Openwave Opinions

Sun Nov 9 00:51:29 UTC 2003

> > 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).

I think this part of question was referring only to MTAs, not MTA +
anti-spam/virus tools. Anti-spam tuning is really a bit slower to do than
general performance tuning (MTA or MTA + anti-virus), but this will be true
to whatever MTA software and anti-spam one might buy.

> Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like
> us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go.

Outsourcing is usually a good way to get a solution with expertise instead
of a next->next->finish software installation and license to use it... but
for ISP use, integration with internal OSS (billing, tech-support etc.)
seems to be a challenge. Outsourcing costs also keeps most ISPs from using
such a solution, unless time-to-market is the one and only criteria.

Rubens