TitanHQ SpamTitan Reviews

Our clients typically use Office 365 and Google as email providers, and we implement the solution to provide an additional layer of security for incoming emails. It helps with SPF, DMARC, and all the DNS tracers.

One of the main aspects of our business is security; firewalls, web application controls, anti-spams, and so on. We use TitanHQ SpamTitan for some clients in Peru.

As a service provider, we used and tested many brands including Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail. We like to stick with SpamTitan for anti-spam, because it gives us the least problems and less false positives compared to other solutions. 

Spoofing prevention is critical. Using the solution as an outgoing filter prevents spoofing, a major issue right now as everyone is getting spoofing emails. The filter for incoming emails works well, perhaps even too well. SpamTitan works with a scoring system; sometimes, we need to adjust the score threshold to allow safe emails through manually. The filter can be a little too much, though it's better to be safe than sorry.

The way we can customize filters is excellent. Other solutions tend to be restrictive with their specific profiles, but with SpamTitan, we can create them from scratch.

The solution is straightforward to deploy and very quick to set it up. We can get it to work in five to ten minutes, which is excellent for demonstrating the product to potential clients. Another main factor is the price. I believe it's usually less expensive than all the other solutions.

There was an event two or three months ago where one of our clients had a problem where their domain was spoofed. We solved it by running the outgoing emails through SpamTitan and using the DMARC register. They stopped receiving spoofing emails, which is how we usually solve these problems. 

The solution doesn't just save us time, but money as well. We had a case with one client where their accounting department received spoofed emails requesting all kinds of payments. When we implemented the DMARC configuration for outgoing emails, they were protected. Regarding saving time going through spam emails, I would say an average amount of time is saved because anti-spam isn't the main focus of the solution. Our clients already use Office 365 and Google, which include spam filters for incoming emails. Our primary use for SpamTitan is security, the filter for incoming emails regarding buyers. Anti-spam is a bonus, but we care about security the most, and in terms of security, I would say SpamTitan performs above average. Since implementing the solution, we have received less complaints of false positives from our clients.

I believe the product is configured for the US or European market, not the Latin American market, and the scoring system is a little too strict for our market. Most companies in Latin America don't even have proper domain configuration, which can cause their emails to be filtered as spam. They might not have DMARC or SDF configuration, so we often have to change the scoring threshold to let legitimate emails through. It's not SpamTitan's fault, but the optimization isn't the greatest considering our market.  

We have been implementing this solution for our clients for four years. 

The stability of the solution is excellent; we only had one critical event in the past four years. SpamTitan uses two AVs, and we had an issue with one of them called BitDefender, which gave us false positives for about a week. 

For email solutions, stability is vital. If emails don't get through, it's a significant problem. SpamTitan is excellent in this department, as it prevents those problems, and so are the other cloud providers in the anti-spam segment. 

The scalability of the solution could be improved. We can go with a shared node or our own node, which offers a lot more scope for configuration. It would be great to switch between the two without downtime, which isn't possible now. I understand why this could be difficult to deliver, but it would still be an excellent feature to see.

I dealt with support through tickets and over the phone. They pick up the phone, which is great. Other providers get back to me within 24 hours, but SpamTitan is usually quicker if it's within working hours. There may be a few hours a day where they don't offer phone or email support, but that's very late at night and early in the morning. When I speak with their technical support, I get the impression they know what they are talking about, which isn't always the case with other providers.

Positive

We used many solutions of this kind, including Fortinet FortiMail and Proofpoint Email Protection. If the client wants an on-premises solution, we implement FortiMail, but that is more of a licensing issue. With an on-premises set-up, the pricing is based on the volume of emails per hour, whereas with cloud-based solutions, the price is based on the number of users or mailboxes. For all cloud-based solutions, we use SpamTitan.

The deployment is straightforward; we change our MX records and do the backend configuration. This is very helpful when we need to demo the product to clients, as we can set it up within 15 minutes. The setup only requires one person, me and maybe another engineer, but one is enough. 

All anti-spam solutions require some tweaking post-deployment. In our case, we often carry out a deployment and track it for the first week because every client has different providers and use cases. For huge clients, that tracking time can increase to a month. 

The solution gave us an ROI. The spam filters save us a lot of time, and the antivirus is excellent. We carried out a test in which SpamTitan detected a virus that other solutions didn't, and the DMARC configuration is great for preventing spoofing. This product saves us both time and money.

Cloud-based solutions charge per mailbox, which isn't ideal sometimes. A company could have 300 total mailboxes and only 50 in regular use, but they would have to pay the same for all of them. I want a cloud-based solution that gives a price based on the volume of email traffic.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use SpamTitan in the cloud. I believe they have different deployment options, but we only use the cloud solution.

I would love a cloud-based solution that offers the option of volume-based pricing rather than user-based. There are companies and especially government institutions that have 1000 mailboxes but only use 50 or 100 of those on a daily basis. In this scenario, a cloud-based anti-spam solution is very costly.

We don't use the solution's geo-blocking feature at the moment, as we don't require it. 

SpamTitan is used for spam protection, nothing else. That's what it does, and it does it well. SpamTitan Plus is nice because we can offer it to our clients. We use SpamTitan internally, but also resell it. SpamTitan Plus has additional security features like filtering out spoofing links. 

We mostly use SpamTitan with Microsoft 365, and it covers about 500 users. Almost all our customers are Microsoft 365 or G suite. 

SpamTitan reduces the overall amount of spam we have to deal with, which saves all our users some time because they don't need to sit there and sift through all of that.

I can't say that SpamTitan has helped us obtain any new clients. It's more like the other way around. We help TitanHQ get new clients because we're paying them for their product. I would say it's had zero effect on our client base.

It provides a value add to our clients because it's another security service that we can offer them in our security suite, which includes antivirus, spam protection, password, and things of that nature. We also now offer ArcTitan, their email archiving solution. It's a full range of security products we offer, and SpamTitan is one of those products.

SpamTitan addresses spoofing, phishing, and any other email-based threat. It adds great value. I like the fact that SpamTitan Plus has the ability to filter every link. There's no way to stop that entirely because viruses and malware are constantly evolving, so it's not foolproof. It gets around 90 percent of the malicious traffic that comes through. 

I like the fact that SpamTitan filters out phishing and spoofing links. They call it AI-driven threat protection. Though I'm a highly educated, advanced computer user, I still like not having to pay attention to where the link is going. I can trust that SpamTitan will filter it out nine times out of 10. 

It's a huge value add for clients who aren't tech savvy because they often click on links in their emails they think are legit, installing some type of malware or virus on their PCs by doing so. Anti-phishing is a new feature, but the standard spam protection, filtering, and antivirus are good too. It has two antivirus filters: Clam and Bitdefender. I think it's great to keep the viruses out of email boxes.

We use geoblocking internally and for our clients. I believe SpamTitan does that by default, so I don't know if there's a specific setting for that, and I don't spend much time in the control panel. I know that you can manually block a domain. It's handy to block spam from a domain that you now isn't legitimate. That's a nice feature.

SpamTitan uses artificial intelligence to train itself and assigns each piece of mail a rating from zero to whatever. The higher the rating, the more likely it is to be spam. If the score is below 10, it's usually not spam. It does a pretty good job of determining whether it's going to be garbage.

The admin management portal needs a facelift. I've asked them for a way to authenticate admins of the organizations that want to admin the SpamTitan product itself. Adding additional management security would be a great feature. 

There are a few tiny improvements they could also make. For instance, the GUI itself is a little outdated, and it could be more user friendly. The same goes for ArcTitan. It's got a horrible GUI that's worse than SpamTitan. It also could use that authentication mechanism upgrade as well. I would also suggest combining the two products into one control panel. 

The spam filters could always improve. The standard spam protection is probably the least perfect feature. It does a great job with viruses and phishing. The spam filter isn't bad. It's just that spam filtering is its primary purpose, but it's the thing SpamTitan does the least well. That's not a complaint though. It's just a fact of life. You get billions and billions of emails. It's impossible to get a system that perfectly filters out all the trash. 

We've been using SpamTitan for about three years, if not more.  We just upgraded to SpamTitan Plus about a month ago.

SpamTitan is relatively stable. We've never had an outage. We've had configuration problems, but that's on our end.

It hasn't had any issues with scalability so far. It seems to handle the resources properly. However, I believe it comes down to the amount of AWS resources you throw at it. I don't think there are any issues with the application itself.

Sometimes, it's hard to get ahold of somebody in support, but they seem to know what they're doing when you get in touch with them. They definitely know their stuff, and the engineers are great to work with. It doesn't seem to be a problem if you schedule it. However, it would be hard to reach a support engineer if I jumped on the phone right now.

I'd give them an eight out of 10. I deduct two points because it's sometimes hard to contact the engineers. Otherwise, they have done a great job and they always answer our questions instantly. It's hard to compare their support to others because I've never used another spam solution, and I don't think it's fair to compare it to other tech companies

Positive

Before we adopted SpamTitan, we were using Office 365's built-in spam protection. Microsoft does a basic job of finding spam, but it's not a specialized solution like TitanHQ. 

I played a managerial role in the deployment, but I didn't handle the details. I believe it was pretty straightforward. The most difficult part was configuring the Office 365 portion inside the Exchange control panel. The rest was smooth sailing.

One engineer is enough, and it takes about 30 minutes per client when we deploy it for our customers. If the initial setup is done, we only need to add the domain, configure the domain spam setting, and set it up on the client's mail server somewhere, such as Office 365.

SpamTitan is more of an ancillary service that we bundle in our security package. It isn't something we're getting rich off of. We pretty much break even, with a slight uptick in revenue.

We get MSP pricing, which is better than retail. The spam solutions are generally priced the same across the board, but SpamTitan is a little less expensive than some of the premium spam services. 

At the same time, I'm not quite sure you get a whole lot more from a premium spam service versus SpamTitan. That's why we went with it. We didn't see the value in spending more money. Who's to say that the other competitors had better artificial intelligence for their spam protection? That's really the only difference between one anti-spam provider and another.

We analyzed four or five different vendors, and SpamTitan had the best features and capabilities. 

I'd give SpamTitan a solid eight out of 10. It's an excellent product at a reasonable price. If you need spam protection, I think it's a good value. It's pretty easy to use, but there are a few things I'd like to see, like a new GUI on the control panel and an updated authentication system. Aside from that, SpamTitan does its job well. 

There's always room for improvement. I only take two points off because no product is ever perfect. I can't even think of a product that would get a perfect 10 from me off the top of my head except for maybe an Eddie Van Halen 5150. That was perfect.

We were getting inundated with spam and having a hard time controlling it. Microsoft has tools, but it was getting overwhelming, so we installed SpamTitan. It seems to have taken care of the issue. Right now, I'm only using it for one Exchange server. 

SpamTitan has made it easier to manage spam. When other solutions I've used quarantined something, an admin had to manually find and release it. With SpamTitan, the end-user can monitor it themselves and release their own quarantined items. It's faster and less work. 

It's reduced the amount of time employees spend sorting through junk emails. I can't quantify it precisely, but it probably saves about half an hour a day per user. 

SpamTitan's individual spam reports for end-users is probably the best feature. It saves me time.

Some of the menus on the dashboard could be easier to navigate. It takes a little while to find things. 

I've been using SpamTitan for at least six months.

I haven't had any issues with SpamTitan so far. It seems to be working as advertised.

I only have about 30 users, but I don't imagine there would be a difference with 300 or more. 

I've only had to call TitanHQ for minor things, but they've been very responsive. Their support is much better than the customer service for other solutions I've used. I'd rate TitanHQ nine out of 10. 

Positive

I previously used N-Able's spam solution, but I switched because it didn't give the end-users control over their quarantine or spam. They couldn't review it or release it. Everything had to go through me, so if there was an issue, they'd have to contact me to resolve it. SpamTitan gives them a daily report.

Yeah. I have used a similar product. This one's far better. I mean, the last one I used the deployment was horrible, and it was just convoluted.

Deploying SpamTitan was straightforward. I don't need to do much. I only had to change the MX records, then make a couple changes in my send and receive connectors on my Exchange server. It took around 20 minutes to set everything up.

I had some support from TitanHQ.

My customers are happy, and I'm reselling it, so I make a little bit of money. It's low-effort because I seldom have to do anything with it. It's passive income for me. I charge my customer for the anti-spam services and pay SpamTitan, then charge my customer more than I'm paying.

I looked at other things, but I went ahead and signed up for SpamTitan as soon as I evaluated it.

I'd give it a 10 out of 10. I'd recommend it to anyone. There's no reason not to use it. It's easy and cheap.

It's a spam filter, so all of the emails come through SpamTitan before it comes to us.

I can log into it and direct all my MX records and it intercepts and reads all the emails. We can then determine if something's invalid. It holds it instead of sending it off. We get a quarantine report if they've had something intercepted.

It's used just for inbound and outbound email communications. It's used for email features.

It helps protect the individual users to avoid trouble and increase productivity. They don't get their mailboxes clogged up with a bunch of garbage.

Its spam protection is excellent.

The user interface experience of SpamTitan is great. It's pretty intuitive. They do an update once and I don't have to call and ask again as it makes sense where you click and it hasn't changed. That's one thing that's nice. Every update is all the same in terms of the UI. They don't move things around. 

In terms of overall intuitiveness, I'm highly impressed. Some of what I use daily, if I log in and try to look up a report, add an email, block somebody or search histories, how to get there, find it, and set the filters seems very intuitive. I don't get into it very often - maybe once or twice a month if something comes up. However, I'm always able to easily now give my way around without having to go look up old notes or call support again and ask another question.

SpamTitan has helped improve the false positive rate although I'm not sure by how much. It does a great job of validating and inspecting emails and making a decision on scoring mechanisms. There are also other options where I could go in and add other levels of features that I want to score against. I don't find very many emails being captured that shouldn't be. 

I've worked with different spam filters and I actually like SpamTitan the best. It's great and it's also a lower-cost option. It seems to work better than any other option I've ever used. Participating with end-users and the quarantine email seems a lot more simple for them to understand and to just click and release, allowing options. It's very easy for me to go into, make changes, and navigate. 

SpamTitan has helped save employees time by not having to sort through junk and spam emails. I don't get many calls where people are trying to find an email and are having a hard time. Once a month somebody says, "Hey, I can't find this email." Or they ask a question. However, in general, it saves a lot of my time.

Getting users to clean up their mailbox really has nothing to do with a spam filter. That's another story. However, this definitely helps reduce the number of garbage emails they receive. The other solutions have got more passing through than this one would, or probably a lot more false positives where the legitimate email they're looking for was being intercepted. This product definitely is more productive.

In terms of time savings, it's been easier for me as the person responsible. I don't have to deal with phone calls when there's a problem. I had more issues to deal with using the prior solution than I do with this one.

I'm not 100% sure how well they scan certain attachments. I know spam filtering is a huge game in a constant battle, however, sometimes you'll get some just obviously bogus emails coming through with an attached file that they're just praying for you to open. I don't know if there's something they can do to help catch some of those. Other than that, just keeping up with day-to-day changes, it's a constant battle with spam, so there's never a perfect solution. That's never perfect 100% of the time.

I've been using the solution for over two years. It's been almost three.

I'm pretty impressed with the stability so far. This will be the end of three years coming up and I know they're in a different country, however, they're still there and still working. We haven't had any issues.

It's already over licensed beyond what I even use, just based on the way it was sold. I don't perceive myself as outgrowing it. If I needed to, I could just increase the license by paying more money.

It's scalable. I have to use the full capacity of what our email transactions are and since it goes through them first before it hits us, we don't have to waste the bandwidth on all those bad emails.

I've been pretty pleased with technical support. They're pretty responsive. They answer quickly. They come up with solutions really quickly as well. They don't feel like they try to blow you off with excuses. They seem pretty knowledgeable about the product.

With my key provider in the past, going through their channels was slow. With these guys, I can call up and within two minutes, somebody's on the phone and they're in the system and we find the answer. We're usually done in 20 minutes or less.

While, for me, support is not of high importance as the solution just does what it does and moves along. That said, it sure is nice when I do need to reach out that I have that quick response. If their support wasn't as good, would I still use the product? Yes.

Positive

I've used spam filtering before. I found these people and did some examples and sessions with them and just decided I like their product and I just quoted it and said, got an authorization.

I didn't really care that the other product had an integration with an MSP client and we were separating from them. It made it difficult to sometimes access the email. We had to contact them for support. The transition to this was a matter of just getting it plugged in, typing in some of my domain, my information, updating my records and I just started shooting at it. 

It was incredibly easy to set up, configure and then start using SpamTitan. I pretty much can't live without spam filtering nowadays. 

The deployment took maybe three hours.

I first set it up with all the information and verified that it was good to go. Once I was done, I swapped my records in the public world and I stopped using an old service and I started flowing right through them. If I had any issues or concerns, I could change those records back. I had the new service and the old service running together for a little while until I finally decided it was time to get rid of the old stuff.

I worked with their support in the transition. It really went flawlessly, as far as the end-users, they had no clue, there was no downtime. Mostly I handled the implementation myself and if there were any questions I had, I worked with their technical support.

I'm not sure if looking at the solution from an ROI perspective is applicable for this product.

There haven't been any other costs in addition to the standard licensing fee. They did recently reach out as they're offering another service that's an add-on license that'll do some URL scanning. We talked about it. We just haven't pulled the trigger yet. Other than that, there's never been any additional costs and even their yearly renewals haven't changed by increasing at all.

I don't really have any specifics like you should do this or do that. I just purchased a yearly license at a time. It's not a monthly thing. I just pay upfront for the whole year.

I did look at a few solutions that I had touched myself in different places. I did some Google searches, however, their cost of licensing compared to everyone else is an amazingly different charge. I thought I'd give them a shot. This will be my third year of renewals at the end of this year and I have no intentions of not renewing with them.

I'd advise those considering the solution to go for it. I felt a little iffy at first that they're not based in my area. I took a chance on them and I'm extremely happy.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten. If they were actually able to catch the people sending the spam, I'd give them a perfect ten.

We use it to eliminate spam and viruses coming in. We wanted a solution that would filter out spam and work with O365. That was also easy to deploy and cost-effective.

We have it deployed for all our users as our spam filter for all our emails.

It cuts down a lot of our spam since about half our emails are spam.

I like the daily reports that go to our users. They are very user-friendly, easy to use, and basically transparent.

The user interface experience is very good. It sends a report to everybody's email. They can look at all the spam and use a simple button to click and delete. The quarantine reports are really simple to use.

SpamTitan's overall intuitiveness is very good. I like it a lot. 

I really like the impersonation feature of SpamTitan. We used to get emails pretending to be other users. This solution is smart enough to filter out using name filtering. If I want, I could block based on our CEO and president's name. Then, if an email came from them, the solution makes sure it is internal and not somebody who is external trying to spoof their name.

I would like the ability to have users be able to send the reports more than once a day or specify when they get their spam report, since I don't think we can schedule that.

I have been using it for a little over a year. I just renewed it.

The stability has been rock-solid. Compared to my previous solution, stability is the same. I have never had a problem with stability. It has never been down.

It worked really well to implement it into our O365. It implements really well and is super easy to use.

We have implemented it company-wide. We are not a huge company, but it was easy enough to have it filtering for every user.

The support has been excellent. Compared to some of the other products that I have used, it has been far superior. Their response time has been phenomenal. It is super fast. I have used Barracuda in the past and the interface to SpamTitan is so much easier than that. It far exceeds everything. In my opinion, the support is probably one of the best and I would rate it as 10 out of 10.

Positive

I was previously using Barracuda. It was a hosted platform and costly. It was hard to use comparatively. So, I was looking for a more cost effective solution and came across SpamTitan when searching Google. When I got a hold of them, we set up the demo. They were super-friendly and it was super easy to set up the demo. They took me through how it all worked and gave me a 30-day trial. Within the first two weeks of the trial, I said, "Let's buy it," because it was that great and worked that well for us.

I really like the ease of setup. This was very important to our organization when deciding to go with SpamTitan because I wanted something that would be easy for us to implement and our users could easily adapt to it.

It took probably 10 minutes to deploy. The ease of deployment was very impressive. 

The people from TitanHQ who helped us implement it were super-friendly. It was super easy to do.

We have absolutely seen ROI in the sense of getting back time. SpamTitan has absolutely helped save employees’ time by not having to sort through junk and spam emails.

Their pricing is really good for what it does.

SpamTitan offered a demo of it. I liked the key features: 

• The impersonation feature. 
• The ease of adding to blacklists. 
• Whitelisting emails from vendors. 
• The interface was so much better all around for users to access. 
• It is very intuitive. 
• The speed to implement was awesome. 

Overall, it was cost, speed to implement, the impersonation to blocking, and then the ability to maintain the blacklist and whitelists. That has been so much easier than anything else.

I would advise other people to buy the solution. Don't mess around - buy the tool and you will be happy. I am.

It was simple to implement. It has been very cost effective. It seems to be working very well for us.

We do stuff all over the world, so we don't use the geo-blocking feature.

So far, I would rate it as 10 out of 10. It really has been phenomenal for what I am using it for. I love it, which is why I have no problem giving a review. I just recently bought another one of their products, SafeTitan, because of the love of this solution. That is how happy I have been with TitanHQ.

We use it for domain spam filtering. You put the original MX records on their server and the mail goes to them and then back to you, clean.

One way that TitanHQ positions me, as a reseller, to acquire new business is that what they have is comprehensive. It's not any one thing that does it. It's a conglomeration of product offerings. The group of products that we can offer makes us look better because we're offering a comprehensive suite of solutions.

Every client that uses it experiences a productivity boost. If somebody has to filter through 150 or 200 emails a day to find the 30 good ones, that's inefficient. If they're using SpamTitan it's making them more efficient because they don't have to go through all the junk.

SpamTitan helps improve your spam catch-rate and reduce your false-positive rate. It depends on the domain, but in general it blocks spam email which amounts to about 60-plus percent of the email that people receive. It makes them that much more efficient.

The user interface and user experience of SpamTitan are very good. It's easy to use and very intuitive. No end-user is going to buy the product. A company or a reseller is going to buy it for them. As one of those resellers, I know that our users get a daily report and they can un-quarantine something, or block it in the future.

They could improve on the color of the interface.

I've been using TitanHQ SpamTitan for four or five years.

I pay them a flat price for space on a shared server and I can then set up unlimited domains and up to 200 email addresses.

The stability is extremely high.

It's an all-in solution. We have it across five domains and there are about 175 users.

The biggest benefit of being a partner of TitanHQ is the technical support. It's good, quality support. Any product can say it is as good as it wants, but without support, no product is useful.

Their support is well above average. They are way better than the average tech support you get from other companies.

Positive

I used to use a different product and I was pretty happy with it, but then it had a technology fallout and it disappeared off the planet. We couldn't get to our system. Their phones were out for a month and the service was down for a month and we just had to get away from them.

I had Googled SpamTitan, from the TitanHQ line of products, and had gotten very good feedback about them. I decided to give them a try because I needed a new solution. The service worked and the tech support is great.

The setup is another area where we go back to the support they provide. Their support department holds your hand and helps you get through the process. I did four or five domains over a couple of hours on a weekend.

It's pretty simple, just a matter of making sure you have control of the DNS and updating the MX records.

It just takes one person for deployment and maintenance.

The biggest lesson I've learned from using the solution is that there are a lot of nasty emails out there.

SpamTitan filters all incoming mail. We don't allow anything to come into our mail server without passing through SpamTitan. It filters out malware, spam, and any other email-based threat. It's a SaaS solution that's entirely on the cloud. Everything is redirected from our server to the SpamTitan servers.

They do the necessary filtering and pass all the safe emails through to our server. Our servers are configured to only accept IP connections from three or four IP addresses that are specific to SpamTitan, so nobody else can get into the mail server.

Our system consists of two physical servers and several virtual servers. One box is in the office, and there's a backup server at my home. The mail server just happens to be my home. We have about seven or eight end users, but each user can have multiple accounts.  

For example, we have an account for receiving special categories of mail that are placed in a designated folder. In other words, we create accounts that are associated with individual people. We have an online credit card processing company, so when they send emails, it goes to an email address called info@wegmanlevin.com. When it arrives here, it gets split off into a separate folder.

SpamTitan reduced the spam and malware that gets to our Outlook clients. The prior solution we used didn't do that great a job with malware. I don't know if the time spent sorting through spam has changed compared to the previous solution. 

However, sometimes malware would get wrongly classified as spam. Some emails that used to get through were flagged as spam, but it actually turned out to be malware. That should never have gotten through at all. It should have been blocked or stripped. In some cases, malware infected people's systems with the previous solution. 

I like the ability to go online and view mail that's been quarantined. SpamTitan lets you look at the mail and decide whether you want to release it or not.

SpamTitan doesn't quarantine when it blocks things based on the remote block list or greylisting. It just deletes the email. When I try to look at these blocked items, it tells me they're gone. RBL or greylisted items aren't saved, so you can check them. There may be a setting somewhere that I haven't seen. 

We get some false positives sometimes. Once we spot it, we can add the sender to the safe list. Then it's no longer a problem. It seems kind of random at times. For example, I got an email last night from the fraud department at Chase Bank informing me that my card had been compromised. It was flagged as spam, so I logged in and released it. It's a balancing act between a spam solution that's overly aggressive or too loose about letting spam in. I think SpamTitan falls on the aggressive side, but it's usually not enough to cause any problems.

I would also like more control over reporting. The reporting is limited to once daily. With the old product, we could get reports multiple times during the day with all the emails quarantined since the last report went out. We had one report at 8:00 a.m. to tell us about all the overnight traffic. We'd also get notifications at noon, and 5:00 p.m., just before people went home.

Over the course of the day, only a few hours would pass before we reviewed a quarantined email. SpamTitan sends its report in the middle of the night, so something can be trapped there for 24 hours. There's a workaround. If somebody tells you an email they were expecting hasn't come through, an admin can go into the portal and release it. That's a hassle. 

Also, there's an attack where a hacker generates emails with the correct domain name but hundreds of different user names. SpamTitan bills by the number of users, and they don't allow you to distinguish between real users and bots. I think I have a limit of around 30 or 35 users, so if somebody hit me with hundreds of phony names, I would get reports generated for each one of those fake accounts and be billed for it. It hasn't happened, but it could. I'm not crazy about that aspect of it. I think it would make a lot more sense if I could give TitanHQ a list of all valid email addresses and tell them to bounce any other email addresses.

We have been using SpamTitan for about a year and a half. 

We haven't had any issues with stability

We're a small law firm, so I haven't had a reason to scale up SpamTitan, but I assume I could if necessary. It's not likely to happen in my business. If we doubled in size, that would mean going from seven to 14 people. I'm sure that wouldn't present an issue for the software. However, if we had hundreds of employees, I would prefer an on-premise hardware solution.

I've never had a problem that required support, but I contacted TitanHQ support initially with questions about how to tweak some settings. I rate TitanHQ support nine out of ten. 

Positive

We used SurfControl, but the version was no longer supported on our server. We originally ran this on the Windows 2003 server, but the product wouldn't install when we upgraded. When we approached the vendor about newer products, we found that all their latest solutions were online and a lot more expensive than SpamTitan, so I started to shop around.

I set SpamTitan up by myself. It was straightforward once I conceptualized exactly what we were doing and the way we were deploying this in the middle of our mail delivery cycle. We have updated the configuration by adding more domains since the original implementation and it was easy.

If it blocks one piece of malware from getting into my system, it has probably paid for itself several times over.

The cost of SpamTitan is reasonable for what we get out of the solution. 

I don't recall the names of all the solutions we evaluated,  but looked at Barracuda and a couple of others. We felt that SpamTitan was the best fit, given the size of our operation, monthly costs, etc.

I rate SpamTitan eight out of ten. It's a great option if you're a smaller organization that wants to keep spam and malware off your system. A larger organization may wish to consider the on-premise solution TitanHQ offers because of the licensing issues and limitations on reporting. I recommend that if it's cost-effective for your organization.

We use it for filtering spam.

We saw the benefits the same day that we deployed it. Normally, our client would get between 300 and 600 spam emails each day, and we reduced that to 15 on the first day. That was a real win and they were very glad we implemented it.

Employees used to take about two hours a day to sift through all the spam emails that were coming in, to see if they were valid or not. Now, it is just an afterthought. They spend two to three minutes because so few spam emails come through. They just need to take a quick glance and say, "Well, okay, I need to have that one and the rest are spam emails."

What I like the most is the filtering and the granularity with which you can really zoom in on the spam that's coming in and configure it exactly so that what you don't want is blocked.

What I also love about SpamTitan is that you can deploy it on your own hardware, so if there are any performance issues you can just upgrade the hardware and you'll be fine.

I'd like to see something like "My First SpamTitan," by which I mean, "Guide me through the things I need to set, and tell me about the things that you're setting already." That way I would get a good feeling for setting up the product, rather than having to figure it out by myself, which is what I did. It wasn't a big issue because I've configured spam filters before, but I think someone else might be overwhelmed with all the options you can set.

They can either keep it as it is, which is rather technical in looks and in management, or they can have more of a "My First SpamTitan" interface, which would guide you through things and give you a good configuration at the start. Later, you could perfect it by tuning it yourself. Something like that would be nice.

I have been using TitanHQ SpamTitan since 2016 or 2017.

It's very stable. We have never had it go down unless it was our own fault. Overall, the stability is very good when compared with other solutions.

From what we have seen, it is a scalable solution. We started with about 20 licenses and ended up overusing them by 70 licenses when we got up to 90 email addresses. We later had to reduce that because it was over our licensing limit, but there was no problem in scaling at all.

Our client is a company with just one location and a fiber internet line. They have about 70 people using the internet.

The technical support is very good. One time, because of something we did, and not because the product failed, they were quick in resolving it. We made a support call and they said, "Okay, can we look at the machine?" We had to enable remote support and they could directly log in. After they logged in, they were able to quickly resolve it. It took about two hours after we placed the call, at the most, for them to get back to us and resolve the issue.

Compared to other solutions I've used, TitanHQ's support is very speedy. 

They are perfect.

Positive

We previously used Cisco IronPort. We switched because Cisco IronPort wasn't supported anymore and we would have had to buy a very expensive next-gen tool from Cisco. We didn't like that, so we looked for another solution.

We had a lot of spam coming in at a time when we were using a local Exchange Server and there was not really much we could do in a granular way. We were looking for a new solution that would filter the email more perfectly. We found that in SpamTitan.

I did the deployment. For an engineer, it's a fairly straightforward process. Once you install it, you get the proper tips for configuring it. It took me about half an to get us up and running and configuring took a bit longer. That was the fine-tuning. But setting it up, getting it to work, and placing it in between the internet and our email took just half an hour. It was very easy. You do need knowledge of networking and email routing, but that's it.

I was the only one involved in the deployment, and it requires just one person for maintenance. We keep to a monthly cycle of looking at the updates and we update if there are any, but it takes almost no effort to maintain it.

It has saved us a lot of management work. It's almost a fire-and-forget solution. There is some spam coming through, but that's just because the spam creators are also getting smarter. We have to tweak it a little or maybe update the system and, after that, it comes up roses.

Our most important return on investment is time because the solution has saved us a lot of time by not having to worry about emails coming in. The things that are coming in now, most of the time, are just right. Sifting through emails went from two hours to a few minutes.

The pricing is just right. There are no additional costs to the standard fee, as far as I know.

We looked at some open-source solutions but didn't find anything to our liking. When we came up with SpamTitan it was a bullseye. It was exactly what we needed. It's a complete package. 

With the open-source packages, you still have to do a lot yourself, whereas SpamTitan has a development organization behind it. Anything that needs to be in there is there. The setup is simple and I was configuring away after about half an hour. That was a big difference compared to the open-source solutions at the time.

We based our choice on the things TitanHQ said it could do. We installed it and it did everything they said it would do. It has saved a lot of effort and a lot of time.

Just do it. Make it a real-world example because once you have it set up and running, it runs just fine. It's a very good solution.

It's an eight out of 10 because the interface could be improved.