Exchange Server Spam

[Cold Brew]

I need a good spam filtering program for exchange 2003. Whats popular and effective out there? Price not too much of an issue.

[alfadon]

We put in a Spam Firewall. Its hardware based it runs seperate of the Exchange server. Its has done wonders for us. A hardware based solution is better. Im not exactly sure how much it cost but i believe it was less than $500 US. I think the name of it is Baracuda Spam Firewall. I dont know much about software solutions. try www.msexchange.org a great website for exchange.

[MazX_Napalm]

IMF - free from MS. Good as a starting point.

Sophos PureMail.

Sybari (I use their AV on exchange, but they also do a spam catcher)

I good idea is to get your mail sent through a "clearing house". They check for viruses, spam, porn ...... You don't have to worry about updating the software either. They also have huge databases of spam mail, so it should be more efficient than your server "learning" what is spam.

[Aaron P]

Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF as MazX_Napalm points out, Free)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

NetIQ MailMarshal

http://www.netiq.com/products/mma/default.asp

[beacon]

IMF and Outlook 2003 first choice. If you need something better than that i would go Surf Control over any other spam filter or message labs for a managed service.

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

Used to use Sybari, but switched to GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity for a number of different reasons.

I do wonder what the path is for Sybari/Microsoft these days.

[MazX_Napalm]

Sybari works well as an AV on EX 2K3. Haven't used the spam filter yet.