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We recently moved from a homegrown Linux box running SpamAssassin and a few other components to control the influx of spam
onto our network to a commercial solution offered by Barracuda Networks. This was done for several reasons - lack of time
to properly maintain the other system, problems trapping image spam and writing the rules necessary to stop the spam. Since
implementing the new solution, we haven't been as successful as we were hoping for. This doesn't seem to be the plug and play
solution that it was represented to us as being. How can we get things running better?
--Via the Internet
None of the commercial anti-spam solutions is as plug and play as you would be led to believe. Barracuda is a good option and with a little bit of work, you can make it really good. Start by looking at the support forum section of the Barracuda website. There you will find other users who have same goal as you do - to get the best results for the investment that they have made.
You will need to do some tweaking over time as different types of spam emerge and to take advantage of improvements that can be expected to be included as updates are released for the version of the unit that you have.
Make sure that you are set up to download spam and virus signatures on an hourly basis. It wouldn't be a bad idea if you notice that the version numbers of either are updating more than several times a day to manually do an update to take advantage of the new signatures to help keep the barbarians at the gate. If you haven't done so, at your edge router connecting your network to the Internet, I would suggest getting the latest IPV4 Address space list to find out what IP ranges are showing as reserved by IANA and shouldn't be seen as being in use and blocking those from being able to send e-mail to your company.
Although Barracuda boxes come set-up with using two real-time blacklists, I would suggest you consider implementing others mentioned on the forums on the Barracuda web site. I have found over time that no one single list is going to be the best. Depending on the type of spam that you are seeing, some blacklists may work better for you than others. You will also want to learn how to block the spam by using different combination of header, body and the other types of blocking that are available with this solution. You will probably do a lot of changes at first, less as time goes on as you learn what works for you.
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Giving a Barracuda box more biteBy peterls on July 22, 2007, 4:22 pmA Barracuda, like all appliances aren't plug-and-play, no matter what the marketing says. Yes, they are easy to install and set up is almost plug-and-play but...
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AssumptionsBy Anonymous on February 21, 2007, 3:52 amRon You wrote, "None of the commercial anti-spam solutions is as plug and play as you would be led to believe." And the one comment to this article said, "It...
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Giving a Barracuda box more biteBy Anonymous on January 17, 2007, 9:24 amWe just put in a Barracuda one month ago. It has worked well. It took nearly 4 days of near-constant attention to mark spam and ham. Since them, my intervention...
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