2009

GFI MailEssentials awarded WM Pro Editor's Choice Award

Dutch magazine Winmagpro.nl have awarded GFI MailEssentials the WM Pro Editor's Choice Award for June 2009 due to its high spam capture rate, very few false positives, good cost/quality ratio and the fact that it requires relatively little configuration - Winmagpro.nl, June 2009

GFI MailEssentials: An Excellent Anti-Spam and Email Security Solution

MailEssentials from GFI is an excellent anti-spam solution for small and medium businesses with in-house information services teams. Flexible configuration of blocking and management technology makes MailEssentials a fit for a variety of spam management approaches, writes Tom Olzak.

2008

GFI MailEssentials wins Readers Choice Award

For the fourth year running, GFI MailEssentials™, an anti-spam and anti-phishing solution, has won the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Award in the Exchange Server Anti-Spam category. The Reader’s Choice Awards give visitors to the MSExchange.org site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category. GFI MailEssentials can be installed on a Microsoft Exchange server or SMTP gateway and stops over 98% of spam. - MSExchange.org, August 2008

2007

98% spam detection rate for GFI MailEssentials

GFI MailEssentials™ for Exchange/SMTP has been awarded the Checkmark Anti-Spam Premium Certificate for staying “ahead of competitive products”. The product obtained a 98% spam detection rate which was above the Checkmark requirements and also achieved “a 100% valid email identification rate; ensuring that no legitimate email was blocked”. Other product benefits included low system requirements with the set-up process being described as “remarkably fast and pain-free”. - West Coast Labs, January 2007

GFI MailEssentials wins IT Week Magazine’s ‘Editor’s Choice’ award

IT Week Magazine, a digital publication, has selected GFI MailEssentials™ for Exchange/SMTP as the 2007 Editor’s Choice winner for significantly cutting down on spam as well as for its pricing and functionality. “If your company is looking for an effective method to distinctly cut down on spam in an effective manner, then you’ll want to check out GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP. You can expect the software to block more than 98% of all spam email that attempts to reach corporate users,” the magazine said. It added that the product is quite easy to install and highlighted the benefit that it can be installed on Microsoft’s Exchange or any other SMTP server. - IT Week Magazine, January 2007

2005

GFI MailEssentials wins Redmond Editors' Choice Awards 2005

Redmond magazine's panel of experts have named GFI MailEssentials™ as the winner of the anti-spam category in the publication of their annual Editors' Choice Awards 2005. Judge Dave Tschanz singled out GFI MailEssentials for medium- to large-sized networks and praised the Bayesian filtering system, saying that it "works particularly well". He was also impressed with GFI's customer service and described the website as "exceptional" as well as being "easy to use" and containing "extraordinarily useful information". - Redmond magazine, November 2005

Windows Server 2003 certification for GFI MailEssentials

GFI MailEssentials™ for Exchange/SMTP has achieved the Windows Server 2003 certification from Microsoft Corp through VeriTest. This certification is based on an established technical standard to identify software applications that are secure and manageable, and that run reliably on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. GFI MailEssentials met these rigorous requirements after being tested by VeriTest: ”This certification through VeriTest provides GFI customers added confidence in their purchase of GFI MailEssentials,” said Katrina Teague, Vice President of Marketing and Solutions at VeriTest. - VeriTest, July 2005

2003

Earns top spot in review of email security solutions

InfoWorld reviewer Dan Morton has selected GFI MailSecurity™ for Exchange/SMTP as the best email scanner out of the six solutions he tested, including products by Gordano, Network Associates, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro. GFI MailSecurity got a 'Very Good' rating and was awarded the top score of 8.3 points for its performance. "The differences in score reflect the extra features and overall maturity of some products," wrote the reviewer. "The inclusion of multiple scanning engines and the ability to act as either a server-side or gateway solution, however, are what earned GFI MailSecurity the top spot." Read the full review (PDF format) - InfoWorld, June 2003

2002

GFI MailEssentials 7 named Editors' Choice 2002

MCP Magazine reviewer David W. Tschanz selected GFI MailEssentials™ for Exchange/SMTP 7 in a suite with GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP as the winner of the publication's Editor's Choice award 2002. Read the full review (PDF format) - Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, December 2002

GFI MailSecurity named Editors' Choice 2002

MCP Magazine reviewer David W. Tschanz selected the GFI MailEssentials™ & GFI MailSecurity™ Suite as the winner of the publication's Editor's Choice award 2002 in the Exchange Anti-Virus category. Read the full review (PDF format) - Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, December 2002

GFI MailSecurity awarded ICSA certification

GFI MailSecurity™ has been awarded anti-virus certification from ICSA Labs. The certification provides independent confirmation that the email security product protects networks against email viruses. - ICSA Labs, May 2002

2001

GFI MailSecurity (when formerly known as Mail essentials) awarded InternetWorks Gold Award

InternetWorks has awarded GFI MailSecurity™ the Gold Award, describing it as being "well-written [and having] excellent features". Reviewer Rob Fenwick wrote, "Overall, it's a well-presented and flexible tool that we recommend to any Exchange administrator who want to cut down on their network admin". Read the full review (PDF format) - Internet Works, July 2001