Comments on: E-mail Upgrades

By: IronPort & the Future of the Email Platform | Community Site News

IronPort & the Future of the Email Platform | Community Site News — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:05:15 +0000

[...] of you who manage to catch the teaser posted by our Network Director Phil Webb a couple of days ago, will already be aware that [...]

By: Bob Pullen

Bob Pullen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:43:36 +0000

AFAIK it will be SSL over port 465 Andrew.

Authenticated SMTP will be offered on subscription accounts as it is now but you might need to use the actual mailbox login details as opposed to your default username and password (which may or may not be the same).

I suspect DKIM would work with hosted domains as they all reside in the same mail database although I'd have to double check that.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:42:36 +0000

When you say "Secure SMTP delivery" do you mean authenticated SSL connections?

Also:
will you be implementing Authenticated SMTP?
will DKIM work with hosted customer domain names?

By: End of Day: 30th October | Community Site News

End of Day: 30th October | Community Site News — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:49:14 +0000

[...] for the email upgrade is continuing towards achieving beta testing completion allowing us to move into gamma testing [...]

By: Bob Pullen

Bob Pullen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:20:47 +0000

Andy, watch this space for the finer details, they'll be posted before the end of the week.

By: techguy

techguy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:43:29 +0000

Giving some very serious thought to bringing my mail under PN in addition to connectivity, particularly as you are now deploying ironports.

By: Andy Rogers

Andy Rogers — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:04 +0000

Really this means then the SPAM filtering won't be outsourced anymore to America via Postini, and in effect it will be kept within the PlusNet network.

Great news if it is this then, this will keep some of the small minority happy who were removed from the SPAM filtering due to the outsourcing concern.

Bob, have you posted a detailed post anywhere on the community site with more details of this, and wheather this will be trialled first with some customers (Hint Hint).

Thanks

Andy

By: Bob Pullen

Bob Pullen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:53:10 +0000

4 x X1060's and 2 x M-Series.

http://www.ironport.com/pdf/ironport_x1060_datasheet.pdf
http://www.ironport.com/pdf/ironport_m-series_datasheet.pdf

That's for inbound spam filtering. We've another 4 x X1060's that we're hoping to replace the outbound mail platform with too over the coming months.

We've also got two boxes for our staging environment (I think they're C360's).

We've got some spare X1060's for expansion too.

By: techguy

techguy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:23:24 +0000

Hi Bob

Just out of interest really, what model IronPorts will you be deploying?

By: Bob Pullen

Bob Pullen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:20:04 +0000

It will be a replacement Andy, but the two will run alongside each other whilst customers are migrated across. The spam controls you have access to in the Manage My Mail tool will remain as they are.