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On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Raymond Flores wrote:The central university has agreed to modify our mx records so that emailis delivered directly to our servers.  We are looking at the possibilityof upgrading our barracuda box with redundancy to handle the additionalvolume or using a third party service like Google Email Security(Postini).  I was wondering what other schools are doing and what worksfor them.   Your input is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.Ray,We're using a Sonicwall appliance (we bought this as MailFrontier about 3 years ago.)We currently experience 95-98% quarantine rates on our inbound mail, up from 89-94% in 2006.Our experience with this system has been good; users have understood how to manage their own whitelists and blacklists, they appreciate the daily summaries, and the administrative interface is decent.I have no experience with barracuda, and my postini experience is 5+ years old, therefore not applicable.Randy ---D. Randall SpydellChief Information OfficerWestern State College of ColoradoGunnison  Colorado 81231<http://www.western.edu/>970.943.3123 (office)