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SEA vs Puremessage: Feedback

lferrara

Hi All,

I am running SEA on a customer and to be honest I am not really happy about the SPAM catched from SEA. Before SEA, there was Pure Message and it blocked more SPAM and SUSPECT SPAM by adjusting the slider controls. This is something that is not achievable on SEA.

Also Sophos is selling multiple SPAM filters:

  • SEA
  • Pure Message
  • XG MTA
  • UTM9 MTA

I think that Sophos needs to understand that SPAM protection is very important and the only one (I think) that works as it should is Pure Message. Also on ideas.sophos.com there is not even an area on Pure Message/ SEA to open/vote feature requests.

I am looking forward to hearing from you guys on what experience you have and your feedback.

I am using Pure Message since 2008 and SEA since 2011.

Regards



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  • I too have been running PureMessage for many years. I have "Upgraded" to SEA and now find the filtering very poor in comparison.

    The

    Spam High (discard)

    and

    Spam medium (Quarantine) 

    functions on the SEA are way less effective than PureMessage where I could tweak an slider up and discard anything with a rating over (say) 70.

     I would normally get 200 messages in quarantine with Puremessage over a weekend. I now have to battle with the SEA web interface to deal with 2000+ messages! I cannot adjust "spam medium" other than to delete it! 

    It also detects a lot of genuine senders as Blacklisted that would normally have been fine.

    Regards,

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  • I too have been running PureMessage for many years. I have "Upgraded" to SEA and now find the filtering very poor in comparison.

    The

    Spam High (discard)

    and

    Spam medium (Quarantine) 

    functions on the SEA are way less effective than PureMessage where I could tweak an slider up and discard anything with a rating over (say) 70.

     I would normally get 200 messages in quarantine with Puremessage over a weekend. I now have to battle with the SEA web interface to deal with 2000+ messages! I cannot adjust "spam medium" other than to delete it! 

    It also detects a lot of genuine senders as Blacklisted that would normally have been fine.

    Regards,

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  • in reply to Tony Smith2

    Tony Smith2 said:

    functions on the SEA are way less effective than PureMessage where I could tweak an slider up and discard anything with a rating over (say) 70.

     

    The slider is missing in SEA and other Sophos Anti-spam products. They should bring the slider back to other products. Pure Message is still the best one.

    Thanks Tony for your feedback. It seems we are alone here.....

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