Udgrade from AmavisD with MPP

I’ve been reading several different posts in how to make AmavisD do this or that (mostly how to get rid of the new flood of spam), and while I am not a system administrator, I have to say most of suggestions seemed quite difficult to execute and of questionable efficacy.

While I’ve heard that this complaint often about open source software, it seems to be particularly true of AmavisD. The compliant is, that while it is free, what exactly does free constitute? First, you have to be a system admin with a great deal of time on your hands, as even though you certainly won’t need approval from the CFO to download a free mail server, what do you tell the boss as hour after hour is eaten up by the newest AmavisD patch or fix?

The second complaint, once you start making your own fixes to AmavisD, it essentially becomes one person’s customized system. And what happens when that one person who did all the AmavisD fixes changes jobs. Who’s around to know what specifically was done to that system. This at a time when the pressure on e-mail from both users and — as in viruses and spam and phishing — abusers, continues to grow exponentially.

Inevitably, IT professionals must ask themselves exactly what free means. Because if it’s free upfront, I guarantee you that it will cost, and cost more, in terms of paying for the fixes of highly skilled labor. And as the system gets more and more patched up, it’ll start doing some very quirky things.

The other alternative, of course, is to pay upfront, which might require the clearance of the CFO, but won’t send the labor costs spiraling out of control. And by paying for something like MPP, our email platform, you get both a time-tested system, and someone always ready willing and able to help ASAP.

Also, the great thing about MPP is that it allows you to use both the best of open source and commercial filtering software, as we all now open source does have some great things. Because the whole point of e-mail is its immediacy, and when it goes down and stays down, the system admin will get a visit from the CEO whether they want it or not.

So what do you say, give Message Partners a look/see.