Anti-spam software for Exchange server

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 wastes network users’ time and network resources, and can also be dangerous. 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.

GFI MailEssentials offers a fast set-up and a high spam detection rate using Bayesian filtering and other methods – 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 and anti-phishing

GFI MailEssentials is server-based and installs on the mail server or at the Gateway, eliminating the deployment and administration hassle of desktop-based anti-spam and anti-phishing products. Desktop-based software involves training your users to create anti-spam rule sets, and subsequently users have to spend time updating these rules. Besides, this system does not prevent your server message stores from filling up with spam.

Bayesian filtering technology

Bayesian filtering is widely acknowledged by leading experts and publications as the best way to catch spam. A Bayesian filter uses a mathematical approach based on known spam and ham (valid email). This gives it a tremendous advantage over other spam solutions that just check for keywords or rely on downloading signatures of known spam. GFI’s Bayesian filter uses an advanced mathematical formula and a dataset which is ‘custom-created’ for your installation: The spam data is continuously updated by GFI and is automatically downloaded by GFI MailEssentials, whereas the ham data is automatically collected from your own outbound mail. This means that the Bayesian filter is constantly learning new spam tricks, and spammers cannot circumvent the dataset used. This results in a 98+% spam detection rate, after the required two-week learning period. In short, Bayesian filtering has the following advantages:

• Looks at the whole spam message, not just keywords or known spam signatures
• Learns from your outbound email (ham) and therefore greatly reduces false positives
• Adapts itself over time by learning about new spam and new valid email
• Dataset is unique to your company, making it impossible to bypass
• Multilingual and international.

Email archiving and mailbox management for all company email

GFI MailArchiver for Exchange provides easy-to-use corporate email archiving, enabling you to centrally archive all internal and external email. GFI MailArchiver allows you to archive past, present and future emails into one or multiple databases, providing both the network administrator and employees with a number of benefits.

Network administrators can now avoid the pains of PST file management and:

• Eliminate corrupted PST files and the lengthy troublesome process of ‘fixing’ them
• Overcome the risk of PST loss in the case of hardware failure on the employees’ workstations
• Free yourself from complex backup plans to copy PST files from each employee’s workstation.

GFI MailArchiver allows employees to perform the following actions without needing the assistance of a network administrator:

• Use their browser to easily locate and access all their emails from anywhere in the world
• Quickly restore emails back to their mailbox through a OneClick Restore process, avoiding the cumbersome process of retrieving an email from a backup tape or disk, saving the network administrator’s time.

Integration with Exchange and other email servers

GFI MailArchiver leverages the journaling feature of Exchange Server, providing unparalleled scalability and reliability. Other email archiving solutions actually replace the email with a link to their database – this can be a point of failure and can bring down your entire email system. GFI MailArchiver works in parallel and does not touch the way Exchange works. GFI MailArchiver can be used with Exchange as well as other email servers with the capability of polling emails from a mail server which supports IMAP and Active Directory.

NEW! – Automatically archive corporate email into one storage area

Your mail server is not the ideal place to store all organizational email: Over time this will cause a severe decline in email performance. Moving old emails into a database will keep your mail server performance high and email stores compact. You may archive your email in:

• A SQL database: Because email is stored in a standard SQL database, it is easy to backup and restore; no special Exchange backup tools are required. This setup is strongly recommended for high email volume environments.
• Directly to an NTFS hard drive You may store email in a database that is located on an NTFS-formatted hard drive, saving you the license costs of Microsoft SQL Server! This setup is suitable for low email volume environments and for small enterprises intending to save on license costs of Microsoft SQL Server.

Multiple database support and ‘automatic’ database management support

It is possible to archive emails in multiple databases – this overrides the problem of having one large database that becomes slow and requires more maintenance. GFI MailArchiver allows you to automatically archive emails to a new database after a specified time, for example, every month or quarter.

Reduce email storage requirements

GFI MailArchiver compresses and decompresses attachments on the fly, which results in considerable savings in terms of storage when compared to storing attachments in the Exchange stores. In addition, storing email in a database is more space efficient than storing in PST files. An added advantage is that GFI MailArchiver archives only one copy of attachments sent to multiple recipients.

GFI FAXmaker - The zero administration fax server!

Faxing manually is out of date. A professional fax server grants substantial savings on cost and improves customer service and image: The process of sending a fax is much shorter and incoming faxes are automatically integrated with today’s ‘email-based’ workflow.

With over 100,000 fax servers shipped since its launch, and numerous prestigious industry awards to its name, GFI FAXmaker is the leading enterprise quality fax server when it comes to reliability, ease of use and administration, and price.

Email-to-fax gateway for Exchange, Notes & SMTP servers

GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP excels in its seamless integration with your mail server. This allows users to send and receive faxes and SMS/text messages directly from their email client, making GFI FAXmaker easy to use and learn. Leveraging your email infrastructure and Active Directory also allows for unparalleled scalability, reliability and hassle-free administration.

Fax over IP (FOIP) support

GFI FAXmaker offers Fax over IP (FOIP) functionality enabling you to send faxes over the Internet whilst easily integrating with the existing IP infrastructure, such as IP-enabled PABXs. GFI FAXmaker's FOIP may also be used to implement Least Cost Routing (LCR); this results in cost-effectiveness that is achieved through a reduction in international calls dialed since calls are translated into a local call at the recipient’s country.

Active Directory integration reduces administration

GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP was designed from the ground up to minimize its administration. It integrates with Active Directory and therefore does not require the administration of a separate fax user database. User-related settings can be applied to Windows users or groups directly.

Supports Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/5.5

GFI FAXmaker integrates with Exchange Server 2000/2003 via a standard Exchange SMTP connector. There are no schema updates to Active Directory. This makes GFI FAXmaker scalable and indifferent to new Exchange service packs and versions. Microsoft Exchange 5.5 is supported by creating a routing rule on the Exchange 5.5 SMTP connector. GFI FAXmaker can be installed on the Exchange server (if using 2000/2003), or on a separate machine, in which case no software has to be installed on the Exchange server itself!

NEW! – Fax over IP (FOIP) support

GFI FAXmaker offers Fax over IP (FOIP) functionality enabling you to send faxes over the Internet whilst easily integrating with the existing IP infrastructure, such as IP-enabled PABXs. GFI FAXmaker's FOIP may also be used to implement Least Cost Routing (LCR); this results in cost-effectiveness that is achieved through a reduction in international calls dialed since calls are translated into a local call at the recipient’s country. FOIP may only be employed if the appropriate FOIP-enabled software or devices are installed.

Supports Lotus Notes & SMTP/POP3 servers

GFI FAXmaker integrates via the SMTP/POP3 protocol with Lotus Notes and any SMTP/POP3 server. It can be installed on the mail server itself or on a separate machine. In the case of Lotus Notes, @FAX addressing is supported.

Automated fax delivery/inbound fax routing

GFI FAXmaker can automatically route incoming faxes to the user's mailbox or to a particular printer based on a DID/DDI/DTMF number or the line on which the fax was received. Faxes can also be forwarded to a public folder or assigned to a network printer per installed fax port.