Anti-spam

Blackspider MailControl (Email services group test)

Company: BlackSpider Technologies
Pricing: $29.64 to $54.84 per user per annum

Blackspider's MailControl service won a Best Buy in SC Magazine last year for its strong service offering, and although FrontBridge beat it to the line this time around, MailControl is still a very good service indeed.

 

MailSite (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Rockliffe
Pricing: $700
MailSite is a fully-equipped mail server as opposed to a plug-in for Exchange or Sendmail.
 

Frontbridge (Email services group test)

Company: Frontbridge
Pricing: $12 - $24 per user p.a.

This service has been clearly aimed at large (or complicated) organizations that might be managing multiple domains. It can do clever tricks such as rewriting email addresses and handling subdomains that may not have been specifically configured. Administrators can be created with limited sets of responsibilities.

 

Ipswitch IMail (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Ipswitch Inc.
Pricing: IMail Professional with service agreement including Ipswitch Instant Messaging with service agreement - $2,444 for unlimited users
IMail is a mail server suite offering all the standard mail protocols, web mail, messaging, mailing lists and filtering.
 

EMF Enterprise Edition (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Email Protection Agency
Pricing: $1.60 per user per month (based on 1,000 users)
EMF Enterprise is a managed service operated by resellers.
 

ServGate EdgeForce Accel (Appliances 2004)

Company: Servgate
Pricing: $7,500 (for base unit)

The ServGate EdgeForce Accel is a 1U high box, which targets itself primarily at medium to large size enterprises. It runs a hardened version of Linux and it offers 3Gb Ethernet interfaces (internal, external and demilitarized zone) and an onboard Broadcom security processor to handle VPN sessions.

 

Mirapoint RazorGate 100 (Appliances 2004)

Company: Mirapoint
Pricing: from $12,500 (for 300 users)

Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, the RazorGate 100 is a 1U rack-mounted unit that provides a one-stop-shop security solution.

 

Gordano Messaging Server (Anti-spam group test)

Company: Gordano Ltd.
Pricing: $7,514 for 1,000 users
The Gordano Messaging Server is not an anti-spam product but a suite that includes a mail-filtering component.
 

SurfControl Email Filter for SMTP (Anti-spam group test)

Company: SurfControl
Pricing: $18 per user (based on 500 users)
This software was, as far as installation was concerned, a mixed bag.
 

Norton AntiSpam 2004

Company: Symantec
Pricing: $39.95
The growing plague of unsolicited spam is costing businesses millions of dollars per year in lost productivity, according to the latest Business Barometer study from the University of Nottingham in the U.K