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Cloudmark Authority (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Cloudmark
Pricing: $8-$10 per seat
Cloudmark Authority runs on Linux, hooking the Milter interface of Sendmail to parse each message prior to delivery.
 

intY MailDefender (Email services group test)

Company: intY
Pricing: $24 per user p.a. for 100 users – one year contract

IntY's MailDefender manages to squeeze quite a lot of mail filters and controls into an attractive and uncomplicated interface. We might have preferred the default first screen to be the useful quarantine summary (giving customer-wide mail totals), rather than the actual quarantining itself, but this was just a minor quibble.

 

Equiinet SentryPilot (Appliances 2004)

Company: Equiinet
Pricing: $5,400 (inc. 12 months’ subscription to all security services for 100 users)

Equiinet's SentryPilot gateway features a comprehensive combination of anti-spam, anti-virus and URL content filtering functionality.

 

EPA (Email services group test)

Company: EPA
Pricing: $32 per user p.a. for 100 users – one year contract

EPA (Email Protection Agency) is a reseller for the Email Systems mail filtering services. As managed services settle down, we expect to see a lot more of the larger services being offered as rebadged services through other channels and service providers.

 

DynaComm i:mail (Anti-spam group test)

Company: FutureSoft
Pricing: $1,500 for 50 users
DynaComm i:mail is software made to monitor, filter and log email activity passing through the corporate SMTP server.
 

Norton Internet Security (Email Security group test)

Company: Symantec Corporation
Pricing: $179 (single seat); $645 (5 user), $1,280 (10 user)

No security software Group Test would be complete without an appearance by Symantec, and this is no exception. Symantec's offering is its Norton Internet Security Suite, specifically targeted at the standalone desktop machine, or those connected to smaller networks. Because of this, it is only available for non-server versions of ...

 

Policy Patrol (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Red Earth Software
Pricing: $325 for ten users
This application works alongside Exchange and can be installed either on the same machine or on a separate server.
 

Gordano Messaging Suite (Mail Security group test)

Company: Gordano
Pricing: $2,795 (50 users)

Gordano Messaging Suite is a complete mail server, with integrated anti-virus, anti-spam, and content filtering. As a mail server, it offers a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Exchange and integrates tightly with Outlook in the same way that Exchange does. There are many additional features, such as support for dial-up collection ...

 

SpamAssassin 2.63 (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Open source
Pricing: Free
SpamAssassin is an open-source junk mail filtering product used by more than 20 commercial products.
 

Minesweeper CF500 (Appliance group test)

Company: Barbedwire Technologies
Pricing: $5,980

Primarily a content-filtering platform, the Minesweeper CF 500 came with optional extras for intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment. Content filtering comprises URL blocking, anti-virus and anti-spam. Standard features include a firewall with an IPsec VPN and a DHCP server.