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Pure Message VS ES4000?? Are they the same?

JaffNSX

Hi,

Basically we have the ES4000 appliance but we also have Sophos Enterprise console.

Pure Message is also available on our subscription which we have never installed but we are seeing a hug increase in spam emails getting through the ES4000.

I was wondering if Pure message is the same software running on the ES4000 Appliance?

Or does it work in a different way?

What I am trying to establish is.. Is it worth also installing Pure Message as well as having the ES4000 at the Gateway?

If they both work in the exact same way in theory any spam will be caught at the gateway and pure message will be doing nothing which makes it pointless installing it creating another process when email enters the building.

If it works different and there is a chance it will catch additional spam that the ES4000 unit has not caught then it would be worthwhile installing.

Then my final question is the ES4000 hardly ever picks up false positives hence why it is letting through spam how accurate is pure message? Does it pick up many false positives?

Thanks.

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    Jaff Have you talked to Sophos Support on this? I would like to know the outcome.

    We have ES100 ( I know it’’’’s old) and pursemessage on our Exchange 2010 box. In the past we had Email appliance was configured to detect anti-spam, anti-virus, content filtering etc. same way Purmessage was configured for anti-spam, anti-virus, content filtering. Few months ago we had done a Haalthcheck with Sophos tech and they suggested to turn of everything in Purmessage except Anti-virus.

     Since then what I am noticing is that 1-2 spams are passing thru email appliance and going to users inbox. However the flip side is that before the configuration change end users would get 1 daily digest from email appliance and instate of 1-2 spams they would get 1-2 notification from Puremessage (which most users consider spam any way). In the past whenever a message was quarantine our helpdesk had to check both ( appliance and purmessage) now they have to check only one.

     My big things is , if I can run less services in exchange box the better it is.

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    Jaff Have you talked to Sophos Support on this? I would like to know the outcome.

    We have ES100 ( I know it’’’’s old) and pursemessage on our Exchange 2010 box. In the past we had Email appliance was configured to detect anti-spam, anti-virus, content filtering etc. same way Purmessage was configured for anti-spam, anti-virus, content filtering. Few months ago we had done a Haalthcheck with Sophos tech and they suggested to turn of everything in Purmessage except Anti-virus.

     Since then what I am noticing is that 1-2 spams are passing thru email appliance and going to users inbox. However the flip side is that before the configuration change end users would get 1 daily digest from email appliance and instate of 1-2 spams they would get 1-2 notification from Puremessage (which most users consider spam any way). In the past whenever a message was quarantine our helpdesk had to check both ( appliance and purmessage) now they have to check only one.

     My big things is , if I can run less services in exchange box the better it is.

    :25019
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