Postini Exiting ISP Business?

Tue Jan 8 14:22:42 UTC 2013

We're in the same boat as Paul and have been investigating McAfee Email 
Protection (used to be MX Logic). A bit more expensive than Postini, but 
also more full featured. Additional options can be added on as well, 
like archiving & outbound encryption.

We've thought about deploying a virtual appliance in our datacenter like 
Barracuda but kind of don't want to have to deal with administering it 
all ourselves in house. Outsourcing is attractive to us for this service.

On 1/8/2013 9:07 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
> We got off Postini many years ago, and have never looked back..
> We switched to Katharion, today they are known as GFI Max Mail,
> Let me know if u are interested in switching, I will be more than happy to send u the contact info for them.
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> Regards
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> Faisal
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> On Jan 8, 2013, at 8:51 AM, "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:
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>> Hey there.
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>> We have been using Postini for a number of years as our anti-spam/anti-virus
>> protection for customer email accounts.
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>> Mid last year we received a notice from Google that "In 2013, we plan to
>> transition your Postini services to Google Apps for Business."
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>> As part of this notice we were also told "You don't need to make any changes
>> to your Postini service or sign up for a Google Apps account. Your Postini
>> service will continue as usual until your migration begins. We will be in
>> touch at least 60 days before your renewal date."
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>> In mid November, Google sent us a letter that stated that we had until the
>> end of 2013 to basically get off their service or to contact their preferred
>> partner (Tech Excel) and migrate to Google Apps with them.
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>> Recently we have now been told in email by someone at Postini that we "must
>> transition ASAP" and that we really only had til the end of 2012.  Geesh,
>> talk about confusing.. Not a great way to treat a long term customer!
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>> Anyone else getting the complete "run around" by Postini?  We are fine with
>> leaving them, especially now.  Having said that, I'm interested in hearing
>> about competitive solutions either in appliances or in cloud based - this is
>> *not* an invitation for sales people to call me please.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Paul
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