The Barracuda Spam Firewall is hands down, the absolute best spam filter / gateway I have ever used. It rocks, and if you don’t believe me, shoot me an email at jholbrook@empoweris.com and I will get you a 30 day trial.

I spent the better part of today learning how to properly configure my Barracuda Spam Firewall. During the configuration, I decided that it would be in the best interest of Empower to integrate LDAP connectivity in order to help protect against dictionary spam attacks and aid in auto white listing of Valid Email addresses. Auto white listing will also aid in the training of the Barracuda Spam Firewall Bayesian filter.

That is when the fun began. I was attempting to do the LDAP integration and I began to beat my head. I kept getting test unsuccessful. I hit the web to find out what I was doing wrong. When it comes to Barracuda, I think the best place to go is their support forums. I found the posting for the most part relevant and informative. Anyway enough of that. The documentation i had to go on that comes stock with the Barracuda was not working for me. When i look at the LDAP log I was getting two main errors:

Software affected: SmarterMail V4.x
Description: Recommended SPAM Settings for SmarterMail 4.x

Resolution:
We recommend the following settings for SmarterMail 4.x. Go to Security > Anti-Spam Administration > Spam Checks tab. We also recommend that when assigning weights to the various SPAM Checks that you use increments of 10.