Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

Tue May 18 11:20:16 UTC 2004

Matt
> 
> I agree that everything the Barracuda does can be done by hand.  I had a 
> choice of either spending $4k for a 'set it and forget it' type spam 
> solution or continue to spend days per month of my time tweaking my old 
> setup.   I chose to go with the commercial route which will easily save 
> me $$ and more importantly frustration over the course of this year.  I 
> can spend my time building my business now instead of tweaking my mail 
> server.
> 
> Barracuda is built on open source, It boots LILO then goes into 'secret' 
> mode.  I don't think they added any black magic to the box.  They just 
> assembled the open source parts and shrink wrapped it into a very easy 
> to manage solution.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 

I prob spend ay most a couple of hours per week tweeking the thing now..

depends on whether you can squease the 4k out of the bean counters up 
front...:-)

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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