Spam Filter reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 216 Reddit reviews across 13 subreddits and 29 posts to rank the best Spam Filter brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/msp, r/sysadmin, r/exchangeserver, r/networking, r/software. Top-rated brands include Proofpoint (4.3/5), Mimecast (4.4/5), Barracuda (3.6/5).
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Reviews216
Subreddits13
Posts29
Brands76
Products36
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#1
Proofpoint
4.3
(27)
"Honestly ProofPoint is like 80p/user or something daft, makes no sense not to use it, or any of the other great dedicated spam filtering systems out there."
"Proofpoint all the way. Rock solid pretty good detection rate and pretty low false positive rate."
"Proofpoint works great, easy to configure and provides great protection right from the start."
"Proof point and minecast are the industry leaders."
"Definitely look into Proofpoint. They have a lower cost option called Essentials and a higher customizable, extra visibility option called Enterprise."
"We use Proofpoint. It's dramatically reduced our spam."
"We are currently using Proofpoint Essentials and are very happy with it."
"It's crazy how well it works. I've almost forgot what spam looks like."
"+1 for Proofpoint. So far the best I have touched."
"We were impressed with their methodology of catching spam"
#2
Mimecast
4.4
(22)
"Mimecast is pretty hard to beat imo."
"I've been using Mimecast for about 10 years."
"Mimecast - We moved across 9 months ago and have been very happy so far."
"Check out Mimecast. Outstanding product."
"It's worth its weight in gold and effectively blocks all spam."
"Mimecast hands down."
"Mimecast is the best!"
"Mimecast at ours."
"Mimecast is great"
"Mimecast is top notch."
#3
Barracuda
3.6
(26)
"After reconfiguring and updating the Barracuda appliance, the spam delivered to inboxes was reduced by about 99.9%."
"We use, and absolutely love, Barracuda. Their Sentinel anti phishing solution is amazing."
"Barracuda. Had the on-prem gateway for years."
"Barracuda. It's expensive, but it just works and is robust enough."
"Very happy with Barracuda, using them for backup as well."
"We have barracuda cloud pointed to a barracuda spam filter."
"Always had pretty good luck with it."
"Barracuda Essentials Cloud with Sentinel works awesome."
"Barradua offers a cloud version of their spam filter which is much cheaper than Mimecast, Proofpoint, Fireeye, etc."
"We use Baracuda but some smbs use Office 365 with an anti spoofing rule works well."
#4
TitanHQ
4.8
(11)
"Very happy with SpamTitan email security after 5 years."
"We use SpamTitan with O365 and saw an immediate improvement. Pricing and MSP program both great too."
"I moved 3000 seats to SpamTitan recently - excellent so far."
"I use Spamtitan and it has helped me alot in detecting spam mails beforehand."
"SpamTitan is a fantastic, affordable, easy to deploy, well supported option."
"We have been using SpamTitan for many years and so far nothing has been able to beat the product."
"Ease of management and end user interface beats everything."
"We use SpamTitan. Very happy with the product plus the MSP program is very good."
"SpamTitan is a spam filter built specifically for SMB's from the ground up."
"I've heard good feedback for titanHQ solution."
#5
Microsoft
4.0
(12)
"Makes the migration to O365 later easier too."
"Yup Sms Organizer by Microsoft."
"Use Sms Organizer app."
"365 with heavy settings is effective and offers good security."
"Move to 365 and setup Avanan."
"I would definitely pick Microsoft SPAM filtering under the E5 license over Barracuda no-a-days."
"Exchange Online Protection has served us as well as Proofpoint."
"The difference is negligible compared to Barracuda, and we have received zero requests for missing messages."
"The report message add-on for Outlook effectively trains Exchange Online and enhances junk reporting."
"I also like Office 365's Exchange Online Protection / Advanced Threat Protection offerings"
#6
Fortinet
4.4
(7)
"I've had good experience with FortiMail."
"Fortimail is the best."
"We recently starting using Fortimail. I have to say it's easy to deploy and works excellent."
"Fortinets FortiMail for sure. Love using it."
"Defender does a pretty good job within M365."
"Fortinet FortiMail. Vm or appliance."
"Fortimail is capable but complicated to administer. Users struggle with the quarantine handling."
#7
SpamHero
4.0
(6)
"Spamhero."
"SpamHero works really well for the price, about 10 dollars a month for everything."
"Spam hero here. Great for smaller clients and you can make a really good margin on it."
"We use SpamHero. It is per domain pricing, and works well."
"We've been using SpamHero for a few domains and have been happy with the service. Support is good as well. It's surprisingly inexpensive."
"Spamhero.com is a great value since pricing is per domain not per user."
#8
Avanan
4.8
(5)
"Avanan is the best product on the market in conjunction with 365 filtering."
"We’ve been using Avanan and so far it seems like it’s the best one yet."
"We started trialing avanan/harmony email security. We put it in monitoring mode Infront of o365 and it is super impressive."
"We've been impressed so far. Easy to set up new clients and simple to administer."
"Avanan is pretty good. API driven."
#9
SpamTitan
4.4
(5)
"AI-driven features enhance spam filtering."
"Easy set up, entry and no mins. Techies favourite solution."
"Spamtitan."
"I think I did spamtitan as a vm on premise."
"Spamtitan is a good in Prem solution."
#10
Securence
4.5
(4)
"Cost-effective solution for mailbox security."
"Securence, not only is it easy to use but has one of the best customer support teams."
"Good experience with Securence."
"We've had good service from Securence."
#11
AppRiver
4.3
(4)
"I've had good experience with AppRiver."
"Solid filtering and support."
"AppRiver."
"I think the EOP is clunky compared to AppRiver, for example."
#12
Hornetsecurity
3.8
(4)
"Look into hornetsecurity. Its a good email security solution."
"Hornetsecurity works pretty well, especially if you add the ATP for email."
"Hornetsecurity I use obviously but use it for my business as well."
"Hornetsecurity."
#13
Rspamd
4.3
(3)
"Rspamd is the one."
"I use `rspamd`."
"Rspamd."
#14
CodeTwo
4.3
(3)
"It works extremely well and we have no complaints."
"I've never noticed any delays in delivery related to the software itself."
"CodeTwo works pretty darn well."
#15
Proxmox
4.3
(3)
"Proxmox Mail Gateway... works like an absolute champ!"
"Proxmox mail gateway, with a support package could be an option?"
"You might take a look at ProxMox. It an opensource mail appliance which you can run in a virtual environment."
#16
Microsoft Defender
4.0
(3)
"Use defender for 365. We default to plan 1 with all clients."
"I would recommend purchasing Microsoft Defender Plan 1. It focuses on email security and goes for about $2 per user."
"You need to upgrade to e5 licenses and configure ATP policies, they work pretty well."
#17
Reflexion
3.7
(3)
"We've had pretty good luck with Reflexion"
"We are moving our clients from MXLogic to Reflexion, much better value."
"Also use Reflexion. Easy to use and effective, but can also be fairly feature-limited."
#18
Spambrella
5.0
(2)
"Nice free tools and user Outlook add-ins which makes everything real seamless and easy to use."
"Support has been great, and our account manager is quick to help with any account issues and/or demos."
#19
Mesh Security
5.0
(2)
"Check out [Mesh Security](https://www.meshsecurity.io/)"
"Mesh Security"
#20
Cisco
4.5
(2)
"We use a virtual Cisco ESA (formerly IronPort) and it works very well"
"Look into Cisco IronPort for Spam filtration"
#21
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
4.0
(2)
"Business Premium also does atp if you are under 300 users."
"Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses contains Defender for Office 365 (antispam and anti phishing) and are cheaper than E5"
#22
Vade
4.0
(2)
"We are currently looking at Vade for our o365 clients"
"Vade, test it out. Flat pricing, easy administration and it works."
#23
GFI
4.0
(2)
"GFI is good stuff."
"We use gfi maxmail for edge filtering and custom anti spam rules for exchange 2013"
#24
Nospamproxy
3.5
(2)
"Nospamproxy. works like a charme."
"NoSpamProxy."
#25
Spam Titan
3.0
(2)
"Spam Titan works out to be cheapest and gets the job done."
"Pricing couldn't compete with Spam Experts."
#26
ASSP
3.0
(2)
"Assp."
"ASSP."
#27
Microsoft 365 ATP
5.0
(1)
"Been having a lot of success with 365 ATP P1 and P2."
#28
Arctitan
5.0
(1)
"We are currently using Arctitan for email archiving, highly recommended."
#29
Vamsoft
5.0
(1)
"Vamsoft ORF is great for on premise and is inexpensive."
#30
modusCloud
5.0
(1)
"Check out modusCloud, both the product and support perform very well."
#31
Honeypot
5.0
(1)
"Short answer, Honeypot is one of the best solutions!"
#32
ESET
5.0
(1)
"We use the cloud version and are very happy with it!"
#33
Symantec
5.0
(1)
"Symantec EmailSecurity.Cloud aka Messagelabs is excellent (its been bought by broadcom but I've not had any problems from change of ownership.) Worth adding to a shortlist."
#34
SMX
5.0
(1)
"Brilliant service with a trial for only a dollar per user, easy setup."
#35
MXguarddog
5.0
(1)
"I use them for all my 365 accounts."
#36
Perception Point
5.0
(1)
"Perception Point is working really well for us, getting a lot of scam invoices and other junk."
#37
MailMarshal
5.0
(1)
"MailMarshal hands down the best but run it on a separate server to Exchange."
#38
ORCA
4.0
(1)
"Run the ORCA tool (google it) and follow the recommendations to tighten threat policy settings."
#39
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1)
4.0
(1)
"Upgrade to Business Premium or Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1), then enable preset security policies."
#40
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 A5
4.0
(1)
"We use Avanan currently, but since we upgraded to A5 licence with MS we are considering just using Defender."
#41
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
4.0
(1)
"Normal out of the box EOP isn't enough. You can have a look at MS ATP instead"
#42
Microsoft 365
4.0
(1)
"Easy setup, no minimums, makes it simple to migrate to O365 in the future."
#43
Ava
4.0
(1)
"Few third party spam filter options for Office 365: Ava"
#44
Inky
4.0
(1)
"We decided on using Inky anti phishing solution on top of M365."
#45
Ironscales
4.0
(1)
"MFA, mandatory end user training, Ironscales and Proofpoint."
#46
Exchange Defender
4.0
(1)
"Exchange Defender has been a good option for us."
#47
EFA Projects
4.0
(1)
"I use efa projects for my webhosting clients. It's free, open source and does it's work pretty nicely."
#48
Mail Assure
4.0
(1)
"Not on prem but Mail Assure is a solid security solution we use for our self hosted clients."
#49
Darktrace
4.0
(1)
"Last month I switched to a product called Antigena Email from Darktrace and so far it's been very impressive."
#50
Vultr
4.0
(1)
"We host Spam Titan at Vultr for about $30 a month."
#51
SonicWall
4.0
(1)
"Easy to use, good results. Comes on prem or hosted."
#52
SpamExperts
4.0
(1)
"Spamexperts can be run on own hardware, but they also monitor the servers and patch them."
#53
Checkpoint
4.0
(1)
"Checkpoint has been working very well for us and is as easy as logging into your admin account and giving the API access."
#54
Trustwave
4.0
(1)
"Trustwave SEG has been good to us"
#55
Appriver (formerly CanIt Roaring Penguin) and Fortinet
4.0
(1)
"I've had good experiences with appriverr (formely canit roaring penguin) and fortimail"
#56
MailProtector and Proofpoint
4.0
(1)
"We've recently made the switch from Reflexion to Mail Protector and Proof Point."
#57
MailProtector and Barracuda
4.0
(1)
"Small customers? Email only? I’m not sure their presence in the EU but look into MailProtector. Barracuda is my go to."
#58
SpamStopsHere
4.0
(1)
"Spamstopshere has been solid for years for us."
#59
SpamSoap
4.0
(1)
"Http://www.spamsoap.com/ used this at my last MSP. Really good, reliable and easy to use."
#60
Sophos UTM
4.0
(1)
"We use Sophos UTM firewalls and their Email Protection feature for all our email AV, SPAM etc. scanning."
#61
Gmail
4.0
(1)
"Gmail is pretty good. You might just have to tweak it."
#62
Baruwa
4.0
(1)
"Ran a Baruwa cluster for years back before Exchange 365 was really a thing."
#63
SwiftFilter
4.0
(1)
"Take a look at the Transport Rules listed by SwiftFilter for some additional help."
#64
SpamAssassin
4.0
(1)
"Install it with Redis, use the Bayes filter, and then spend a couple of hours running sa-learn --spam / --ham on your existing spam until you get good results."
#65
Abnormal Security
4.0
(1)
"Something like Abnormal Security, Darktrace Antigena or Avanan use an API integration."
#66
Barracuda Sentinel
4.0
(1)
"Barracuda Sentinel blocks these exact types."
#67
Trend Micro
4.0
(1)
"Trend HES, even handles dkim when used outbound too."
#68
E.F.A
4.0
(1)
"Check out E.F.A - it is free open source spam filtering VM."
#69
Spam Reader
3.0
(1)
"I have found this program - spam-reader.com and am trying out the free version."
#70
Abnormal
3.0
(1)
"Abnormal, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco CES/ESA, Barracuda all have mentions in the forum."
#71
Bitdefender
3.0
(1)
"Have been using Bitdefender GravityZone. It's not without its flaws but the email protection is good."
#72
Heimdal Security
3.0
(1)
"I can look into what it would cost you getting that functionality from Heimdal Security."
#73
IronPort
3.0
(1)
"Ironport."
#74
Mail Marshal
3.0
(1)
"Try mail Marshal used it a while ago , gui was a bit old looking but worked well and can create rules on what ever you desire."
#75
Spam Experts
3.0
(1)
"Spam protection doesn't have as many options. It's meant to be set it and forget it but we get more false positives and more spam getting through than Spam Titan."
#76
Sublime
2.0
(1)
"Sublime lacks a daily digest and is API based, which may not suit all users."
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