Clearswift Ironport Barracuda Mcafee Symantec
Anti-Virus Kaspersky Sophos, Mcafee Clam own own
Outbreak filters Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spam Reputation filtering Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Multi-Level Spam Checks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
End user spam release Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Define Polices using AD/LDAP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Built in dictionaries Yes No Yes Yes No
Detection of text/patterns in Office, PDF etc Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Detection of files by true file type Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Management interface in multiple languages Yes No Yes No No
Support for soft appliances Yes No No No Yes
Clustering for resilience Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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