Features

GFI MailEssentials™

Top Features

• SpamRazer^TM: an additional anti-spam engine boosting capture rate
• Automatic whitelist management to reduce false positives
• Multiple anti-spam technologies including Bayesian and IP filtering
• Eliminates hard to catch NDR, MSNBC and CNN spam
• Precise real time dashboard

Other Features

• Server-based anti-spam and anti-phishing
• Downloads updates to spam profile database
• Protect your users against the menace of phishing emails
• Sort spam to users' junk mail folders
• List server for newsletter lists and discussion lists
• Easy tuning of the Bayesian engine via public folders
• Allow users to whitelist or blacklist via public folders
• Email header analysis and keyword checking
• Third party DNS blacklists (DNSBL) checking
• Support for multiple third party SURBL servers
• Automatic whitelist management reduces false positives
• Instant view of emails from new senders
• Eliminates directory harvesting
• Reports on spam filtering and email usage
• Support for SPF – the Sender Policy Framework
• Set priorities for each anti-spam module
• Company-wide disclaimer/footer/header text
• Email monitoring
• Email archiving to a SQL database
• Seamless integration with Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other SMTP servers
• Support for virtual environments
• …and more.

 

GFI MailSecurity™

Top Features

• Virus checking with multiple anti-virus scanning engines
• Scan against trojans and executables
• Email exploit detection engine
• Attachment checking
• Granular user-based email content policies and filtering

Other Features

• Norman Virus Control & BitDefender virus engines are included
• Kaspersky, McAfee and AVG virus engines (optional)
• Automatic removal of HTML scripts
• Spyware detection
• Multiply the value of GFI MailSecurity with powerful reporting
• Custom quarantine filters
• Enable easy quarantine folder monitoring through RSS feeds
• Web-based configuration – enables remote management from any location
• Approve and reject quarantined email using the moderator client, email client or web-based moderator
• Searching within quarantined emails
• Full threat reporting for quarantined emails
• Support for virtual environments
• …and more.

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Product Details

With GFI MailDefense Suite^TM, administrators use a combination of GFI MailEssentials^TM and GFI MailSecurity^TM to filter and clean all inbound email of spam, viruses, malware and many other exploits and threats. The GFI MailDefense Suite makes use of multiple technologies such out-of-the-box filtering with the SpamRazer^TM engine, IP reputation and Bayesian filtering to remove spam and up to five anti-virus engines to detect and remove viruses and malware.

GFI MailDefense Suite Pricing

All prices shown are per Mailbox and are exclusive of tax.

Description	Main Price (inc. 1 year SMA)	Additional Mailboxes	SMA Renewal for 1 year
10-24 Mailboxes	$ 29.00	$ 27.00	$ 17.80
25-49 Mailboxes	$ 25.00	$ 23.00	$ 14.50
50-99 Mailboxes	$ 22.00	$ 21.00	$ 11.15
100-249 Mailboxes	$ 18.00	$ 17.00	$ 8.10
250-499 Mailboxes	$ 15.00	$ 14.00	$ 6.10
500-999 Mailboxes	$ 11.00	$ 10.50	$ 4.75
1000-2999 Mailboxes	$ 10.00	$ 9.50	$ 3.50

In order to get the licensing and renewal SMA pricing benefits, the products must be purchased at one time under the SKU for GFI MailDefense Suite.

The products follow the policies and procedures outlined in the product-specific sections.

To get a customized quote Click Here.

For more information please see the pricing notes below:

• Pricing Overview Information
• Licensing: GFI MailEssentials | GFI MailSecurity
• Additional Policies and Procedures: GFI MailEssentials | GFI MailSecurity

For more information Please Contact an Authorized GFI Software Reseller or GFI Software Sales, alternatively you may Login to the Customer Area.

Are you due to renew your Software Maintenance Agreement? Click Here for important maintenance guidelines.

Find out the full benefits of a Software Maintenance Agreement, Click Here.

 

GFI EmailProtection Suite

Exchange performance, storage limitations, PST problems, important emails being deleted and compliance and/or eDiscovery requirements are all pushing companies to archive email. The GFI EmailProtection Suite helps administrators archive corporate email, increase available storage on the server, reduce their dependency on PST files and allow staff to access old and deleted emails.

This is achieved using GFI MailArchiver, while the combination of GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailSecurity ensures that all inbound email is rendered clean of spam and safe from viruses or malware respectively.

GFI EmailProtection Suite Pricing

All prices shown are per Mailbox and are exclusive of tax.

Description	Main Price (inc. 1 year SMA)	Additional Mailboxes	SMA Renewal for 1 year
10-24 Mailboxes	$ 39.00	$ 36.00	$ 19.80
25-49Mailboxes	$ 35.00	$ 33.00	$ 16.50
50-99 Mailboxes	$ 30.00	$ 28.00	$ 12.75
100-249 Mailboxes	$ 25.00	$ 23.00	$ 9.50
250-499 Mailboxes	$ 19.00	$ 18.00	$ 6.90
500-999 Mailboxes	$ 14.00	$ 13.00	$ 5.35
1000-2999 Mailboxes	$ 13.00	$ 12.00	$ 4.10

In order to get the licensing and renewal SMA pricing benefits, the products must be purchased at one time under the SKU for GFI EmailProtection Suite.

The products follow the policies and procedures outlined in the product-specific sections.

To get a customized quote click here.

For more information please see the pricing notes below:

• Pricing overview Information
• Licensing: GFI MailEssentials | GFI MailSecurity | GFI MailArchiver
• Additional Policies and Procedures: GFI MailEssentials | GFI MailSecurity | GFI MailArchiver

For more information please contact an authorized GFI Reseller or GFI Sales, alternatively you may login to the customer area.

Are you due to renew your Software Maintenance Agreement? Click Here for important maintenance guidelines.

Find out the full benefits of a Software Maintenance Agreement, Click Here.

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Awards/Reviews

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  GFI MailEssentials: Excellent anti-spam solution for SMBs

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  In a review of GFI MailEssentials™ on Brighthub.com, reviewer Tom Olzak says the product is “an excellent solution for stopping spam from reaching employee mailboxes and for combating phishing”. He comments positively on the feature set, adding that “although not as hands-off as an appliance- or service-based solution, GFI MailEssentials is very easy to manage if you have on-site IT staff. Other than the auto-stop for licensing issues, I couldn't find anything I didn't like.” - Brighthub.com, November 2008

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  GFI MailEssentials wins Readers Choice Award

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  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

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  GFI MailEssentials: Protect Your SMTP or Exchange Servers from Viruses and SPAM

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  In a review on About.com’s Business Security section, Ryan Groom finds GFI MailEssentials™, an anti-spam and anti-phishing solution at server level, to be “a simple yet highly effective tool that belongs in any organization that looks after its own email solutions. GFI Mail Essentials is cost effective, simple to use and most importantly reliable”. He also adds that he was “pleasantly surprised with the simplistic yet highly functional product”. The review gives the product 4.5 out of 5 stars. - About.com, June 2008

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  GFI MailEssentials wins Editor's Choice Award 2008

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  GFI MailEssentials™ has won the Editor’s Choice Award 2008 from Communications Week magazine. The magazine (pg 32 of the 18 February 2008 issue) said that the product “is the perfect way for a company to manage spam with detection and quarantine capabilities that is rock solid”. - Communications Week, February 2008

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  GFI MailEssentials wins Global Product Excellence Award

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  GFI has been awarded the Global Product Excellence Award for GFI MailEssentials™ in the anti-spam category. The awards, organized by Infosecurity Products Guide, recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. GFI beat off stiff competition from McAfee, PineApp Corp., St. Bernard Software and Engate Technology Group. - Infosecurity Products Guide, February 2008

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  98% spam detection rate for GFI MailEssentials

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  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

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

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  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

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  GFI MailEssentials wins Redmond Editors' Choice Awards 2005

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  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

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  Windows Server 2003 certification for GFI MailEssentials

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  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

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Case Studies/Testimonials

Over 80,000 companies have chosen GFI MailDefense Suite™. Here are just a few from the US, Canada, Europe and more.

If you are a GFI MailDefense Suite customer and wish to submit your testimonial, please click here.

Check out What Our Customers Have To Say about GFI MailEssentials™

AnglicareWA
AnglicareWA is a Community Service organization forming part of the community services sector in Western Australia with a range of services delivered in communities throughout WA, assisting approximately 30,000 people every year. With over 350 people volunteering throughout the year, the organization recognized that dealing with the growing volume of spam was wasting valuable time and resources and they therefore installed GFI MailEssentials, an anti-spam and anti-phishing software in order to successfully combat the problem of spam. Read the Case Study
Jagdeep Bhabra

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University of Liverpool
A number of other products were evaluated but rejected because of cost or incompatibility with a clustered environment. We found GFI MailSecurity to be best suited to our requirements. Furthermore, having the choice of multiple engines was an added feature which we wanted. Read the Case Study
Steve Aldridge

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