As a reseller for GFI, we have been focused prior to my download today, on selling and installing only GFI FAXmaker. However, things soon changed after me and one of my larger clients tested GFI MailEssentials.

As a Microsoft Small Business Server MVP - http://mvp.support.micosoft.com I am always looking at ways to improve SBS user experience of add-on products. It is important for a SBS user, and my own company’s clients, to be able to use products themselves as often they do not have internal dedicated IT staff. They rely on newsgroups and small IT companies like NTES Limited to provide them with "click and work" tools.

I have, in the past, always recommended Dataenter Limited XWall product and Lakewood Communications XWallFilter. These two products, whilst impressive, have not provided SBS users and my own clients with the “ease of use” that GFI MailEssentials is now doing. Also, the average size of a SBS site is 5 – 35 users, and in this range GFI’s pricing is currently far better than the XWall / XWallfilter combination.

Apart from the anti-spam, disclaimers and mail archiving facilities in GFI MailEssentials, they have a feature which I really did miss in Exchange. A Listserver service. You can easily setup a discussion list or newsletter list to notify your clients of events or alerts. A facility like this is vital to any small company that wants to keep their clients updated on events or the like.

This product ROCKS guys and gals! It has my very own patented Seal of Approval. Try it out for free, you will not be disappointed!

NTES Limited
Ireland
May 2005