and MailFoundry. I dont
see any of those problems with Postini.
Now, MailFoundry seems to be the most feature-rich option. Specially
needed for companies with special security policy needs. Performance and
availability is just as good as Postini. Ask your financial people to
check out the pricing conditions for MailFoundry, if they believe it
worths the TCO, I honestly suggest some attention on this SaaS provider.