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 -- On October 29, 2009, Paul Stewart wrote:

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

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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. -- Patrick Tracanelli