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1. #GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL FULL#
2. #GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL VERIFICATION#
3. #GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL CODE#
4. #GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL LICENSE#

The installation is long. I think I counted nearly 20 different screens from beginning to end (if you include the post-installation wizard). First off I reviewed the system requirements, which included firewall port settings that are certainly essential depending on where you plan on putting your monitoring solution.

#GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL FULL#

You can see a full list and explanation of features here: Installation You can use it with virtualized environments. Personally I hate to leave out good features but I think it is pretty obvious that from an anti-spam/anti-virus point of view, MailEssentials has a solid solution here. The web-based interface is easy to work with for administration and management, and also includes web-based reporting, which are easy to work with and customize. You can create additional rules as well, but I thought these two options were great to see. MailEssentials has the common keyword filtering, attachment filtering and an interesting decompression engine which can check within archives. The “advanced” content filtering has two default content policies for blocking credit card information and social security number content. “Advanced” Content Filtering: Every solution has some form of content filtering so when I saw “advanced” this caught my attention.

#GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL CODE#

HTML Sanitizer: Because attacks can come through scripts embedded in your email with HTML, the sanitizer checks for script code in the body of an email and disables it before passing it forward.Email Exploit Engine: Focuses on a list of 31 different typical email-based attacks like URL spoofing, Long Subjects, Popup Object exploits and so forth. It looks for suspicious items and those considered High Alert.Trojan & Executable Scanner: Detects and scans through an unknown executable. It does this by disassembling the executable, determining what it will do if it runs, and then making a judgment on whether it is harmful and should be quarantined or passed through.User Interaction Options: MailEssentials allows users to see their quarantined spam so they can manually release emails that have been incorrectly labeled as such. Users can also see email listed as a “New Sender”, that is from someone that hasn’t emailed that user in the past.Įmail Security Scanners: There are several interesting options available including the following: Note: The additional pricing is a one-year subscription that depends on the solution(s) chosen and the number of mailboxes. Each solution is unique and the combination offers a strong detection solution.įigure 1: The Virus Scanning Engines screen in the GFI MailEssentials web-based UI.

#GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL LICENSE#

There is an email blocklist, an IP DNS blocklist, a URI DNS blocklist, a Greylist filter (which temporarily blocks email from unknown senders so they are neither black nor white, but “grey”) and a Whitelist. These all combine to provide solid protection against most (almost all) spam.Ī Potential 5 Engine Anti-Virus Solution: New viruses are released all the time and signature updates are released by vendors for their engines at varying speeds. To better protect yourself you can utilize multiple engines to increase your chances of getting the latest signature defense. Out of the box MailEssentials offers protection through VIPRE anti-virus protection and BitDefender anti-virus (with a one year subscription included as part of the initial fee for the solution). However, with an additional license purchase you can utilize Kapersky, Norman and McAfee anti-virus solutions (shown in Figure 1). Spam Filtering Lists: Part of the anti-spam filtering features is a combination of lists.

#GFI MAILESSENTIALS BLOCKING INTERNAL EMAIL VERIFICATION#

VBSpam-Certified for Spam Protection: VBSpam is an independent verification test that has GFI ranking pretty high when comparing spam catch rate and false positive rate. One of the keys to its success is combining multiple anti-spam filtering engines and techniques (I counted 11 including engines and lists like SpamRazer, Bayesian analysis, Directory Harvesting, anti-phishing and more). Let’s take a look at a subset of the feature list: In keeping with that theme, MailEssentials attempts to eliminate spam and protect your network from viruses by providing multiple filtering engines (up to 5 antivirus options and a variety of different spam engines and filtering choices).