Comments on: Outsourced SMTP – Good or Bad? – PostIni Outage? http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/ Blogging about stuff. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lawrence Janes http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-4060 Lawrence Janes Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:15:20 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-4060 Hi from Spain. I am user of, and a reseller for Preserv8 http://www.ctseuropa.es Preserv8 provide a unified platform which whilst similar to Postini in many ways surpasses it in many others. It has been written from the ground up in .net and is the only S+S unified mail platform certified by Microsoft. Their patented approach to Spam employs heuristic (rule based) and bohesian (reputation based) filters. From a user perspective - I now have confidence with my DR plan as I never run the risk of losing any of my mails. - I can review my mails from anywhere in the world in their original html formatting - All my organisations mails are branded in the cloud - SPAM has been virtually eliminated - And most of all I receive BI reporting which helps me with marketing campaigns etc. Following the success of this oursourcing we are now actively reviewing other areas of the business to outsource. Hi from Spain. I am user of, and a reseller for Preserv8 http://www.ctseuropa.es Preserv8 provide a unified platform which whilst similar to Postini in many ways surpasses it in many others. It has been written from the ground up in .net and is the only S+S unified mail platform certified by Microsoft. Their patented approach to Spam employs heuristic (rule based) and bohesian (reputation based) filters.
From a user perspective
- I now have confidence with my DR plan as I never run the risk of losing any of my mails.
- I can review my mails from anywhere in the world in their original html formatting
- All my organisations mails are branded in the cloud
- SPAM has been virtually eliminated
- And most of all I receive BI reporting which helps me with marketing campaigns etc.
Following the success of this oursourcing we are now actively reviewing other areas of the business to outsource.

]]> By: Josh http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3976 Josh Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:04 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3976 Hi Polprav - of course you can! Hi Polprav – of course you can!

]]> By: Polprav http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3969 Polprav Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:13:56 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3969 Hello from Russia! Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you? Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

]]> By: Josh http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3949 Josh Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:38:54 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3949 Good point Steve, and I'd never recommend that anyone run an unprotected SMTP gateway even as a backup. Good point Steve, and I’d never recommend that anyone run an unprotected SMTP gateway even as a backup.

]]> By: Shawn Lebbon http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3946 Shawn Lebbon Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:30:35 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3946 We've used Messagelabs for almost 10 years now and have never had a problem with incoming email that we didn't cause ourselves (once I put in the wrong new IP and removed the working one simultaneously....a few hours without email for that one). They're primarily billed as a Spam or A/V filtering service, but do provide 1 week of storage if our servers are down, which we've routinely used for migrations, outages, upgrades and the like. They're quite geographically distributed as well, even providing 'local' datacenter services to our different international locations. They do filter out nearly all our spam, and we run no other spam or a/v filtering of email on our servers and have never had a problem. We push around 2Mil emails per year through them. Of course they were bought by Symantec about a year ago...Not my favorite company these days...but we haven't noticed any changes/ill-effects yet besides a logo change. We’ve used Messagelabs for almost 10 years now and have never had a problem with incoming email that we didn’t cause ourselves (once I put in the wrong new IP and removed the working one simultaneously….a few hours without email for that one). They’re primarily billed as a Spam or A/V filtering service, but do provide 1 week of storage if our servers are down, which we’ve routinely used for migrations, outages, upgrades and the like. They’re quite geographically distributed as well, even providing ‘local’ datacenter services to our different international locations. They do filter out nearly all our spam, and we run no other spam or a/v filtering of email on our servers and have never had a problem. We push around 2Mil emails per year through them.

Of course they were bought by Symantec about a year ago…Not my favorite company these days…but we haven’t noticed any changes/ill-effects yet besides a logo change.

]]> By: Steve http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3945 Steve Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:59 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3945 In our experience many spammers will connect to the highest numbered MX so if you set yours as a backup the spam will bypass the filter. In our experience many spammers will connect to the highest numbered MX so if you set yours as a backup the spam will bypass the filter.

]]> By: Tara Hayes http://joshcurrier.com/2009/10/outsourced-smtp-good-or-bad-postini-outage/comment-page-1/#comment-3944 Tara Hayes Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:00:17 +0000 http://joshcurrier.com/?p=223#comment-3944 MX Logic is also a SaaS, but we believe a better alternative with hundreds of replicated servers. The clients that we've moved over to them have been floored with the results. We like it so much that we've become an MX Logic Partner. MX Logic is also a SaaS, but we believe a better alternative with hundreds of replicated servers. The clients that we’ve moved over to them have been floored with the results. We like it so much that we’ve become an MX Logic Partner.

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