said by battleop :

Nothing annoys me more than to get bounce back messages from Barracuda boxes. They read the spam and bounce messages back to the forged reply to address.

said by B :

The buyer of an antispam appliance has already admitted they can't handle spam on their own and want to simply throw money at the problem and make it go away. The Barracuda "admin" shouldn't even have an option to screw up and end up generating more spam byproduct.

Therefore it's irresponsible of Barracuda to continue to offer a feature that is never a good idea in today's (or the foreseeable future's) spam climate. If and when it becomes a reasonable feature they can activate it automatically.

Not only do losers purchase these stupid appliances, but apparently the companies who make them are about as wise as the likes of Symantec vis a vis antivirus "research".

-- B

said by B :

Seriously? Any number of free and/or open source solutions that are at least equal in performance.

Start with everybody's old reliable, SpamAssassin. Enable the Bayesian filtering.

If you like something a little different, try DSPAM.

Or try what I use, ASSP -- it's a completely multiplatform (Perl) proxy and rejects spam at the SMTP level, BEFORE it reaches your mail store. It doesn't require a dedicated server, and it includes antimalware (ClamAV) scanning.

There are plenty of other software solutions (paid and free) for an "admin" to consider. Again, buying a box (throwing money at the problem) is perfectly viable too, it's just a bit lazy and not necessarily as effective. It certainly makes sense for organizations who decide to commit employee resources to other things. That said, I have an older version of ASSP running that I basically NEVER have to tweak; and yet it remains very very effective.

-- B