I know that a lot of the anti-spam appliances, like the Barracuda Spam
Firewall <http://www.barracudanetworks.ca/spam-firewall-yg.aspx> may
be cost-prohibitive for home users, but has anyone tried one of the
managed anti-spam filtering services like CudaMail
<http://www.cudamail.com/default-yg.aspx> or Postini
<http://www.postini.com/> ? I think that they are geared toward small
business users rather than home users though. Like if you have say your
own mail server, and say 1 user or more for your mail domain.

Instead of paying hundreds or a thousand or so for an appliance, you pay
just a small amount per month and get your mail filtered by their high
end appliances, and then delivered to your own mailbox.

I think that trying to make Outlook rules to catch spam can be a
neverending battle, since the spammers change their mail text so often.
A lot of the appliances auto-update with new spam rules and signatures,
so you don't have to keep making new rules yourself. That's why I'm
curious about what kind of experience anyone may have had with these
kind of services.

Last time I checked, I think it was about $29 a month for CudaMail
filtering - so, not too expensive. Not sure about Postini pricing
though.

Dave





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