Server-based anti-spam, disclaimers & more

GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP

GFI MailEssentials offers spam protection at server level. It also adds key email tools to your mail server: disclaimers, mail archiving and monitoring, Internet mail reporting, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading.

GFI MailEssentials is the market-leading server-based spam solution. More than 50,000 companies worldwide use GFI MailEssentials to protect their mail servers from spam.

The growth & cost of spam

Spam emails will cost European companies a total of €85bn over the next four years.

– The Radicati Group, March 2004

Daily email traffic is expected to rise above 68 billion messages per day in 2004, and more than half of it - 52% - will be spam.

– The Radicati Group, 2004

Over 56% of business email is spam.– Network World, December 2003

Ferris Research has estimated that the cost of spam to a company of 10,000 workers is $1.1 million.

– November, 2003

98% spam detection with Bayesian filtering

GFI MailEssentials’ Bayesian filtering technology uses advanced mathematical analysis to capture spam. It looks at the whole message, not just keywords and also considers the content of valid emails that you send (known as ‘ham’).

Bayesian filtering is widely acclaimed to be the best way to tackle spam because it:

Looks at the whole message

Adapts itself over time

Sensitive/adaptive to the company/user

Multilingual and international

Hard to trick.

Downloads updates to spam profile database

GFI MailEssentials can download updates to the Bayesian spam profile database from the GFI site, ensuring that it recognizes the latest spam and spamming techniques.

GFI maintains the spam profile database by working with a number of spam collection organizations that continually supply spam samples.

The Bayesian spam profile canbe updated automatically

Takes server-based approach to spam

To block spam effectively, you need a server-based anti-spam product as this:

Eliminates the deployment and administration hassle involved with desktop based products

Is cheaper to license

Prevents spam from even entering your email infrastructure.

You only need toconfigure anti-spamrules at server level

GFI MailEssentials performs header checking

GFI MailEssentials analyzes the email header for spam practices. For example, the SMTP and MIME From: and To: fields in an email header often reveal spam mail. GFI MailEssentials also detects if the sender of the email has a valid domain.

GFI MailEssentials canalso detect mails written

in a foreign language

GFI MailEssentials supports blacklists & whitelists

Blacklists – GFI MailEssentials checks if the mail sender is on a third party DNS blacklist (ORDB, SpamHaus, etc). You can also set up your own blacklist of domains and email addresses.

Whitelists – Whitelists drastically reduce false positives (a problem inherent in anti-spam software). GFI MailEssentials automatically creates a whitelist for you on the basis of the emails your company has sent.

List approved emailsenders and blacklist

unwanted email senders

Sort spam to users’ junk mail folder

Users can review mail flagged as spam easily from their ‘junk mail’ folder.

You can also choose to delete spam, move it to a folder, or forward the spam mail to a public email address or folder.

Users can reviewspam mail in a

folder in their inbox

GFI MailEssentials deployment

GFI MailEssentials installs on Exchange 2000/2003 Server, orin front of any other mail server including Exchange 5.5 and Lotus Notes.

No network reconfiguration

Seamless integration with Exchange

Seamless integration with Active Directory

Can be installed on same machine as GFI MailSecurity.

Other GFI MailEssentials features

Disclaimers – Add legal disclaimers or corporate promotional text to each outgoing mail, based on user, domain or group.

Detailed reporting – Generate reports on how many emails each user sends and/or receives, how much mail traffic is sent and received by the mail server, how many spam mails you receive, and more.

Other GFI MailEssentials features

Mail monitoring – Monitor mails of a particular user or department.

Auto replies – Issue server-based personalized answers, e.g., to inform a customer who will be dealing with his request, etc.

Keyword checking – Checks for keywords in the body and subject of the email.

Seamless integration with

In combination with its companion product, GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP, GFI MailEssentials offers a complete solution against spam, email viruses, threats and Trojans. GFI MailSecurity and GFI MailEssentials can be installed on the same machine.

GFI MailSecurity andGFI MailEssentials are

available at a specialbundle price

What our customers say

“Kudos for your folks who wrote MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP. Since we put it online, the flood of spam has dropped to a trickle. We used to be hit with about 500 MBs worth of spam a day. What’s making it past the scanner is less than 1 MB these days.”

– Richard Muniz, IT Manager, RJM Consulting, Denver, CO, USA

“I can’t applaud your GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP enough. It couldn’t have been any easier to install and use. Immediately it has reduced our spam almost completely and as it “learns” it gets better. I have made lots of friends within our company thanks to GFI.”

– Bill Honzik, Manager, Admiral Building Products, Wilmington, MA, USA

“GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP is a great program! We've tried so many, and GFI MailEssentials outperforms them all by a very wide margin, all without the extensive installation issues with Exchange. Very well done.”

– Rich Petersen, Image Information Inc., Roswell, GA, USA

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Customer list

Many leading companies have chosen GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP;here are just a few:

NASAEuropean Central BankUS NavyMG Rover GroupToyotaIBMCaterpillarPerotSystemsFujitsu Siemens& many more!

More information and downloads

Download your FREE eval copy of GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP here

Click here for a PDF brochure

For white papers on Bayesian filtering and how to keep spam off your network, click here

About GFI

GFI has five offices in the US, UK, Germany, Australia and Malta, and has aworldwide network of distributors.

GFI is the developer of the market leading GFI FAXmaker, GFI MailEssentials, GFI MailSecurity, GFI MailArchiver, GFI Network Server Monitor, GFI WebMonitor and the GFI LANguard product ranges.

GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has won the Microsoft Fusion2000 (GEM) Packaged Application Partner of the Year award.

For further information, please visit our website.

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