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Sophos XG (XGS) to replace Symantec Email Gateway (Brightmail) any thoughts?

Hi,

We've a number of XG86s and a pair of UTM 330s, so we are quite familiar with Sophos kit.

We have an old and wheezing Symantec Email Gateway which sits between our on-premise exchange (we are midway through a hybrid o365 migration) and Mimecast, basically acting as a MTA or email relay.

I'd like to get rid of the Symantec Email Gateway and it looks like an XG or XGS will do the trick. I don't want to add this to our UTMs (which are doing a good job) or the existing XGs (as each performs unique tasks).

It operates like this:

Email received from address A (Mimecast inbound) for our domain is processed and then forwarded to address B (internal exchange)

Email received from address B (internal exchange) from our domain is processed and then forwarded to address C (Mimecast Outbound)

I've seen that there is an email feature in the XG86, but as it requires a license, I've not played with it.

I've a feeling that the XG86 (or XGS87) only operates as a transparent email filter and that I'd need a bigger box to use a MTA email relay feature.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks,

Steve



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  • Hello Steve,

    Thank you for contacting the Sophos Community.

    You’re correct the XG86/XGs87 does not support MTA.

    I would recommend you to reach out to your Account Manager (if you don't have their email let me know by PM your Account Name, so I can provide this info to you) so they can put you in touch with your Sales Engineer, so you can go over the features that the XG offers on MTA mode, see how it would work with your implementation, and then upgrade to an XG 106 at least so you can get MTA. 

    Regards,

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  • Hello Steve,

    Thank you for contacting the Sophos Community.

    You’re correct the XG86/XGs87 does not support MTA.

    I would recommend you to reach out to your Account Manager (if you don't have their email let me know by PM your Account Name, so I can provide this info to you) so they can put you in touch with your Sales Engineer, so you can go over the features that the XG offers on MTA mode, see how it would work with your implementation, and then upgrade to an XG 106 at least so you can get MTA. 

    Regards,

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