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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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  • Hi Luk,

    I can assure that the SEA is much more adept in catching spam, however there are many different areas that need to be configured.   Here is my AS configuration KB, ensure that your settings match.   https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/120802

    Other notes:

    Ensure delay queue is active and the settings are as the above KB.  this feature is highly effective against snowshoe spam but... it must remain in collect mode for 10.45 days or 1M seconds before it will start enforcing, or any time the feature is changed to off.

    The SEA also allows you to create any sort of envelope or DATA rules you can think of.. for example you could drop entire countries, or domains like .info or . You could also create your own sub string and regular expression matching if you wish.

     

    The slider for spam has little impact when it comes to the scale that is used to determine if a message is spam.  The way spam is scored will either be greatly below 50% or above. 

  • in reply to Red_Warrior

    Thanks Red_Warrior for your advice but I already know the KB and SEA is configured at the top. Still some spam is passing through SEA. Hope other advanced features can be included in the next future in SEA, like slider spam option like Pure Message, Dual Anti-SPAM Engines, RBL.

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  • in reply to Red_Warrior

    Thanks Red_Warrior for your advice but I already know the KB and SEA is configured at the top. Still some spam is passing through SEA. Hope other advanced features can be included in the next future in SEA, like slider spam option like Pure Message, Dual Anti-SPAM Engines, RBL.

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  • in reply to lferrara

    Hi,

    I agree, Over the weekend our (Approx 200 users) have generated 1000+ messages into quarantine... but 728 of them are rated as Spam Medium! There are some few false positives so I WILL have to manually filter them. In puremessage I could have adjusted the slider to reduce my spam instantly! Please also allow us to select RBL checks manually - Messages that get quarantined due to senders IP are 80% genuine! 

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