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 -- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations