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Email security and anti-spam software for SMBs
Block email-borne viruses at server level
Eliminate over 99% of spam and phishing emails
Add multiple anti-spam and antivirus filters to your mail server
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Block email-borne viruses at server level
Eliminate over 99% of spam and phishing emails
Add multiple anti-spam and antivirus filters to your mail server
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GFI MailEssentials recently won a VBSpam award. VBSpam certification is awarded to products that exceed a predefined threshold based on a combination of criteria relating to the products' spam catch rate and false positive rate.
Virus Bulletin - January 2012
GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP places 2nd runner-up in the anti-spam category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards.
MSExchange.org - June, 2011
GFI MailEssentials, GFI EndPoint Security and GFI MailArchiver are all Finalists in the Computing Security Awards - Computing Security Awards
"These products are well worth looking at for protection of your email infrastructure. It's not too often a tool meets ALL my requirements, well done." - Reviewboard Magazine
"Good Spam Filtering Product that is Trusted and Advised by Professionals" - Cozumpark
Paul Cunningham gives a thorough review of GFI MailEssentials and goes through all the installation steps and uses of the product - ExchangeServerPro.com
MailEssentials from GFI is an excellent anti-spam solution for small and medium businesses with in-house information services teams. Flexible configuration of blocking and management technology makes MailEssentials a fit for a variety of spam management approaches, writes Tom Olzak.
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
In a review on OutlookExchange.com, MVP Nicolas Blank gives GFI MailEssentials 5 out of 5 and describes the software as a “solid product, which lives up to the marketing claims made by GFI”. He says the installation and use is straight forward and easy and that GFI MailEssentials “works and works well”. Blank says there are other features “however message retrieval and SPAM handling is where this product really shines”. Finally, he recommends the product for use in Exchange or generic SMTP mail based environments. - OutlookExchange.com
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. 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
In an article featured in a TechRepublic newsletter, GFI MailEssentials was highlighted as one of the more effective applications for managing spam. The article draws attention to the fact that managing the spam that comes into any organization "takes some sophisticated software and a lot of hard work". The feature goes on to explain how to deploy GFI MailEssentials as a mail gateway. Reviewer John. R. Kull praised various features such as Custom and DNS blacklists and the directory harvesting rules. He concludes by saying: "Before you invest 1000's of dollars in an appliance or other product, check out the GFI MailEssentials product". - TechRepublic
ComputerWorld featured an interview with Robert Burns, Manager of Information Systems at Hawker Pacific, one of Australasia's largest commercial aviation companies, detailing how the company overcame its problem with spam after installing GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailSecurity. Mr. Burns said he was "monumentally impressed" with the products which he found "easy to implement and quick". The company chose "GFI MailEssentials for spam filtering, and GFI MailSecurity for filtering email-borne viruses, worms, and trojans." The magazine reported that he is now "totally satisfied; spam is down to about one percent of traffic and is fully contained." Read the full review! - ComputerWorld
In an article for SearchSMB.com, news writer Charlie Russo reported that Bradley J. Dinerman, president of the New England Information Security Group named GFI his preferred vendor for IT security software thanks to its products GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailSecurity. The article explained how security has now become an issue for SMBs “because of pressure to comply with government regulations intended for larger companies, like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act”. The article advises SMBs that when planning a security purchase it is important to “consider how the new product will mesh with existing systems, and how much time and effort it will take to run everything as a whole”. - SearchSMB.com
Reviewer by David W. Tschanz reviewed GFI MailEssentials as one of 10 anti-spam solutions in an article for Redmond magazine entitled "Stop Spam Now". GFI MailEssentials scored highest together with another two software solutions. The reviewer describes each product's main spam filtering method, Bayesian filtering being GFI MailEssential's strong point as well as its use of whitelists, blacklists and a DNS blacklist. The reviewer also states: "GFI's MailEssentials has a well-developed and easy-to-use reporting system that covers the key aspects of anti-spam activity. The filter itself is easily scalable and easy to configure". In addition, the reviewer describes GFI as having "a solid reputation". - Redmond magazine
In a GFI MailEssentials review on FileForum.BetaNews.com, reviewer ComputerDoc described it as "the bomb". The review explained how they were receiving "4,000-5,000 emails for 35 people with only 1,000 emails being valid". The review praised the fact that GFI MailEssentials allows them to "set up a junk email folder on all 35 clients no matter which version of MS Outlook they are running" which means that all his "users are happy!". - FileForum.BetaNews.com
In the review "MailEssentials' new version tackles more than spam", Brien Posey compares GFI MailEssentials 10 with the previous version (9). He highlights the improved whitelist filtering features such as the creation of whitelists that are based on keywords. "Another cool thing about GFI MailEssentials 10 is the way that it makes use of public folders," he says, describing how users can easily whitelist someone themselves by dragging a message to a public folder or a junk mail folder, thereby helping "the Bayesian filter become smarter". This gives "users a way to recover mail themselves" without needing to burden the administrator.The reviewer also suggests that "one of the best improvements with version 10 is how it handles mail: It archives mail to an SQL server". - SearchExchange.com
In the article Add-On Spam-Fighting Tools for Microsoft Exchange Server, GFI MailEssentials has been classified as a “favourite of Windows spam fighters”. This is because GFI MailEssentials “offers Bayesian filtering with some feature-recognition capability, the ability to block mail based on DNSBL listings and basic quarantining of mail flagged as spam, either system-wide or on a per-user basis”. The authors Dee Ann LeBlanc and Robert LeBlanc also made reference to the integration of GFI MailSecurity with GFI MailEssentials to add virus filtering to the mail server. - InformIT.com
GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP was voted runner-up in the "Block the Flood of Spam" category of the "Products You Love" Awards organized by Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine. Voting in 34 categories took place over a four-day period in November and over 900 readers, representing 110,000 subscribers, voted. - Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine
An article on Australian magazine Computerworld discusses how Panthers Entertainment, the "Penrith-based gaming and entertainment giant" has seen "significant productivity gains" since using GFI MailEssentials. Journalist Helen Han reported that previously, Panthers employees had to sift through hundreds of spam emails per day, thus reducing productivity. The write-up said that Greg Marr, IT Manager for Panthers, had still to find any "false positives" from using GFI MailEssentials, adding that "the tool has also reduced viruses and Marr estimates productivity savings of about 30 minutes a day." - Computerworld
GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP was named the winner in the Anti-Spam category of MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Awards. MSExchange.org is a leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site that conducts regular polls to discover which products are preferred by Exchange administrators. - MSExchange.org
Top software distribution site, File Transit Inc., has given GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 9 a five-star rating for being a high quality server-based anti-spam and email management solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes and SMTP/POP3 mail servers. - FileTransit.com
In an extensive review of GFI MailEssentials 8 for ServerWatch, Dan DiNicolo said the product might be the best weapon an administrator will "ever use in the war against spam". His view is that the product "provides some of the most comprehensive anti-spam capabilities currently available, but also industrial-strength mail monitoring, the ability to add disclaimers to all outgoing messages, and more. Impressively, GFI provides many of the product's best features as freeware, making GFI MailEssentials 8 a must-evaluate product for administrators of large and small networks alike". Read more here. - ServerWatch
MCP Magazine reviewer David W. Tschanz selected GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7 in a suite with GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP as the winner of the publication's Editor's Choice award 2002. Read the full review (PDF format) - Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine
Jon Honeyball: "I'm pleased it's installed on my servers and I wouldn't want to uninstall it." "Spam emails just vanish into the ether, although Mail essentials can write them to a disk file for you," he wrote, describing it as a "workable, stable and straightforward product". Read the full review - PC Pro
"MailSecurity (when formerly known as Mail essentials) offers an interesting option: Set up an intermediary POP3/SMTP gateway between the enterprise email server and its host gateway... Mail essentials is a well-thought-out utility that works as advertised and can add significant value to a bare-bones email system." - InternetWeek
"MailSecurity (when formerly known as Mail essentials) has a variety of features... If you want a nice tool with lots of extras, especially if you're running Exchange, give Mail essentials a look." - NetworkWorld
Computer Journal gave GFI MailSecurity (when formerly known as Mail essentials) the Best of '99 Award for the product's extraordinary performance and excellent features. - Computer Journal
MCP Magazine praised GFI MailSecurity (when formerly known as Mail essentials) and highlighted the product as the add-on tool for Microsoft Exchange Server. - MCP Magazine
GFI MailEssentials recently won a VBSpam award. VBSpam certification is awarded to products that exceed a predefined threshold based on a combination of criteria relating to the products' spam catch rate and false positive rate.
Virus Bulletin - January 2012
GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP places 2nd runner-up in the anti-spam category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards.
MSExchange.org - June, 2011
GFI MailEssentials, GFI EndPoint Security and GFI MailArchiver are all Finalists in the Computing Security Awards - Computing Security Awards
"These products are well worth looking at for prot...
"These products are well worth looking at for protection of your email infrastructure. It's not too often a tool meets ALL my requirements, well done." - Reviewboard Magazine
"Good Spam Filtering Product that is Trusted and Advised by Professionals" - Cozumpark
MailEssentials from GFI is an excellent anti-spam ...
MailEssentials from GFI is an excellent anti-spam solution for small and medium businesses with in-house information services teams. Flexible configuration of blocking and management technology makes MailEssentials a fit for a variety of spam management approaches, writes Tom Olzak.
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