GFI MailEssentials 2010 boosts spam detection rate using greylisting and provides users with new tools for better spam email management
GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) has today released GFI MailEssentials 2010. The latest version of GFI’s multiple award-winning anti-spam software improves spam detection rates and allows for easier management of spam emails.
GFI MailEssentials is a leading anti-spam filter that gives administrators an ultra high spam capture rate out-of-the-box with minimal configuration. Used by over 80,000 customers worldwide, GFI MailEssentials uses two anti-spam filter engines to push the capture rate to over 99% yet return the lowest number of false positives. The new version of GFI MailEssentials includes new features and tools to boost spam capture as well as making it easier for the administrator to configure and manage spam detected in the company’s email.
“Spam is a real problem for everyone, especially SMBs who depend on email to run their business. With spam rates hitting 75% and up of all email received, implementing spam filters is a must today. Spam is a time-waster, exposes the organization to social engineering and malware attacks apart from impacting negatively on bandwidth and server performance,” Walter Scott, GFI’s CEO, said.
“GFI MailEssentials enjoys an excellent reputation in the SMB market and the new features in our latest release combine to improve even further spam capture rates and facilitate spam management. With over 99% of spam filtered by GFI MailEssentials and an industry-low number of false positives, SMBs will see the immediate benefits when implementing the solution on their email server,” Scott added.
With the introduction of greylisting in the latest version of GFI MailEssentials, administrators can use this technique to identify spam originating from non-RFC compliant mail servers (which are often used by spammers). For each new SMTP transmission, GFI MailEssentials records the sender, recipient and sending mail server’s IP address and will reject the email with a temporary failure message. Compliant email servers are expected to try and resend the message after a few minutes – if the information is confirmed, future messages will not be rejected. Non-compliant mail servers do not try to resend the message.
Other essential features in GFI MailEssentials 2010 include:
- Spam emails can be quarantined; stored in a database and automatically deleted after a pre-specified period
- The entries in the dashboard can be filtered by sender, recipient, subject and message ID
- Anti-spam filter and whitelist log files can be rotated based on size or time
- Improved detection method of disclaimers in an email to avoid adding the same disclaimer in the email thread multiple times
- Updated post-install wizard that helps administrators with the essential configuration settings soon after installation
For information on GFI MailEssentials visit http://www.gfi.com/mailessentials.
About GFI
GFI Software provides the single best source of web and mail security, archiving and fax, networking and security software and hosted IT solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) via an extensive global partner community. GFI products are available either as on-premise solutions, in the cloud or as a hybrid of both delivery models. With award-winning technology, a competitive pricing strategy, and a strong focus on the unique requirements of SMBs, GFI can satisfy the IT needs of SMB organizations on a global scale. As the leading infrastructure provider for SMBs, we have offices in the United States (North Carolina and California), Canada, UK (London and Scotland), Austria, Australia, Malta, Hong Kong and Romania, which together support more than 200,000 installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with over 10,000 partners throughout the world. We are also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
