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With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager.

The Mirapoint RazorGate 160 (v3.8.4-GA) did reasonably well in anti-spam performance, placing fourth in filtering accuracy and seventh in false positives. That's well within useful performance, though admins should count on spending some time building whitelists if they have users who get a lot of bulk e-mail. Compliance and content filtering features were broad and easy to use, with scanning inside archives and the capability to hold encrypted e-mails for inspection if desired.

E-mail security continues to be a hot-button issue for IT administrators, who now find more moving parts in mail security solutions than they did just a couple of short years ago. Fighting viruses and spam were the original spurs for creating e-mail security appliances, and anti-spam is still the most important component of mail security. But the solutions have evolved to meet a host of additional requirements. These include securing connections between users, both internal and external; preventing loss of corporate data; stopping new types of threats such as phishing, spyware, and other types of malware; and blocking DoS and other network attacks as well as some application-layer attacks on mail servers.

Messaging vendor Mirapoint on Monday announced a deal with Nokia that includes the cell phone giant releasing a version of its Intellisync Mobile Suite to work with Mirapoint's messaging security appliances.

Google Friday is adding a domain registration service to its collection of online communications tools that include e-mail, instant messaging and calendaring.

Proofpoint this week plans to announce a version of its e-mail security product for VMware virtual machine environments.

A pair of Silicon Valley-based open-source collaboration vendors has released new versions of their software at LinuxWorld, renewing their challenge to the dominance of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes by offering what they claim are cheaper, more flexible alternatives.

Tumbleweed announced the latest addition to its line of e-mail security appliances, the high-end MailGate Appliance 6500 designed for companies with 10,000 employees or more.

Symantec this week plans to announce an integrated e-mail gateway product that represents the beginning of the company's multiyear strategy for competing in the enterprise messaging security market.

Sophos, which has long offered its anti-virus and anti-spam software for resale with a number of e-mail security appliance makers' wares, is now getting into the business itself.