[ale] New system...

[Warren Myers]

When did you deal with Barracuda? I worked with them at my last
employer, and they offer per-user quarantining, and individual spam
settings. Never seen them do what you described.

What edition of the Barracuda unit did you use?

WMM

2008/7/2 Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com>:
> 2008/7/2  <bugy at bellsouth.net>:
>> I just got Barracuda Firewall 200 brand new for free :) The sysadmin at my
>> workplace just throw it away. He is not familiar with any that says Linux on
>> it. This is mail filter, spam blocker  .... whatever :) Inside is regular
>> motherboard with 40GB disk on PATA 66/100, Athlon 1200 don't know how much
>> RAM, but has one free RAM slot +. Just regular PC with Linux. Mounts in 19"
>> rack. One ethernet port. Big minus,  just realize ... lot of noise. If you
>> wаnt it ... get it. Probably you should hookup CD to reinstall new Linux
>> system :) It is brand new !!! I guess never worked.
>
> Barracudas suck.   They bounce emails, instead of rejecting, which
> cause tons of backwash to mail servers that never sent the original
> email.   For instance, if I sent spam To: admin at yourdomain.tld as
> From: bugy at bellsouth.net, the barracuda would bounce the spam back to
> bellsouth instead of initially rejecting my attempts to send the spam.
>  Folks who run barracudas are highly despised by serious anti-spam
> folks.
>
> -Jim P.
>
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