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Not all is frustration and gloom here at work. Overall, things run quite well. So, in order to counter act the one-two punch that is Dell and Symantec, there must be some pretty good stuff over here! What could it be? It’s Mailfrontier ASG/EG. the ASG/EG stands for Antispam Gateway/Enterprise Gateway. These guys are cool. They have been around for about two years now, but the ASG product is just a tad over a year old. It is great. Truly great stuff.
The software was primarily designed to block SPAM, but it now also blocks viruses and does Policy based filtering as well. And it does its job admirably.
When we decided to look into running the ASG software, we were getting about SPAM 10000 messages a month, with 7000 real. We thought we had trouble then. So far we are looking to break 80000 messages this month for spam alone. It is breath taking to watch the stats climb.
Our users are happy, and they get beautifully rendered spam reports personalized every morning sitting in their inboxes. They are easy to read, and concise. The users get personalized white and black listings as well.
The policy stuff is pretty new, so there is room for improvement, but the virus handler is deft. Yesterday, Mailfrontier/McAffee stopped 276 viruses from getting into our network. Not a big deal? Well keep in mind that Mailfrontier sits INSIDE our Symantec antivirus firewall. That’s 276 infections it saved me from cleaning up today. That makes me very happy.
To fill out one of Mailfrontier’s HUGE gaps in functionality, I built an SQL/Crystal reporting engine that automatically imports the logs from the previous day and gives me stats any way I can imagine.
This is what software should be. I want software to make my life easier.