Exchange Server Pro » MailEssentials http://exchangeserverpro.com Microsoft Exchange Server News - Tips - Tutorials Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 GFI MailEssentials Winners http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-winners http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-winners#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:45:20 +0000 Paul Cunningham http://exchangeserverpro.com/?p=1192 I’ve just drawn the winners of the GFI MailEssentials giveaway competition.  The lucky winners are:

  • First Prize (50 licenses) – Jay (via comment)
  • Runner Up (25 licenses) – Chris Muncy (via Twitter)

Congratulations to the winners, and I hope you enjoy your spam free 2010.

And thanks again to GFI Software for kindly donating the prizes for this competition.

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]]> http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-winners/feed 0 GFI MailEssentials Giveaway Contest Closes Soon http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-giveaway-contest-closes-soon http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-giveaway-contest-closes-soon#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:36:26 +0000 Paul Cunningham http://exchangeserverpro.com/?p=1188 There are just 4 days left to enter in the running to win one of two licenses for GFI MailEssentials and solve your email spam problems.

You can enter by commenting on this post or sending out a Twitter message about the contest.  In fact if you do both you get two entries in the draw!

First prize is a 50 user license pack for GFI MailEssentials, and the runner up will receive a 25 user license pack.

Check out the contest page for full details.

The contest closes at midnight on January 31st, Australian EST.

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]]> http://exchangeserverpro.com/gfi-mailessentials-giveaway-contest-closes-soon/feed 0 Win GFI MailEssentials for Your Business http://exchangeserverpro.com/win-gfi-mailessentials-for-your-business http://exchangeserverpro.com/win-gfi-mailessentials-for-your-business#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0000 Paul Cunningham http://exchangeserverpro.com/?p=1153 Was 2009 a rough year for spam in your business?  Is your current spam protection just not cutting it?  Are your staff complaining every day that too much junk mail is cluttering up their inboxes?

The Solution to Your Spam Problems

GFI Software has provided two license packs for GFI MailEssentials to give away here at ExchangeServerPro.com in our Spam Free 2010 contest.

GFI MailEssentials is the #1 anti-spam solution used by over 80,000 customers worldwide.  Read the review here, or check out the GFI Software website for even more details.

The Prizes

For this contest there is a first prize and one runner up prize.

  • First prize is a 50 user license pack
  • Runner up is a 25 user license pack

How to Enter

You can win one of the two license packs simply by doing the following between now and January 31st.

Get one entry by leaving a comment on this blog post below saying why you’d like to win GFI MailEssentials for your business. Include your email in the comment so you can be notified if you are a winner (email addresses are not publicly displayed).

Get a second entry by following @ExchServPro on Twitter and sending a Tweet with the hashtag #spamfree2010 and a link to this blog post.  Click here to automatically send a pre-written Tweet or copy and paste the sample below (or write your own!).

Win free email spam protection from GFI Software http://bit.ly/5W6pja #spamfree2010

Make sure you keep following @ExchServPro on Twitter so that you can be notified via Direct Message if you are a winner.

The contest closes at midnight on January 31st, Australian EST. The winner will be chosen by collating all blog comment and Twitter entries into a numbered list and using Random.org to generate the winning numbers.

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]]> http://exchangeserverpro.com/win-gfi-mailessentials-for-your-business/feed 12 Review of GFI MailEssentials http://exchangeserverpro.com/review-of-gfi-mailessentials http://exchangeserverpro.com/review-of-gfi-mailessentials#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:22:20 +0000 Paul Cunningham http://exchangeserverpro.com/?p=1110 GFI MailEssentials is an anti-spam and email management product from GFI Software.

MailEssentials boasts 99% accuracy for spam detection thanks to its two anti-spam engines, and at the same time a very low rate of false positives thanks to Bayesian filtering.  The software also includes several useful email management features such as disclaimers, auto-responders, and archiving.

Installing GFI MailEssentials

The latest version 14.1 of MailEssentials is compatible with both Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, or can be installed on a standalone SMTP server.

When installing on an Exchange server most of the pre-requisites will aready have been met, but you may find you need to install the MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects available from Microsoft’s download site as well.  The installer can also automatically install the MSMQ pre-requisite if you haven’t already installed it.

The installation is then a breeze with the only significant choice being whether to enable Active Directory integration or to install MailEssentials as a DMZ server with no AD access.

After the installation is finished an intial configuration wizard is launched.  Here you can specify the SMTP domains to protect with MailEssentials.

The Exchange Server roles are automatically detected and that determines which of the MailEssentials components get installed.

The initial configuration wizard only takes a moment to finish, and GFI MailEssentials is now set up and ready for use.

Key Features of GFI MailEssentials

Anti-Spam Protection

The default configuration of MailEssentials provides immediate spam detection using the SpamRazer engine, phishing protection, and prevention of directory harvest attacks.  The server is also configured with DNS RBL services and default sender and keyword filtering policies to block well known spam patterns.

Bayesian training is automatically enabled and monitors outgoing emails.  This helps the Bayesian filter learn what sort of email content is likely to be legitimate for the organization.  When this intelligence is combined with the frequent spam data updates from GFI it keeps false positives to an absolute minimum.

Administrative Features

Administrative burden is greatly reduced by offering end user self-service options via the Exchange Public Folders.  Email users can help train the Bayesian filter using drag-and-drop to move email items between different Public Folders which then tells the server whether the item is spam or not.

In addition when spam is detected it can be delivered to folders within the user mailbox or the Public Folder store, giving users access to the quarantine to review their own spam.

Reporting and Monitoring

GFI MailEssentials includes a real-time monitoring dashboard as well as an easy to use reporting interface so that you can measure the performance of its anti-spam features.

Email Management Features

One of the best features MailEssentials provides for Exchange Server 2007 environments is email disclaimers that can be configured on a per-domain or per-user basis.

Exchange Server 2007 can do disclaimers using Transport Rules but these are limited to text only, whereas GFI MailEssentials permits HTML disclaimers and a set of variables that can be used to create much richer, more dynamic disclaimers.

The MailEssentials disclaimer feature also continues to work after the product trial period has ended, so it can be used as a free disclaimer add-on for any Exchange 2007 or 2010 environment.

GFI MailEssential is available as a full featured 30 day trial for download from GFI Software. MailEssentials is also available as a free email disclaimer tool for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010.

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