IT Tech Talk

12 06 2008

GFI MailEssentials - best solution

With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to businesses every day, anti-spam software is a vital component of your network security strategy. Spam reduces efficiency and people get headache.

GFI MailEssentials offers anti-spam for Exchange server and other email servers and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software on each desktop. It also offers Exchange spam filter which is easy to set-up no configuration required, very low false positives through its automatic whitelist, and the ability to automatically adapt to your email environment to constantly tune and improve spam detection. GFI MailEssentials will eliminate over 98% of the spam from your network! GFI MailEssentials also detects and blocks phishing emails through a system of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and keyword checks. In addition to anti-spam filtering and anti-phishing protection, GFI MailEssentials also adds email management tools to your mail server: disclaimers, mail monitoring, Internet mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading.

Server based anti spam software, anti-phishing & email management solution for Exchange/Notes/SMTP servers, with minimal false positives. Spam is caught before the mail server, no need to deploy client software. GFI MailEssentials’ advanced spam detection technology is based on: Content checking of body and subject for spam keywords, checking mail headers for typical spam practices, and checking if the sending mail server is on a third party black list such as ORDB. One can also set-up their own blacklists, as well as reduce false positives using the automatic whitelist feature. GFI MailEssentials also protects users from phishing emails by detecting and blocking them before they reach the recipient’s mailbox. Emails originating from, and terminating at the network are processed by advanced technologies built in GFI MailEssentials, maximizing spam capture rate whilst minimizing false positives. GFI MailEssentials also features disclaimers, mail monitoring of particular email addresses, centralized mail archiving to database, mail reporting (e.g., top mail users), POP3 downloading and auto replies with variables/fields.

One can consider this points to buy and use this software -

Support for the industry leading messaging platforms including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Domino
Highest spam detection rate (98%) because of its Bayesian filtering technology
Lowest false positives through its patent pending auto whitelist feature
Server-based install, no client software required
Allows users to review email marked as spam from junk mail folder
#1 server anti-spam at unbeatable pricing – over 60,000 installations!