For the last 3 years or so we’ve used a Spam product formerly known as Mail Frontier.
It has treated us well. Fairly easy to configure and pretty dang accurate. For the cost associated with it, we’ve been more than happy.
Leave it to SonicWall to screw up a good thing. When it was announced that SonicWall was purchasing MailFrontier, I was none too happy.
Fast forward to now. We’ve seen multiple updates to the product, most of them haven’t had anything great to add. More and more spam gets through and the overall performance of the product has gone in the shitter.
Note: we do not have the appliance. We have the software running on a Windows 2k3 server that greatly exceeds their minimum requirements.
I’ve been digging for any tid bit of information or tip that will help get performance back where it was, and have so far come up with nada.
The SonicWall website only has this little tidbit in regards to performance:
High Performance
SonicWALL ensures peak system performance through its unique preemptive scanning MTA, which offers breakthrough message analysis that is 40-290% faster than competitor solutions.
We have to call BS here. This product cannot be 40-290% faster than the competition. Unless the competition simply doesn’t work at all.
The poohbah’s are not happy.