Google Plans To Kill Its Popular Postini Spam Filtering Service

[ronjor]

Julie Bort

Google will soon be turning off its popular spam filtering and e-mail archiving product, Postini. It will shift Postini users to Google Apps.

At last count, Google had over 26 million Postini users, many of them at enterprises. They use this cloud service to filter e-mail for viruses and spam. Postini currently works with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, so Gmail isn't required.

Starting this fall, Google will be telling customers that they have to switch.

http://www.businessinsider.com/googl...service-2012-8

[TheWindBringeth]

Curse that title from Business Insider. It got my hopes up and then they were dashed

[HAN]

Google Apps where I work.

Postini and the Apps filtering are NOT exactly on par. The biggest issue is that Apps does NOT allow domain level white list filters beyond domain names. Postini did. With Postini, you could build fairly convoluted white list filters. Now you must build them for each user... one by one by one!

I like Apps in general but the PR on this is a partial fib. If they fix the white list feature, then I would be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. As it stands now, we miss Postini every day...

[TheWindBringeth]

Han, can I ask you a question? What is the MX for Google Apps hosted email service? With Postini, at least in all the cases I checked, it was whatever.psmtp.com and thus easy to recognize. Is it as distinguishable for Google Apps scenarios?

[Trooper]

Kind of stinks as we use Postini at my job. Looks like its time for a new spam filter.

[HAN]

Originally Posted by TheWindBringeth

Han, can I ask you a question? What is the MX for Google Apps hosted email service? With Postini, at least in all the cases I checked, it was whatever.psmtp.com and thus easy to recognize. Is it as distinguishable for Google Apps scenarios?

There are 5 records. Here is a link to the set up.
https://support.google.com/a/bin/ans...n&answer=33915
Ours matches it exactly.

[TheWindBringeth]

Thanks!