[attrition] review: ESVA: The best things in life are free.

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http://attrition.org/news/content/09-07-18.001.html

Sat July 18 20:20:02 EDT 2009
by: martums

Got spam? Run a mail server? Like saving time & money?

     * Imagine a well-designed, FOSS-based anti-spam solution.
     * Imagine one that meets or exceeds the service of either
           o a hosted solution, or
           o a rack mountable appliance with a slick paint job.
     * Imagine the money you would save if you didn't need your current
       commercial anti-spam solution
     * Stop imagining.

The VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace is a useful resource for a 
variety of specialized virtual machines. Some free, others for-fee, each 
built & customized for a specific role. Many of these can be downloaded & 
deployed in less time than their equivalent physical counterparts.

One of the virtual appliances which yours truly has been running for 
several years is ESVA, Andrew MacLachlan's Email Security Virtual 
Appliance. MacLachlan created and has maintained ESVA, with the help of 
community members, since roughly May 2005. Putting ESVA between my mail 
server and the intertubes was, in hindsight, an excellent decision.

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