Postini Google Message Security Rocks!

I’ve spent so many hours trying to optimize different mail servers over the years to rid myself and my employees of spam. I always hoped for a holy grail to provide a very effective filter against spam, but nothing ever really worked. This morning I switched our spam and virus filtering over to Postini/Google Message Security, and I can already see the amazing results. All types of spams are not getting through anymore. Everything from the image spams to the multitude of solicitations that annoyed and disrupted my workday. I went with Postini because I had seen the effectiveness of its spam filtering technology with my Gmail account. Whereas my Yahoo account was bombarded with spam, my Gmail account was relatively spam-free. The pricing was right at $12 a user, and Google Message Security will also work as a backup mail server in case our in-house server goes down. The final reason I went with Postini is that Google and its services should be around for awhile, so I’m confident that once I had set up our domain and users, I won’t have to switch sometime soon. If you have access to your DNS records, switching over to Postini is very easy, and the gains to office productivity will be well worth the cost of $12 per user a year. I saw that originally, when Google Message Security came out, the cost was only $3 a year, but $12 a year is still very affordable.