Anti-Spam Directory
ISP-Planet’s anti-spam directory offers you a quick overview of the promising but challenging variety of spam solutions on the market.
Anti-spam products offered to ISPs are no longer mere ports of enterprise systems; most companies now build specific products for the ISP market. There are many options available, and each ISP should be able to find a suitable product.
| Product and Company | Founded | Service |
| Most Recent Article | ||
| PureMessage by ActiveState |
July 1997 in Vancouver BC Canada | Perl-based open source server-side software. Designed to be customizable. |
| [November 8, 2002” | Pearl of an Anti-Spam Program | |
| Brightmail | 1998 in San Francisco CA | Software takes advantage of a global network of spam-collecting dummy mailboxes to “fingerprint” spam. Designed for big ISPs. |
| [October 11, 2002” | Brightmail 4.0 Cracks Down on Spam | |
| OrangeBox by Cobion | 1997 in Kassel, Germany | Filtering and anti-spam software, available in enterprise (server-side) and home (client-side) versions, is supported by a data center that crawls 120 million websites every month. |
| [March 27, 2003” | Ready to go Right Out of the OrangeBox | |
| SpamSquelcher by ePrivacy Group | 1999 in Philadelphia PA | Appliance uses heuristics to prioritize email over spam without actually stopping spam. Complements other anti-spam methods. Starts at $19,000, with actual price depending on network size. |
| [February 20, 2003” | Slower Spam Would Annoy Spammers | |
| Habeas, Inc. | 2002 in Palo Alto CA |
Fighting spam with copyrighted haiku and the DMCA. |
| [September 12, 2002” | Poetry vs. Spam in Amsterdam | |
| IMail by Ipswitch |
1991 in Lexington MA | NT-based mail server. Priced at $1,495 for unlimited users plus an annual service agreement of about $445. |
| [April 11, 2000” | IMail’s Security, Anti-Relay, and Anti-Spam Features | |
| IronPort Systems | November 2001 in San Bruno CA | Appliance-based. Relies on a “bonded server” concept. |
| [October 4, 2002” | Making Spammers Pay | |
| SkyScan AS by MessageLabs | December 1999 in Gloucester UK | Uses heuristics. MessageLabs runs its own servers through which customers’ mail passes. Priced per user per month starting at about $3.24 for 100 mailboxes and decreasing for higher volumes. |
| [July 31, 2002” | Keeping Up With Ratware | |
| Message Server by Mirapoint | 1997 in Sunnyvale CA | High-end mail appliance vendor. Multi-featured server starts at $39,000. |
| [April 12, 2002” | Mirapoint’s Multiprocessing Messengers | |
| Net-Sieve | October 2001 in Austin TX | Appliance-based product starts at a $19,995 flat fee for 250 users. |
| [January 2, 2003” | An Anti-Spam Startup’s First Box | |
| Postini | 1999 in Redwood City CA | This scalable service has a wide variety of pricing options, so ask Postini for detailed pricing information for your ISP. |
| [November 20, 2000” | Hope on the E-mail Front | |
| MailSite by Rockliffe | 1995 in Campbell CA | A Windows-based mail server. Service provider and carrier-class versions of the software are available. |
| [January 10, 2002” | Charging Fees For What Once Was Free | |
| MailCenter by Sendmail | November 1997 in Emeryville CA | Eric Allman has been developing message transfer agents (MTAs) since 1981. His company is moving into total mail management. A 100,000 user ISP might pay about $3 per user for the current product. |
| [December 18, 2002” | Mailcenter’s Modular Mail Management | |
| CommuniGate Pro by Stalker Software | 1993 in Mill Valley CA | High-end mail server available on 25 different operating systems. |
| [May 8, 2000” | Heterogeneous Multi-Server Clusters | |
| Vanquish | 2002 in Marlborough MA | Client-based software sold to end users directly and through ISP partners. Relies on a “bonded sender” concept and complements other anti-spam measures. |
| [September 6, 2002” | Anti-Spam Startup Seeks ISP Partners | |
| ModusMail by Vircom |
1994 in Montrial Quebec Canada | Priced starting at $6,495 for 1,000 mailboxes on one server, the product uses on a coalition of ISPs to update spam definitions. |
| [January 17, 2003” | Software Equipped with Human Brains | |
Reprinted from ISP-Planet.
