GFI MailEssentials Version Upgrade

Anti-spam solution for Exchange/SMTP/Lotus

The most effective way to beat spammers at their game is to use GFI MailEssentials, a leading anti-spam solution that has won several awards.

GFI MailEssentials features not one, but two anti-spam engines to give administrators an ultra high spam capture rate out-of-the-box with minimal configuration. Incorporating multiple anti-spam modules and technologies, GFI MailEssentials not only delivers one of the highest spam capture rates in the industry, over 99%, but it is also a market leader in reducing false positives.

GFI MailEssentials detects and blocks phishing emails, and adds email management tools to your mail server, including disclaimers, mail monitoring, Internet mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading.

Top Features

• Support for Unicode
• SpamRazerTM: an additional anti-spam engine boosting capture rate
• Greylisting
• Spam Quarantining
• Built-in Spam Reporting
• Automatic whitelist management to reduce false positives
• Multiple anti-spam technologies including Bayesian and IP filtering
• Eliminates hard to catch NDR, MSNBC and CNN spam
• Precise real-time dashboard

Other Features

• FREEWARE version available
• Server-based anti-spam and anti-phishing
• Downloads updates to spam profile database
• Localized into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian
• Protect your users against the menace of phishing emails
• Sort spam to users' junk mail folders
• Auto-log rotation
• List server for newsletter lists and discussion lists
• Easy tuning of the Bayesian engine via public folders
• Allow users to whitelist or blacklist via public folders
• Email header analysis and keyword checking
• Third party DNS blacklists (DNSBL) checking
• Support for multiple third party SURBL servers
• Automatic whitelist management reduces false positives
• Instant view of emails from new senders
• Eliminates directory harvesting
• Reports on spam filtering and email usage
• Support for SPF – the Sender Policy Framework
• Set priorities for each anti-spam module
• Company-wide disclaimer/footer/header text
• Email monitoring
• Email archiving to a SQL database
• Seamless integration with Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other SMTP servers
• Support for virtual environments

Hardware

Processor

• Minimum: Intel Pentium or compatible 1 GHz 32-bit processor
• Recommended: x64 architecture-based server with Intel 64 architecture or AMD64 platform.

Memory

• Minimum: 1GB
• Recommended: 2GB RAM

Physical Storage

• Minimum: 500MB for installation, 2GB for execution.
• Recommended: 500MB for installation, 4GB for execution

Software

Supported operating systems

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise (x86 or x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise (x86 or x64)
• Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 - Standard edition
• Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 - Standard edition
• Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 (SP1)

Mail Servers

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (SP2)
• Lotus Domino 6 or higher
• Any SMTP compliant email server

Other components

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
• Microsoft Message Queuing Services
• Microsoft XML core services: For UK/US English OS this is installed automatically by GFI MailEssentials.
• Microsoft Virtual Server cluster group resource with a physical disc cluster. This is required only for environments running Microsoft Exchange 2003 clusters.
• MDAC 2.8 (included by default on Windows 2003 or later). 
• IIS SMTP service (except for Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 environments)
• IIS 6 or 7 WWW service when using Quarantine or Archive Web Interface
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 when installing on Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2010.